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Subject: Re: 20.3-b4: GIF code still fragile
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From: jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp (P. E. Jareth Hein)
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

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> Attached is a GIF that repeatably crashes the current beta.  I
> fuzzily remember that Jareth Hein is/was doing TIFF work and
> that GIF support came along with that (Leffler's) TIFF library.
> Is that true?  If not, we should be searching for a better GIF
> library.  The one we have now blows chunks on too many images.

Yeah, I'm trying to fix things.  However, I'm currently snowed under
at work, and so I'm not real sure how quick things will get done. The
TIFF support is basically ready, although not stress tested (and
rather incomplete as I have only implemented RGB, Palette and
Greyscale image types) but my colormap changes that go along with it
are causing problems.  I hope to have that fixed here by Friday (don't 
have time today or tomorrow to do anything about it).  GIF support I
intent to completely overhaul, but haven't gotten there yet.  There
are several neat gotcha's in the code, especially when the image gets
corrupted in transfer...
 
BTW: Thanks for the test image...

--
Jareth

