Re: [E-devel] {Spam?} Requirements for exiftags in Epsilon?

[Tilman S. <ti...@co...>]

Vincent Torri [2007-12-03 23:04]:
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> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > We found the root of those "unaligned loads", it was in canon.c
> > (http://www.enlightenment.org/viewvc/e17/libs/epsilon/src/lib/exiftags/=
canon.c?hideattic=3D1&r1=3D1.2&r2=3D1.3),
> > with a patch tilman applied in order to reduce relocations due lots of
> > strings requiring it at load time.
> >
> > The problem, according to a Red Hat gcc compiler engineer friend of
> > mine, is that that construction is not valid according to  6.7.2.1/18
> > of C99-TC2 and GCC should not allow that, so it's both a bug with GCC
> > and canon.c.
> >
> > canon.c could be fixed and still do few relocations by using one huge
> > string with \0 as separators and place pointers to segments of this
> > string on the struct. But it's a pain to do.
> >
> > So, I'd like to ask those who are using this exiftags support from
> > Epsilon. I really don't think this should be in epsilon anyway... the
> > only use of it in CVS is at esmart_thumb... and it's about
> > orientation, which is a standard tag... So I request permission to
> > remove all this exiftags stuff, if required I can add the code to find
> > out orientation support and generate already rotated images later.
> > This should make things a lot simpler, smaller and faster to start.
> >
> > comments? may I remove?
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> I have contacted tilman on irc. No answer from him yet, but if you can=20
> wait some hours, or a day, so that he can answer

I don't use exiftags. Simply ripping out the code and throwing it away
doens't sound right though.

Regards,
Tilman

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