- // Length is encoded on 2 bytes.
- length16 = ReadInt16();
-
- // We can tell the current file is encoded in big endian (like
- // Data/US-RGB-8-epicard) when we find the "Transfer Syntax" tag
- // and it's value is the one of the encoding of a big endian file.
- // In order to deal with such big endian encoded files, we have
- // (at least) two strategies:
- // * when we load the "Transfer Syntax" tag with value of big endian
- // encoding, we raise the proper flags. Then we wait for the end
- // of the META group (0x0002) among which is "Transfer Syntax",
- // before switching the swap code to big endian. We have to postpone
- // the switching of the swap code since the META group is fully encoded
- // in little endian, and big endian coding only starts at the next
- // group. The corresponding code can be hard to analyse and adds
- // many additional unnecessary tests for regular tags.
- // * the second strategy consists in waiting for trouble, that shall
- // appear when we find the first group with big endian encoding. This
- // is easy to detect since the length of a "Group Length" tag (the
- // ones with zero as element number) has to be of 4 (0x0004). When we
- // encouter 1024 (0x0400) chances are the encoding changed and we
- // found a group with big endian encoding.
- // We shall use this second strategy. In order to make sure that we
- // can interpret the presence of an apparently big endian encoded
- // length of a "Group Length" without committing a big mistake, we
- // add an additional check: we look in the allready parsed elements
- // for the presence of a "Transfer Syntax" whose value has to be "big
- // endian encoding". When this is the case, chances are we have got our
- // hands on a big endian encoded file: we switch the swap code to
- // big endian and proceed...
- if ( (element == 0x000) && (length16 == 0x0400) ) {
- if ( ! IsExplicitVRBigEndianTransferSyntax() ) {
- dbg.Verbose(0, "gdcmHeader::FindLength", "not explicit VR");
- errno = 1;
- return;
- }
- length16 = 4;
- SwitchSwapToBigEndian();
- // Restore the unproperly loaded values i.e. the group, the element
- // and the dictionary entry depending on them.
- guint16 CorrectGroup = SwapShort(ElVal->GetGroup());
- guint16 CorrectElem = SwapShort(ElVal->GetElement());
- gdcmDictEntry * NewTag = GetDictEntryByNumber(CorrectGroup,
- CorrectElem);
- if (!NewTag) {
- // This correct tag is not in the dictionary. Create a new one.
- NewTag = new gdcmDictEntry(CorrectGroup, CorrectElem);
- }
- // FIXME this can create a memory leaks on the old entry that be
- // left unreferenced.
- ElVal->SetDictEntry(NewTag);
- }
-
- // Heuristic: well some files are really ill-formed.
- if ( length16 == 0xffff) {
- length16 = 0;
- dbg.Verbose(0, "gdcmHeader::FindLength",
- "Erroneous element length fixed.");