a) It break 64-bit builds and I'm not deep enough in the format to fix this. Actually from the documentation I found so far the header-format used in the loader looked rather different to me from the format-descriptions I found and Microsoft warned that several dds-versions are out there and loaders
should care about that.
b) I suspect that this loader contains a S3TC implementation, although once again I'm not deep enough in it to validate that. This alorithm is unfortunately rather famous for it's patent as S3 is known to collect fees for it (that's the reason we didn't add that loader before). So users using it should be aware of this. (I think we could work around that at least for hardware-drivers as VideoCards-Vendors have licensed dds and it's possible to pass compressed data directly to the card, but that certainly wouldn't work for software-drivers).
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