From 2125c9843b7e8c4ff1c0ff0973892ae17f94b7ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Osfield <robert@openscenegraph.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:17:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Moved the if (!buffer) check to infront of the memory
 initialization

---
 src/osgPlugins/tiff/ReaderWriterTIFF.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/osgPlugins/tiff/ReaderWriterTIFF.cpp b/src/osgPlugins/tiff/ReaderWriterTIFF.cpp
index ee2703bc7..9153b35e0 100644
--- a/src/osgPlugins/tiff/ReaderWriterTIFF.cpp
+++ b/src/osgPlugins/tiff/ReaderWriterTIFF.cpp
@@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ simage_tiff_load(std::istream& fin,
     osg::notify(osg::INFO)<<"bytesperpixel="<<bytesperpixel<<std::endl;
     
     buffer = new unsigned char [w*h*format];
-    for(unsigned char* ptr=buffer;ptr<buffer+w*h*format;++ptr) *ptr = 0;
 
     if (!buffer)
     {
@@ -508,6 +507,9 @@ simage_tiff_load(std::istream& fin,
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    // initialize memory
+    for(unsigned char* ptr=buffer;ptr<buffer+w*h*format;++ptr) *ptr = 0;
+
     width = w;
     height = h;