in Support/STBImage/include/stb_image_write.h [634:721]
static void stbiw__write_hdr_scanline(stbi__write_context *s, int width, int ncomp, unsigned char *scratch, float *scanline)
{
unsigned char scanlineheader[4] = { 2, 2, 0, 0 };
unsigned char rgbe[4];
float linear[3];
int x;
scanlineheader[2] = (width&0xff00)>>8;
scanlineheader[3] = (width&0x00ff);
/* skip RLE for images too small or large */
if (width < 8 || width >= 32768) {
for (x=0; x < width; x++) {
switch (ncomp) {
case 4: /* fallthrough */
case 3: linear[2] = scanline[x*ncomp + 2];
linear[1] = scanline[x*ncomp + 1];
linear[0] = scanline[x*ncomp + 0];
break;
default:
linear[0] = linear[1] = linear[2] = scanline[x*ncomp + 0];
break;
}
stbiw__linear_to_rgbe(rgbe, linear);
s->func(s->context, rgbe, 4);
}
} else {
int c,r;
/* encode into scratch buffer */
for (x=0; x < width; x++) {
switch(ncomp) {
case 4: /* fallthrough */
case 3: linear[2] = scanline[x*ncomp + 2];
linear[1] = scanline[x*ncomp + 1];
linear[0] = scanline[x*ncomp + 0];
break;
default:
linear[0] = linear[1] = linear[2] = scanline[x*ncomp + 0];
break;
}
stbiw__linear_to_rgbe(rgbe, linear);
scratch[x + width*0] = rgbe[0];
scratch[x + width*1] = rgbe[1];
scratch[x + width*2] = rgbe[2];
scratch[x + width*3] = rgbe[3];
}
s->func(s->context, scanlineheader, 4);
/* RLE each component separately */
for (c=0; c < 4; c++) {
unsigned char *comp = &scratch[width*c];
x = 0;
while (x < width) {
// find first run
r = x;
while (r+2 < width) {
if (comp[r] == comp[r+1] && comp[r] == comp[r+2])
break;
++r;
}
if (r+2 >= width)
r = width;
// dump up to first run
while (x < r) {
int len = r-x;
if (len > 128) len = 128;
stbiw__write_dump_data(s, len, &comp[x]);
x += len;
}
// if there's a run, output it
if (r+2 < width) { // same test as what we break out of in search loop, so only true if we break'd
// find next byte after run
while (r < width && comp[r] == comp[x])
++r;
// output run up to r
while (x < r) {
int len = r-x;
if (len > 127) len = 127;
stbiw__write_run_data(s, len, comp[x]);
x += len;
}
}
}
}
}
}