[ITK Community] Windows TIFF size limit

[Brian Helba]

FYI, ITK_COMPUTER_MEMORY_SIZE is only used to determine if certain tests
will be added, and has no impact on how the toolkit is built.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> Can someone tell me whether the tiff size limit on Windows is 2GB, as a
> message from Luis Ibanez in 2010 said:
>
> http://itk-insight-users.2283740.n2.nabble.com/Memory-limits-of-ITKImage-object-td5670422.html#a5670535
> or unlimited as Brad Lowekamp recently wrote.  I followed (I think) Brad's
> advice, and rebuilt my ITK libraries on Windows with ITK_USE_64BITS_IDS
> selected, and providing ITK_COMPUTER_MEMORY_SIZE = 12 GB.  When I attempt
> to read the compressed version of a 4.5 GB tiff with ImageFileReader, the
> program crashes silently (no error is caught by 'catch').  I need to know
> whether or not this is the expected behaviour.
>
> I am committed to processing some big multi-image tiffs, but I am having
> no luck with either Windows or Linux.  Help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Gib
>
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Brian Helba
Medical Imaging
Kitware, Inc.
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