[Insight-developers] ITKv4: Windows 64 bits : type "long" fixes: for ITKv4-Alpha-03

[Bill Lorensen]

What are the backward compatibility implications (if amy)?

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> As we discussed during the meeting in Iowa,
> we will be cutting the ITKv4-Alpha-03 release
> on November 22nd. (just before Thanksgiving).
>
>
> The main goal for this release is to fix the bug(s)
> that prevents us from using images > 2Gb in
> Windows 64bits.
>
>
> David Cole has bravely volunteered to fix this problem
> in our Windows 64 bit builds. We anticipate that the
> changes will be merged into master by November 19th.
>
> Which means that you will start seeing related patches
> appearing in Gerrit in the following days.
>
>
> Fixing this issue will involve modifications in hundreds
> of files in ITK. That's the reason for doing this before
> we create topic branches for the major refactoring fronts.
>
>
> The top level changes will start at
>
> itkIndex.h
> itkSize.h
> itkOffset.h
>
>
> where we will replace the types
>
>      unsigned long      and      long
>
> with
>
>      size_t     and    ptrdiff_t
>
>
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions
> or concerns with this modifications.
>
>
>      Thanks
>
>
>           Luis
>
>
>
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