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

[Hans Johnson]

This is also a "forward compatibility" issue.  Windows on 64 bit is not
working properly, and never will until this is changed.



On 11/11/10 4:08 PM, "Bill Lorensen" <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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