[Insight-developers] OffsetValueType

Luis Ibanez luis.ibanez@kitware.com
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:54:00 -0400


Hi Mark,

That sounds like a good idea,
Have you had a chance to try this modification in a 64bit machine ?

We also have a lot of warning in VC7 related to the eventual
possible conflicts when migrating to 64bit architectures.

Your suggested change may also help to get rid of all these warnings.


Luis



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Mark Foskey wrote:
> In itkOffset.h, would it be appropriate to replace
> 
>   typedef   long OffsetValueType;
> 
> with
> 
>   typedef    size_t OffsetValueType;
> 
> This would be consistent with the use of size_t in the standard 
> libraries, and it might avoid problems with 64-bit machines, although I 
> haven't thought through just what problems it could prevent.
> 
> I'm sure the same question applies to, say, itkIndex.h.  If we change 
> one, we should change them all.
>