[Insight-developers] MetaIO compression broken (patch attached)

[Peter Cech]

Hi,

I was trying to use MetaIO compression and found that the code
contains a serious bug. Variable m_CompressedDataSize in class
MetaObject is of type float. Insufficient dynamic range of float
(especially its ascii representation) can lead to truncation of
compressed stream.

I'm not aware of any reason why m_CompressedDataSize should use floating
point representation, therefore a natural fix is to make an integer type
of it (see attached patch).

Regards,
Peter Cech

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