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

[David Cole]

I will discover them as I go, and will be a guinea pig for the
migration guide simultaneously.

Don't worry, Bill. I'm sure there's a mostly-backwards-compatible way
forward here.


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Hans Johnson <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> 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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