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

[Bill Lorensen]

I'll help any way I can.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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