[Insight-developers] itkHDF5ImageIOTest fails on 32 bit systems

[Williams, Norman K]

Thank you for looking into this.  I will do a 32-bit build forthwith, and
dig into the problem.


Since we really aren't in the business of patching HDF5, I need to come up
with a workaround.

On 5/30/11 1:55 PM, "Bill Lorensen" <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:

>Kent,
>
>The subject test is failing on 32 bit systems. After some CSI work, I
>found that HDF5 is not writing long's as long's on the systems. It
>writes them as int's. The test failure logic has two modes of
>failures. It is this test
>!itk::ExposeMetaData<long>(metaDict2,"TestLong",metaDataLong2) that
>fails. I put some print statements in the meta data code and metaDict2
>is returning an int type for long and an unsigned int type for
>unsigned long.
>
>Seems like an HDF5 config problem or bug, but I'm not up to digging into
>HDF5.
>
>Bill



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