[vtk-developers] vtkIdType

[David Gobbi]

Hi Amy,

This sounds like a good idea to me, the only issue I can think of is
making sure the python, tcl, and Java wrappers do the type conversion
correctly.  I can handle the python wrappers, any volunteers for tcl
and Java?

 - David

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Amy Henderson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Around Kitware, there's been some discussion fairly recently about making
> it possible for vtk id's to be 64-bit instead of 32-bit.  This came up
> because we've seen cases where we need more ids than can be stored with 32
> bits.  When you configure vtk, there would be an option to use 64-bit vs.
> 32-bit ids.  The ids (point ids, cell ids, etc.) in vtk would be of type
> vtkIdType, and we could use a typedef to set this to be 32 or 64
> bits.  Exactly what the typedef does would have to be compiler-specific
> since compilers don't agree on what to call 32-bit or 64-bit integers.
>
> What do you think?
>
> - Amy
>
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