[vtk-developers] Upgrading VTK to 64-bit ImageData Increments

[Michael Halle]

On May 16, 2005, at 5:12 PM, David Gobbi wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Back in January I mentioned my intent to change the image data  
> Increments
> from "int" to "vtkIdType".  My previous post and its associated  
> thread is here:
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2005-January/ 
> 003096.html
> The purpose of the change is to make it possible for VTK to use 64- 
> bit indexing
> for images, and hence process images that are larger than 2GB in size.
> ....

On a mostly cosmetic note, I'd like to have another 64 bit
type name.  vtkIdType should be the type for Ids, not the
generic 64 bit type (or worse, the generic "32 or 64 bit,
depending on platform" type).

None of the solutions are great, but the current one is
semantically wrong, as I understand it.

--Mike

Michael Halle
mhalle @ bwh.harvard.edu