[vtk-developers] Sized types: vtkInt32Type et al

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri May 27 16:20:18 EDT 2005


Brad King wrote:
> David Gobbi wrote:
>> 4) Changing a few hundred classes to use the new data types
>>
>> This is definitely a big job, but not as big as people might imagine.  
>> Any classes that use
>> vtkTemplateMacro would have to use vtkSizedTemplateMacro instead, and 
> 
> Any class that uses vtkTemplate

Oops, I left that paragraph unfinished...

Any class that uses vtkTemplateMacro should work out-of-the-box with the 
new design.  Only those that want to save on template instantiations 
using the type-aliasing approach need to be changed to use 
vtkTemplateAliasMacro.

-Brad



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