[vtk-developers] Fwd: vtk 64 bit support

[Sean McBride]

On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:58:02 -0400, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin said:

>In vtk FAQ http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#64-bit_System_Issues
>
>it says:
>
>"vtk builds on 64 bit systems, that is, systems where sizeof(void*) is 64
>bits. However, parts of the vtk codebase are not 64 bit clean and so
>runtime problems are likely if that code is used"
>
>Is it still true or this is an obsolete statement?

I think I may have written that.  In practice I'd say it's mostly obsolete.  But if you turn on 64 to 32 bit truncation compiler warnings, there are still many many many places that do things like cast long to int.

Cheers,

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