[vtk-developers] Fwd: vtk 64 bit support

[David Gobbi]

I've been fixing 64-bit bugs in VTK more-or-less continuously for
years, most recently in the volume ray cast mapper classes just a
few months ago.  I suspect that much of VTK is 64-bit safe by now,
but I'm sure that bugs remain.  Being able to compile and run code
on a 64-bit machine does not mean the code is 64-bit safe.

 - David

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> We use VTK (and VTK in ParaView) on 64bit machines quite regularly.
> Not exactly sure what issues that Wiki entry was talking about, but
> they must have been resolved since.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
> <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Alexander Yarmarkovich <alexy at bwh.harvard.edu>
>> Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:53 PM
>> Subject: vtk 64 bit support
>> To: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <JChris.FillionR at kitware.com>, Julien
>> Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>
>> Cc: Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Alex