64 bit problems (again)

[Stef Desmet]

Hi,

We are using VTK on different platforms and also on Digital Unix. I reported
earlier problems using long type variables which are implicitely assumed to have
a size of 4 bytes in the VTKXImageMapper.

Same problem now in the vtkTIFF{Reader and Writer}...
e.g. the function Swap4 get a long (==8 bytes) as input but only swaps 4
fread is done with sizeof(long) to read info from TIFF header which is stored
as a 4 byte int.

Is there any chance that VTK will be 64 bit compliant ??
What's the reason of this "overwhelming" use of long type variables ?

I can provide you with the adapted versions of vtkXImageMapper, vtkTIFFReader and vtkTIFFWriter.
I assume comparable problems in vtkBMP{Reader, Writer}  but till now never had to use this code.

Bye
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Stef Desmet                                         
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B E L G I U M 
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