[vtkusers] change-over to double

[Chris Scharver]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 7:05 PM, Samson Timoner wrote:

> I'm currently in the process of changing many thousands of "float"
> declarations to "double" declarations in code based on the cvs version 
> of
> vtk.

Good to see I'm not the only one who did a cvs update and subsequently 
saw the past few months' stability go out the window! I wondered if I 
had just accidentally munged my own source code during some backups. 
What if I specifically want float precision rather than double? There 
is a big difference--especially on PowerPC systems optimized for 
floating point performance rather than double. Is there some approach 
which could more easily allow one precision or another?

Also, the vtkDataArrayTemplate addition has completely broken 'make 
install'. Required files are not installed following compilation, and 
as a result the installation cannot be used. I was able to roll back my 
source checkout to an earlier date, but I realize that's only a 
temporary and limited solution.

Chris

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