[MINC-development] 64-bit linux, and a poke on os x?

[John G. Sled]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:27:33PM -0500, Peter NEELIN wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Jason Lerch wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 2, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Vicka Corey wrote:
> > > and second and de novo, has anybody built 64-bit minc libraries yet?  i
> > > have started a 64-bit linux port, and am getting "incompatible" library
> > > errors for libvolume_io.a....
> >
> > I've built 64-bit minc under IRIX. There were some issues, though I
> > think at least the MINC library has all the resulting patches
> > incorporated.
> 
> Depending on what one means by 64-bit, I believe that John Sled built a
> 64-bit version for linux a while back. I believe that in his case, 64-bit
> referred to file size only, allowing the minc file to exceed 2 GB. I made
> some code re-arrangements to ensure that image data always appeared at the
> end of the file, since NetCDF variable offsets are 32-bit.  I think that
> the program memory space was still 32-bit, so one could only use volume_io
> programs that used caching. John, is this correct?
> 

Yes, that is true.  I ran into some troubles with volume_io and large files,
though, that I haven't pursued.

John 

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