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Mon, 17 October 1994 19:17 |
hahn
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In article <bowman-1510941359030001@bowman.tamu.edu> bowman@csrp.tamu.edu (Kenneth P. Bowman) writes:
> From: bowman@csrp.tamu.edu (Kenneth P. Bowman)
> Subject: Re: gridding large amounts of data
> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 13:59:03 -0500
>> The secret is to make i a long integer:
>> for iL=1,num do $
> This is kind of off the subject, but would it break a lot of things to
> make the default integer type in IDL be long rather than short? I have
> largely gotten in the habit of writing *all* integers nnL to avoid this
> problem. What will happen when we have 64-bit integer support in IDL?
As of version 3.6.1 we have pointers, called handles in IDL. These are
32 bit numbers even on a DEC Axp which is proudly annouced by DEC to
use 64 bit adresses !!
> Just some musings on backward compatibility ...
> Ken Bowman
> --
> Dr. Kenneth P. Bowman 409-862-4060
> Associate Professor 409-862-4132 fax
> Climate System Research Program bowman@csrp.tamu.edu
> Department of Meteorology PP-Glider
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-3150
Sometimes the future is quite near!
Norbert Hahn
University at Darmstadt
Germany
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