Re: [gdal-dev] RFC 31 - OGR 64bit Fields and FID

2010-09-12 Thread Ari Jolma
On 09/11/2010 03:45 AM, Joaquim Luis wrote: Hi, About the issue of the 64-bits ints on Windows we had quite some troubles in GMT while implementing it. The problem, as far as I remember and I'm the one who suffered more with it (other developers use Macs only), was that one cannot read as %l

Re: [gdal-dev] RFC 31 - OGR 64bit Fields and FID

2010-09-10 Thread Joaquim Luis
On 10-09-2010 18:50, Even Rouault wrote: Frank, yes I definitely think that 64bit integer field/FID support is a must-have for OGR. Here are my remarks on the proposal : 0) Minor point : about "Note that the old interfaces using "long" are already 64bit on 64bit operating systems so there is l

Re: [gdal-dev] RFC 31 - OGR 64bit Fields and FID

2010-09-10 Thread Even Rouault
Frank, yes I definitely think that 64bit integer field/FID support is a must-have for OGR. Here are my remarks on the proposal : 0) Minor point : about "Note that the old interfaces using "long" are already 64bit on 64bit operating systems so there is little harm to applications continuing to

[gdal-dev] RFC 31 - OGR 64bit Fields and FID

2010-09-10 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Folks, Some one involved with OSM this week pointed out that the lack of 64bit FIDs in OGR is likely to become a problem in the not to distant future for them. This made me think that it is likely a good time to address the lack of 64bit integer handling for FIDs and fields in OGR. To that end I