[Gdal-dev] Support for unit64

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ivan Lucena wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>  
> 
> Just a few raster formats supports unsigned integer 64 bit (ex. HFD4 -> 
> DFNT_UINT64) and probably just a few data providers and application 
> developers use it, if any.
> 
>  
> 
> Does GDAL have plans to support it? Does anyone out there want/need it?

Ivan,

I have seen very very few applications of 32bit integers and I have no plan
to add 64bit integers as a pixel data type.  Note that properly adding a
pixel data type - especially one with a greater range than existing ones,
is quite a substantial job.

Best regards,
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