[gdal-dev] RFC 57: 64-bit bucket counts for histograms

[Even Rouault]

>  A similar problem exists with GDALRasterBand::GetRasterSampleOverview():
> it takes a 31-bit integer value for its 'nDesiredSamples' parameter.  I've
> run into some 100,000×100,000-pixel images for which the first two levels
> of overviews would contain more than 2-billion samples.

Hi Craig,

Good point. I've updated the RFC and proposed implementation accordingly.

Even

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