[gdal-dev] GIntBig in the bindings

[Ari Jolma]

22.05.2015, 11:38, Ari Jolma kirjoitti:
> It seems that there are quite a few interface methods with two 
> versions where the only difference is whether GIntBig is used or not. 
> Also some methods do not have GIntBig when they actually should use it 
> since it is in the GDAL API.
>
> I found out that at least in Swig Perl default typemaps have long long 
> and unsigned long long. Thus using GIntBig should mostly be just the 
> case of saying
>
> %apply (long long) { GIntBig };
>
> At least Python, Java and CSharp seem to have default typemaps for 
> long long and unsigned long long.
>
> However, what GIntBig really is, is a configure time decision. That 
> should be somehow propagated to the bindings.

I must also say that we're loosing (have lost?) the benefit of having a 
single set of "language independent" interface files because of all the 
#ifdefs in them. It might be easier to have only separate sets and then 
manually copy paste and edit when new things are added.

Ari

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