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Re: getting NetCDF to work in a 64 bit enviroment

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  • Subject: Re: getting NetCDF to work in a 64 bit enviroment
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:39:19 -0600
Channa,

>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:01:16 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Channa Wijesinghe;;" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Seabeam, Inc.
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: getting NetCDF to work in a 64 bit enviroment
>Keywords: 199807281301.HAA20120

In the above message, you wrote:

> Ok heres the problem...currently I have netCDF working great on my 
> computer. We are using irix6.4 on a SGI octane. THe question that I wish 
> to ask is this...How can I get netCDF to change the internal code so that 
> longs will be converted to ints. Beacause in the new version of netCDF we 
> specified the enviroment and if we want to run 32 bit programs we run 
> into a problem because longs are no longer 4 bytes but 8. I know i would 
> have to change the code maually but theres got to be around it. If there 
> is any input please respond 
> 
> channa

I'm not sure what you're asking: It's not clear to me what you mean when
you ask "How can I get netCDF to change the internal code so that longs
will be converted to ints."  Are you asking how to exchange data between
4-byte, external, integral values and 8-byte, internal, integral values?
Or, are you asking how to build a netCDF library on your system in which,
for example, nc_put_var_long() assumes that the value is 8-bytes.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>