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Old October 18th 07, 03:31 PM posted to sci.astro.fits
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Default [fitsbits] Proposed Changes to the FITS Standard (2)

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Francois Ochsenbein wrote:

ask the same question before. I don't think it's wise to try to allow
heap offset to be larger than 2**31 -- if the offset is a signed integer,
then the limitation of the heap offset should be 2**31. If more is wished,
then move to 64-bit integers. I'm sure the gain in space is minimal,


And now that we have P and Q pointers, if one needs, wants and can go
beyond 2**31, one has just to use Q.

I thought this issue was settled long ago.

Lucio Chiappetti

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