We are currently implementing this in Octave 2.1.57 (as typedef
idx_t). This is a big job, much bigger than than we anticipated when
we started. A lot of code needs to be changed (although usually in a
trivial way).
If you want to help out, you are welcome to join us as a developer.
This leaves a major unsolved task of how to fold these changes back
into John's CVS repository - as Octave has now marched onto 2.1.60...
Cheers
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:52:34AM -0500, Daniel Heiserer wrote:
Did anyone create now an octave_idx or is there an agreement howto
implement a typedef for the indexing?
I cannot do this.
I could start crawling through the libraries and change them to this
index-type once the core maintainers made up the starting decision howto
do this. I would suggest that (one of) the next beta version has this
type defined.
I also suggest we do the same for the filepointer stuff. So we can
adress the big stuff and make it configurable before the compilation.
It shouldn't be that a big deal to write a check routine which includes
compiling and allocating and adressing these large entities.
-- daniel