[fitsbits] 64-bit integers

[Mark Calabretta]

On Wed 2005/05/04 19:46:19 +0200, Francois Ochsenbein wrote
in a message to: fitsbits at nrao.edu

>I think it's not the role of the FITS standard to specify what to
>do on a computer which has not the native 64-bit implementation.

I agree in principle but as a practical matter we don't want to create
a monster, e.g. it would have been possible to define BITPIX=-64 as
VAX G-floating.

Mark Calabretta
ATNF