[fitsbits] 64-bit integer comments

[Mark Calabretta]

On Fri 2005/05/13 11:35:41 +1000, Mark Calabretta wrote
in a message to: pgrosbol at eso.org
and copied to: fitsbits at donar.cv.nrao.edu

>will pack them into 32-bit ints and lose essential precision.  The FITS
>standard is silent on this issue, perhaps it should address it also. 

..and while on the subject, can anyone explain the purpose of "integer
complex" keyvalues?  I assume these are defined purely for syntactical
reasons and can always be stored as floating point complex values.

Mark Calabretta