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OT (Slightly?) 64-bit data - not a bug but a question
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Rob Rye |
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OT (Slightly?) 64-bit data - not a bug but a question |
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Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:36:22 -0700 |
My wife is helping to put together a new generation data archiving standard for
a NASA organization, the Planetary Data System (PDS). In the past, this
organization has always insisted upon raw data for their archives. The managers
of the PDS may permit a single data compression tool. The front runner is gzip,
given its ubiquity, unencumbered status, and likely long life. Some of her
colleagues have asked whether gzip has any difficulties dealing with 64-bit
data and/or with 64-bit architectures. I have told her that I am unaware of any
such difficulties, but that I would inquire further.
Are there any documented gzip bugs specifically related to such data or
architecture?
Any documentation or links that you can provide me regarding this issue would
be very helpful. I tried googling the issue but do not seem clever enough to
define the search sufficiently narrowly.
Thanks,
Rob Rye
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