Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> 
>> I am not talking about OpenEXR support (to me being required to 
>> download  9MB to add support for a new file format is quite out of 
>> question).
> 
> How is this any different from having to download libjpeg, or libpng?

Those libs are very small, so small that they are included in the 
POV-Ray distribution.  And they are much more widely tested.

Don't get me wrong - if support for a new format allows something not 
possible before that's good but i do not yet see this happening.  And 
even if it does the drawbacks are significant.

> 
> By the way: Is it possible to compile and run POV-Ray on a platform 
> where  'long' is less than 32 bits?

AFAIK the standard defines 'long' as at least 32 bit.

> 
>> And the typedef cited above is a serious affront to the standard...
> 
> No, it has implementation-defined behaviour. Even that is irrelevant if  
> the range is checked/enforced.

Then don't name it 'uint32' (which implies being 32 bit).

Christoph

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