Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Brian F. G. Bidulock
Wayne, In 'C' long long's are 64-bit on 32-bit architectures; however, and unfortunately, long long is only part of the 'C' standard and not part of the 'C++' standard. i.e. in stdint.h you find typedef long long int64_t; typedef unsinged long long u_int64_4; but stdint.h is a 'C' header file

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/10/2012 4:41 PM, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: > Wayne, > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> >> On 64-bit builds, integers are 64 bits so it becomes meaningless at that >> point. Even on 32 bit hardware, there are much more pressing issues >> that need to be resolved. > > On 64-

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Brian F. G. Bidulock
Wayne, On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > On 64-bit builds, integers are 64 bits so it becomes meaningless at that > point. Even on 32 bit hardware, there are much more pressing issues > that need to be resolved. On 64-bit architecture int's are 32-bits. long's are 64-bits. --bri

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 04/10/2012 11:55 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 4/10/2012 11:40 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> On 8 April 2012 13:14, Edwin van den Oetelaar >> wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: Edwin van den Oetelaar >>> Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM >>> Subject: remarks about

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
> > > > But +/- 2.15m is ~ 4.3m > > > > I don't see any point in changing anything that has already been done > > in order to support a PCB larger than 4 metres. The patch would simply > > be to move coordinates to a 64-bit int anyway, so it would not be too > > difficult should someone come along

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/10/2012 11:40 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > On 8 April 2012 13:14, Edwin van den Oetelaar > wrote: >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Edwin van den Oetelaar >> Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM >> Subject: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution >> To: KiCad Develop

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 8 April 2012 13:14, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Edwin van den Oetelaar > Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM > Subject: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution > To: KiCad Developers > > > First of, I have not followed the discussion

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-10 Thread Fabrizio Tappero
Hi all, maybe 2m could be an important limitation. What is the limitation of using a 10 nm unit? I think it is important to talk about it, especially now that somebody has brought up an apparent limitation. cheers Fabrizio On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 04/08/2012

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-08 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 04/08/2012 02:28 PM, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 04/08/2012 07:14 AM, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: Edwin van den Oetelaar >>> Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM >>> Subject:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-08 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 04/08/2012 07:14 AM, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Edwin van den Oetelaar > Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM > Subject: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution > To: KiCad Developers > > > First of, I have not followed the discussion

[Kicad-developers] Fwd: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution

2012-04-08 Thread Edwin van den Oetelaar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Edwin van den Oetelaar Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM Subject: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution To: KiCad Developers First of, I have not followed the discussion about the NanoMeter. I do have some remarks. >From an engineering st