[gimp] devel-docs: update a reference to 32-bit pointers.
- From: Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp] devel-docs: update a reference to 32-bit pointers.
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 23:13:57 +0000 (UTC)
commit 35f55ef07a39e3358e9cb3a1a8922f5b09689e2d
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Wed Oct 2 01:08:17 2019 +0200
devel-docs: update a reference to 32-bit pointers.
Though the description of the POINTER type clearly tells of the new type
size, it was still refered as 32-bit only in this introductory text.
Let's fix this.
devel-docs/xcf.txt | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/devel-docs/xcf.txt b/devel-docs/xcf.txt
index 2c394f93e6..623d5d3854 100644
--- a/devel-docs/xcf.txt
+++ b/devel-docs/xcf.txt
@@ -197,11 +197,14 @@ the very beginning of the file, and that the tile data blocks for each drawable
must follow each other directly.
References _between_ structures in the XCF file take the form of
-32-bit "pointers" that count the number of bytes between the beginning of
-the XCF file and the beginning of the target structure. Note that therefore
-the maximum address of a layer, channel, hierarchy or tile set is 2^32 - 1,
-i.e. at 4 GB. Everything after will be lost. Currently this doesn't play a
-role yet.
+"pointers" that count the number of bytes between the beginning
+of the XCF file and the beginning of the target structure.
+Pointers used to be 32-bit data. Since the maximum address of a layer,
+channel, hierarchy or tile set was 2^32 - 1, i.e. at 4 GB, the maximum
+size for XCF images before GIMP 2.10.0 was quite limited.
+Now pointers can be 64-bit, allowing files big enough for any image
+produced by current technology. See the chapter "Basic data types" for
+description of the POINTER type.
Each structure is designed to be written and read sequentially; many
contain items of variable length and the concept of an offset _within_
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