Types

PDAL supports the standard integral and floating point types for dimensions. This table lists the types and associated strings that can be used to describe the types in options.

Type

Size in Bits

Text Representations

Signed Integer

8

int8, int8_t, char

Signed Integer

16

int16, int16_t, short

Signed Integer

32

int32, int32_t, int

Signed Integer

64

int64, int64_t, long

Unsigned Integer

8

uint8, uint8_t, uchar

Unsigned Integer

16

uint16, uint16_t, ushort

Unsigned Integer

32

uint32, uint32_t, uint

Unsigned Integer

64

uint64, uint64_t, ulong

Floating Point

32

float, float32

Floating Point

64

double, float64