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authorBarbara Jones <bljones@hdfgroup.org>2000-06-23 15:01:23 (GMT)
committerBarbara Jones <bljones@hdfgroup.org>2000-06-23 15:01:23 (GMT)
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[svn-r2406] Fixed a few syntax errors and took out line about referring to
HISTORY file for more details.
-rw-r--r--RELEASE40
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diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index e0e50fd..7efe93b 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ INTRODUCTION
This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and
HDF5-1.2.2, and contains information on the platforms where HDF5-1.2.2
-was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. For more details check the
-HISTORY file in the HDF5 source.
+was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2.
The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
(ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory:
@@ -26,28 +25,29 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
CONTENTS
-- Features added and bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
+- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
- Known Problems
- Platforms Tested
-Features added since HDF5-1.2.1
+Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1
===============================
* Added internal free-lists to reduce memory required by the library and
- H5garbage_collect API function
+ H5garbage_collect API function.
* h5dump displays opaque and bitfield types.
* New features added to snapshots. Use 'snapshot help' to see a
complete list of features.
* Improved configure to detect if MPIO routines are available when
parallel mode is requested.
-Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
==========================
* h5dump correctly displays compound datatypes, including simple and
nested compound types.
* h5dump correctly displays the committed copy of predefined types.
- * Corrected an error in h5toh4 which did not convert the 32bits
- int from HDF5 to HDF4 corectly for the T3E platform.
+ * Corrected an error in h5toh4 which did not convert the 32-bit
+ int from HDF5 to HDF4 correctly for the T3E platform.
* Corrected a floating point number conversion error for the
Cray J90 platform. The error did not convert the value 0.0
correctly.
@@ -55,17 +55,17 @@ Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
correctly.
* Fixed error in hyperslab iteration which was not walking through the
correct sequence of array elements if hyperslabs were staggered in a
- certain pattern
+ certain pattern.
* Fixed several other problems in hyperslab iteration code.
- * Fixed another H5Giterate bug which was causes groups with large numbers
+ * Fixed another H5Giterate bug which caused groups with large numbers
of objects in them to misbehave when the callback function returned
non-zero values.
* Changed return type of H5Aiterate and H5A_operator_t typedef to be
herr_t, to align them with the dataset and group iterator functions.
* Changed H5Screate_simple and H5Sset_extent_simple to not allow dimensions
- of size 0 with out the same dimension being unlimited.
+ of size 0 without the same dimension being unlimited.
* Improved metadata hashing & caching algorithms to avoid
- many hash flushes and also remove some redundant I/O when moving metadata
+ many hash flushes and also removed some redundant I/O when moving metadata
blocks in the file.
* The libhdf5.settings file shows the correct machine byte-sex.
* The "struct(opt)" type conversion function which gets invoked for
@@ -73,24 +73,24 @@ Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
types. This required a small change in the datatype conversion
function API.
-Known Problems:
+Known Problems
==============
-o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will
+o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: hyperslab selections will
fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
-o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on
-o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with compound datatype
+o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on.
+o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype.
-Platforms tested
-=================
+Platforms Tested
+================
AIX 4.3.3 (IBM SP) 3.6.6 | binaries
mpicc using mpich 1.1.2 | are not
mpicc_r using IBM MPI-IO prototype | available
- AIX 4.3.2.0 xlc 5.0.1.0
+ AIX 4.3.2.0 (IBM SP) xlc 5.0.1.0
+ Cray J90 10.0.0.7 cc 6.3.0.2
Cray T3E 2.0.5.29 cc 6.3.0.2
mpt.1.3
- Cray J90 10.0.0.7 cc 6.3.0.2
FreeBSD 4.0 gcc 2.95.2
HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32
HP-UX B.11.00 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler