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authorBill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu>2001-02-19 19:37:14 (GMT)
committerBill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu>2001-02-19 19:37:14 (GMT)
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[svn-r3454] Purpose:
Fixed doc Description: Added a pointer to the paper about the Thread Safety stuff which Robb wrote. Platforms tested: ENIAC
-rw-r--r--RELEASE.txt26
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt
index f3813d3..2aad2d2 100644
--- a/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/RELEASE.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ New Features
complete list of features.
* Improved configure to detect if MPIO routines are available when
parallel mode is requested.
- * Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented.
+ * Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented. See:
+
+ http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/mthdf/MTHDFpaper.htm
+
+ for more details.
* Added data sieve buffering to raw data I/O path. This is enabled
for all VFL drivers except the mpio & core drivers. Setting the
sieve buffer size is controlled with the new API function,
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ h4toh5 Utility
The h4toh5 utility is a new utility that converts an HDF4 file to an
HDF5 file. For details, see the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to
HDF5 Objects":
+
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/H4-H5MappingGuidelines.pdf
Known Bugs:
@@ -162,6 +167,7 @@ F90 Support
h5close_types.
* The following subroutines are no longer available:
+
h5pset_xfer_f
h5pget_xfer_f
h5pset_mpi_f
@@ -176,6 +182,7 @@ F90 Support
h5pget_family_f
* The following functions have been added:
+
h5pset_fapl_mpio_f
h5pget_fapl_mpio_f
h5pset_dxpl_mpio_f
@@ -347,14 +354,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
* Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big endian float
in some special cases.
* Corrected configuration error which was not including compression support
- correctly.
+ correctly.
* Cleaned up lots of warnings.
* Changed a few h5dump command line switches and added long versions of
- the switches.
+ the switches.
* Changed parameters for H5Tconvert, H5Pset_bufer and H5Pget_buffer from
- size_t to hsize_t
+ size_t to hsize_t
* Fixed fairly obscure bug in hyperslab I/O which could (in rare cases)
- not copy all the data during a transfer.
+ not copy all the data during a transfer.
* Removed ragged array code from library.
* F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported platforms.
@@ -425,9 +432,9 @@ Known Problems
and testing hdf5 applications. We will continue investigating this.
* h5toh4 converter fails two cases(tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll version on
- windows 2000 and NT.
- The reason is possibly due to windows NT DLL convention on freeing memory. It seems
- that memory cannot be free across library or DLL. It is still under investigated.
+ windows 2000 and NT. The reason is possibly due to windows NT DLL
+ convention on freeing memory. It seems that memory cannot be free
+ across library or DLL. It is still under investigated.
* The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows.
It is not supported in the TFLOPS machine.
@@ -460,8 +467,11 @@ Known Problems
* The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification.
+
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
+
Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace
is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is
incorrectly described.) For more information, please see:
+
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm