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author | Bill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu> | 2001-02-19 19:37:14 (GMT) |
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committer | Bill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu> | 2001-02-19 19:37:14 (GMT) |
commit | a9962be5156ff2d9acfb47efbe9bdcf1e98d0976 (patch) | |
tree | b19941abd001dfba23142ed3d36ee8736c46b509 /RELEASE.txt | |
parent | fd3c700f364c2262eb92d4a33a09ea6181619649 (diff) | |
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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
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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 |