[svn-r10118] Snapshot version 1.7 release 45

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
index 1c1b77a..a75b189 100644
--- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.7.44 released on Sun Dec 12 03:42:12 CST 2004
+HDF5 version 1.7.45 released on Wed Mar  2 08:33:33 CST 2005
 ================================================================================
 
 
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     --------------
+        - Hardware conversion between long double and integers is also added.
+          SLU 2005/02/10
+        - Started to support software conversion between long double and 
+          integers.  Hardware conversion will come very soon.  SLU - 2005/1/6
 	- Intel v8.0 compiler would infinite loop when compiling some test
 	  code with -O3 option.  Changed enable-production default compiler
 	  option to -O2. AKC - 2004/12/06
@@ -55,9 +59,13 @@ New Features
 
     Library:
     --------
+        - Pablo was removed from the source code EIP - 2005/01/21
         - Modified registration of SZIP to dynamically detect the presence
             or absence of the encoder.  Changed configure and Makefiles,
-            and tests to dynamically detect encoder.  2004/02/11
+            and tests to dynamically detect encoder. BEM - 2004/11/02
+	- Added function H5Pget_data_transform, together with the previously
+	    added H5Pset_data_transform, to support the data transform
+	    feature. AKC - 2004/10/26
         - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size 
             adjustment.  The size can be increased and decreased(without
             cutting the last member) as long as it doesn't go down to zero.  
@@ -195,6 +203,16 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
 
     Library
     -------
+        - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct 
+            value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU - 
+            2005/02/08
+        - For variable-length string, H5Tget_class returned H5T_STRING as its
+            class.  But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it
+            as H5T_VLEN.  This is fixed to let all these 3 functions treat it
+            as H5T_STRING.  SLU - 2005/02/08
+        - The byte order of 1-byte integer types was fixed as little endian
+            even on a big-endian machine.  This has been corrected.  SLU -
+            2005/02/07 
         - Fix segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that
             hasn't had a value written to it open.  QAK - 2004/10/18
         - Back up supporting bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type.  
@@ -475,10 +493,13 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
     Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
+                                  MSVC++ .NET
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
                                   Intel C and F90 compilers version 7.1
 				  Code Warrior 8.0
-    Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
+    Windows XP                    MSVC++ 6.0
+				  MSVC++ .NET
+                                  DEC Visual Fortran 6.6
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 6.5
                                   gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
                                   version 1161, based on gcc version 3.1
@@ -589,9 +610,11 @@ Known Problems
   Ask your system administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM
   to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket.
 
-* PGI C++ compiler fails when compiling the C++ library's tests.
-  Therefore, we cannot verify that the C++ library built with the PGI C++
-  compiler is correct.
+* The C++ library's tests fails when compiling with PGI C++ compiler.  The
+  workaround until the problem is correctly handled is to use the 
+  flag "--instantiate=local" prior to the configure and build steps, as:
+        setenv CXX "pgCC --instantiate=local"  for pgCC 5.02 and higher
+        setenv CXX "pgCC -tlocal" for others
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to