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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2003-09-11 13:34:35 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2003-09-11 13:34:35 (GMT)
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[svn-r7463] Purpose:
Tweak some wording for global heap description.
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@@ -1677,6 +1677,15 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; }
an atomic object.
</P>
+ <P>The HDF5 library creates global heap collections as needed, so there may
+ be multiple collections throughout the file. The set of all of them is
+ abstractly called the "global heap", although they don't actually link
+ to each other, and there is no global place in the file where you can
+ discover all of the collections. The collections are found simply by
+ finding a reference to one through another object in the file (eg.
+ variable-length datatype elements, etc).
+ </P>
+
<br>
<div align=center>
<table class=format>
@@ -1814,7 +1823,7 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; }
</tr>
<tr>
- <td colspan=2>Object ID</td>
+ <td colspan=2>Heap Object ID</td>
<td colspan=2>Reference Count</td>
</tr>
@@ -1849,7 +1858,7 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; }
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>Object ID</td>
+ <td>Heap Object ID</td>
<td>
<P>Each object has a unique identification number within a
collection. The identification numbers are chosen so that