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authorRobb Matzke <matzke@llnl.gov>1998-10-01 18:56:51 (GMT)
committerRobb Matzke <matzke@llnl.gov>1998-10-01 18:56:51 (GMT)
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[svn-r733]
Changes since 19980930 ---------------------- ./MANIFEST ./doc/html/H5.format.html ./src/H5D.c ./src/H5Dprivate.h ./src/H5Farray.c ./src/H5Fistore.c ./src/H5Fprivate.h ./src/H5O.c ./src/H5Ofill.c [NEW] ./src/H5Oprivate.h ./src/H5P.c ./src/H5Ppublic.h ./src/H5Sall.c ./src/H5Shyper.c ./src/H5Spoint.c ./src/H5Sprivate.h ./src/Makefile.in Added fill values as documented in previous e-mails. They only work for chunked datasets so far. ./src/H5E.c ./src/H5Epublic.h ./src/H5P.c Changed H5E_TEMPLATE to H5E_PLIST. ./src/H5Omtime.c ./src/H5V.c Fixed a typo in a comment. ./src/H5Tconv.c Fixed a bug in compound type conversions that caused an assertion to fail.
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diff --git a/doc/html/H5.format.html b/doc/html/H5.format.html
index 86d591c..9902bca 100644
--- a/doc/html/H5.format.html
+++ b/doc/html/H5.format.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<html>
<head>
<title>
- HDF5 Draft Disk-Format Specification
+ HDF5 Disk-Format Specification
</title>
</head>
<body>
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
Name: Data-Space</a>
<li><a href="#DataTypeMessage"> <!-- 0x0003 -->
Name: Data-Type</a>
- <li><a href="#ReservedMessage_0004"> <!-- 0x0004 -->
- Name: Reserved - not assigned yet</a>
+ <li><a href="#FillValueMessage"> <!-- 0x0004 -->
+ Name: Data Storage - Fill Value</a>
<li><a href="#ReservedMessage_0005"> <!-- 0x0005 -->
Name: Reserved - not assigned yet</a>
<li><a href="#CompactDataStorageMessage"> <!-- 0x0006 -->
@@ -2268,15 +2268,64 @@
</center>
<p>Data type examples are <a href="Datatypes.html">here</a>.
-
+
<hr>
- <h3><a name="ReservedMessage_0004">Name: Reserved - Not Assigned
- Yet</a></h3>
- <b>Type:</b> 0x0004<BR>
- <b>Length:</b> N/A<BR>
- <b>Status:</b> N/A<BR>
+ <h3><a name="FillValueMessage">Name: Data Storage - Fill Value</a></h3>
+ <b>Type:</b> 0x0004<br>
+ <b>Length:</b> varies<br>
+ <b>Status:</b> Optional, may not be repeated.<br>
+
+ <p>The fill value message stores a single data point value which
+ is returned to the application when an uninitialized data point
+ is read from the dataset. The fill value is interpretted with
+ the same data type as the dataset. If no fill value message is
+ present then a fill value of all zero is assumed.
+
+ <p>
+ <center>
+ <table border cellpadding=4 width="80%">
+ <caption align=top>
+ <b>Fill Value Message</b>
+ </caption>
+
+ <tr align=center>
+ <th width="25%">byte</th>
+ <th width="25%">byte</th>
+ <th width="25%">byte</th>
+ <th width="25%">byte</th>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr align=center>
+ <td colspan=4>Size (4 bytes)</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr align=center>
+ <td colspan=4><br>Fill Value<br><br></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </center>
+
+ <p>
+ <center>
+ <table align=center width="80%">
+ <tr>
+ <th width="30%">Field Name</th>
+ <th width="70%">Description</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr valign=top>
+ <td>Size (4 bytes)</td>
+ <td>This is the size of the Fill Value field in bytes.</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr valign=top>
+ <td>Fill Value</td>
+ <td>The fill value. The bytes of the fill value are
+ interpreted using the same data type as for the dataset.</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </center>
<hr>
<h3><a name="ReservedMessage_0005">Name: Reserved - Not Assigned
@@ -3353,7 +3402,7 @@ data-type.
<address><a href="mailto:koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu">Quincey Koziol</a></address>
<address><a href="mailto:matzke@llnl.gov">Robb Matzke</a></address>
<!-- hhmts start -->
-Last modified: Fri Aug 7 11:04:44 EDT 1998
+Last modified: Thu Oct 1 10:09:54 EDT 1998
<!-- hhmts end -->
</body>
</html>