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CONTENTS
+22. Changes from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0-rc3
+21. Release Information for hdf5-1.6.7
+20. Release Information for hdf5-1.6.6
19. Release Information for hdf5-1.6.5
18. Release Information for hdf5-1.6.4
17. Release Information for hdf5-1.6.3
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[Search on the string '%%%%' for per-release section breaks.]
+%%%%1.8.0-rc3%%%% Changes from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0-rc3
+
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.0-rc3
+================================================================================
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.* and
+Hdf5 1.8.0 release candidate "HDF5-1.8.0-rc3", and contains information
+on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.0-rc3.
+For more details check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source.
+
+
+Links to HDF5 1.8.0-rc3 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on THG's development server (www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu) at the
+following location:
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/beta/obtain518.html
+User documentation for the beta can be accessed directly at this location:
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/
+
+New features of the upcoming 1.8.0 release are described in
+the "What's New in 1.8.0?" document:
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/WhatsNew180.html
+
+New and modified APIs are described briefly in
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/WhatsNew180.html
+and will be listed in the "HDF5 Software Changes" document:
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+
+
+For more information, see the HDF5 home page:
+
+ http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+ help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+- New Features
+- Support for new platforms and languages
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0
+- Platforms Tested
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+ Configuration:
+ --------------
+ - Removed stream-vfd from the HDF5 library. - AKC 2007/11/19.
+ - Updated versions of autotools. HDF5 now uses automake 1.10.0,
+ autoconf 2.61, and libtool 1.5.22. MAM - 2007/7/25.
+ - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used. - AKC
+ 2007/2/17.
+ - 'make check-vfd' can now be run from the top level directory. Not all
+ tests that 'make check' invokes work with certain Virtual File Drivers,
+ so those tests have been skipped. - MAM 2006/7/17
+ - Added the variable HDF5TestExpress to control how long tests run.
+ Setting it to a value between 0 and 3 controls how thoroughly the
+ library is tested, with 0 being an "exhaustive run" and 3 being a
+ very quick "smoke test." 1 (a "full run") is the default.
+ -JML 2006/6/21
+ - If both shared and static libraries are installed, now both will be
+ tested during 'make install'. -MAM 2006/06/21
+ - Added support to explicity enable stream_vfd or shared libraries
+ when using parallel via the '--enable-stream_vfd' and
+ '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicity defined,
+ These settings default to enabled when parallel is not used,
+ and disabled when parallel is used. -MAM 2006/06/17
+ - Remove the flexible parallel code and the --enable-fphdf5
+ configure option, it was never up to production standards
+ anyway. -QAK 2006/4/20
+ - Added a macro hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works to filter out
+ some mpi-io packages that don't support collective IO for no IO
+ contributions in some processes. -KY 2006/2/16
+ - Added -shlib option to link against installed shared libraries to
+ h5c++ and h5fc. -JML 2005/11/1
+ - Added --enable-build-all option to configure, which only developers
+ should need to use. -JML 2005/10/24
+ - Configure uses the 'TR' variable to let the user override the path
+ to the 'tr' utility. -JML 2005/10/17
+ - Configure can recognize -lmpich as a form of MPI library. -AKC-
+ 2005/9/28.
+ - MD5 checksumming has been added to snapshot releases. Release
+ tarballs will be accompanied by .md5 checksum files, which can
+ be verified using the md5sum utility. -JML 2005/9/6
+ - Some configure flags are incompatible (e.g., the C++ APIs cannot
+ be built using the parallel version of HDF5). configure will now
+ output errors when some common incompatible features are used
+ together. -JML 2005/9/6
+ - A new API function, H5Tis_hard(), was added to the library. It
+ checks if a conversion function is a compiler (hard) conversion.
+ SLU - 2005/9/6
+ - t_mpi will run the test_mpio_derived_dtype by default unless it is
+ known not working (indicated by macro H5_MPI_COMPLEX_DERIVED_DATATYPE_WORKS
+ not defined.) -AKC- 2005/8/23.
+ - Test execution has changed in a number of ways:
+ When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
+ are now executed as parallel make targets. This should make them
+ finish more quickly on machines with multiple processors.
+ Since test output is garbled when they are executed by parallel make,
+ tests now dump their output to foo.log files and foo.logsh files
+ (for test scripts). These logs are printed to the screen only
+ when a test fails or when all tests in the current directory have
+ completed successfully.
+ When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe file.
+ This prevents the test from executing again until the test or
+ main library changes.
+ All files generated by tests (*.chkexe, *.log, and any *.h5 files
+ created) can be removed by invoking 'make check-clean'.
+ Sequential and parallel library tests can now be invoked separately.
+ 'make check-s' will execute only sequential tests, and 'make check-p'
+ will execute only parallel tests. 'make check' will still execute
+ all tests.
+ -JML 2005/08/03
+ - On windows, all.zip is deprecated. users should
+ read INSTALL_Windows.txt to know the details.
+ Reasons to deprecate all.zip:
+ 1. Avoid confliction for windows programmers
+ 2. Decrease size of CVS tree by adding all.zip
+ 3. Avoid using winzip as the intermediate step
+ --KY 2005/04/22
+ - When HDF5 is created as a shared library, it now uses libtool's
+ shared library versioning scheme. -JML 2005/04/18
+ - HDF5 now uses automake 1.9.5 to generate Makefiles.in.
+ This has a number of effects on users:
+ The Fortran compiler should be set using the environment
+ variable $FC, not $F9X. F9X still works, but is depreciated.
+ The output of make may be different. This should be only a
+ cosmetic effect.
+ make depened (or make dep) is no longer recognized, since automake
+ handles dependency tracking.
+ Some new configure options exist. --enable-dependency-tracking
+ and --disable-dependency-tracking are used to control automake's
+ dependency tracking. Dependencies are on by default *on most
+ platforms and compilers*. If --enable-dependency-tracking is
+ used, they will be enabled on any platform. However, this can
+ slow down builds or even cause build errors in some cases.
+ Likewise, --disable-dependency-tracking can speed up builds and
+ avoid some build errors.
+ Some make targets have alternate names. make check-install and
+ make installcheck do the same thing, for instance.
+ pmake on IRIX can be invoked from the root directory, but the
+ -V flag must be used to invoke it in any subdirectory or it
+ will give an error about undefined variables.
+ JML 2005/01 - 2005/03
+ - 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
+ - Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type. It is a
+ stanadard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
+ - The IA64 will use ecc as the C++ compiler by default.
+ - Added some initial support for making valgrind/Purify (or similar
+ memory checking products) happier by initializing buffers to zero
+ and disabling the internal free list code. To take advantage of
+ this, use the "--enable-using-memchecker" configure option when
+ building the library. QAK - 2004/07/23
+ - Fixed the long compile time of H5detect.c when v7.x Intel Compiler
+ is used with optimization NOT off. AKC - 2004/05/20
+ - Fixed configure setting of C++ for OSF1 platform. AKC - 2004/01/06
+ - Prefix default is changed from /usr/local to `pwd`/hdf5.
+ AKC - 2003/07/09
+
+ Library:
+ --------
+ - Removed size restrictions on attributes, when using the "latest"
+ version of the file format. - QAK - 2007/02/21
+ - Relaxed restrictions on attribute operations to allow a file ID to
+ be used as the "location ID". If a file ID is used, the attribute
+ operation will occur on the root group of the file.
+ - QAK - 2007/02/09
+ - Enabled the CORE driver to read an existing file depending on
+ the setting of the backing_store for H5Pset_fapl_core and file
+ open flags. - SLU - 2006/11/30
+ - Added new H5Gget_info_by_idx() routine to query the information about
+ a group according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/27
+ - Added new H5Gget_info() routine to query the information about a
+ group by name.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/27
+ - Added new H5Oget_info_by_idx() routine to query the information about
+ an object in a group according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/26
+ - Added new H5Oget_info() routine to query the information about an
+ object in a group by name.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/26
+ - Added new H5Oopen_by_idx() routine to open an object in a group
+ according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/20
+ - Added new H5Literate() routine to iterate over links in a group
+ according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/20
+ - Added new H5Ldelete_by_idx() routine to delete a link according to
+ the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/13
+ - Added new H5Lget_val_by_idx() routine to query the value of a soft link
+ according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/13
+ - Added new H5Lget_name_by_idx() routine to query the name of a link
+ according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/12
+ - Added new H5Rget_name() routine to determine the name of the object
+ that a reference points to, as long as the object is still
+ reachable in the group hierarchy.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/10
+ - Added new H5Lget_info_by_idx() routine to query the link information
+ according to the order within an index.
+ - QAK - 2006/11/10
+ - Added feature to H5Iget_name to allow retrieving the name of any
+ object's ID, as long as the object is still reachable in the
+ group hierarchy.
+ - LA - 2006/11/01
+ - Added External and User-defined links.
+ External links are links from one HDF5 file to another; they
+ require both the name of the file and a path within that file.
+ User-defined links allow users to supply callback functions
+ for link traversals, allowing links to exhibit essentially
+ any behavior.
+ External links are a kind of user-defined link, so their default
+ behavior can be overridden by the user.
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added H5Oopen and H5Oclose for opening objects of unknown type
+ (as link callback functions do).
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added H5Oopen_by_addr, H5Oincr_refcount, and H5Odecr_refcount for
+ opening objects by address. Be very careful with these!
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added H5Fget_intent to get the "intent" of a file (whether it
+ was opened with read-write access or read-only.
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added Link Access Property Lists. They currently contain two
+ properties, nlinks (H5Pget/set_nlinks) and elink_prefix
+ (H5Pget/set_elink_prefix). nlinks controls how many soft and
+ user-defined traversals are allowed before HDF5 assumes it has
+ found a cycle (previously this defaulted to 16).
+ The elink_prefix is a filesystem path that is prefixed to the
+ names of any external link files opened using this LAPL.
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Add H5L link APIs. Old APIs (H5Glink, H5Gmove, etc.) are still
+ supported but deprecated.
+ New APIs are:
+ H5Llink - create a link to an object given its ID
+ H5Lmove - just like H5Gmove2
+ H5Lcopy - copy a link without copying the underlying object
+ H5Lcreate_hard - like H5Glink2 for hard links
+ H5Lcreate_soft - like H5Glink2 for soft links
+ H5Ldelete - just like H5Gunlink
+ H5Lget_val - just like H5Gget_linkval
+ H5Lget_info - gets link-specific info (like H5Gget_objinfo)
+
+ In addition, H5Gcreate_anon, H5Tcommit_anon, and H5Dcreate_anon
+ no longer create links to objects; objects must be manually linked
+ using H5Llink or they will be deleted when the ID is closed.
+
+ Link Creation Property Lists can be used to pass character
+ encoding (ASCII or UTF-8) for link names and to set the Intermediate
+ Group Creation Flag:
+ H5Pset_char_encoding, H5Pget_char_encoding
+ H5Pset_copy_object, H5Pget_copy_object
+ -JML 2006/7/5
+ - Added managements of collective IO supports for chunking storage
+ inside parallel HDF5
+ 1) Implemented One IO with collective mode for all chunks in the
+ application by building one MPI derived datatype accross all
+ chunks.
+ 2) Implemented the decision-making support to do collective IO inside
+ MPI-IO per chunk.
+ 3) Added the decision-making support to do one IO accross all chunks
+ or to do multiple IOs with each IO per chunk.
+ 4) Added the support to handle the case some processes won't do any IOs in
+ collectively.
+ 5) Some MPI-IO package(mpich 1.2.6 or lower, e.g.) cannot handle
+ collective IO correctly for the case when some processes have no
+ contributions to IOs, a special macro is added to change
+ collective IO mode to independent IO mode inside HDF5 library.
+
+ Currently we find that MPICH at Linux and vender MPI-IO package at NCSA
+ Altix cannot handle this case.
+
+ "hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works=${hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works='no'}"
+ has been added at the end of file <ia64-linux-gnui> and
+ <linux-gnulibc1>.
+
+ If MPI-IO packages at your Linux and Altix support this case,
+ please comment out the last line and report to us at
+ help@hdfgroup.org. We can tune in our configuration to
+ support this.
+
+ KY - 2006/02/16
+ - Added character encoding to attribute creation property lists.
+ JML - 2006/01/02
+ - Added H5Gcopy() routine to copy objects between while keeping
+ data in compressed form. QAK - 2005/11/06
+ - Added H5Sextent_equal() routine. QAK - 2005/11/06
+ - Added HSYS_ERROR which retrieves the system error message and pushes
+ it to the error stack. This gives more information of the failed
+ system call. AKC - 2005/08/04
+ - Added H5F_OBJ_LOCAL flag to H5Fget_obj_count() & H5Fget_obj_ids(), to
+ allow querying for objects in file that were opened with a particular
+ file ID, instead of all objects opened in file with any file ID.
+ QAK - 2005/06/01
+ - Added H5T_CSET_UTF8 character set to mark datatypes that use the
+ UTF-8 Unicode character encoding. Added tests to ensure that
+ library handles UTF-8 object names, attributes, etc. -JL 2005/05/13
+ - HDF5 supports collective MPI-IO for irregular selection with HDF5
+ dataset. Irregular selection is when users use H5Sselect_hyperslab
+ more than once for the same dataset.
+ Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support complicated MPI derived
+ datatype used in the implementation of irregular
+ selection INSIDE HDF5.
+ 1) DEC 5.x is not supporting complicated derived datatype.
+ 2) For AIX 5.1,
+ if your poe version number is 3.2.0.19 or lower,
+ please edit powerpc-ibm-aix5.x under hdf5/config,
+ Find the line with
+ << hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works>>
+ and UNCOMMENT this line before the configure.
+ check poe version with the following command:
+ lpp -l all | grep ppe.poe
+ 3) For Linux cluster,
+ if mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, collective irregular selection
+ IO is not supported, internally independent IO is used.
+ 4) For IRIX 6.5,
+ if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular selection
+ IO is not supported, internally independent IO is used.
+ 5) For platforms which internally used mpich, if the
+ mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the
+ corresponding config file and add
+ hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' at the
+ end of the configuration file. For example, at NCSA
+ SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So
+ hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' should be
+ added at the end of the config file ia64-linux-gnu.
+ KY - 2005/09/12
+ We also found not all MPI-IO packages support collective IO with one
+ or more processes to have no contributions to IO.
+ For mpich version 1.2.6 or lower and all IRIX machine,
+ if the library checks that there are no IO contributions for some
+ processes, collective IO request is replaced with
+ independent inside HDF5.
+ KY - 2006/05/04
+
+ - HDF5 N-bit filter
+ HDF5 support N-bit filter from this version,
+ The N-Bit filter is used effectively for compressing data of N-Bit
+ datatype as well as compound and array datatype with N-Bit fields.
+ KY - 2005/04/15
+ - HDF5 scaleoffset filter
+ HDF5 supports scaleoffset filter for users to do data
+ compression through HDF5 library.
+ Scale-Offset compression performs a scale and/or offset operation
+ on each data value and truncates the resulting value to a minimum
+ number of bits and then stores the data.
+ Scaleoffset filter supports floating-point and integer datatype.
+ Please check the HDF5 reference manual for this.
+ KY - 2005/06/06
+ - Retired SRB vfd (--with-srb). Functions H5Pset_fapl_srb and
+ H5Pget_fapl_srb were removed. EIP - 2005/04/07
+ - Retired GASS vfd (--with-gass). Functions H5Pset_fapl_gass and
+ H5Pget_fapl_gass are removed too. AKC - 2005/3/3
+ - 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. 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.
+ No API change is involved. SLU - 2004/10/1
+ - Put back 6 old error API functions to be backward compatible with
+ version 1.6. They are H5Epush, H5Eprint, H5Ewalk, H5Eclear,
+ H5Eset_auto, H5Eget_auto. Their new equivalent functions are
+ called H5Epush_stack, H5Eprint_stack, H5Ewalk_stack,
+ H5Eclear_stack, H5Eset_auto_stack, H5Eget_auto_stack. SLU -
+ 2004/9/2
+ - 4 new API functions, H5Tencode, H5Tdecode, H5Sencode, H5Sdecode were
+ added to the library. Given object ID, these functions encode and
+ decode HDF5 objects(data type and space) information into and from
+ binary buffer. SLU - 2004/07/21
+ - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for
+ SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the
+ chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be
+ bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user.
+ EIP - 2004/07/21
+ - Added support for SZIP without encoder. Added H5Zget_filter_info
+ and changed H5Pget_filter and H5Pget_filter_by_id to support this
+ change. JL/NF - 2004/06/30
+ - SZIP always uses K13 compression. This flag no longer needs to
+ be set when calling H5Pset_szip. If the flag for CHIP
+ compression is set, it will be ignored (since the two are mutually
+ exclusive). JL/NF - 2004/6/30
+ - A new API function H5Fget_name was added. It returns the name
+ of the file by object(file, group, data set, named data type,
+ attribute) ID. SLU - 2004/06/29
+ - Added support for user defined identifier types. NF/JL - 2004/06/29
+ - A new API function H5Fget_filesize was added. It returns the
+ actual file size of the opened file. SLU - 2004/06/24
+ - New Feature of Data transformation is added. AKC - 2004/05/03.
+ - New exception handler for datatype conversion is put in to
+ replace the old overflow callback function. This exception
+ handler is set through H5Pset_type_conv_cb function.
+ SLU - 2004/4/27
+ - Added option that if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is set to 2,
+ will suppress all library version mismatch warning messages.
+ AKC - 2004/4/14
+ - A new type of dataspace, null dataspace(dataspace without any
+ element) was added. SLU - 2004/3/24
+ - Data type conversion(software) from integer to float was added.
+ SLU - 2004/3/13
+ - Data type conversion(software) from float to integer was added.
+ Conversion from integer to float will be added later.
+ SLU -2004/2/4
+ - Added new H5Premove_filter routine to remove I/O pipeline filters
+ from dataset creation property lists. PVN - 2004/01/26
+ - Added new 'compare' callback parameter to H5Pregister & H5Pinsert
+ routines. QAK - 2004/01/07
+ - Data type conversion(hardware) between integers and floats was added.
+ SLU 2003/11/21
+ - New function H5Iget_file_id() was added. It returns file ID given
+ an object(dataset, group, or attribute) ID. SLU 2003/10/29
+ - Added new fields to the H5G_stat_t for more information about an
+ object's object header. QAK 2003/10/06
+ - Added new H5Fget_freespace() routine to query the free space in a
+ given file. QAK 2003/10/06
+ - Added backward compatability with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU -
+ 2003/09/24
+ - Changed 'objno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
+ to 'haddr_t'. QAK - 2003/08/08
+ - Changed 'fileno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
+ to 'unsigned long'. QAK - 2003/08/08
+ - Changed 'hobj_ref_t' type from structure with array field to 'haddr_t'.
+ QAK - 2003/08/08
+ - Object references (hobj_ref_t) can now be compared with the 'objno'
+ field in the H5G_stat_t struct for testing if two objects are the
+ same within a file. QAK - 2003/08/08
+ - Switched over to new error API. SLU - 2003/07/25
+
+ Parallel Library:
+ -----------------
+ - Added mpich2 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/9/28.
+ - A dataset created in serial mode with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR allocation
+ setting was not extendible, either explicitly by H5Dextend or
+ implicitly by writing to unallocated chunks. Library now allocates
+ more space when needed or directed if the file is opened by parallel
+ mode, independent of what the dataset allocation mode is.
+ CC/AKC - 2005/08/29.
+ - Allow compressed, chunked datasets to be read in parallel.
+ QAK - 2004/10/04
+ - Add options of using atomicity and file-sync to test_mpio_1wMr.
+ AKC - 2003/11/13
+ - Added parallel test, test_mpio_1wMr, which tests if the
+ underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
+ write/read requirement. AKC - 2003/11/12
+
+ Fortran Library:
+ ----------------
+ - added support for shared Fortran libraries. -JML 2005/09/20
+ - added missing h5tget_member_class_f function
+ EIP 2005/04/06
+ - added new functions h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f
+ EIP 2004/07/08
+ - h5dwrite/read_f and h5awrite/read_f functions only accept dims parameter
+ of the type INTEGER(HSIZE_T).
+ - added support for native integers of 8 bytes (i.e. when special
+ compiler flag is specified to set native fortran integers to 8 bytes,
+ for example, -i8 flag for PGI and Absoft Fortran compilers,
+ -qintsize=8 flag for IBM xlf compiler).
+ EIP 2005/06/20
+ - added support for "big" REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION types
+ (usually the size is specified by compilers flags like
+ -r8, -r16, etc.)
+ Known problem: multi file test fails when REAL is 16 bytes.
+ EIP 2005/09/8
+
+ C++ Library:
+ ----------------
+ - added support for shared C++ libraries. -JML 2005/09/20
+ - Added missing member functions
+ H5::CompType::getMemberArrayType
+ H5::CompType::getMemberVarLenType
+ H5::AbstractDs::getArrayType
+ H5::AbstractDs::getVarLenType
+ H5::CommonFG::openArrayType
+ H5::CommonFG::openVarLenType
+ H5::PropList::copyProp -- this will replace the current
+ H5::PropList::copyProp in later releases due
+ to incorrect prototype.
+ H5::IdComponent::getHDFObjType
+ BMR - 2005/08/08
+
+
+ Tools:
+ ------
+ - h5repack and h5diff changed command line parameter syntax to be
+ similar to h5dump, adding also long switch names. PVN - 2008/1/16
+ - h5repack now supports adding multiple filters to all objects.
+ PVN - 2008/1/16
+ - h5dump lists groups and attributes in requested orders (by name and
+ creation order, both ascending and descending). PVN - 2007/10/5
+ - h5import imports string (text) data. PVN - 2007/10/5
+ - h52gif and gif2h5: Both these tools were revised to include the High
+ Level Image API support, and tests were added to /hl/tools/gif2h5.
+ PVN - 2007/04/13
+ - h5dump: added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE. PVN
+ 2007/03/13
+ - h5dump: added support for binary output, see usage. PVN 2007/03/13
+ - h5repack: added support for the new nbit and scaleoffset filters.
+ PVN - 2007/05/07
+ - h5repack: now uses the API function H5Ocopy (of the tool h5copy) to
+ recreate objects if there is not a user input for changes. PVN -
+ 2007/05/07
+ - h5repack: added support for reading and repacking by hyperslabs for
+ large files. PVN - 2007/03/01
+ - h5repack: a new option allows the copy using the file type (default)
+ instead of the previous conversion to native type. PVN - 2007/03/01
+ - h5repack: output the percentage of compression used. PVN - 2007/03/01
+ - h5diff: added support for -p option for unsigned long_long data. PVN
+ - 2007/02/26
+ - h5diff: added support for comparing dataset regions. PVN - 2007/02/20
+ - h5diff: added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for large files.
+ PVN - 2007/02/20
+ - h5diff: printing of dataset dimensions along with dataset name. PVN -2007/02/19
+ - h5dump now uses the new API function H5Rget_name to display the name
+ of the dataset referenced instead of its ID. PVN - 2007/02/19
+ - Added new tool, h5mkgrp. QAK - 2007/02/14
+ - Added new tool, h5copy. PVN - 2006/7/15
+ - Removed obsolete pdb2hdf5 tool from tools/misc -JML 2005/10/24
+ - Added build_h5perf_alone.sh that builds h5perf by standalone mode.
+ AKC - 2005/09/18.
+ - Sped up h5dump on files with large numbers of objects.
+ QAK - 2005/08/25
+ - Added a standalone mode for building h5perf. AKC - 2005/08/12
+ - new tool, h5jam. See reference manual. 2004/10/08
+ - h5repack.sh did not report errors encountered during tests. It does
+ now. AKC - 2004/04/02
+ - Added the MPI-I/O and MPI-POSIX drivers to the list of VFL drivers
+ available for h5dump and h5ls. RPM & QAK - 2004/02/01
+ - Added option --vfd= to h5ls to allow a VFL driver to be selected
+ by a user. RPM & QAK - 2004/02/01
+ - Added option -showconfig to compiler tools (h5cc,h5fc,h5c++).
+ AKC - 2004/01/08
+ - Install the "h5cc" and "h5fc" tools as "h5pcc" and "h5pfc"
+ respectively if library is built in parallel mode.
+ WCW - 2003/11/04
+ - Added metadata benchmark (perform/perf_meta). SLU - 2003/10/03
+ - Changed output of "OID"s from h5dump from "<number>-<number>" to
+ "<number". This affects both the "regular" and XML output.
+ QAK - 2003/08/08
+ - Changed output of file IDs and "OID"s from h5ls from
+ "<number>:<number>:<number>:<number>" to "<number>:<number>"
+ QAK - 2003/08/08
+
+ High-Level APIs:
+ ------
+ - Fortran interfaces for the Image, Table and Lite APIs. PVN - 2007/5/1
+ - New HDF5 Dimension Scale API (H5DS) allows dimension scales to be
+ created in an HDF5 file and associated with specific datasets. PVN - 2007/5/1
+ - There are two new functions in the Lite library, H5LTtext_to_dtype
+ and H5LTdtype_to_text. H5LTtext_to_dtype creates a HDF5 data type
+ given a text description; H5LTdtype_to_text converts a data type
+ to text description. Only DDL definition is supported as text
+ desciption now. SLU - 2006/05/17
+ - Added Packet Table API for creating tables with less overhead than
+ H5TB API. Added C++ wrapper for Packet Tables. See documentation.
+ JML - 2004/03/28
+
+ Documentation
+ -------------
+ - The documentation for this release is largely complete, but
+ trails the source code. A few of the newer functions are
+ not yet documented. FMB - 2007/04/18
+ - The user documents for this release can be accessed directly at
+ this location:
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/
+ The most recent document versions (updated daily) in the
+ 1.8 development branch can be accessed at this location:
+ http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_dev/
+ FMB - 2007/04/18
+
+
+Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
+=======================================
+ - Added support for Free-BSD on amd64 with GNU C and Fortran compilers
+ 4.2.1
+ EIP - 2007/06/25
+ - Added support for sequential and parallel libraries for Intel 64 Linux
+ cluster (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu). Among three MPICH packages available on
+ this machine, only Open MPI works. The VMI has seg fault in hyperslab.c
+ and bittests.c tests. The MVAPICH2 complained about mpd not running
+ the parallel test. (see Known Problems section for more info)
+ EIP - 2007/06/25
+ - Added support for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
+ - Added support for 64-bit Windows with Visual Studio .NET and 2005.
+ SJW - 2007/06/25
+ - Added suport for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
+ shared library is not supported with +DD64 flag.
+ EIP - 2006/06/22
+ - Added support for VAX floating numbers for Alpha Open VMS 7.3.2
+ EIP - 2006/05/05
+ - Fixed broken make.com files in tools directories
+ EIP - 2006/05/05
+ - Added support for Alpha Open VMS 7.3.2 EIP - 2006/04/15
+ - Added support for Cray X1. JML - 2005/10/03
+ - PGI Fortran compiler is supported on Linux64 systems (x86_64)
+ EIP - 2004/08/19
+ - Absoft compiler f95 v9.0 supported on Linux 2.4
+ EIP - 2004/07/29
+ - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on Mac OSX with IBM XL Fortran
+ compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler.
+ - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with Absoft F95 compiler
+ version 8.2; set F9X environment varibale to f95, for example
+ setenv F9X f95
+ Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft
+ compiler is used.
+ EIP - 2004/07/27
+ - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with IBM XL Fortran
+ Compiler version 8.1 Use "--disable-shared --enable-static"
+ configure flags along with the "--enable-fortran" flag to build
+ Fortran library. EIP - 2004/01/07
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
+==================================
+
+ Library
+ -------
+ - Changed library's behavior for reading files that might have
+ corrupted object header information from a previous (buggy)
+ version of the library. By default, the library now rebuilds the
+ correct object header information instead of issuing an error.
+ Previous "strict" file format interpretation can be enabled with
+ the "--enable-strict-format-checks" configure option.
+ QAK - 2008/01/13
+ - Fixed several bugs with writing fill values for datasets that have
+ a variable-length datatype or component datatype. QAK - 2007/06/19
+ - STDIO driver didn't support files bigger than 2GB because the OFFSET
+ parameter of fseek is of type LONG INT, not big enough for big files.
+ Use fseeko instead for big files if it's available on the system.
+ SLU - 2007/4/5
+ - Fixed a bug in H5Sselect_valid() that caused an incorrect value to
+ be returned (0) instead of FAIL on error conditions such as the
+ selection or extent not being defined. CMC - 2007/01/17
+ - Fixed the MULTI driver problem (Bug #731) that corruptted the data.
+ SLU - 2007/1/12
+ - Fixed file corruption bug which could write an incorrect number of
+ messages to an object's header under certain circumstances.
+ Generally, the sequence of actions to generate this bug looks
+ like this:
+ - Create an object
+ - Close the file
+ - Re-open the file
+ - Add 2 (or more) attributes to the object
+ - Close the file
+ - Re-open the file
+ - Delete one of the attributes on the object
+ - Add a smaller attribute to the object
+ - Delete the smaller atttribute on the object
+ - Add a larger attribute on the object
+
+ After this, the number of header messages stored for the object
+ will be off by one. Other sequences of modifying attributes on an
+ object could also trigger this bug. If you are opening an
+ object and the bottom few messages of the HDF5 error stack
+ resembles this, the object has been affected by this bug:
+
+ #007: ../../hdf5_v1.6/src/H5C.c line 3887 in H5C_load_entry(): unable to load entry
+ major(08): Meta data cache layer
+ minor(40): Unable to load metadata into cache
+ #008: ../../hdf5_v1.6/src/H5Ocache.c line 332 in H5O_load(): corrupt object header - too few messages
+ major(12): Object header layer
+ minor(40): Unable to load metadata into cache
+
+ Specifically, "corrupt object header" is the best string to search
+ for in the HDF5 error stack output.
+
+ If your files have been affected by this bug, or you are concerned
+ that your files might have been, please contact the HDF Helpdesk
+ at help@hdfgroup.org for a tool to detect and repair files
+ affected by this problem. QAK - 2006/6/16
+ - Fixed various problems with retrieving names of objects, especially
+ with mounted files. QAK - 2005/12/25
+ - Fixed core dump when closing root groups opened through two different
+ file handles that operate on the same actual file. QAK - 2005/10/02
+ - Corrected errors when performing various operations on a group opened
+ by dereferencing an object reference. QAK - 2005/07/30
+ - Fixed a bug with named datatypes where a copy of a named datatype
+ used to create a dataset would accidentally use the original
+ named datatype for the dataset's datatype. QAK - 2005/07/23
+ - Made H5Fget_name() be consistent and always return name of actual
+ file the ID is in. (Instead of the name of the top file in a
+ file mounting hierarchy). QAK - 2005/07/19
+ - Reworked internal file mounting semantics to hopefully eliminate
+ mounting problems. We now require that files that are mounting
+ together all have the same "file close degree". QAK - 2005/07/19
+ - More bug fixes on holding open files that are mounted and have
+ IDs open. QAK - 2005/07/14
+ - Don't unmount child files until the parent file actually closes.
+ (Previously, if an object is holding open a file, the child files
+ would get unmounted too early). QAK - 2005/07/05
+ - Fixed bug where unmounted files could cause the library to go into
+ an infinite loop when shutting down. QAK - 2005/06/30
+ - The library didn't save the information of family driver in file.
+ The original file member size was lost after file was closed (see
+ bug #213). This has been fixed by saving driver name and member
+ file size in the superblock. SLU - 2005/6/24
+ - Fixed bug with hyperslab selections that use selection offsets and
+ operate on chunked datasets going into infinite loop or dumping
+ core. QAK - 2005/06/17
+ - Corrected memory leak and possible corruption when opening a group.
+ QAK - 2005/06/17
+ - Added check for opaque datatype tags being too long (check against
+ H5T_OPAQUE_TAG_MAX, currently set to 256). QAK - 2005/06/14
+ - Fixed various errors in maintaining names for open objects in the
+ face of unusual mount & unmount operations. QAK - 2005/06/08
+ - "SEMI" and "STRONG" file close degree settings now apply only to the
+ particular file ID being closed, instead of operating on all open
+ file IDs for a given file. QAK - 2005/06/01
+ - For family driver, the library didn't save member size in file.
+ When file is reopened, the size of 1st member file determine the
+ member size. Now member size is saved in file and is used to
+ define member file size. Wrong file access property of member size
+ will result in a failure. Using any other driver except family
+ will cause library to return error. So is multi driver. SLU -
+ 2005/05/24
+ - Fixed error in opening object in group that was opened in mounted
+ file which has been unmounted. QAK - 2005/03/17
+ - Fixed a racing condition in MPIPOSIX virtual file drive close
+ function. Now all processes must completed the close before any
+ of them is returned. This prevents some "faster" processes start
+ accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate)
+ while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with
+ the previous purpose. AKC - 2005/03/01
+ - 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.
+ Leave it to future support. The function simply returns error
+ message of "not support" for bitfield and time types.
+ SLU - 2004/10/5
+ - Fixed address check in Core VFL driver to avoid spurious address/size
+ overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes. QAK - 2004/09/27
+ - Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
+ I/O while others did independent I/O. Bug appeared when some
+ processes used point selections, and others didn't. JRM - 2004/9/15
+ - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an
+ incorrect way on Cray machines. PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13
+ - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers
+ based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting
+ an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
+ 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07
+ - Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer
+ with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined
+ fill value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered. QAK - 2004/08/25
+ - Fixed error which could cause a core dump when a type conversion
+ routine was registered after a compound datatype had been
+ converted and then an equivalment compound datatype was converted
+ again. QAK - 2004/08/07
+ - Fixed memory overwrite when encoding "multi" file driver information
+ for file's superblock. QAK - 2004/08/05
+ - Fixed obscure bug where a filter which failed during chunk allocation
+ could allow library to write uncompressed data to disk but think
+ the data was compressed. QAK - 2004/07/29
+ - Fixed bug where I/O to an extendible chunked dataset with zero-sized
+ dimensions would cause library to fail an assertion.
+ QAK - 2004/07/27
+ - Fixed bug where chunked datasets which have filters defined,
+ allocation time set to "late" and whose chunks don't align with
+ the dataspace bounds could have incorrect data stored when
+ overwriting the entire dataset on the first write. QAK - 2004/07/27
+ - Added check to ensure that dataspaces have extents set. JML-2004/07/26
+ - Fixed bug on some Solaris systems where HDF5 would try to use
+ gettimeofday() when that function didn't work properly.
+ JML - 2004/07/23
+ - Fixed bug in H5Sset_extent_simple where setting maximum size to
+ non-zero, then to zero would cause an error. JML - 2004/07/20
+ - Allow NULL pointer for buffer parameter to H5Dread & H5Dwrite
+ when not writing data ("none" selection or hyperslab or point
+ selection with no elements defined). QAK - 2004/07/20
+ - Calling H5Gcreate() on "/" or "." throws an error instead of
+ failing quietly. JML - 2004/07/19
+ - Fixed bug where setting file address size to be very small could
+ trigger an assert if the file grew to more than 64 KB. Now throws
+ an error and data can be recovered. JL/NF - 2004/07/14
+ - Fixed bug where "resurrecting" a dataset was failing.
+ QAK - 2004/07/14
+ - Fixed bug where incorrect data could be read from a chunked dataset
+ after it was extended. QAK - 2004/07/12
+ - Fixed failure to read data back from file of compound type with
+ variable-length string as field. SLU - 2004/06/10
+ - Fixed potential file corruption bug when a block of metadata could
+ overlap the end of the internal metadata accumulator buffer and
+ the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly
+ change it's starting address. QAK - 2004/06/09
+ - Opaque datatype with no tag failed for some operations. Fixed.
+ SLU - 2004/6/3
+ - Fixed potential file corruption bug where dimensions that were
+ too large (a value greater than could be represented in 32-bits)
+ could cause the incorrect amount of space to be allocated in a
+ file for the raw data for the dataset. QAK - 2004/06/01
+ - Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
+ machines. AKC - 2004/4/16
+ - Fixed problem with fletcher32 filter when converting data of different
+ endianess. PVN - 2004/03/10
+ - Fixed problem with H5Tget_native_type() not handling opaque fields
+ correctly. QAK - 2004/01/31
+ - Fixed several errors in B-tree deletion code which could cause a
+ B-tree (used with groups and chunked datasets) to become corrupt
+ with the right sequence of deleted objects. QAK - 2004/01/19
+ - Fixed small internal memory leaks of fill-value information.
+ QAK - 2004/01/13
+ - Fixed bug that caused variable-length datatypes (strings or sequences)
+ used for datasets in files with objects that were unlinked to
+ fail to be read/written to a file. QAK - 2004/01/13
+ - Detect situation where szip 'pixels per block' is larger than the
+ fastest changing dimension of a dataset's chunk size and disallow
+ this (due to limits in szip library). QAK - 2003/12/31
+ - Fixed bug with flattened hyperslab selections that would generate
+ incorrect hyperslab information with certain high-dimensionality
+ combinations of start/stride/count/block information.
+ QAK - 2003/12/31
+ - Fixed bug with variable-length datatypes used in compound datatypes.
+ SLU - 2003/12/29
+ - Fixed bug in parallel I/O routines that would cause reads from
+ "short datasets" (datasets which were only partially written out)
+ to return invalid data. QAK & AKC - 2003/12/19
+ - Fixed bug where scalar dataspaces for attributes were reporting as
+ simple dataspaces. QAK - 2003/12/13
+ - Fixed problem with selection offsets of hyperslab selections in
+ chunked datasets causing the library to go into an infinite loop.
+ QAK - 2003/12/13
+ - Fixed H5Giterate to avoid re-using index parameter after iteration
+ callback has been called (allows iteration callback to modify the
+ index parameter itself). QAK - 2003/12/06
+ - Fixed various floating-point conversion problems, including a
+ change which could corrupt data when converting from double->float.
+ QAK - 2003/11/24
+ - Changed "single process" metadata writing in library to collective
+ I/O by all processes, in order to guarantee correct data being
+ written with MPI-I/O. QAK - 2003/11/20
+ - Fixed problems with fill values and variable-length types and also
+ I/O on VL values that were set to NULL. QAK - 2003/11/08
+ - Fixed problems with MPI datatypes that caused ASCI Q machine to
+ hang. QAK - 2003/10/28
+ - Removed HDF5_MPI_PREFER_DERIVED_TYPES environment variable support,
+ since it had no benefit. QAK - 2003/10/28
+ - Single hyperslab selections (which were set with only one call to
+ H5Sselect_hyperslab) that had dimensions that could be "flattened"
+ but were interspersed with dimensions that could not be flattened
+ were not correctly handled, causing core dumps. QAK - 2003/10/25
+ - Fixed incorrect datatype of the third parameter to the Fortran90
+ h5pset(get)_cache_f subroutine (INTEGER to INTEGER(SIZE_T))
+ EIP - 2003/10/13
+ - Fixed problems with accessing variable-length data datatypes on
+ Crays. QAK - 2003/10/10
+ - Fixed potential file corruption bug when too many object header
+ messages (probably attributes, from a user perspective) were
+ inserted into an object header and certain other conditions were
+ met. QAK - 2003/10/08
+ - Changed implementation of internal ID searching algorithm to avoid
+ O(n) behavior for many common cases. QAK - 2003/10/06
+ - Allow partial parallel writing to compact datasets. QAK - 2003/10/06
+ - Correctly create reference to shared datatype in attribute, instead
+ of making a copy of the shared datatype in the attribute.
+ QAK - 2003/10/01
+ - Revert changes which caused files >2GB to fail when created with
+ MPI-I/O file driver on certain platforms. QAK - 2003/09/16
+ - Allow compound datatypes to grow in size. SLU - 2003/09/10
+ - Detect if a type is already packed before attempting to pack it
+ again or check if it is locked. SLU - 2003/09/10
+ - Corrected bug when opening a file twice with read-only permission
+ for one open and then closing the read-only access file ID would
+ generate an error. QAK - 2003/09/10
+ - Corrected bug in repeated calls to H5Pget_access_plist() which would
+ incorrectly manage reference counts of internal information and
+ eventually blow up. QAK - 2003/09/02
+ - Return rank of the array datatype on successful call to
+ H5Tget_array_dims(). QAK - 2003/08/30
+ - Corrected bug in H5Tdetect_class which was not correctly detecting
+ datatype classes of fields in nested compound datatypes in some
+ circumstances. QAK - 2003/08/30
+ - Corrected bug in sieve buffer code which could cause loss of data
+ when a small dataset was created and deleted in quick succession.
+ QAK - 2003/08/27
+ - Corrected bug in H5Gget_objname_by_idx which was not allowing NULL
+ for the name when just querying for the object name's length.
+ QAK - 2003/08/25
+ - Corrected bug in variable-length string handling which could
+ generate a core dump on writing variable-length strings as part
+ of a compound datatype on certain architectures. QAK - 2003/08/25
+ - Corrected bug in H5Tget_native_type which would incorrectly compute
+ the size of certain compound datatypes and also incorrectly
+ compute the offset of the last field for those compound datatypes.
+ QAK - 2003/08/25
+ - Corrected bug in H5Tget_native_type which would drop string datatype
+ metadata (padding, etc.) QAK - 2003/08/25
+ - Corrected bugs in H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and
+ H5Gget_objtype_by_idx to allow them to accept location IDs, not just
+ group IDs. QAK - 2003/08/21
+ - Corrected bug when using scalar dataspace for memory selection and
+ operating on chunked dataset. QAK - 2003/08/18
+ - Corrected bugs with multiple '/' characters in names for H5Glink
+ and H5Gunlink. QAK - 2003/08/16
+ - Corrected bug with user blocks that didn't allow a user block to
+ be inserted in front of a file after the file was created.
+ QAK - 2003/08/13
+ - Corrected errors with using point selections to access data in
+ chunked datasets. QAK - 2003/07/23
+ - Corrected error with variable-length datatypes and chunked datasets
+ caused H5Dwrite to fail sometimes. QAK - 2003/07/19
+ - Modified library and file format to support storing indexed storage
+ (chunked dataset) B-tree's with non-default internal 'K' values.
+ QAK - 2003/07/15
+ - Returned H5T_BKG_TEMP support to library after it was accidentally
+ removed. QAK - 2003/07/14
+
+ Configuration
+ -------------
+ - Configure can now use any tr command. No more need for
+ defining variable TR nor is it supported. -AKC 2006/05/19
+ - Parallel I/O with the MPI-I/O driver will no longer work if the
+ filesystem is not POSIX compliant. The "HDF5_MPI_1_METAWRITE"
+ environment variable has been removed. QAK - 2004/01/30
+ - Fixed the error that cause "make install" to fail because of the
+ macro definition syntax of "prefix?=..." AKC - 2003/07/22
+
+ Performance
+ -------------
+ - Optimized I/O for enumerated datatypes that are a superset of source
+ enumerated datatype. QAK - 2005/03/19
+ - More optimizations to inner loops of datatype conversions for
+ integers and floats which give a 10-50% speedup. QAK - 2003/11/07
+ - Hoisted invariant 'if/else's out of inner datatype conversion loop for
+ integer and floating-point values, giving about a 20% speedup.
+ QAK - 2003/10/20
+
+ Tools
+ -----
+ - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of blocks in hyperslab
+ selections. PVN 2008/01/16
+ - Fixed h5diff regarding the display of NaN (Not a Number)
+ values. PVN 2008/01/16
+ - Fixed h5dump regarding the parsing of binary output parameters.
+ PVN 2008/01/16
+ - Fixed memory problems in h52gif and gif2h5. PVN 2008/01/16
+ - Fixed h5repack dealing with NULL references. PVN 2008/01/16
+ - Fixed h5dump & h5ls to display attributes in "name" order, rather
+ than the order they are encountered in the object header.
+ QAK - 2007/10/04
+ - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of named datatypes
+ attributes. PVN 2007/03/13
+ - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of group comments. PVN
+ 2007/03/13
+ - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing
+ to the root group. PVN 2007/03/13
+ - Fixed h5diff percentage option -p. PVN 2007/03/05
+ - Fixed h5dump that caused array indices greater than 2 ^32-1
+ not to be printed correctly - PVN 2007/2/19
+ - Fixed h5dump to print attributes data in ASCII if -r option is used.
+ AKC - 2004/11/18
+ - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error in formula
+ used. QAK - 2004/10/22
+ - Fixed h5redeploy which sometimes complain too many argument for the
+ test command. (The complain did not hinder the h5redploy to
+ proceed correctly.) AKC - 2003/11/03
+ - Fixed a segmentation fault of h5diff when percentage option is used.
+ AKC - 2003/08/27
+ - Switched away from tools using internal "fixtype" function(s) to use
+ H5Tget_native_type() internally. QAK - 2003/08/25
+
+
+ Documentation
+ -------------
+
+
+ F90 APIs
+ --------
+ - h5pget_driver_f was returning information that could not be
+ interpreted by fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10
+
+
+Platforms Tested
+================
+Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release
+(This information is somewhat out of date and may be inaccurate. It will be
+ updated for a later release)
+
+* AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit) xlc 8.0.0.11
+ xlC 8.0
+ xlf 10.01.0000.0
+ mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
+ mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7
+* AIX 5.3 (32/64 bit) xlc 7.0.0.8
+ xlC 7.0.0.8
+ xlf 09.01.0000.0007
+* Cray X1 water 3.0.35 Cray Standard C Version 5.4.0.7.4
+ Cray Fortran 5.4.0.7.3
+ Cray C++ 5.4.0.7.4
+ FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+ (duty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+ gcc 4.2.1 20080123
+ g++ 4.2.1 20080123
+ gfortran 4.2.1 20070620
+ FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+ (liberty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+ gcc 4.2.1 20080123
+ g++ 4.2.1 20080123
+ gfortran 4.2.1 20080123
+
+* HP-UX B.11.23 HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.00
+ HP F90 v2.9.2
+ HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.00
+ IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
+ F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m
+ C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
+
+* Linux 2.6.9 (RHEL4) Intel 10.0 compilers
+ (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
+ Linux 2.4.21-47 gcc 3.2.3 20030502
+ (osage)
+ Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10 gcc 3.4.6 20060404
+ (kagiso) PGI 7.0-7 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
+ Intel 9.1 (icc, ifort, icpc)
+ Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0, g95 (GCC 4.0.3)
+ (smirom) PGI 6.2-5 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
+ Intel 9.1 (icc, iort, icpc)
+ Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1
+ SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+ (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
+ SGI MPI
+ SunOS 5.8 32,46 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
+ (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
+ Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
+* SunOS 5.10 i86pc Sun C 5.7
+ Sun Fortran 95 8.1
+ Sun C++ 5.7
+ SunOS 5.10 cc: Sun C 5.8
+ (linew) f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2
+ CC: Sun C++ 5.8
+ Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
+ (tungsten) gcc 3.2.2 20030222
+ Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 9.0
+ IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_292.til1 ia64
+ (NCSA tg-login) gcc 3.2.2
+ Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1
+ mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2
+ Windows XP
+ Visual Studio .NET
+ Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+ Cygwin(native gcc compiler and g95)
+ MinGW(native gcc compiler and g95)
+ Windows XP x64
+ Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+ Windows Vista
+ Visual Studio 2005
+
+ MAC OS 10.4 (Intel) gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+ G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006)
+* Alpha Open VMS 7.3
+
+
+Supported Configuration Features Summary
+(This table was not modified for 1.8.0-rc* release; for information contact help@hdfgroup.org)
+========================================
+
+ In the tables below
+ y = tested and supported
+ n = not supported or not tested in this release
+ x = not working in this release
+ dna = does not apply
+ ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+ <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP
+ parallel parallel
+SunOS5.8 64-bit n y n y y y
+SunOS5.8 32-bit n y n y y y
+SunOS5.10 64-bit y(1) y n y y y
+SunOS5.10 32-bit y(1) y n y y y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit n y y y y y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit n n n n y y
+Cray XT3 (16) n n n n n n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit y y y y y y
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit y y y y y y
+Windows XP n y(15) n(15) y y y
+Windows XP x64 n y(15) n(15) y y y
+Windows Vista n n n y y y
+Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC n n
+FreeBSD 4.11 n n n y y y
+RedHat EL3 W (3) y(1a) y(10) y(1a) y y y
+RedHat EL3 W Intel (3) n y n y y n
+RedHat EL3 W PGI (3) n y n y y n
+SuSe x86_64 gcc (3,12) y(1a) y(11) n y y y
+SuSe x86_64 Int (3,12) n y(13) n y y n
+SuSe x86_64 PGI (3,12) n y(8) n y y y
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
+ Lustre Intel (3,6) n y n y y n
+Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C
+ Intel (3,7) y y y y y n
+Linux 2.6 SGI Altix
+ ia64 Intel (3) y y y y y y
+Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2 n y n y n n
+
+
+
+Platform Shared Shared Shared static- Thread-
+ C libs F90 libs C++ libs exec safe
+Solaris2.8 64-bit y y y x y
+Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y x y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit y x y
+Solaris2.10 32-bit y x y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y n y y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y dna y y y
+HPUX11.00 y n y x n
+HPUX11.23-32bit y n n y n
+HPUX11.23-64bit y dna n y n
+Cray XT3 (16) n n n n n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit n n n y n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit n n n y n
+Windows XP y y(15) y y y
+Windows XP x64 y y(15) y y y
+Windows Vista y n n y y
+Mac OS X 10.3 y y n
+Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC
+FreeBSD 4.11 y n y y y
+RedHat EL3 W (3) y y(10) y y y
+RedHat EL3 W Intel (3) y y y y n
+RedHat EL3 W PGI (3) y y y y n
+SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y y y y y
+SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y y y y(14) n
+SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y y y y(14) n
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
+ Lustre Intel (6) y y y y n
+Linux 2.4 SuSE
+ ia64 C Intel (7) y y y y n
+Linux 2.4 SGI Altix
+ ia64 Intel y y n
+Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2 n n n y n
+
+ Notes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.6.
+ (1a) Using mpich2 1.0.6.
+ (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6.
+ (3) Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
+ W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
+
+ (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1. Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
+ and Intel compilers
+ (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.till. Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
+ (8) pgf90
+ (9) With Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6c compiler.
+ (10) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
+ (11) PGI and Intel compilers for both C and Fortran
+ (12) AMD Opteron x86_64
+ (13) ifort
+ (14) Yes with C and Fortran, but not with C++
+ (15) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin
+ (16) Not tested for this release.
+ Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+ "Platforms Tested" table.
+
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests
+ with chunking storage on ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a linux
+ cluster at NCSA.
+ Under some complex selection cases,
+ 1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
+ 2) MPI_Type_struct also generates wrong derived data type and corrupt data
+ may be generated.
+ This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
+ with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other
+ MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent IO
+ instead.
+
+ Change the following line in your code:
+ H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_COLLECTIVE);
+
+ to
+ H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_INDEPENDENT);
+
+ KY - 2007/08/24
+
+* For SNL, spirit/liberty/thunderbird: The serial tests pass but parallel
+ tests failed with MPI-IO file locking message. AKC - 2007/6/25.
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers use
+ -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. Higher level of optimization
+ causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
+* For HPUX 11.23 many tools tests failed for 64-bit version when linked to the
+ shared libraries (tested for 1.8.0-beta2)
+* For SNL, Red Storm: only paralle HDF5 is supported. The serial tests pass
+ and the parallel tests also pass with lots of non-fatal error messages.
+* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel pass. Zeus: serial passes but
+ parallel fails with a known proglem in MPI. ubgl: serial passes but
+ parallel fails.
+* on SUN 5.10 C++ test fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with Attributes" test
+* configuring with --enable-debug=all produces compiler errors on most
+ platforms. Users who want to run HDF5 in debug mode should use
+ --enable-debug rather than --enable-debug=all to enable debugging
+ information on most modules.
+* On Mac OS 10.4, test/dt_arith.c has some errors in conversion from long
+ double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned)long long to long double.
+* On Altix SGI with Intel 9.0 testmeta.c would not compile with -O3
+ optimization flag.
+* On VAX, Scaleoffset filter isn't supported. The filter cannot be applied to
+ HDF5 data generated on VAX. Scaleoffset filter only supports IEEE standard
+ for floating-point data.
+* On Cray X1, a lone colon on the command line of h5dump --xml (as in
+ the testh5dumpxml.sh script) is misinterpereted by the operating system
+ and causes an error.
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, we found that if more than two processes
+ contribute no IO and the application asks to do IO with collective, we found
+ that when using 4 processors, a simple collective write will be hung
+ sometimes. This can be verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
+* On IRIX6.5, when C compiler version >7.4, the complicate MPI derived data type
+ code will work. However, the user should be aware to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX environment
+ variable to some certian value in order to use collective irregular selection code.
+ For example, the current parallel HDF5 test needs to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX to
+ 200,000 to make the test pass.
+* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+ be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is
+ enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+ checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent
+ between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in
+ Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+ longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release
+ after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library
+ of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/6/30
+* For the version 6(6.02 and 6.04) of Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
+ processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library
+ failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has
+ been reported to the vendor.
+* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
+ messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command poe.
+ Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
+ and run the tests again.
+ The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already
+ in use". HDF5 does not use sockets (except for stream-VFD). This is
+ due to problems of the poe command trying to set up the debug socket.
+ Check if there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* staying around. These are
+ sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed commands.
+ Ask your system administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM
+ to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket.
+
+* 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
+
+
+* The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing. If another
+ application is already using that port address, the test will hang
+ indefinitely and has to be terminated by the kill command. To try the
+ test again, change the port address in test/stream_test.c to one not
+ being used in the host.
+
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
+ platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system
+ libraries on Solaris are available in a static format.
+
+ The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
+ on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
+ with this option.
+
+ It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
+ during configuration.
+
+* With the gcc 2.95.2 compiler, HDF 5 uses the `-ansi' flag during
+ compilation. The ANSI version of the compiler complains about not being
+ able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
+
+ warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
+
+ This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
+
+
+* The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows. It is not supported
+ in the TFLOPS machine.
+
+
+* The ./dsets tests failed in the TFLOPS machine if the test program,
+ dsets.c, is compiled with the -O option. The hdf5 library still works
+ correctly with the -O option. The test program works fine if it is
+ compiled with -O1 or -O0. Only -O (same as -O2) causes the test
+ program to fail.
+
+* Certain platforms give false negatives when testing h5ls:
+ - Cray J90 and Cray T90IEEE give errors during testing when displaying
+ some floating-point values. These are benign differences due to
+ the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
+ be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
+
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
+ replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
+ subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
+ from this site:
+ ftp://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.0-pre/PATCH/
+
+* Not all platforms behave correctly with szip's shared libraries. Szip is
+ disabled in these cases, and a message is relayed at configure time. Static
+ libraries should be working on all systems that support szip, and should be
+ used when shared libraries are unavailable. There is also a configure error
+ on Altix machines that incorrectly reports when a version of szip without
+ an encoder is being used.
+
+* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
+ compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
+ complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
+ IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
+
+* On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as
+ Intel's ecc or icc compilers), you will need to modify the generated
+ "libtool" program after configuration is finished. On or around line 104 of
+ the libtool file, there are lines which look like:
+
+ # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
+ wl=""
+
+ change these lines to this:
+
+ # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
+ wl="-Wl,"
+
+ UPDATE: This is now done automatically by the configure script. However, if
+ you still experience a problem, you may want to check this line in the
+ libtool file and make sure that it has the correct value.
+
+* Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
+ INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8
+
+* On at least one system, (SDSC DataStar), the scheduler (in this case
+ LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
+ any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
+
+ This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
+ many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
+ and comparing it to an exemplar.
+
+ The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
+ inserts the extra text. However, this may not be practical.
+
+ In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+ the configure and build. This will cause "make check" to continue after
+ detecting errors in the tool tests. However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
+ it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
+
+ A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
+ out the text added by the scheduler. A sample script used on SDSC
+ DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+ for your installation.
+
+ Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+ on the command line which executes the the test. The script then
+ executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
+ it on.
+
+ #!/bin/csh
+
+ set STDOUT_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stdout
+ set STDERR_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stderr
+
+ rm -f $STDOUT_FILE $STDERR_FILE
+
+ ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE
+
+ set RETURN_VALUE=$status
+
+ cat $STDOUT_FILE
+
+ tail +3 $STDERR_FILE
+
+ exit $RETURN_VALUE
+
+ You get the HDF make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
+ by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+ script prior to running configure for parallel builds. Remember to
+ "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
+
+ Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
+ can prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system. On DataStar,
+ no prefix is necessary. However on an MPICH system, the prefix might
+ have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
+ get the serial tests to run at all.
+
+ In such cases, you will have to include the regular prefix in your
+ filter script.
+
+* H5Ocopy() does not copy reg_ref attributes correctly when shared-message
+ is turn on. The value of the reference in the destination attriubte is
+ wrong. This H5Ocopy problem will affect h5copy tool
+
+%%%%1.6.7%%%% Release Information for hdf5-1.6.7 (31/January/08)
+
+HDF5 version 1.6.7 released on Thu Jan 31 21:09:10 CST 2008
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.6 and HDF5-1.6.7
+It contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in
+HDF5-1.6.7. For more details, check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source.
+
+HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source code
+in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) FTP server:
+
+ ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docs/
+
+Documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series is
+also on the HDF web site:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/
+
+For more information, see the HDF5 home page:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please see the HDF Support page
+for a list of available resources:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/services/support.html
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6
+- Documentation
+- Platforms Tested
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+ Configuration:
+ -------------------------
+ '--enable-stream-vfd' and '--disable-stream-vfd' are no longer valid
+ configure options because the stream I/O driver has ben removed from
+ the distribution.
+
+ Source code distribution
+ ========================
+ Library:
+ --------
+ The stream I/O driver is not included with the HDF5 Library in this
+ release. The source code files hdf5/src/H5FDstream.c and
+ hdf5/src/H5FDstream.h and the driver ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been
+ removed.
+
+ Parallel Library:
+ -----------------
+ None
+
+ Tools:
+ ------
+ None
+
+ F90 API:
+ --------
+ None
+
+ C++ API:
+ --------
+ None
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers
+==================================================
+
+No new platorms, languages, or compilers are supported in this release.
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release
+==================================
+
+ Library
+ -------
+ - H5Iget_name could not be used with an object identifier returned
+ by H5Rdereference; the function would not be able to determine
+ a valid object name. It has been fixed. SLU - 2008/1/30
+ - Changed library's behavior for reading files that might have
+ corrupted object header information from a previous (buggy)
+ version of the library. By default, the library now rebuilds the
+ correct object header information instead of issuing an error.
+ Previous "strict" file format interpretation can be enabled with
+ the "--enable-strict-format-checks" configure option.
+ QAK - 2008/01/13
+ - Fixed bug in H5Epush() which was clearing the error stack before
+ pushing new error value. QAK - 2007/08/23
+ - Fixed bug in H5Ewalk() which was not passing back the return value
+ from error stack walking callback. QAK - 2007/08/23
+
+
+ Configuration
+ -------------
+ None
+
+
+ Performance
+ -------------
+ None
+
+
+ Tools
+ -----
+ None
+
+
+ Documentation
+ -------------
+ None
+
+
+ F90 API
+ -------
+ None
+
+
+ C++ API
+ -------
+ None
+
+
+Documentation
+=============
+ HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source
+ code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the
+ THG (The HDF Group) FTP server:
+
+ ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docs/
+
+ Online documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x
+ series can be found on the THG web site:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/
+
+ A listing of interface changes from release to release can be found
+ in the document "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release":
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+ Since the stream I/O driver is not included in this release, the
+ functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream and the stream
+ ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been removed from the documentation.
+
+
+Platforms Tested
+================
+
+ AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit) xlc 8.0.0.11
+ (datastar) xlC 8.0
+ xlf 10.01.0000.0002
+
+ FreeBSD 6.2 (32- and 64-bit) gcc and g++3.4.6
+ (duty and liberty) gcc and g++ 4.2.1
+
+ IRIX64 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
+ (ucar mop1 64 & n32) F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m (64 only)
+ C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
+
+ Linux 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP gcc 3.2.3
+ i686 i386 GNU/Linux
+ (osage)
+
+ Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
+ SMP i686 i386 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) April 18 2007)
+ (kagiso) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.0-7 32-bit
+ Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
+ applications, Version 9.1
+ Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
+ applications, Version 9.1
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
+ applications, Version 9.1
+ Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.4
+ MPICH mpich2-1.0.6p1 compiled with
+ gcc 4.2.1 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!)
+
+ Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1 Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.025
+ SMP ia64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.0.025
+ (ucar hir1)
+
+ Linux 2.6.16.46-0.14-smp #1 Intel(R) C++ for Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.037
+ SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.031
+ (smirom) PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 7.0-7
+ for 64-bit target on x86-64
+ tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
+
+ Linux 2.6.5-7.287.3-sn2 #1 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+ Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
+ (cobalt) SGI MPI
+
+ SunOS 5.8 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
+ (sol) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
+ Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
+
+ SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.8
+ (linew) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.2
+ Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8
+ Patch 121019-06
+
+ Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
+ (tungsten) Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 9.0
+ PGI C Version 6.0-5
+ PGI C++ Version 6.0-5
+ PGI Fortran Version 6.0-5
+ gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
+
+ Xeon Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL_lustre-1.4.10.1smp
+ (abe) Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0
+ Open MPI 1.2.2
+
+ IA-64 Linux 2.4.21-309.tg1 #1 SMP
+ ia64 gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
+ (NCSA tg-login) Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1
+ mpich-gm-1.2.6..14-intel-r2
+
+ Windows XP Visual Studio 6.0
+ Visual Studio .NET (with Intel Fortran 9.1)
+ Visual Studio 2005 (with Intel Fortran 9.1)
+ cygwin (gcc 3.4.4)
+
+ Windows Vista Visual studio 2005
+ MAC OS X Intel Darwin 8.10.1
+ i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+ g95 0.91
+
+
+Supported Configuration Features Summary
+========================================
+
+Key: y = Tested and supported
+ n = Not supported or not tested in this release
+ C = Cluster
+ W = Workstation
+ ( ) = Footnote appears below second table
+
+Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP
+ parallel parallel
+Solaris2.8 32-bit n y n y n y
+Solaris2.8 64-bit n y n n y y
+Solaris2.10 32-bit n y n y y y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit n y n n y y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit n n n n y y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit n y n n y y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0 n n n y y y
+WinXP CYGWIN n n n y y y
+WinXP 2005 n y n y y y
+WinXP .Net n y n y y y
+WinVista 2005 n n n y y y
+Mac OS X 10.4.10 n y n y y y
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit y y y y y y
+FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit n n n y y y
+RedHat Linux 2.4.21 W n n n n y n
+RedHat Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y y y y y y
+RedHat Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel W n y n y y n
+RedHat Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI W n y n y y n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y y n y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W n y n y y n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n y n y y n
+RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre C n y n y y y
+RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre C n y n y y n
+SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y y y y y y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n y n y y y
+
+
+Platform Shared static- Thread-
+ libraries(4) exec safe
+Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit y n y
+Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit y n y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y n y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y n y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0 y n n
+WinXP CYGWIN y n n
+WinXP 2005 y n n
+WinXP .Net y n n
+WinVista 2005 y n n
+Mac OS X 10.4.10 y n n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n
+FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit y n n
+RedHat Linux 2.4.21 W y n n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel W y n n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI W n n n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W y n n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n n n
+RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre C y n n
+RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre C y n n
+SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y n n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n n n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted,
+compilers used are the system compilers.
+
+Footnotes:
+(1) Fortran compiled with g95.
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests
+ with chunking storage with the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a Linux
+ cluster at NCSA.
+ Under some complex selection cases,
+ 1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
+ 2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt
+ data may be generated.
+ This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
+ with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other
+ MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent
+ IO instead.
+
+ To avoid this problem, change the following line in your code:
+ H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_COLLECTIVE);
+
+ to
+ H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_INDEPENDENT);
+
+ KY - 2007/08/24
+
+* QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) does not create h5pfc correctly. It
+ does not include the -lmpi properly. This will be fixed in the next
+ release. AKC - 2007/08/07.
+
+* On IRIX64 6.5 (UCAR SGI mop1), when testing HDF5 tools with an HDF5 shared
+ library, especially for h5repacktst and h52gifgentst, the following (or a
+ similar) error message may appear:
+ "523648:lt-h5repacktst: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname
+ 'libh5test.so.1' under any of the filenames .......(bunch of directories)
+ "
+ And the testing will fail.
+
+ We believe this is a libtool problem. One way to get rid of this is to
+ add the paths of libh5test.so.1 and libh5.so.1 to the shared library path.
+
+ For 32-bit:
+ You may do this, under csh:
+ setenv LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH .......(existing paths):[full path of HDF5
+ directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
+
+ For 64-bit:
+ setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing paths):[full path of HDF5
+ directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
+
+ NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you
+ build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link
+ with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set
+ anyway. KY - 2007/8/2
+
+* QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) failed the testpar/testphdf5 sub-test
+ "calloc". All other tests passed. This indicates that a dataset using
+ chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel
+ HDF5. The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x
+ calloc". AKC - 2007/7/12.
+
+* The Intel C Compiler for the Linux x86_64 platform (EM64T-based, v8.1) has
+ an optimization error in the datatypes conversion code. Before running
+ configure, edit the file config/intel-flags by changing the setting of
+ PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0. Then run configure. AKC - 2005/11/10.
+
+* When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 on IRIX
+ 6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for
+ example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside
+ the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5
+ library. You can always set a bigger number on your system. KY - 2005/10/6
+
+* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5
+ might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library.
+ Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the
+ dataset creation property list to avoid the problem. EIP - 2005/09/09
+
+* A dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+ be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is
+ enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+ checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent
+ between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in
+ Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+ longer the same as before on little-endian system. HDF5 library releases
+ after 1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5
+ library of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/7/8
+
+* For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
+ processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library
+ failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver. The problem has
+ been reported to the vendor.
+
+* test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another
+ region." The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when
+ two regions overlap each other; it is a bug in the test and not in
+ HDF5. Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will
+ usually disappear if the test is re-run.
+
+* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but
+ have a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest
+ of the header file if the C99 option is not used explicitly. Hardsetting
+ $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13
+
+* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
+ messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command poe.
+ Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
+ and run the tests again.
+
+ The tests may also fail with messages like "The socket name is already
+ in use". HDF5 does not use sockets. This is due to problems of the
+ poe command trying to set up the debug socket. Check whether there are
+ many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. These are sockets used by
+ the poe command and left behind due to failed commands. Ask your system
+ administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a means
+ to run poe without the debug socket.
+
+* The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
+ (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
+ "stderr" do not appear in the "right order" with output from stdout.
+ This is not an error.
+
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
+ platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system
+ libraries on Solaris are available in a static format.
+
+ The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
+ on the IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
+ with this option.
+
+ The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
+ on the HPUX 11.00.
+
+ It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
+ during configuration.
+
+* Use the --disable-shared configure flag if building with an Absoft Fortran
+ compiler.
+
+* Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
+ INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8.
+
+* In LANL QSC, the new cc compiler has problems converting small values of
+ long long (absolute values less than 1**-308) to double. This triggers
+ the test/dtypes to report failure in the following test:
+ Testing random sw long double -> double conversions
+ If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to
+ 10**-308. If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly
+ 0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308. This has been reported to the
+ system staff.
+
+ All other tests have passed.
+
+* On at least one system, SDSC DataStar, the scheduler (in this case
+ LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
+ any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
+
+ This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
+ many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
+ and comparing it to an exemplar.
+
+ The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
+ inserts the extra text. However, this may not be practical.
+
+ In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+ the configure and build. This will cause "make check" to continue after
+ detecting errors in the tool tests. However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
+ it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
+
+ A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
+ out the text added by the scheduler. A sample script used on SDSC
+ DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+ for your installation.
+
+ Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+ on the command line which executes the test. The script then
+ executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
+ it on.
+
+ #!/bin/csh
+
+ set STDOUT_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stdout
+ set STDERR_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stderr
+
+ rm -f $STDOUT_FILE $STDERR_FILE
+
+ ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE
+
+ set RETURN_VALUE=$status
+
+ cat $STDOUT_FILE
+
+ tail +3 $STDERR_FILE
+
+ exit $RETURN_VALUE
+
+ You get the HDF5 make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
+ by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+ script prior to running configure for parallel builds. Remember to
+ "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
+
+ Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
+ prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system. On DataStar,
+ no prefix is necessary. However, on an MPICH system, the prefix might
+ have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
+ get the serial tests to run at all.
+
+ In such cases, you will have to include the regular prefix in your
+ filter script. JM - 2004/9/15
+
+%%%%1.6.6%%%% Release Information for hdf5-1.6.6 (16/August/08)
+
+HDF5 version 1.6.6 released on Thu Aug 16 11:17:10 CDT 2007
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.5 and
+HDF5-1.6.6 It contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.6.6. For more details, check the HISTORY.txt
+file in the HDF5 source.
+
+HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source
+code in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group)
+ftp server (ftp.hdfgroup.org) in the directory:
+
+ /HDF5/docs/
+
+Documentation for the current release is also on the HDF web site:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
+
+For more information, see the HDF5 home page at:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
+
+ help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.5
+- Documentation
+- Platforms Tested
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+ Configuration:
+ -------------------------
+ - HDF5 now uses autoconf 2.61 to generate configure. MAM - 2007/7/25.
+
+ Source code distribution
+ ========================
+ Library:
+ --------
+ - None
+
+ Parallel Library:
+ -----------------
+ - None
+
+ Tools:
+ ------
+ - h52gif and gif2h5: Both these tools were revised to include High
+ Level Image API support. Tests were added to /hl/tools/gif2h5.
+ PVN - 2007/04/13
+ - h5dump: Added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE.
+ PVN - 2007/03/13
+ - h5dump: Added support for binary output; see usage. PVN 2007/03/13
+ - h5repack: Added support for reading and writing by hyperslabs for
+ large files. PVN - 2007/03/01
+ - h5repack: A new option allows the copy to use the source file type
+ (default) instead of the previous conversion to native type.
+ PVN - 2007/03/01
+ - h5repack: Added output of the percentage of compression achieved.
+ PVN - 2007/03/01
+ - h5diff: Added support for comparing dataset regions. PVN -
+ 2007/02/20
+ - h5diff: Added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for
+ large files. PVN - 2007/02/20
+ - h5diff: Added printing of dataset dimensions along with dataset
+ name.
+ PVN - 2007/02/19
+
+ F90 API:
+ --------
+ - None
+
+ C++ API:
+ --------
+ - Added support for Szip: DSetCreatPropList::setSzip - BMR 2007/01/24
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers
+==================================================
+ - Added support for MAC Intel (Darwin 8.8.2) (gcc 4.0.1 and g95 0.91)
+ EIP - 2007/02/13
+ - Added support for GNU C compiler version 4.2.1 for FreeBSD 6.2
+ (32- and 64-bit)
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.5 Release
+==================================
+
+ Library
+ -------
+ - Fixed several bugs with writing fill values for datasets that have
+ a variable-length datatype or component datatype. QAK -
+2007/06/19
+ - STDIO driver didn't support files bigger than 2GB because the OFFSET
+ parameter of fseek is of type LONG INT, not big enough for big
+ files. Use fseeko instead for big files if it's available on the
+ system. SLU - 2007/4/5
+ - Relaxed restrictions on attribute operations to allow a file ID to
+ be used as the "location ID". If a file ID is used, the attribute
+ operation will occur on the root group of the file.
+ QAK - 2007/02/09
+ - Fixed a bug in H5Sselect_valid() that caused an incorrect value to
+ be returned (0) instead of FAIL on error conditions such as the
+ selection or extent not being defined. CMC - 2007/01/05
+ - Fixed potential file corruption bug which could overwrite a portion
+ of an object's header when an attribute was renamed. If the new
+ name for the attribute was longer than the old name, it was
+possible
+ that the attribute would grow enough to overwrite another message
+ in the object's header. QAK - 2007/01/02
+ - Fixed file corruption bug which could write an incorrect number of
+ messages to an object's header under certain circumstances.
+ Generally, the sequence of actions to generate this bug looks
+ like this:
+ - Create an object.
+ - Close the file.
+ - Re-open the file.
+ - Add 2 (or more) attributes to the object.
+ - Close the file.
+ - Re-open the file.
+ - Delete one of the attributes on the object.
+ - Add a smaller attribute to the object.
+ - Delete the smaller atttribute on the object.
+ - Add a larger attribute on the object.
+
+ After this, the number of header messages stored for the object
+ will be off by one. Other sequences of modifying attributes on an
+ object could also trigger this bug. If you are opening an
+ object and the bottom few messages of the HDF5 error stack
+ resembles the following, the object has been affected by this bug:
+
+ #007: ../../hdf5_v1.6/src/H5C.c line 3887 in H5C_load_entry():
+unable to load entry
+ major(08): Meta data cache layer
+ minor(40): Unable to load metadata into cache
+ #008: ../../hdf5_v1.6/src/H5Ocache.c line 332 in H5O_load():
+corrupt object header - too few messages
+ major(12): Object header layer
+ minor(40): Unable to load metadata into cache
+
+ Specifically, "corrupt object header" is the best string to search
+ for in the HDF5 error stack output.
+
+ If your files have been affected by this bug, or you are concerned
+ that your files might have been, please contact the HDF Helpdesk
+ at help@hdfgroup.org for a tool to detect and repair files
+ affected by this problem. QAK - 2006/6/16
+
+ - Fixed various problems with retrieving names of objects, especially
+ with mounted files. QAK - 2005/12/25
+
+ Configuration
+ -------------
+ - Changed to default to --disable-shared if parallel is enabled.
+ AKC - 2007/5/12
+ - Corrected a coding error in configure when it tries to locate the
+ needed MPI and MPI-IO library for the fortran interface.
+ AKC - 007/5/9.
+ - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used.
+ AKC - 007/2/17.
+ - Configure can now use any tr command. No more need for
+ defining the variable TR, nor is it supported. AKC - 2006/05/20
+
+ Performance
+ -------------
+ - None
+
+ Tools
+ -----
+ - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of named datatypes
+ attributes. PVN - 2007/03/13
+ - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of group comments.
+ PVN - 2007/03/13
+ - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing
+ to the root group. PVN - 2007/03/13
+ - Fixed a bug in the h5diff percentage option -p. PVN - 2007/03/05
+ - Fixed a bug in h5dump that caused array indices greater than 2^32-1
+ not to be printed correctly. PVN - 2007/2/19
+
+ Documentation
+ -------------
+ - Corrected errors and extended the descriptions in Reference Manual
+ entries for several functions.
+
+ F90 API
+ -------
+ - None
+
+ C++ API
+ -------
+ - Changed
+ StrType::StrType(const size_t& size);
+ to
+ StrType::StrType(const int dummy, const size_t& size);
+ because the first one clashed with
+ StrType::StrType(const hid_t existing_id); - BMR 2007/05/03
+ - Wrappers of H5Rcreate had incorrect prototypes. Added these
+ overloaded functions:
+ IdComponent::reference(void* ref, const char* name,
+DataSpace&
+ dataspace, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_DATASET_REGION)
+ IdComponent::void reference(void* ref, const char* name)
+ IdComponent::reference(void* ref, const H5std_string& name)
+ and will remove these incorrect member functions:
+ DataSet::Reference
+ DataType::Reference
+ Group::Reference
+ H5File::Reference
+ - Added wrappers for H5Rdereference as constructors:
+ DataSet(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);
+ Group(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);
+ DataType(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);
+
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+ HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source
+ code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the
+ THG (The HDF Group) ftp server (ftp.hdfgroup.org) in the directory:
+
+ /HDF5/docs/
+
+ Online documentation for the current release can be found on the THG
+ web site:
+
+ http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
+
+
+Platforms Tested
+================
+
+ AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit) xlc 6.0.0.8
+ (datastar) xlC 6.0.0.9
+ xlf 8.1.1.7
+ mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
+ mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7
+
+ AIX 5.3 (32/64 bit) xlc 7.0.0.0
+ (copper) xlC 7.0.
+ xlf 9.1.0.3
+
+ FreeBSD 6.2 (32- and 64-bit) gcc and g++3.4.6
+ (duty and liberty) gcc and g++ 4.2.1
+
+ HP-UX B.11.23 HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.02
+ (sirius) HP F90 v3.1 (32-bit only)
+ HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.02
+
+ IRIX64 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
+ (ucar mop1 64 & n32) F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m (64 only)
+ C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
+
+ Linux 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP gcc 3.2.3
+ i686 i386 GNU/Linux
+ (osage)
+
+ Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
+ SMP i686 i386 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006)
+ (kagiso) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 6.2-5 32-bit
+ icc (ICC) 9.1
+ Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
+ applications, Version 9.1
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
+ applications, Version 9.1
+ Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.4
+ MPICH mpich2-1.0.4p1 compiled with
+ gcc 3.4.6 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!)
+
+ Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1
+ SMP ia64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.025
+ (ucar hir1) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.0.025
+
+ Linux 2.6.16.46-0.14-smp #1 Intel(R) C++ for Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.037
+ SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.031
+ (smirom) PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 6.2-5
+ for 64-bit target on x86-64
+ tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
+
+ Linux 2.6.5-7.283-rtgfx Altix
+ SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+ (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
+ SGI MPI
+
+ OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011
+ (See "Known Problems.") HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
+ Compaq C++ V6.5-036
+ MPIX200_64_r13.4
+
+ SunOS 5.8 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
+ (sol) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
+ Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
+
+ SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.8
+ (linew) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.2
+ Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8
+ Patch 121019-06
+
+ Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
+ (tungsten) Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 9.0
+ PGI C Version 6.0
+ PGI C++ Version 6.0
+ PGI Fortran Version 6.0
+ gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
+
+ Xeon Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL_lustre-1.4.10.1smp
+ (abe) Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0
+ Open MPI 1.2.2
+
+ IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_292.til1
+ ia64 gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
+ (NCSA tg-login) Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
+ Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
+ mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2
+
+ Windows XP Visual Studio 6.0
+ Visual Studio .NET (with Intel Fortran 9.0)
+ Visual Studio 2005 (with Intel Fortran 9.0)
+ cygwin (gcc 3.4.4)
+
+ MAC OS X Intel Darwin 8.10.1
+ i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+ g95 0.91
+
+
+Supported Configuration Features Summary
+========================================
+
+Key: y = Tested and supported
+ n = Not supported or not tested in this release
+ C = Cluster
+ W = Workstation
+ ( ) = Footnote appears below second table
+
+Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP
+ parallel parallel
+Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit n y n y y y
+Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit n y n y y y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit n n n n y y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit n y n n y y
+HPUX11.23-32bit n y n y y y
+HPUX11.23-64bit n n n y y y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0 n n n y y y
+WinXP CYGWIN n n n y y y
+WinXP 2005 n y n y y y
+WinXP .Net n y n y y y
+Mac OS X 10.4.10 n y n y y y
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit y y y y y y
+FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit n n n y y y
+RedHat Linux 2.4.21 W n n n y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y y y y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel W n y n y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI W n y n y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y y y y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W n y n y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n y n y y y
+RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre C y y y y y y
+RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre C n y n y y y
+SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y y y y y y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 n y n y y y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n y n y y y
+OSF1 v5.1 y y y y y n
+
+
+Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM-
+ libraries(4) exec safe VFD
+Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit y n y y
+Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit y n y y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y n y y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y n y y
+HPUX11.23-32bit y (3) n n y
+HPUX11.23-64bit y (3) n n y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0 y n n n
+WinXP CYGWIN y n n n
+WinXP 2005 y n n n
+WinXP .Net y n n n
+Mac OS X 10.4.10 y n n y
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n y
+FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit y n n y
+RedHat Linux 2.4.21 W y n n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y n y y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel W y n n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI W n n n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y n n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W y n n y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n n n y
+RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre C y n n y
+RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre C y n n y
+SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y n n y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 n n n y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n n n y
+OSF1 v5.1 n n n y
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted,
+compilers used are the system compilers.
+
+Footnotes:
+(1) Fortran compiled with g95.
+(2) In most cases, shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
+ except on Windows where they are provided for C, C++, and Fortran.
+(3) C++ works only with static libraries.
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) does not create h5pfc correctly. It
+ does not include the -lmpi properly. This will be fixed in the next
+ release. AKC - 2007/08/07.
+
+* On IRIX64 6.5 (UCAR SGI mop1), when testing HDF5 tools with an HDF5 shared
+ library, especially for h5repacktst and h52gifgentst, the following (or
+ similar) error message may appear:
+ "523648:lt-h5repacktst: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname
+ 'libh5test.so.1' under any of the filenames .......(bunch of directories)
+ "
+ And the testing will fail.
+ We believe this is a libtool problem. One way to get rid of this is to
+ add the paths of libh5test.so.1 and libh5.so.1 to the shared library path.
+
+ For 32-bit:
+ You may do this, under csh:
+ setenv LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH .......(existing pathes):[full path of HDF5
+ directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
+
+ For 64-bit:
+ setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing pathes):[full path of HDF5
+ directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
+
+ NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you
+ build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link
+ with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set
+ anyway. KY - 2007/8/2
+
+* QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) failed the testpar/testphdf5 sub-test
+ "calloc". All other tests passed. This indicates that a dataset using
+ chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel
+ HDF5. The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x
+ calloc". AKC - 2007/7/12.
+
+* The Intel C Compiler for the Linux x86_64 platform (EM64T-based, v8.1) has
+ an optimization error in the datax types conversion code. Before running
+ configure, edit the file config/intel-flags by changing the setting of
+ PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0. Then run configure. AKC - 2005/11/10.
+
+* When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 on IRIX
+ 6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for
+ example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside
+ the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5
+ library. You can always set a bigger number on your system. KY - 2005/10/6
+
+* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5
+ might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library.
+ Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the
+ dataset creation property list to avoid the problem. EIP - 2005/09/09
+
+* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+ be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is
+ enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+ checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent
+ between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in
+ Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+ longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release
+ after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library
+ of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/7/8
+
+* For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
+ processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library
+ failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver. The problem has
+ been reported to the vendor.
+
+* test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another
+ region." The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when
+ two regions overlap each other; it is a bug in the test and not in
+ HDF5. Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will
+ usually disappear if the test is re-run.
+
+* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but
+ have a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest
+ of the header file if the C99 option is not used explicitly. Hardsetting
+ $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13
+
+* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
+ messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command poe.
+ Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
+ and run the tests again.
+
+ The tests may also fail with messages like "The socket name is already
+ in use". HDF5 does not use sockets (except for stream-VFD). This is
+ due to problems of the poe command trying to set up the debug socket.
+ Check whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. These
+ are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed commands.
+ Ask your system administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM
+ to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
+
+* The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
+ (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
+ "stderr" do not appear in the "right order" with output from stdout.
+ This is not an error.
+
+* The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing. If another
+ application is already using that port address, the test will hang
+ indefinitely and has to be terminated by the kill command. To try the
+ test again, change the port address in test/stream_test.c to one not
+ being used in the host.
+
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
+ platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system
+ libraries on Solaris are available in a static format.
+
+ The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
+ on the IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
+ with this option.
+
+ The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
+ on the HPUX 11.00.
+
+ It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
+ during configuration.
+
+* The Stream VFD is not supported under Windows.
+
+* Use the --disable-shared configure flag if building with Absoft Fortran
+ compiler.
+
+* Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
+ INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8.
+
+* In LANL QSC, the new cc compiler has problems converting small values of
+ long long (absolute values less than 1**-308) to double. This triggers
+ the test/dtypes to report failure in the following test:
+ Testing random sw long double -> double conversions
+ If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to
+ 10**-308. If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly
+ 0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308. This has been reported to the
+ system staff.
+
+ All other tests have passed.
+
+* On at least one system, SDSC DataStar, the scheduler (in this case
+ LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
+ any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
+
+ This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
+ many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
+ and comparing it to an exemplar.
+
+ The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
+ inserts the extra text. However, this may not be practical.
+
+ In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+ the configure and build. This will cause "make check" to continue after
+ detecting errors in the tool tests. However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
+ it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
+
+ A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
+ out the text added by the scheduler. A sample script used on SDSC
+ DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+ for your installation.
+
+ Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+ on the command line which executes the test. The script then
+ executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
+ it on.
+
+ #!/bin/csh
+
+ set STDOUT_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stdout
+ set STDERR_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stderr
+
+ rm -f $STDOUT_FILE $STDERR_FILE
+
+ ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE
+
+ set RETURN_VALUE=$status
+
+ cat $STDOUT_FILE
+
+ tail +3 $STDERR_FILE
+
+ exit $RETURN_VALUE
+
+ You get the HDF5 make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
+ by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+ script prior to running configure for parallel builds. Remember to
+ "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
+
+ Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
+ prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system. On DataStar,
+ no prefix is necessary. However, on an MPICH system, the prefix might
+ have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
+ get the serial tests to run at all.
+
+ In such cases, you will have to include the regular prefix in your
+ filter script. JM - 2004/9/15
+
+
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