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| author | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2009-05-01 14:10:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2009-05-01 14:10:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 9c36eb7c88caa11492e136efb61835a78246edc3 (patch) | |
| tree | 562115d39139a0c97217fb247d5e4cc0a50fa209 /release_docs/RELEASE.txt | |
| parent | 6f68d45ef15f1b5b82541499ae8e67a2e2d5e2b3 (diff) | |
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[svn-r16903] updated with new feature of embedded libhdf5.settings and the known problem
of imposing -O0 on gcc v4.3 and v4.4.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 4ec1c6e..f1192f9 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.8.3 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.8.3 released on Wed Apr 29 15:38:19 CDT 2009 ================================================================================ INTRODUCTION @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ New Features Library ------- + - Embed the content of libhdf5.settings into the hdf5 executables + so that an "orphaned" executables can display (via the Unix + strings command, for example) the library settings used to build + the executables. This is a prototype implementation. Improvement will + be added in next release. AKC - 2009/04/20 - Separated "factory" free list class from block free lists. These free lists are dynamically created and manage blocks of a fixed size. H5set_free_list_limits() will use the same settings specified for block @@ -423,7 +428,7 @@ Known Problems * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5 / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks - with MPI IO. (CMC - 2009/04/28) + with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28 * There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file simply by opening it with read/write permissions, even if the file is not @@ -431,6 +436,13 @@ Known Problems superblock. A fix is currently underway and should be included in the 1.8.4 release of HDF5. MAM - 2009/04/28 +* For gcc v4.3 and v4.4, with production mode, if -O3 is used, H5Tinit.c + would fail to compile. Actually bad H5Tinit.c is produced. If -O (same + as -O1) is used, H5Tinit.c compiled okay but test/dt_arith would fail. + When -O0 (no optimizatio) is used, H5Tinit.c compilete okay and all + tests passed. Therefore, -O0 is imposed for v4.3 and v4.4 of gcc. + AKC - 2009/04/20 + * For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of its sub-tests. These sub-tests are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but the yod |