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| author | Binh-Minh Ribler <bmribler@hdfgroup.org> | 2016-10-28 01:14:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | lrknox <lrknox> | 2016-11-01 16:55:53 (GMT) |
| commit | fce1f9c3f76254cd617ea45be7fb6bfac20257c9 (patch) | |
| tree | a01b536a0d2945c252a3786c4545c0022d104424 /release_docs/RELEASE.txt | |
| parent | dff8f1d8e77f6f5b35ced0b25c083bb6f8d4596d (diff) | |
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Updated RELEASE.txt for C++ API and Packet Table APIs for 1.8.18.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index a9fbce3..a4022be 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -152,12 +152,30 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17 C++ API ------- - - None + - The macros H5_NO_NAMESPACE is deprecated from the HDF5 C++ API library. + In future releases, the macros H5_NO_STD and OLD_HEADER_FILENAME may + also be removed. + (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9532) High-Level APIs: --------------- - - None + + Packet Table APIs: + ------------------ + - The high-level API Packet Table (PT) did not write data correctly when + the datatype is a compound type that has string type as one of the + members. This problem started in 1.8.15, after the fix of HDFFV-9042 + was applied, which caused the Packet Table to use native type to access + the data. It should be up to the application to specify whether the + buffer to be read into memory in the machine’s native architecture. + Thus, the PT is fixed to not use native type but to make a copy of the + user's provided datatype during creation or the packet table's datatype + during opening. If an application wishes to use native type to read the + data, then the application will request that. However, the Packet Table + doesn't provide a way to specify memory datatype in this release. + Please refer to the Known Problems section for a work-around. + (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9758) Fortran High-Level APIs: @@ -339,6 +357,18 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release. Known Problems ============== +* Currently, the Packet Table doesn't provide a way to specify memory datatype + when the packet table is read. To work around this limitation, an + application can use the following approach: + + For the C API of the Packet Table + - call the PT API H5PTget_type to get the datatype of the packet table + - call the C API H5Tget_native_type to get the native type of that datatype + + For the C++ API of the Packet Table + - call the member function PacketTable::GetDatatype to get the datatype + of the packet table + - call the C API H5Tget_native_type to get the native type of that datatype + (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9758) + * On windows platforms in debug configurations, the VFD flush1 tests will fail with the split and multi VFD drivers. These tests will display a modal debug dialog which must be answered or wait for the test timeout to expire. |