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authorNeil Fortner <nfortne2@hdfgroup.org>2011-02-02 14:41:49 (GMT)
committerNeil Fortner <nfortne2@hdfgroup.org>2011-02-02 14:41:49 (GMT)
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[svn-r20029] Purpose: Fix bug 2131
Description: When using the scale-offset filter with floating point data or fill values, big endian machines would save some metadata in the wrong byte order. This caused such datasets to yield incorrect data when read on little endian machines. Fixed the scale-offset filter to always save this metadata in the right byte order (i.e. little endian). Tested: jam, amani, heiwa (h5committedt); fedora, linew
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@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
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+ - Fixed a bug that caused big endian machines to generate corrupt files
+ when using the scale-offset filter with floating point data or
+ fill values. Note that such datasets will no longer be readable
+ by any machine after this patch. (NAF - 2010/02/02)
- Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is
external and the file that the link refers to doesn't exist will
now fail gracefully rather than cause a segmentation fault.