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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2003-08-25 20:10:38 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2003-08-25 20:10:38 (GMT)
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[svn-r7407] Purpose:
Update release notes with bugfix info.
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@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
Library
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+ - 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
@@ -81,13 +90,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
- Fixed the error that caused "make install" to fail because of the
macro definition syntax of "prefix?=..." AKC - 2003/07/22
-
-
Performance
-------------
Tools
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+ - Switched away from tools using internal "fixtype" function(s) to use
+ H5Tget_native_type() internally. QAK - 2003/08/25
Documentation
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