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authorNeil Fortner <nfortne2@hdfgroup.org>2010-07-28 22:26:59 (GMT)
committerNeil Fortner <nfortne2@hdfgroup.org>2010-07-28 22:26:59 (GMT)
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[svn-r19147] Purpose: Fix bug in direct IO driver
Description: In certain circumstances, the direct I/O driver did not perform correctly when data was unaligned. The driver has been patched to fix this. Also added some potential performance improvements for the unaligned case, and strengthened the test for whether the data needs to be aligned. Tested: cobalt
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@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
Library
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+ - Fixed a bug in the direct I/O driver that could render files with certain
+ kinds of unaligned data unreadable or corrupt them. (NAF - 2010/07/28)
- valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute
is written (Bug #1956). I fixed it by taking out the memcpy step in the
attribute code. (SLU - 2010/07/28)