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authorRaymond Lu <songyulu@hdfgroup.org>2005-06-30 21:30:40 (GMT)
committerRaymond Lu <songyulu@hdfgroup.org>2005-06-30 21:30:40 (GMT)
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[svn-r11006]
Misc. update: Document a known problem with Fletcher32 filter.
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Known Problems
==============
+* The dataset created with the v1.6.2 library can't be read with the v1.6.3
+ library or after when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is enabled. There was a bug
+ in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 checksum in the library before
+ v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent between big-endian and
+ little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3. However, after
+ fixing the bug, the checksum value is no longer the same as before on
+ little-endian system. SLU - 2005/6/30
* For the version 6(6.02 and 6.04) of Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library
failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has