[svn-r514] Changes since 19980715

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./src/H5Flow.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5Fsplit.c
	Changed the allocation size request from `size_t' to `hsize_t'
	because it was overflowing for the `big' test.

./src/H5detect.c
	If `long double' and `double' are the same size then we define
	H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE to be the same as H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE.
	Similarly for `long' vs. `long long' and `unsigned long' vs.
	`unsigned long long'.

./test/Makefile.in
	Added `big' to the list of tests to normally run.

./test/big.c
	Added a check to see if the file system supports holes and if
	it doesn't then the test is skipped.

./RELEASE
	Added a couple minor details details about API tracing and
	symbolic links.

./src/H5public.h
	Added comments about the use of hbool_t. Fixed a comment
	spelling error.

./test/testhdf5.h
	Changed the way the version number is printed.  The old method
	was `hdf5-1.2.3d' and the new method is `hdf5 version 1.2
	release 3'

./tools/h5ls.c
	Only prints the max dimension if it differs from the current
	dimension or if verbose mode is enabled.  Added switches `-?',
	`-h', and `--help' to print a usage message.  Added switches
	`-v' and `--verbose' to generate more verbose output.  Added
	switches `-V' and `--version' to print the version number and
	exit.  The version number is printed like: This is h5ls
	version 1.0 release 24'

./bin/h5vers	[NEW]
	This script prints, sets, and/or increments the hdf5 version
	number. It can be run from the top directory or any of the
	child directories like src, tools, test, etc. Some examples:

	  $ h5vers				# Display current version
	  1.0.24

	  $ h5vers -v
	  version 1.0 release 24		# Display current version.

	  $ h5vers -s 5.2.8			# Set version and display
	  5.2.8

	  $ h5vers -s 2.1
	  2.1.0

	  $ h5vers -s hdf5-1.0.24a.tar.bz2
	  1.0.24

	  $ h5vers -s 'version 2.0 release 8'
	  2.0.8

	  $ h5vers -s 'junk 22 junk 33 more junk 66 and 99 junk'
	  33.66.99

	  $ h5vers -i major			# Increment from 1.0.24
	  2.0.0

	  $ h5vers -i minor			# Increment from 1.0.24
	  1.1.0

	  $ h5vers -i release			# Increment from 1.0.24
	  1.0.25

	  $ h5vers ~/hdf5/src/H5public.h	# Use an alternate file
	  1.0.24

./bin/checkapi		[NEW]
	Run from the src directory with arguments H5[A-Z]*.c and it
	will print the locations of each place where an API function
	was called from within the library.  Use it as the compile or
	grep command under Emacs and you can C-x ` through the list.

./bin/debug-ohdr	[NEW]
	Keeps track of H5O_open() and H5O_close() debugging messages
	and lists the file addresses of the object headers that are
	opened but never closed.  You must enable the `o' debugging at
	configuration time and pipe stderr into this script.

./bin/errors
	Added a note to indicate that this script no longer works
	because of changes in the HRETURN_ERROR() and HGOTO_ERROR()
	macros.

./bin/iostats		[NEW]
	Watches output from the Linux strace program and accumulates
	statistics about low-level access to an hdf5 file.  The output
	is a list of 2d data points which can be plotted by gnuplot to
	show file seeking behavior.

./MANIFEST
	Added new files.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5public.h b/src/H5public.h
index c13ec17..eb78630 100644
--- a/src/H5public.h
+++ b/src/H5public.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 /* Version numbers */
 #define H5_VERS_MAJOR	1       /* For major interface changes    	     */
 #define H5_VERS_MINOR	0       /* For minor interface changes    	     */
-#define H5_VERS_RELEASE	23       /* For interface tweaks & bug-fixes	     */
+#define H5_VERS_RELEASE	24       /* For interface tweaks & bug-fixes	     */
 #define H5_VERS_PATCH	0       /* For small groups of bug fixes	     */
 
 #define H5check()	H5vers_check(H5_VERS_MAJOR,H5_VERS_MINOR,\
@@ -41,18 +41,29 @@
  * proper way to detect failure is something like:
  *
  * 	if ((dset = H5Dopen (file, name))<0) {
- *	   fprintf (stderr, "unable to open the requested dataset\n");
+ *	    fprintf (stderr, "unable to open the requested dataset\n");
  *	}
  */
 typedef int herr_t;
 
 /*
- * Boolean type.
+ * Boolean type.  Successful return values are zero (false) or positive
+ * (true). The typical true value is 1 but don't bet on it.  Boolean
+ * functions can also fail, returning a negative value as described above.
+ * The proper way to test for truth is:
+ *
+ * 	if ((retval = H5Tcommitted(type))>0) {
+ *	    printf("data type is committed\n");
+ *	} else if (!retval) {
+ * 	    printf("data type is not committed\n");
+ *	} else {
+ * 	    printf("error determining whether data type is committed\n");
+ *	}
  */
 typedef int hbool_t;
 
 /*
- * The sizes of file-objects in hdf5 have there own types defined here.  On
+ * The sizes of file-objects in hdf5 have their own types defined here.  On
  * most systems, these are the same as size_t and ssize_t, but on systems
  * with small address spaces these are defined to be larger.
  */