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diff --git a/doc/html/H5.format.html b/doc/html/H5.format.html index 2b849f8..99c98ed 100644 --- a/doc/html/H5.format.html +++ b/doc/html/H5.format.html @@ -1677,6 +1677,15 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; } an atomic object. </P> + <P>The HDF5 library creates global heap collections as needed, so there may + be multiple collections throughout the file. The set of all of them is + abstractly called the "global heap", although they don't actually link + to each other, and there is no global place in the file where you can + discover all of the collections. The collections are found simply by + finding a reference to one through another object in the file (eg. + variable-length datatype elements, etc). + </P> + <br> <div align=center> <table class=format> @@ -1814,7 +1823,7 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; } </tr> <tr> - <td colspan=2>Object ID</td> + <td colspan=2>Heap Object ID</td> <td colspan=2>Reference Count</td> </tr> @@ -1849,7 +1858,7 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; } </tr> <tr> - <td>Object ID</td> + <td>Heap Object ID</td> <td> <P>Each object has a unique identification number within a collection. The identification numbers are chosen so that |