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@@ -1303,6 +1303,14 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
Known Problems
==============
+* The h5dump and h5diff utilities occasionally produce different output
+ between Linux and Windows systems. This is caused by lower-level library
+ routines that fail to write fill values to the user's buffer when reading
+ unallocated chunks from datasets that have a fill value set to
+ H5D_FILL_VALUE_DEFAULT. Due to platform differences the return of
+ spurious data values have only been encountered on Windows 32-bit systems.
+ (Issue HDFFV-8247; JP - 2013/03/27)
+
* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp. It
complains with this message:
"/home/hdf5/src/H5Vprivate.h", line 130: Error: __func__ is not defined.