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@@ -18,9 +18,39 @@ can do the following: $ make install # Optional -Note: -For the users of the Intel TFLOPS machine, a special sequence of steps -for the install may be found in the file: INSTALL.ascired. +Note: For the users of the Intel TFLOPS machine, a special sequence of +steps for the install may be found in the file: INSTALL.ascired. + +OUTPUT FROM THE FOLLOWING COMPILERS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY SUSPECT WHEN +USED TO COMPILE THE HDF5 LIBRARY, ESPECIALLY IF OPTIMIZATIONS ARE +ENABLED. IN ALL CASES, HDF5 ATTEMPTS TO WORK AROUND THE COMPILER BUGS +BUT THE HDF5 DEVELOPMENT TEAM MAKES NO GUARANTEES THAT THERE ARE OTHER +CODE GENERATION PROBLEMS. + + * GNU (Intel platforms) + Versions before 2.8.1 have serious problems allocating + registers when functions contain operations on `long long' + data types. Supplying the `--disable-hsizet' switch to + configure (documented below) will prevent hdf5 from using + `long long' data types in situations that are known not to + work, but it limits the hdf5 address space to 2GB. + + * DEC + The V5.2-038 compiler (and possibly others) occasionally + generates incorrect code for memcpy() calls when optimizations + are enabled, resulting in unaligned access faults. HDF5 works + around the problem by casting the second argument to `char*'. + + * SGI (Irix64 6.2) + The Mongoose 7.00 compiler has serious optimization bugs and + should be upgraded to MIPSpro 7.2.1.2m. Patches are available + from SGI. + + * Windows/NT + The MicroSoft Win32 5.0 compiler is unable to cast unsigned + long long values to doubles. HDF5 works around this bug by + first casting to signed long long and then to double. + ======= Step 0: Install optional third-party packages. |