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diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt index 7d4d6c2..3909451 100644 --- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt +++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.7.39 released on Sun Oct 3 04:01:30 CDT 2004 +HDF5 version 1.7.40 released on Sun Oct 24 05:20:48 CDT 2004 ================================================================================ @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ New Features Configuration: -------------- + - Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type. It is a + stanadard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22 - The IA64 will use ecc as the C++ compiler by default. - Added some initial support for making purify (or similar memory checking products) happier by initializing buffers to zero and @@ -52,8 +54,8 @@ New Features -------- - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size adjustment. The size can be increased and decreased(without - cutting the last member). No API change is involved. SLU - - 2004/10/1 + cutting the last member) as long as it doesn't go down to zero. + No API change is involved. SLU - 2004/10/1 - Put back 6 old error API functions to be backward compatible with version 1.6. They are H5Epush, H5Eprint, H5Ewalk, H5Eclear, H5Eset_auto, H5Eget_auto. Their new equivalent functions are @@ -124,11 +126,13 @@ New Features Parallel Library: ----------------- + - Allow compressed, chunked datasets to be read in parallel. + QAK - 2004/10/04 - Add options of using atomicity and file-sync to test_mpio_1wMr. - AKC - 2003/11/13 + AKC - 2003/11/13 - Added parallel test, test_mpio_1wMr, which tests if the - underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX - write/read requirement. AKC - 2003/11/12 + underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX + write/read requirement. AKC - 2003/11/12 Fortran Library: ---------------- @@ -136,18 +140,18 @@ New Features - added new functions h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f EIP 2004/07/08 - h5dwrite/read_f and h5awrite/read_f functions only accept dims parameter - of the type INTEGER(HSIZE_T). + of the type INTEGER(HSIZE_T). Tools: ------ - h5repack.sh did not report errors encountered during tests. It does - now. AKC - 2004/04/02 + now. AKC - 2004/04/02 - Added the MPI-I/O and MPI-POSIX drivers to the list of VFL drivers available for h5dump and h5ls - Added option --vfd= to h5ls to allow a VFL driver to be selected by a user. - Added option -showconfig to compiler tools (h5cc,h5fc,h5c++). - AKC - 2004/01/08 + AKC - 2004/01/08 - Install the "h5cc" and "h5fc" tools as "h5pcc" and "h5pfc" respectively if library is built in parallel mode. WCW - 2003/11/04 @@ -167,12 +171,12 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. - Absoft compiler f95 v9.0 supported on Linux 2.4 EIP - 2004/07/29 - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on Mac OSX with IBM XL Fortran - compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler. + compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler. - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with Absoft F95 compiler - version 8.2; set F9X environment varibale to f95, for example - setenv F9X f95 - Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft - compiler is used. + version 8.2; set F9X environment varibale to f95, for example + setenv F9X f95 + Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft + compiler is used. EIP - 2004/07/27 - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with IBM XL Fortran Compiler version 8.1 Use "--disable-shared --enable-static" @@ -184,6 +188,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release Library ------- + - Fix segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that + hasn't had a value written to it open. QAK - 2004/10/18 + - Back up supporting bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type. + Leave it to future support. The function simply returns error + message of "not support" for bitfield and time types. + SLU - 2004/10/5 - Fixed address check in Core VFL driver to avoid spurious address/size overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes. QAK - 2004/09/27 - Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective @@ -378,6 +388,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release Tools ----- + - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error in formula + used. QAK - 2004/10/22 - Fixed h5redeploy which sometimes complain too many argument for the test command. (The complain did not hinder the h5redploy to proceed correctly.) AKC - 2003/11/03 |