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@@ -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