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diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt index 964d374..9c1ba12 100644 --- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt +++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CONTENTS 4. Changes from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.0.1 3. Changes from the Beta 1.0.0 Release to Release 1.0.0 2. Changes from the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the Beta 1.0.0 Release -1. Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the +1. Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release [Search on the string '%%%%' for per-release section breaks.] @@ -35,15 +35,15 @@ CONTENTS %%%%1.8.0-rc3%%%% Changes from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0-rc3 -HDF5 version 1.8.0-rc3 +HDF5 version 1.8.0-rc3 ================================================================================ INTRODUCTION This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.* and -Hdf5 1.8.0 release candidate "HDF5-1.8.0-rc3", and contains information -on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.0-rc3. +Hdf5 1.8.0 release candidate "HDF5-1.8.0-rc3", and contains information +on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.0-rc3. For more details check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Links to HDF5 1.8.0-rc3 source code, documentation, and additional materials can be found on THG's development server (www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu) at the following location: http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/beta/obtain518.html -User documentation for the beta can be accessed directly at this location: +User documentation for the beta can be accessed directly at this location: http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/ New features of the upcoming 1.8.0 release are described in @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ and will be listed in the "HDF5 Software Changes" document: For more information, see the HDF5 home page: - + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk: @@ -89,13 +89,13 @@ New Features Configuration: -------------- - Removed stream-vfd from the HDF5 library. - AKC 2007/11/19. - - Updated versions of autotools. HDF5 now uses automake 1.10.0, + - Updated versions of autotools. HDF5 now uses automake 1.10.0, autoconf 2.61, and libtool 1.5.22. MAM - 2007/7/25. - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used. - AKC 2007/2/17. - 'make check-vfd' can now be run from the top level directory. Not all tests that 'make check' invokes work with certain Virtual File Drivers, - so those tests have been skipped. - MAM 2006/7/17 + so those tests have been skipped. - MAM 2006/7/17 - Added the variable HDF5TestExpress to control how long tests run. Setting it to a value between 0 and 3 controls how thoroughly the library is tested, with 0 being an "exhaustive run" and 3 being a @@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ New Features tested during 'make install'. -MAM 2006/06/21 - Added support to explicity enable stream_vfd or shared libraries when using parallel via the '--enable-stream_vfd' and - '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicity defined, - These settings default to enabled when parallel is not used, + '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicity defined, + These settings default to enabled when parallel is not used, and disabled when parallel is used. -MAM 2006/06/17 - Remove the flexible parallel code and the --enable-fphdf5 configure option, it was never up to production standards @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ New Features JML 2005/01 - 2005/03 - Hardware conversion between long double and integers is also added. SLU 2005/02/10 - - Started to support software conversion between long double and + - Started to support software conversion between long double and integers. Hardware conversion will come very soon. SLU - 2005/1/6 - Intel v8.0 compiler would infinite loop when compiling some test code with -O3 option. Changed enable-production default compiler @@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ New Features be used as the "location ID". If a file ID is used, the attribute operation will occur on the root group of the file. - QAK - 2007/02/09 - - Enabled the CORE driver to read an existing file depending on - the setting of the backing_store for H5Pset_fapl_core and file + - Enabled the CORE driver to read an existing file depending on + the setting of the backing_store for H5Pset_fapl_core and file open flags. - SLU - 2006/11/30 - Added new H5Gget_info_by_idx() routine to query the information about a group according to the order within an index. @@ -309,10 +309,10 @@ New Features application by building one MPI derived datatype accross all chunks. 2) Implemented the decision-making support to do collective IO inside - MPI-IO per chunk. + MPI-IO per chunk. 3) Added the decision-making support to do one IO accross all chunks or to do multiple IOs with each IO per chunk. - 4) Added the support to handle the case some processes won't do any IOs in + 4) Added the support to handle the case some processes won't do any IOs in collectively. 5) Some MPI-IO package(mpich 1.2.6 or lower, e.g.) cannot handle collective IO correctly for the case when some processes have no @@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ New Features collective IO mode to independent IO mode inside HDF5 library. Currently we find that MPICH at Linux and vender MPI-IO package at NCSA - Altix cannot handle this case. - + Altix cannot handle this case. + "hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works=${hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works='no'}" has been added at the end of file <ia64-linux-gnui> and <linux-gnulibc1>. @@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ New Features If MPI-IO packages at your Linux and Altix support this case, please comment out the last line and report to us at help@hdfgroup.org. We can tune in our configuration to - support this. - + support this. + KY - 2006/02/16 - Added character encoding to attribute creation property lists. JML - 2006/01/02 @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ New Features more than once for the same dataset. Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support complicated MPI derived datatype used in the implementation of irregular - selection INSIDE HDF5. + selection INSIDE HDF5. 1) DEC 5.x is not supporting complicated derived datatype. 2) For AIX 5.1, if your poe version number is 3.2.0.19 or lower, @@ -362,39 +362,39 @@ New Features and UNCOMMENT this line before the configure. check poe version with the following command: lpp -l all | grep ppe.poe - 3) For Linux cluster, + 3) For Linux cluster, if mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, collective irregular selection IO is not supported, internally independent IO is used. 4) For IRIX 6.5, if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular selection IO is not supported, internally independent IO is used. 5) For platforms which internally used mpich, if the - mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the + mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the corresponding config file and add hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' at the end of the configuration file. For example, at NCSA - SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So + SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' should be added at the end of the config file ia64-linux-gnu. KY - 2005/09/12 We also found not all MPI-IO packages support collective IO with one or more processes to have no contributions to IO. - For mpich version 1.2.6 or lower and all IRIX machine, + For mpich version 1.2.6 or lower and all IRIX machine, if the library checks that there are no IO contributions for some processes, collective IO request is replaced with independent inside HDF5. KY - 2006/05/04 - - - HDF5 N-bit filter - HDF5 support N-bit filter from this version, + + - HDF5 N-bit filter + HDF5 support N-bit filter from this version, The N-Bit filter is used effectively for compressing data of N-Bit - datatype as well as compound and array datatype with N-Bit fields. + datatype as well as compound and array datatype with N-Bit fields. KY - 2005/04/15 - HDF5 scaleoffset filter HDF5 supports scaleoffset filter for users to do data - compression through HDF5 library. + compression through HDF5 library. Scale-Offset compression performs a scale and/or offset operation - on each data value and truncates the resulting value to a minimum + on each data value and truncates the resulting value to a minimum number of bits and then stores the data. Scaleoffset filter supports floating-point and integer datatype. Please check the HDF5 reference manual for this. @@ -410,9 +410,9 @@ New Features - Added function H5Pget_data_transform, together with the previously added H5Pset_data_transform, to support the data transform feature. AKC - 2004/10/26 - - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size + - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size adjustment. The size can be increased and decreased(without - cutting the last member) as long as it doesn't go down to zero. + 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, @@ -421,14 +421,14 @@ New Features H5Eclear_stack, H5Eset_auto_stack, H5Eget_auto_stack. SLU - 2004/9/2 - 4 new API functions, H5Tencode, H5Tdecode, H5Sencode, H5Sdecode were - added to the library. Given object ID, these functions encode and - decode HDF5 objects(data type and space) information into and from + added to the library. Given object ID, these functions encode and + decode HDF5 objects(data type and space) information into and from binary buffer. SLU - 2004/07/21 - - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for + - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the - chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be - bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user. - EIP - 2004/07/21 + chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be + bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user. + EIP - 2004/07/21 - Added support for SZIP without encoder. Added H5Zget_filter_info and changed H5Pget_filter and H5Pget_filter_by_id to support this change. JL/NF - 2004/06/30 @@ -443,19 +443,19 @@ New Features - A new API function H5Fget_filesize was added. It returns the actual file size of the opened file. SLU - 2004/06/24 - New Feature of Data transformation is added. AKC - 2004/05/03. - - New exception handler for datatype conversion is put in to + - New exception handler for datatype conversion is put in to replace the old overflow callback function. This exception handler is set through H5Pset_type_conv_cb function. SLU - 2004/4/27 - Added option that if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is set to 2, will suppress all library version mismatch warning messages. AKC - 2004/4/14 - - A new type of dataspace, null dataspace(dataspace without any + - A new type of dataspace, null dataspace(dataspace without any element) was added. SLU - 2004/3/24 - Data type conversion(software) from integer to float was added. - SLU - 2004/3/13 + SLU - 2004/3/13 - Data type conversion(software) from float to integer was added. - Conversion from integer to float will be added later. + Conversion from integer to float will be added later. SLU -2004/2/4 - Added new H5Premove_filter routine to remove I/O pipeline filters from dataset creation property lists. PVN - 2004/01/26 @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ New Features object's object header. QAK 2003/10/06 - Added new H5Fget_freespace() routine to query the free space in a given file. QAK 2003/10/06 - - Added backward compatability with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU - + - Added backward compatability with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU - 2003/09/24 - Changed 'objno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]' to 'haddr_t'. QAK - 2003/08/08 @@ -503,18 +503,18 @@ New Features ---------------- - added support for shared Fortran libraries. -JML 2005/09/20 - added missing h5tget_member_class_f function - EIP 2005/04/06 - - added new functions h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f + EIP 2005/04/06 + - 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). - added support for native integers of 8 bytes (i.e. when special compiler flag is specified to set native fortran integers to 8 bytes, - for example, -i8 flag for PGI and Absoft Fortran compilers, + for example, -i8 flag for PGI and Absoft Fortran compilers, -qintsize=8 flag for IBM xlf compiler). EIP 2005/06/20 - added support for "big" REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION types - (usually the size is specified by compilers flags like + (usually the size is specified by compilers flags like -r8, -r16, etc.) Known problem: multi file test fails when REAL is 16 bytes. EIP 2005/09/8 @@ -540,9 +540,9 @@ New Features ------ - h5repack and h5diff changed command line parameter syntax to be similar to h5dump, adding also long switch names. PVN - 2008/1/16 - - h5repack now supports adding multiple filters to all objects. + - h5repack now supports adding multiple filters to all objects. PVN - 2008/1/16 - - h5dump lists groups and attributes in requested orders (by name and + - h5dump lists groups and attributes in requested orders (by name and creation order, both ascending and descending). PVN - 2007/10/5 - h5import imports string (text) data. PVN - 2007/10/5 - h52gif and gif2h5: Both these tools were revised to include the High @@ -605,21 +605,21 @@ New Features - There are two new functions in the Lite library, H5LTtext_to_dtype and H5LTdtype_to_text. H5LTtext_to_dtype creates a HDF5 data type given a text description; H5LTdtype_to_text converts a data type - to text description. Only DDL definition is supported as text + to text description. Only DDL definition is supported as text desciption now. SLU - 2006/05/17 - Added Packet Table API for creating tables with less overhead than H5TB API. Added C++ wrapper for Packet Tables. See documentation. JML - 2004/03/28 - - Documentation - ------------- - - The documentation for this release is largely complete, but - trails the source code. A few of the newer functions are + + Documentation + ------------- + - The documentation for this release is largely complete, but + trails the source code. A few of the newer functions are not yet documented. FMB - 2007/04/18 - The user documents for this release can be accessed directly at this location: http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/ - The most recent document versions (updated daily) in the + The most recent document versions (updated daily) in the 1.8 development branch can be accessed at this location: http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_dev/ FMB - 2007/04/18 @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. - Added support for sequential and parallel libraries for Intel 64 Linux cluster (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu). Among three MPICH packages available on this machine, only Open MPI works. The VMI has seg fault in hyperslab.c - and bittests.c tests. The MVAPICH2 complained about mpd not running + and bittests.c tests. The MVAPICH2 complained about mpd not running the parallel test. (see Known Problems section for more info) EIP - 2007/06/25 - Added support for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++ @@ -762,12 +762,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release particular file ID being closed, instead of operating on all open file IDs for a given file. QAK - 2005/06/01 - For family driver, the library didn't save member size in file. - When file is reopened, the size of 1st member file determine the - member size. Now member size is saved in file and is used to + When file is reopened, the size of 1st member file determine the + member size. Now member size is saved in file and is used to define member file size. Wrong file access property of member size - will result in a failure. Using any other driver except family - will cause library to return error. So is multi driver. SLU - - 2005/05/24 + will result in a failure. Using any other driver except family + will cause library to return error. So is multi driver. SLU - + 2005/05/24 - Fixed error in opening object in group that was opened in mounted file which has been unmounted. QAK - 2005/03/17 - Fixed a racing condition in MPIPOSIX virtual file drive close @@ -776,8 +776,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate) while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with the previous purpose. AKC - 2005/03/01 - - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct - value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first. It's fixed. SLU - + - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct + value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first. It's fixed. SLU - 2005/02/08 - For variable-length string, H5Tget_class returned H5T_STRING as its class. But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it @@ -785,12 +785,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release as H5T_STRING. SLU - 2005/02/08 - The byte order of 1-byte integer types was fixed as little endian even on a big-endian machine. This has been corrected. SLU - - 2005/02/07 + 2005/02/07 - 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. + - 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 @@ -799,10 +799,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release processes used point selections, and others didn't. JRM - 2004/9/15 - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an incorrect way on Cray machines. PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13 - - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers - based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting - an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with - 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07 + - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers + based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting + an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with + 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07 - Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined fill value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered. QAK - 2004/08/25 @@ -844,10 +844,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release variable-length string as field. SLU - 2004/06/10 - Fixed potential file corruption bug when a block of metadata could overlap the end of the internal metadata accumulator buffer and - the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly + the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly change it's starting address. QAK - 2004/06/09 - Opaque datatype with no tag failed for some operations. Fixed. - SLU - 2004/6/3 + SLU - 2004/6/3 - Fixed potential file corruption bug where dimensions that were too large (a value greater than could be represented in 32-bits) could cause the incorrect amount of space to be allocated in a @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release but were interspersed with dimensions that could not be flattened were not correctly handled, causing core dumps. QAK - 2003/10/25 - Fixed incorrect datatype of the third parameter to the Fortran90 - h5pset(get)_cache_f subroutine (INTEGER to INTEGER(SIZE_T)) + h5pset(get)_cache_f subroutine (INTEGER to INTEGER(SIZE_T)) EIP - 2003/10/13 - Fixed problems with accessing variable-length data datatypes on Crays. QAK - 2003/10/10 @@ -994,10 +994,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release selections. PVN 2008/01/16 - Fixed h5diff regarding the display of NaN (Not a Number) values. PVN 2008/01/16 - - Fixed h5dump regarding the parsing of binary output parameters. + - Fixed h5dump regarding the parsing of binary output parameters. PVN 2008/01/16 - Fixed memory problems in h52gif and gif2h5. PVN 2008/01/16 - - Fixed h5repack dealing with NULL references. PVN 2008/01/16 + - Fixed h5repack dealing with NULL references. PVN 2008/01/16 - Fixed h5dump & h5ls to display attributes in "name" order, rather than the order they are encountered in the object header. QAK - 2007/10/04 @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release attributes. PVN 2007/03/13 - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of group comments. PVN 2007/03/13 - - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing + - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing to the root group. PVN 2007/03/13 - Fixed h5diff percentage option -p. PVN 2007/03/05 - Fixed h5dump that caused array indices greater than 2 ^32-1 @@ -1023,14 +1023,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release H5Tget_native_type() internally. QAK - 2003/08/25 - Documentation - ------------- + Documentation + ------------- F90 APIs -------- - h5pget_driver_f was returning information that could not be - interpreted by fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10 + interpreted by fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10 Platforms Tested @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release * AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit) xlc 8.0.0.11 xlC 8.0 - xlf 10.01.0000.0 + xlf 10.01.0000.0 mpcc_r 6.0.0.8 mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7 * AIX 5.3 (32/64 bit) xlc 7.0.0.8 @@ -1065,9 +1065,9 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release HP F90 v2.9.2 HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.00 IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m - F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m + F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m - + * Linux 2.6.9 (RHEL4) Intel 10.0 compilers (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu) Linux 2.4.21-47 gcc 3.2.3 20030502 @@ -1078,9 +1078,9 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0, g95 (GCC 4.0.3) (smirom) PGI 6.2-5 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) Intel 9.1 (icc, iort, icpc) - Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1 + Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1 SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 - (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 + (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 SGI MPI SunOS 5.8 32,46 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2 @@ -1088,9 +1088,9 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release * SunOS 5.10 i86pc Sun C 5.7 Sun Fortran 95 8.1 Sun C++ 5.7 - SunOS 5.10 cc: Sun C 5.8 - (linew) f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 - CC: Sun C++ 5.8 + SunOS 5.10 cc: Sun C 5.8 + (linew) f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 + CC: Sun C++ 5.8 Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre (tungsten) gcc 3.2.2 20030222 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 @@ -1100,17 +1100,17 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1 mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2 - Windows XP + Windows XP Visual Studio .NET Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1 Cygwin(native gcc compiler and g95) MinGW(native gcc compiler and g95) - Windows XP x64 + Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1 - Windows Vista + Windows Vista Visual Studio 2005 - MAC OS 10.4 (Intel) gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 + MAC OS 10.4 (Intel) gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006) * Alpha Open VMS 7.3 @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary x = not working in this release dna = does not apply ( ) = footnote appears below second table - <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform + <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP parallel parallel @@ -1149,57 +1149,57 @@ RedHat EL3 W PGI (3) n y n y y n SuSe x86_64 gcc (3,12) y(1a) y(11) n y y y SuSe x86_64 Int (3,12) n y(13) n y y n SuSe x86_64 PGI (3,12) n y(8) n y y y -Linux 2.4 Xeon C +Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,6) n y n y y n -Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C +Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7) y y y y y n -Linux 2.6 SGI Altix +Linux 2.6 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y y y y y Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2 n y n y n n -Platform Shared Shared Shared static- Thread- - C libs F90 libs C++ libs exec safe -Solaris2.8 64-bit y y y x y -Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y x y -Solaris2.10 64-bit y x y -Solaris2.10 32-bit y x y -IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y n y y -IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y dna y y y -HPUX11.00 y n y x n -HPUX11.23-32bit y n n y n -HPUX11.23-64bit y dna n y n -Cray XT3 (16) n n n n n -AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit n n n y n -AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit n n n y n -Windows XP y y(15) y y y -Windows XP x64 y y(15) y y y -Windows Vista y n n y y -Mac OS X 10.3 y y n +Platform Shared Shared Shared static- Thread- + C libs F90 libs C++ libs exec safe +Solaris2.8 64-bit y y y x y +Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y x y +Solaris2.10 64-bit y x y +Solaris2.10 32-bit y x y +IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y n y y +IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y dna y y y +HPUX11.00 y n y x n +HPUX11.23-32bit y n n y n +HPUX11.23-64bit y dna n y n +Cray XT3 (16) n n n n n +AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit n n n y n +AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit n n n y n +Windows XP y y(15) y y y +Windows XP x64 y y(15) y y y +Windows Vista y n n y y +Mac OS X 10.3 y y n Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC -FreeBSD 4.11 y n y y y -RedHat EL3 W (3) y y(10) y y y -RedHat EL3 W Intel (3) y y y y n -RedHat EL3 W PGI (3) y y y y n -SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y y y y y -SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y y y y(14) n -SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y y y y(14) n -Linux 2.4 Xeon C - Lustre Intel (6) y y y y n -Linux 2.4 SuSE - ia64 C Intel (7) y y y y n -Linux 2.4 SGI Altix - ia64 Intel y y n -Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2 n n n y n +FreeBSD 4.11 y n y y y +RedHat EL3 W (3) y y(10) y y y +RedHat EL3 W Intel (3) y y y y n +RedHat EL3 W PGI (3) y y y y n +SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y y y y y +SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y y y y(14) n +SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y y y y(14) n +Linux 2.4 Xeon C + Lustre Intel (6) y y y y n +Linux 2.4 SuSE + ia64 C Intel (7) y y y y n +Linux 2.4 SGI Altix + ia64 Intel y y n +Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2 n n n y n Notes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.6. (1a) Using mpich2 1.0.6. (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6. - (3) Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. + (3) Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively. - (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1. Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre + (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1. Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre and Intel compilers (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.till. Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers (8) pgf90 @@ -1218,14 +1218,14 @@ Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2 n n n y n Known Problems ============== -* We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests - with chunking storage on ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a linux +* We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests + with chunking storage on ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a linux cluster at NCSA. - Under some complex selection cases, + Under some complex selection cases, 1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value. 2) MPI_Type_struct also generates wrong derived data type and corrupt data may be generated. - This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage + This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent IO instead. @@ -1241,22 +1241,22 @@ Known Problems * For SNL, spirit/liberty/thunderbird: The serial tests pass but parallel tests failed with MPI-IO file locking message. AKC - 2007/6/25. * On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers use - -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. Higher level of optimization - causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. + -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. Higher level of optimization + causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. * For HPUX 11.23 many tools tests failed for 64-bit version when linked to the shared libraries (tested for 1.8.0-beta2) * For SNL, Red Storm: only paralle HDF5 is supported. The serial tests pass and the parallel tests also pass with lots of non-fatal error messages. * For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel pass. Zeus: serial passes but parallel fails with a known proglem in MPI. ubgl: serial passes but - parallel fails. -* on SUN 5.10 C++ test fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with Attributes" test + parallel fails. +* on SUN 5.10 C++ test fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with Attributes" test * configuring with --enable-debug=all produces compiler errors on most platforms. Users who want to run HDF5 in debug mode should use --enable-debug rather than --enable-debug=all to enable debugging information on most modules. * On Mac OS 10.4, test/dt_arith.c has some errors in conversion from long - double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned)long long to long double. + double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned)long long to long double. * On Altix SGI with Intel 9.0 testmeta.c would not compile with -O3 optimization flag. * On VAX, Scaleoffset filter isn't supported. The filter cannot be applied to @@ -1270,23 +1270,23 @@ Known Problems that when using 4 processors, a simple collective write will be hung sometimes. This can be verified with t_mpi test under testpar. * On IRIX6.5, when C compiler version >7.4, the complicate MPI derived data type - code will work. However, the user should be aware to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX environment + code will work. However, the user should be aware to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some certian value in order to use collective irregular selection code. - For example, the current parallel HDF5 test needs to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX to + For example, the current parallel HDF5 test needs to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to make the test pass. -* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't - be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is - enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 - checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent - between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in - Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no - longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release +* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't + be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is + enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 + checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent + between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in + Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no + longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/6/30 * For the version 6(6.02 and 6.04) of Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library - failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has - been reported to the vendor. + failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has + been reported to the vendor. * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command poe. Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages @@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ Known Problems to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket. * The C++ library's tests fails when compiling with PGI C++ compiler. The - workaround until the problem is correctly handled is to use the + workaround until the problem is correctly handled is to use the flag "--instantiate=local" prior to the configure and build steps, as: setenv CXX "pgCC --instantiate=local" for pgCC 5.02 and higher @@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ Known Problems able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning: warning: ANSI C does not support `long long' - + This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored. @@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ Known Problems the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from this site: @@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ Known Problems * On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90 - complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line + complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error) * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as @@ -1386,28 +1386,28 @@ Known Problems INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8 * On at least one system, (SDSC DataStar), the scheduler (in this case - LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run + LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers. - This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as + This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs, - and comparing it to an exemplar. + and comparing it to an exemplar. The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer inserts the extra text. However, this may not be practical. - In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to - the configure and build. This will cause "make check" to continue after + In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to + the configure and build. This will cause "make check" to continue after detecting errors in the tool tests. However, in the case of SDSC DataStar, it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand. A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter out the text added by the scheduler. A sample script used on SDSC - DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it - for your installation. + DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it + for your installation. - Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item - on the command line which executes the the test. The script then + Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item + on the command line which executes the the test. The script then executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing it on. @@ -1429,11 +1429,11 @@ Known Problems exit $RETURN_VALUE You get the HDF make files and test scipts to execute your filter script - by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the - script prior to running configure for parallel builds. Remember to + by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the + script prior to running configure for parallel builds. Remember to "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build. - Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can + Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can can prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system. On DataStar, no prefix is necessary. However on an MPICH system, the prefix might have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to @@ -1453,16 +1453,16 @@ HDF5 version 1.6.7 released on Thu Jan 31 21:09:10 CST 2008 INTRODUCTION ============ -This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.6 and HDF5-1.6.7 +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.6 and HDF5-1.6.7 It contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.6.7. For more details, check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source. HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source code -in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) FTP server: +in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) FTP server: ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docs/ -Documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series is +Documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series is also on the HDF web site: http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/ @@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ New Features ============ Configuration: ------------------------- - '--enable-stream-vfd' and '--disable-stream-vfd' are no longer valid + '--enable-stream-vfd' and '--disable-stream-vfd' are no longer valid configure options because the stream I/O driver has ben removed from the distribution. @@ -1502,12 +1502,12 @@ New Features -------- The stream I/O driver is not included with the HDF5 Library in this release. The source code files hdf5/src/H5FDstream.c and - hdf5/src/H5FDstream.h and the driver ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been + hdf5/src/H5FDstream.h and the driver ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been removed. Parallel Library: ----------------- - None + None Tools: ------ @@ -1533,9 +1533,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release Library ------- - - H5Iget_name could not be used with an object identifier returned - by H5Rdereference; the function would not be able to determine - a valid object name. It has been fixed. SLU - 2008/1/30 + - H5Iget_name could not be used with an object identifier returned + by H5Rdereference; the function would not be able to determine + a valid object name. It has been fixed. SLU - 2008/1/30 - Changed library's behavior for reading files that might have corrupted object header information from a previous (buggy) version of the library. By default, the library now rebuilds the @@ -1557,15 +1557,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release Performance ------------- None - + Tools ----- None - Documentation - ------------- + Documentation + ------------- None @@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release ------- None - + C++ API ------- None @@ -1581,13 +1581,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release Documentation ============= - HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source - code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the - THG (The HDF Group) FTP server: + HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source + code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the + THG (The HDF Group) FTP server: ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docs/ - Online documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x + Online documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series can be found on the THG web site: http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/ @@ -1596,9 +1596,9 @@ Documentation in the document "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release": http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/ADGuide/Changes.html - - Since the stream I/O driver is not included in this release, the - functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream and the stream + + Since the stream I/O driver is not included in this release, the + functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream and the stream ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been removed from the documentation. @@ -1622,20 +1622,20 @@ Platforms Tested Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 SMP i686 i386 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) April 18 2007) - (kagiso) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.0-7 32-bit - Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit - applications, Version 9.1 - Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit + (kagiso) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.0-7 32-bit + Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 9.1 + Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 9.1 + Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 9.1 - Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit - applications, Version 9.1 Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.4 - MPICH mpich2-1.0.6p1 compiled with - gcc 4.2.1 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) + MPICH mpich2-1.0.6p1 compiled with + gcc 4.2.1 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1 Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.025 SMP ia64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.0.025 - (ucar hir1) + (ucar hir1) Linux 2.6.16.46-0.14-smp #1 Intel(R) C++ for Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.037 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.031 @@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ Platforms Tested SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.8 (linew) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.2 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8 - Patch 121019-06 + Patch 121019-06 Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre (tungsten) Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 @@ -1724,34 +1724,34 @@ SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y y y y y y SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n y n y y y -Platform Shared static- Thread- - libraries(4) exec safe -Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit y n y -Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit y n y -IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y n y -IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y n y -WinXP Visual Studio 6.0 y n n -WinXP CYGWIN y n n -WinXP 2005 y n n -WinXP .Net y n n -WinVista 2005 y n n -Mac OS X 10.4.10 y n n -AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n -FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit y n n -RedHat Linux 2.4.21 W y n n -SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y n y -SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel W y n n -SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI W n n n -SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y n y -SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W y n n -SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n n n -RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre C y n n -RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre C y n n -SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y n n -SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n n n - -Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" -table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, +Platform Shared static- Thread- + libraries(4) exec safe +Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit y n y +Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit y n y +IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y n y +IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y n y +WinXP Visual Studio 6.0 y n n +WinXP CYGWIN y n n +WinXP 2005 y n n +WinXP .Net y n n +WinVista 2005 y n n +Mac OS X 10.4.10 y n n +AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n +FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit y n n +RedHat Linux 2.4.21 W y n n +SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y n y +SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel W y n n +SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI W n n n +SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y n y +SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W y n n +SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n n n +RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre C y n n +RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre C y n n +SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64 C y n n +SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n n n + +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" +table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, compilers used are the system compilers. Footnotes: @@ -1763,13 +1763,13 @@ Known Problems * We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests with chunking storage with the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a Linux cluster at NCSA. - Under some complex selection cases, + Under some complex selection cases, 1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value. - 2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt + 2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt data may be generated. This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage - with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other - MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent + with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other + MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent IO instead. To avoid this problem, change the following line in your code: @@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ Known Problems to H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_INDEPENDENT); - + KY - 2007/08/24 * QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) does not create h5pfc correctly. It @@ -1790,7 +1790,7 @@ Known Problems "523648:lt-h5repacktst: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname 'libh5test.so.1' under any of the filenames .......(bunch of directories) " - And the testing will fail. + And the testing will fail. We believe this is a libtool problem. One way to get rid of this is to add the paths of libh5test.so.1 and libh5.so.1 to the shared library path. @@ -1804,15 +1804,15 @@ Known Problems setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing paths):[full path of HDF5 directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs] - NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you - build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link - with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set + NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you + build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link + with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set anyway. KY - 2007/8/2 * QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) failed the testpar/testphdf5 sub-test - "calloc". All other tests passed. This indicates that a dataset using - chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel - HDF5. The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x + "calloc". All other tests passed. This indicates that a dataset using + chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel + HDF5. The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x calloc". AKC - 2007/7/12. * The Intel C Compiler for the Linux x86_64 platform (EM64T-based, v8.1) has @@ -1821,30 +1821,30 @@ Known Problems PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0. Then run configure. AKC - 2005/11/10. * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 on IRIX - 6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for - example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside - the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5 + 6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for + example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside + the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5 library. You can always set a bigger number on your system. KY - 2005/10/6 -* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5 - might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library. - Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the +* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5 + might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library. + Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the dataset creation property list to avoid the problem. EIP - 2005/09/09 -* A dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't - be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is - enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 - checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent - between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in - Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no - longer the same as before on little-endian system. HDF5 library releases - after 1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 +* A dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't + be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is + enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 + checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent + between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in + Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no + longer the same as before on little-endian system. HDF5 library releases + after 1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/7/8 * For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library - failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver. The problem has - been reported to the vendor. + failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver. The problem has + been reported to the vendor. * test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another region." The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when @@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ Known Problems HDF5. Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will usually disappear if the test is re-run. -* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but +* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but have a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest of the header file if the C99 option is not used explicitly. Hardsetting $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13 @@ -1863,11 +1863,11 @@ Known Problems and run the tests again. The tests may also fail with messages like "The socket name is already - in use". HDF5 does not use sockets. This is due to problems of the - poe command trying to set up the debug socket. Check whether there are - many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. These are sockets used by - the poe command and left behind due to failed commands. Ask your system - administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a means + in use". HDF5 does not use sockets. This is due to problems of the + poe command trying to set up the debug socket. Check whether there are + many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. These are sockets used by + the poe command and left behind due to failed commands. Ask your system + administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms @@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on the HPUX 11.00. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -1899,9 +1899,9 @@ Known Problems long long (absolute values less than 1**-308) to double. This triggers the test/dtypes to report failure in the following test: Testing random sw long double -> double conversions - If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to - 10**-308. If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly - 0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308. This has been reported to the + If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to + 10**-308. If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly + 0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308. This has been reported to the system staff. All other tests have passed. @@ -1975,8 +1975,8 @@ HDF5-1.6.6 It contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.6.6. For more details, check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source. -HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source -code in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) +HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source +code in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) ftp server (ftp.hdfgroup.org) in the directory: /HDF5/docs/ @@ -2020,28 +2020,28 @@ New Features Parallel Library: ----------------- - None - + Tools: ------ - h52gif and gif2h5: Both these tools were revised to include High Level Image API support. Tests were added to /hl/tools/gif2h5. PVN - 2007/04/13 - - h5dump: Added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE. + - h5dump: Added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE. PVN - 2007/03/13 - h5dump: Added support for binary output; see usage. PVN 2007/03/13 - h5repack: Added support for reading and writing by hyperslabs for large files. PVN - 2007/03/01 - h5repack: A new option allows the copy to use the source file type - (default) instead of the previous conversion to native type. + (default) instead of the previous conversion to native type. PVN - 2007/03/01 - - h5repack: Added output of the percentage of compression achieved. + - h5repack: Added output of the percentage of compression achieved. PVN - 2007/03/01 - h5diff: Added support for comparing dataset regions. PVN - 2007/02/20 - - h5diff: Added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for + - h5diff: Added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for large files. PVN - 2007/02/20 - h5diff: Added printing of dataset dimensions along with dataset - name. + name. PVN - 2007/02/19 F90 API: @@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers ================================================== - Added support for MAC Intel (Darwin 8.8.2) (gcc 4.0.1 and g95 0.91) EIP - 2007/02/13 - - Added support for GNU C compiler version 4.2.1 for FreeBSD 6.2 + - Added support for GNU C compiler version 4.2.1 for FreeBSD 6.2 (32- and 64-bit) @@ -2070,8 +2070,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.5 Release a variable-length datatype or component datatype. QAK - 2007/06/19 - STDIO driver didn't support files bigger than 2GB because the OFFSET - parameter of fseek is of type LONG INT, not big enough for big - files. Use fseeko instead for big files if it's available on the + parameter of fseek is of type LONG INT, not big enough for big + files. Use fseeko instead for big files if it's available on the system. SLU - 2007/4/5 - Relaxed restrictions on attribute operations to allow a file ID to be used as the "location ID". If a file ID is used, the attribute @@ -2129,12 +2129,12 @@ corrupt object header - too few messages Configuration ------------- - - Changed to default to --disable-shared if parallel is enabled. + - Changed to default to --disable-shared if parallel is enabled. AKC - 2007/5/12 - Corrected a coding error in configure when it tries to locate the - needed MPI and MPI-IO library for the fortran interface. + needed MPI and MPI-IO library for the fortran interface. AKC - 007/5/9. - - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used. + - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used. AKC - 007/2/17. - Configure can now use any tr command. No more need for defining the variable TR, nor is it supported. AKC - 2006/05/20 @@ -2142,28 +2142,28 @@ corrupt object header - too few messages Performance ------------- - None - + Tools ----- - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of named datatypes attributes. PVN - 2007/03/13 - - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of group comments. + - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of group comments. PVN - 2007/03/13 - - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing + - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing to the root group. PVN - 2007/03/13 - Fixed a bug in the h5diff percentage option -p. PVN - 2007/03/05 - Fixed a bug in h5dump that caused array indices greater than 2^32-1 not to be printed correctly. PVN - 2007/2/19 - Documentation - ------------- - - Corrected errors and extended the descriptions in Reference Manual - entries for several functions. + Documentation + ------------- + - Corrected errors and extended the descriptions in Reference Manual + entries for several functions. F90 API ------- - None - + C++ API ------- - Changed @@ -2193,13 +2193,13 @@ DataSpace& Documentation ============= - HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source - code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the + HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source + code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the THG (The HDF Group) ftp server (ftp.hdfgroup.org) in the directory: /HDF5/docs/ - Online documentation for the current release can be found on the THG + Online documentation for the current release can be found on the THG web site: http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ @@ -2235,17 +2235,17 @@ Platforms Tested Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 SMP i686 i386 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006) - (kagiso) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 6.2-5 32-bit - icc (ICC) 9.1 - Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit + (kagiso) PGI C, Fortran, C++ 6.2-5 32-bit + icc (ICC) 9.1 + Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 9.1 + Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 9.1 - Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit - applications, Version 9.1 Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.4 - MPICH mpich2-1.0.4p1 compiled with - gcc 3.4.6 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) + MPICH mpich2-1.0.4p1 compiled with + gcc 3.4.6 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) - Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1 + Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1 SMP ia64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.025 (ucar hir1) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.0.025 @@ -2255,14 +2255,14 @@ Platforms Tested for 64-bit target on x86-64 tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries - Linux 2.6.5-7.283-rtgfx Altix + Linux 2.6.5-7.283-rtgfx Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 SGI MPI - OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011 + OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011 (See "Known Problems.") HP Fortran V5.5A-3548 - Compaq C++ V6.5-036 + Compaq C++ V6.5-036 MPIX200_64_r13.4 SunOS 5.8 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 @@ -2272,7 +2272,7 @@ Platforms Tested SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.8 (linew) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.2 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8 - Patch 121019-06 + Patch 121019-06 Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre (tungsten) Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 @@ -2371,13 +2371,13 @@ SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 n n n y SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64 n n n y OSF1 v5.1 n n n y -Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" -table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" +table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, compilers used are the system compilers. Footnotes: (1) Fortran compiled with g95. -(2) In most cases, shared libraries are provided only for the C library, +(2) In most cases, shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C, C++, and Fortran. (3) C++ works only with static libraries. @@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ Known Problems "523648:lt-h5repacktst: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname 'libh5test.so.1' under any of the filenames .......(bunch of directories) " - And the testing will fail. + And the testing will fail. We believe this is a libtool problem. One way to get rid of this is to add the paths of libh5test.so.1 and libh5.so.1 to the shared library path. @@ -2407,15 +2407,15 @@ Known Problems setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing pathes):[full path of HDF5 directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs] - NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you - build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link - with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set + NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you + build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link + with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set anyway. KY - 2007/8/2 * QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) failed the testpar/testphdf5 sub-test - "calloc". All other tests passed. This indicates that a dataset using - chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel - HDF5. The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x + "calloc". All other tests passed. This indicates that a dataset using + chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel + HDF5. The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x calloc". AKC - 2007/7/12. * The Intel C Compiler for the Linux x86_64 platform (EM64T-based, v8.1) has @@ -2424,30 +2424,30 @@ Known Problems PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0. Then run configure. AKC - 2005/11/10. * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 on IRIX - 6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for - example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside - the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5 + 6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for + example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside + the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5 library. You can always set a bigger number on your system. KY - 2005/10/6 -* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5 - might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library. - Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the +* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5 + might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library. + Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the dataset creation property list to avoid the problem. EIP - 2005/09/09 -* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't - be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is - enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 - checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent - between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in - Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no - longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release +* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't + be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is + enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 + checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent + between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in + Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no + longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/7/8 * For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library - failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver. The problem has - been reported to the vendor. + failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver. The problem has + been reported to the vendor. * test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another region." The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when @@ -2455,7 +2455,7 @@ Known Problems HDF5. Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will usually disappear if the test is re-run. -* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but +* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but have a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest of the header file if the C99 option is not used explicitly. Hardsetting $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13 @@ -2468,7 +2468,7 @@ Known Problems The tests may also fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use". HDF5 does not use sockets (except for stream-VFD). This is due to problems of the poe command trying to set up the debug socket. - Check whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. These + Check whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed commands. Ask your system administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket. @@ -2494,7 +2494,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on the HPUX 11.00. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -2510,9 +2510,9 @@ Known Problems long long (absolute values less than 1**-308) to double. This triggers the test/dtypes to report failure in the following test: Testing random sw long double -> double conversions - If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to - 10**-308. If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly - 0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308. This has been reported to the + If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to + 10**-308. If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly + 0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308. This has been reported to the system staff. All other tests have passed. @@ -2637,7 +2637,7 @@ New Features Library: -------- - Added HSYS_ERROR which retrieves the system error message and pushes - it to the error stack. This provides more information regarding the + it to the error stack. This provides more information regarding the failed system call. AKC - 2005/08/04 - Added H5F_OBJ_LOCAL flag to H5Fget_obj_count() & H5Fget_obj_ids(), to allow querying for objects in a file that was opened with a particular @@ -2650,9 +2650,9 @@ New Features - HDF5 supports collective MPI-IO for irregular selection with HDF5 dataset. Irregular selection is when users use API H5Sselect_hyperslab more than once for the same dataset. - Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support the complicated - MPI derived datatypes used in the implementation of irregular - selections INSIDE HDF5. + Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support the complicated + MPI derived datatypes used in the implementation of irregular + selections INSIDE HDF5. 1) DEC 5.x wdoes not support complicated derived datatypes. 2) For AIX 5.1: If your poe version number is 3.2.0.20 or lower, @@ -2666,15 +2666,15 @@ New Features If mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, collective irregular selection IO is not supported; internally independent IO is used. 4) For IRIX 6.5: - if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular + if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular selection IO is not supported; internally independent IO is used. - 5) For platforms which internally used mpich: - If the mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the + 5) For platforms which internally used mpich: + If the mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the corresponding config (in hdf5/config) file and add - hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' - at the end of the configuration file. For example, on the - NCSA SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So - hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' + hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' + at the end of the configuration file. For example, on the + NCSA SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So + hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' should be added at the end of the config file ia64-linux-gnu. KY - 2005/09/12 @@ -2708,9 +2708,9 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers - Added support for RedStorm platform (serial only.) AKC 2005/11/10 - Added support for BG/L platform (serial only.) LA 2005/11/10 - Added support for HPUX 11.23 (IA64); only C and C++ are supported - with the +DD64 flag + with the +DD64 flag EIP 2005/10/05 - + Configuration ------------- @@ -2722,8 +2722,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release Library ------- - - Fixed collective IO in chunking-storage. HDF5 may have called the - wrong routine when the shape of the dataspace in the file and in + - Fixed collective IO in chunking-storage. HDF5 may have called the + wrong routine when the shape of the dataspace in the file and in the bufferred chunk were different. This bug was fixed to make sure the correct routine is called. KY - 2005/10/19 - Fixed core dump when closing root groups opened through two different @@ -2777,23 +2777,23 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release Performance ------------- - - Optimized I/O for enumerated datatypes that are a superset of a + - Optimized I/O for enumerated datatypes that are a superset of a source enumerated datatype. QAK - 2005/03/19 - + Tools ----- - Documentation - ------------- + Documentation + ------------- F90 API ------- - h5pget_driver_f was returning information that could not be interpreted by a Fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10 - + C++ API ------- - - Several member functions' prototype changed due to the + - Several member functions' prototype changed due to the "int -> unsigned" change in the main library. They are: H5::CompType::getMemberDataType(unsigned member_num) H5::CompType::getMemberCompType(unsigned member_num) @@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release - + Platforms Tested ================ @@ -2839,7 +2839,7 @@ Platforms Tested FreeBSD 4.11 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.4 gcc 3.2.3, 3.3.6, 3.4.4, 4.0.0 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13 HP-UX B.11.23 HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.00 @@ -2854,27 +2854,27 @@ Platforms Tested mpt 1.6 Linux 2.4.20-28.7 gcc 2.96 (eirene, verbena) gcc 3.3.2 - PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) + PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) version 5.2-1 Absoft Fortran compiler v9.0 Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1 Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1 MPIch 1.2.6 Linux 2.4.21-268-smp x86_64 gcc 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux, AMD) - (mir) PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) + (mir) PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1 Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1 - Linux 2.4.21-sgi306rp21 Altix + Linux 2.4.21-sgi306rp21 Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1 (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.1 SGI MPI - OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011 + OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011 HP Fortran V5.5A-3548 - Compaq C++ V6.5-036 + Compaq C++ V6.5-036 MPIX200_64_r13.4 - OSF1 V5.1 (PSC) Compaq C V6.5-303 + OSF1 V5.1 (PSC) Compaq C V6.5-303 HP Fortran V5.5A-3548 - Compaq C++ V6.5-040 + Compaq C++ V6.5-040 SunOS 5.8 32,46 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 @@ -2884,7 +2884,7 @@ Platforms Tested SunOS 5.10 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 - Patch 111685-13 + Patch 111685-13 Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre (tungsten) Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 9.0 @@ -2896,9 +2896,9 @@ Platforms Tested MSVC++ 6.0 Intel 8.1 C++ MAC OS X Darwin 7.5 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2 - IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 + IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2 @@ -2912,7 +2912,7 @@ Key: y = tested and supported ( ) = footnote appears below second table Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP - parallel parallel + parallel parallel IBM BG/L (16) n n n n y y Solaris2.8 64-bit y y y(1) y y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y(1) y y y @@ -2944,8 +2944,8 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7) y y y y y y Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y y y y y -Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM- - libraries(4) exec safe VFD +Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM- + libraries(4) exec safe VFD IBM BG/L n y n n Solaris2.8 64-bit y x y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y x y y @@ -2976,28 +2976,28 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7) y y n n Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y n y -Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" -table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" +table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, compilers used are the system compilers. Footnotes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.6 (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6. - (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. + (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively. - (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, + (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++. (5) Using mpt. - (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1. Xeon cluster with ELsmp-perfctr-lustre + (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1. Xeon cluster with ELsmp-perfctr-lustre and Intel compilers (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.til1. Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers (8) Intel 8.1 (9) One test of this release failed with Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6c. No binary fortran release will be provided. Users should build - the library by themselves and use it at their own risk. - We recommend that users use HDF5 1.7 instead + the library by themselves and use it at their own risk. + We recommend that users use HDF5 1.7 instead or use Compaq Visual Fortran 6.0. (10) IBM XLF and Absoft - (11) PGI, Absoft. No shared libraries with Absoft; + (11) PGI, Absoft. No shared libraries with Absoft; use '--disable-shared'. (12) PGI and Intel compilers for both C and Fortran (13) AMD Opteron x86_64 @@ -3014,43 +3014,43 @@ Known Problems configure, edit the file config/intel-flags by changing the setting of PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0, then run configure. AKC - 2005/11/10. -* Fortran testing and compiling failures on windows XP +* Fortran testing and compiling failures on windows XP 1. Compaq visual fortran 6.6c with VS 6.0 The Fortran tests failed for both release, release dll, debug and debug dll. The failure is a random one. We won't provide fortran libraries. The - same test passed with the 1.7.51 snapshot. You may find the 1.7.51 + same test passed with the 1.7.51 snapshot. You may find the 1.7.51 snapshot under ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots/. 2. Intel fortran 8.1 under .Net environment The fortran library cannot even be compiled. Some users have pointed this to intel forum. * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 at IRIX - 6.5, set enviroment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for example - 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside parallel - HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside parallel HDF5 library. You can + 6.5, set enviroment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for example + 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside parallel + HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside parallel HDF5 library. You can always set a bigger number in your system. KY - 2005/10/6 * A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version may - not be modified with a parallel version of the library. - Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the + not be modified with a parallel version of the library. + Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the dataset creation property list to avoid the problem. EIP - 2005/09/09 -* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't - be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is - enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 - checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent - between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in - Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no - longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release +* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't + be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is + enabled. There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 + checksum in the library before v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent + between big-endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in + Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no + longer the same as before on little-endian system. The library release after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library of v1.6.2 or before. SLU - 2005/7/8 * For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library - failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has - been reported to the vendor. + failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has + been reported to the vendor. * test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another region." The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when @@ -3075,9 +3075,9 @@ Known Problems Ask your system administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket. -* Two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5) - failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and - Release dll work fine. +* Two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5) + failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and + Release dll work fine. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to @@ -3100,14 +3100,14 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on the HPUX 11.00. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. * The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the site: @@ -3129,10 +3129,10 @@ Known Problems All other tests have passed. * Fortran release DLL randomly failed with Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6c on - Windows. + Windows. * Fortran DLL built with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment crushed the compiler, - Building Fortran static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment + Building Fortran static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment requires manually setting the project file. Please contact to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu if you need to build Fortran static library with Intel 8.1 with .NET environment. @@ -3213,7 +3213,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -3241,19 +3241,19 @@ New Features For HL documentation, see http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/hdf5_hl/doc/RM_hdf5hl.html. - The HL library, libhdf5_hl.a(so), is built and installed by default. + The HL library, libhdf5_hl.a(so), is built and installed by default. Use --disable-hl configure flag to disable the HL library. Library: -------- - - We recommend you to use SZIP v2.0 with this release. + - We recommend you to use SZIP v2.0 with this release. For more information see - http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/ - - The compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/ + - The 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 - + cutting the last member). No API change is involved. SLU - 2004/10/1 - - Removed PABLO support. 2005/01/20 EIP + - Removed PABLO support. 2005/01/20 EIP Parallel Library: ----------------- @@ -3262,7 +3262,7 @@ New Features Tools: ------ - - New tool, h5jam. See HDF5 Reference Manual. 2004/10/08 + - New tool, h5jam. See HDF5 Reference Manual. 2004/10/08 F90 API: -------- @@ -3271,7 +3271,7 @@ New Features C++ API: -------- - Started using C library's reference counting in place of the class - RefCounter, which existed before the C mechanism was available. + RefCounter, which existed before the C mechanism was available. As a result, RefCounter has been removed. 2005/03/12 BMR @@ -3294,8 +3294,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate) while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with the previous purpose. AKC - 2005/03/01 - - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct - value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first. It's fixed. SLU - + - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct + value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first. It's fixed. SLU - 2005/02/08 - For variable-length string, H5Tget_class returned H5T_STRING as its class. But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it @@ -3307,7 +3307,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release - Fixed segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that hasn't had a value written to it open. QAK - 2004/10/18 - Backed out support for bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type. - Leave it to future support. The function simply returns error + 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 @@ -3328,18 +3328,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release ------------- Many changes were made to the library to improve performance, especially for the variable-length datatypes and metadata cache. - + Tools ----- - h5fc and h5c++ work correctly when -c compiler flag - is used. EIP - 2005/03/14 + is used. EIP - 2005/03/14 - Fixed h5dump to print attributes data in ASCII if -r option is used. AKC - 2004/11/18 - - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error + - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error in formula used. QAK - 2004/10/22 - Documentation - ------------- + Documentation + ------------- F90 API ------- @@ -3356,7 +3356,7 @@ Documentation HDF5 Library documentation -------------------------- - No substantive changes to the structure or types of content in the + No substantive changes to the structure or types of content in the HDF5 Library documentation. Windows installation documentation @@ -3365,10 +3365,10 @@ Documentation either http://www.zlib.net/zlib122-dll.zip or ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lib-external/zlib/bin/windows - 2. Only DLLs of external libraries (zlib and szip) are linked with the - HDF5 Library. We will no longer provide binary to link static library + 2. Only DLLs of external libraries (zlib and szip) are linked with the + HDF5 Library. We will no longer provide binary to link static library with HDF5. For details, please check INSTALL_Windows in this directory. - + Platforms Tested ================ @@ -3400,7 +3400,7 @@ Platforms Tested FreeBSD 4.9 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.4 gcc 3.2.3, 3.3.6, 3.4.4, 4.0.0 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13 MPIch 1.2.4 @@ -3413,29 +3413,29 @@ Platforms Tested mpt 1.6 Linux 2.4.20-28.7 gcc 2.96 (eirene, verbena) gcc 3.3.2 - PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) + PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) version 5.2-1 Absoft Fortran compiler v9.0 Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1 Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1 MPIch 1.2.6 Linux 2.4.21-268-smp x86_64 gcc 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux, AMD) - (mir) PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) + (mir) PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1 Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1 - Linux 2.4.21-sgi303r2 Altix + Linux 2.4.21-sgi303r2 Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1 (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.1 SGI MPI - OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011 + OSF1 V5.1 (QSC) Compaq C V6.5-011 HP Fortran V5.5A-3548 - Compaq C++ V6.5-036 + Compaq C++ V6.5-036 MPIX200_64_r13.4 - OSF1 V5.1 (PSC) Compaq C V6.5-303 + OSF1 V5.1 (PSC) Compaq C V6.5-303 HP Fortran V5.5A-3548 - Compaq C++ V6.5-040 + Compaq C++ V6.5-040 MPIX200_64_r13.4 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8 32,46 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 @@ -3456,9 +3456,9 @@ Platforms Tested Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6C Intel 8.1 C++ MAC OS X Darwin 7.5 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2 - IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 + IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2 @@ -3472,7 +3472,7 @@ Key: y = tested and supported ( ) = footnote appears below second table Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP - parallel parallel + parallel parallel Solaris2.8 64-bit y y y(1) y y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y(1) y y y Solaris2.9 64-bit y(1) y y(1) y y y @@ -3500,8 +3500,8 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7) y y y y y y Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y y y y y -Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM- - libraries(4) exec safe VFD +Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM- + libraries(4) exec safe VFD Solaris2.8 64-bit y x y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y x y y Solaris2.9 64-bit y x y y @@ -3529,24 +3529,24 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7) y y n n Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y n y -Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" -table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" +table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, compilers used are the system compilers. Footnotes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.6 (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6. - (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. + (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively. - (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, + (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++. (5) Using mpt. - (6) Linux 2.4.20-31.9. Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre + (6) Linux 2.4.20-31.9. Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre and Intel compilers (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_128.befl. Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers (8) Intel 8.1 (9) Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6C (10) IBM XLF and Absoft - (11) PGI, Absoft. No shared libraries with Absoft; + (11) PGI, Absoft. No shared libraries with Absoft; use '--disable-shared'. (12) PGI and Intel compilers for both C and Fortran (13) AMD Opteron x86_64 @@ -3583,12 +3583,12 @@ Known Problems Ask your system administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket. -* Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver +* Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information. -* There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and - h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and - debug dll. Release and Release dll work fine. +* There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and + h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and + debug dll. Release and Release dll work fine. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to @@ -3608,7 +3608,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -3627,15 +3627,15 @@ Known Problems the different precision in the values displayed. h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the site: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/ -* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran - library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and - fflush2.f90 complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line +* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran + library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and + fflush2.f90 complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error) * Use --disable-shared configure flag if building with Absoft Fortran @@ -3660,10 +3660,10 @@ Known Problems setenv CXX "pgCC -tlocal" for others * Fortran release DLL randomly failed with compaq visual fortran 6.6c on - windows. + windows. * Fortran DLL built with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment crushed the compiler, - To build Fortran Static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment + To build Fortran Static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment needs manually setting the project file, please contact to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu if you need to build fortran static library with Intel 8.1 with .NET environment. @@ -3745,7 +3745,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -3776,36 +3776,36 @@ New Features - WINDOWS building,testing and installing improvements - - On Windows, FORTRAN,C++ and C projects are merged into one zip file, - users can choose an option to build either FORTRAN or C++ or both + - On Windows, FORTRAN,C++ and C projects are merged into one zip file, + users can choose an option to build either FORTRAN or C++ or both with basic C library.For detailed information, please read INSTALL_Windows.txt. - On Windows, szip compression library with or without encoder can be easily turned off or on when building HDF5. For detailed information, - please read INSTALL_Windows.txt, especially section V. - + please read INSTALL_Windows.txt, especially section V. + - On Windows, an optional procedure for building,testing and installing HDF5 from command line is provided. This procedure is supposed to be - convenient for experienced users, please read + convenient for experienced users, please read INSTALL_windows_From_Command_Line.txt for details. - On Windows, an alternative short instruction document for building, testing and installing HDF5 is provided. This instruction is supposed to - be convenient for general users, please read + be convenient for general users, please read INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt for details. - On Windows, h5repack,h5diff,h5ls and h5import tool tests have been added. KY - 2004/9/16 - + Library: -------- - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for - SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the - chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be + SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the + chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user. - EIP - 2004/07/21 + EIP - 2004/07/21 - HDF5 can now link to SZIP with or without szip's encoder. The new API function H5Zget_filter_info can be used to check szip's status. Attempting to assign szip to a dataset property @@ -3829,9 +3829,9 @@ New Features Tools: ------ - - h5repack was added to the tools suite. h5repack regenerates an HDF5 file - from another HDF5 file, optionally applying HDF5 filters (compression) - and/or chunking to the copied file. The filters options are read from + - h5repack was added to the tools suite. h5repack regenerates an HDF5 file + from another HDF5 file, optionally applying HDF5 filters (compression) + and/or chunking to the copied file. The filters options are read from the command line. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details. PVN - 2004/9/13 @@ -3843,7 +3843,7 @@ New Features 5) Print array indices with the data (the default). These options are all switch controlled. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details. PVN - 2004/9/13 - + F90 API: -------- @@ -3853,7 +3853,7 @@ New Features h5premove_filter_f h5zget_filter_info_f EIP 2004/9/21 - + - added new h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f subroutines EIP 2004/07/08 @@ -3872,7 +3872,7 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. - Added PGI Fortran support for Linux64 (x86_64) systems EIP - 2004/08/19 - Absoft compiler f95 v9.0 is supported on Linux 2.4 32bit - EIP - 2004/07/29 + 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. - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with Absoft F95 compiler @@ -3893,9 +3893,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an incorrect way on Cray machines. PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13 - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers - based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting + based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with - 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07 + 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07 - Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined fill value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered. QAK - 2004/08/25 @@ -3938,7 +3938,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release Fixed. SLU - 2004/06/11 - Fixed potential file corruption bug when a block of metadata could overlap the end of the internal metadata accumulator buffer and - the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly + the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly change it's starting address. QAK - 2004/06/09 - Opaque datatype with no tag failed for some operations. Fixed. SLU - 2004/6/3 @@ -3961,33 +3961,33 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release ----- - On SGI h5dump displayed only part of the data due to the bug in the system printf; fixed. - EIP - 2004/09/21 - Documentation - ------------- - - Several descriptive errors have been fixed throughout the + EIP - 2004/09/21 + Documentation + ------------- + - Several descriptive errors have been fixed throughout the documentation, particularly in the reference manual (RM). - A selection particularly worthy of note would be these: + A selection particularly worthy of note would be these: - The H5Pset_szip description in the RM has been expanded and corrected to facilitate use of SZIP compression. - A note has been added to the H5Dcreate description that an - unexplained failure is likely to be due to a property list error + unexplained failure is likely to be due to a property list error that is detected only at the time of dataset creation. - FMB - 2004/09/21 F90 API ------- - + Fortran functions h5dwrite/read_f and h5awrite/read_f do not accept dims parameter of INTEGER type anymore. Code was removed. 2004/04/15 C++ API ------- - - H5::Exception's and its subclasses' constructors that were + - H5::Exception's and its subclasses' constructors that were overloaded to take char pointers are removed and constructors - that passed in reference of 'string' are changed to pass + that passed in reference of 'string' are changed to pass by value. In addition, the default value of the data member - H5::Exception::detailMessage is changed from 0/NULL to + H5::Exception::detailMessage is changed from 0/NULL to DEFAULT_MSG ("No detailed information provided".) - Prototype for DSetCreatPropList::setLayout is changed: 1st parameter is removed because it was there only by mistake. @@ -3998,35 +3998,35 @@ Documentation HDF5 Library documentation -------------------------- - HDF5 C++ API Reference Manual - This document has been added to the HDF5 document set. + This document has been added to the HDF5 document set. The predecessor document, "HDF5 C++ Interfaces," has been removed. - HDF5 C++ API Design Specification - A first draft of this document has been added to the HDF5 document - set. The draft has been posted on the HDF5 website and a link - has been added to the HDF5 documents index (index.html at the top + A first draft of this document has been added to the HDF5 document + set. The draft has been posted on the HDF5 website and a link + has been added to the HDF5 documents index (index.html at the top level of the document set). - Parallel HDF5 In prior releases, the HDF5 document set included two parallel - HDF5 documents. Those documents have been deleted and the - HDF5 documents index (index.html) now links to a "Parallel HDF5" + HDF5 documents. Those documents have been deleted and the + HDF5 documents index (index.html) now links to a "Parallel HDF5" page on the HDF5 website (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/PHDF5/). - HDF5 High Level APIs - Links to the HDF5 High Level APIs and to the HDF5 High Level + Links to the HDF5 High Level APIs and to the HDF5 High Level Reference Manual have been added to the HDF5 documents index (index.html). - HDF5 Reference Manual - Tools: h5repack -- A description of the new h5repack tool has been + Tools: h5repack -- A description of the new h5repack tool has been added to the Tools page. Tools: h5dump -- Several new options have been added to h5dump. New functions -- All new functions have been added to the RM. API changes -- Relevant function descriptions have been updated in - instances where programming interfaces have changed. + instances where programming interfaces have changed. FMB - 2004/09/21 Windows installation documentation ---------------------------------- - - INSTALL_Windows.txt has been enhanced to include instructions building - HDF5 with FORTRAN and C++. + - INSTALL_Windows.txt has been enhanced to include instructions building + HDF5 with FORTRAN and C++. - Two optional installation documents have been added. They are INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt and INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt. INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt is supposed to help general users who @@ -4036,7 +4036,7 @@ Documentation - INSTALL_Windows_withcpp.txt and INSTALL_Windows_withF90.txt became obsolete. Files are deleted from the release_docs directory. KY 2004/09/16, EIP 2004/9/21 - + Platforms Tested @@ -4065,7 +4065,7 @@ Platforms Tested Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.3.1 FreeBSD 4.9 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.4 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13 MPIch 1.2.4 @@ -4092,20 +4092,20 @@ Platforms Tested Linux 2.4.19-SMP x86_64 gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux) g++ 3.2.2 Linux 2.6.4-52smp x86_64 gcc 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux 9.1 AMD64)) - PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 + PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 - Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix + Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0 Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.0 SGI MPI - OSF1 V5.1 Compaq C V6.5-303 + OSF1 V5.1 Compaq C V6.5-303 HP Fortran V5.5A-3548 - Compaq C++ V6.5-040 + Compaq C++ V6.5-040 MPI_64bit_R13 SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 @@ -4118,7 +4118,7 @@ Platforms Tested Xeon Linux 2.4.20-31.9smp_perfctr_lustre Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0 - + IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 3.0.4 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1 @@ -4138,11 +4138,11 @@ Platforms Tested DEC Visual Fortran 6.0 MAC OS X Darwin 7.5 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2 - IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 + IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2 - + Supported Configuration Features Summary @@ -4155,7 +4155,7 @@ Key: y = tested and supported ( ) = footnote appears below second table Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP - parallel parallel + parallel parallel Solaris2.7 64-bit y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.7 32-bit y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 64-bit y (1) y y (1) y y y @@ -4187,8 +4187,8 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,8) y y y y y y Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y y y y y -Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM- - libraries (4) exec safe VFD +Platform Shared static- Thread- STREAM- + libraries (4) exec safe VFD Solaris2.7 64-bit y x y y Solaris2.7 32-bit y x y y Solaris2.8 64-bit y x y y @@ -4221,19 +4221,19 @@ Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3) y y n y -Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" -table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" +table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, compilers used are the system compilers. Footnotes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.4 (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4 - (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated + (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively - (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, + (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++ (5) Using mpt (6) Intel 7.1 compilers in Visual Studio 6.0 environment - (7) Linux 2.4.20-31.9. Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre + (7) Linux 2.4.20-31.9. Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre and Intel compilers (8) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_128.befl. Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers (9) DEC Visual Fortran 6.0 and Intel 7.1 @@ -4249,14 +4249,14 @@ Known Problems ============== * h5fc and h5c++ compilation scripts have a bug: object files (*.o) cannot be created when source code is compiled using h5fc or h5c++. We will provide - a fix. Please check ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/ + a fix. Please check ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/ for the patches. * Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information. * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release - dll work fine. + dll work fine. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to @@ -4276,7 +4276,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -4295,7 +4295,7 @@ Known Problems the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the site: @@ -4303,7 +4303,7 @@ Known Problems * On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90 - complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line + complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error) * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as @@ -4411,7 +4411,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -4469,8 +4469,8 @@ New Features Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. ======================================= - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with IBM XL Fortran compiler - version 8.1 Beta - Use --disbale-shared --enable-static flags with configure when + version 8.1 Beta + Use --disbale-shared --enable-static flags with configure when building HDF5 Fortran Library on MAC OSX. - C and C++ Libraries are available for Linux64 RH8 - C, C++ and Fortran sequential Libraries, and C and Fortran parallel @@ -4551,8 +4551,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.1 release test command. (The complain did not hinder the h5redploy to proceed correctly.) AKC - 2003/11/03 - Documentation - ------------- + Documentation + ------------- Documentation @@ -4580,7 +4580,7 @@ Platforms Tested Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.0 FreeBSD 4.9 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.4 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13 MPIch 1.2.4 @@ -4601,7 +4601,7 @@ Platforms Tested Linux 2.4.19-SMP x86_64 gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux) g++ 3.2.2 - Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix + Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1 Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 7.1 SGI MPI @@ -4612,9 +4612,9 @@ Platforms Tested Compaq C++ V6.5-030 MPI_64bit_R13 SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 @@ -4623,7 +4623,7 @@ Platforms Tested IA-32 Linux 2.4.18 gcc 2.96 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 - + IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 3.0.4 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1 @@ -4639,10 +4639,10 @@ Platforms Tested Code Warrior 8.0 Windows XP MSVC++.NET MAC OS X Darwin 7.2 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2 IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 Beta - + Supported Configuration Features Summary @@ -4686,10 +4686,10 @@ RedHat 7.1 ia64 C Intel (3) y n y n y n y RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64 y n n n y n y gcc (3) Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 y n y n y y y - Intel (3) + Intel (3) -Platform static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM- High- H4/H5 +Platform static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM- High- H4/H5 exec safe VFD level tools APIs (6) Solaris2.7 64-bit x y y n y y n @@ -4722,21 +4722,21 @@ RedHat 7.1 ia64 C Intel (3) y n y n y y y RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64 y n y n y y y gcc (3) Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 y n y n y y y - Intel (3) + Intel (3) -Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" -table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" +table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt). Unless otherwise noted, compilers used are the system compilers. Footnotes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.4. (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4. - (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. + (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated. W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively. - (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, + (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++. (5) Using mpt. - (6) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 + (6) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilities. @@ -4746,7 +4746,7 @@ Known Problems * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release - dll work fine. + dll work fine. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to @@ -4766,7 +4766,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -4786,7 +4786,7 @@ Known Problems the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the site: @@ -4794,7 +4794,7 @@ Known Problems * On some platforms that use Intel compilers to build HDF5 fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90 - complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line + complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error) * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as @@ -4848,7 +4848,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -4921,7 +4921,7 @@ New Features Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. ======================================= - gcc 3.3.1 is supported on Linux. - + Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release ================================== @@ -5008,20 +5008,20 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release - Switched away from tools using internal "fixtype" function(s) to use H5Tget_native_type() internally. QAK - 2003/08/25 - Documentation - ------------- - - Added two missing Fortran APIs (h5pget_fapl_mpiposix_f and + Documentation + ------------- + - Added two missing Fortran APIs (h5pget_fapl_mpiposix_f and h5pset_fapl_mpiposix_f) to the reference manual. FMB - 2003/10/15 - - Corrected the reference manual descriptions of H5open/h5open_f and - H5close/h5close_f to indicate that these calls are required in + - Corrected the reference manual descriptions of H5open/h5open_f and + H5close/h5close_f to indicate that these calls are required in Fortran90 applications. FMB - 2003/10/15 Documentation ============= - Fortran90 APIs are being integrated into the main body of the + Fortran90 APIs are being integrated into the main body of the HDF5 Reference Manual (RM). This process is complete in all RM sections except H5P. @@ -5050,7 +5050,7 @@ Platforms Tested Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.3 FreeBSD 4.9 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.4 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13 HP MPI 01.07.00.00 @@ -5072,9 +5072,9 @@ Platforms Tested MPI_64bit_R5 g++ version 3.0 for C++ SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 @@ -5083,7 +5083,7 @@ Platforms Tested IA-32 Linux 2.4.9 gcc 2.96 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 - + IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 2.96 20000731 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 @@ -5093,9 +5093,9 @@ Platforms Tested Code Warrior 8.0 Windows XP MSVC++.NET MAC OS X Darwin 6.8 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.1 - + Supported Configuration Features Summary @@ -5114,7 +5114,7 @@ Solaris2.7 64-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.7 32-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 64-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y y (1) y y y -IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y +IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y (2) y y y y y IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y y (2) n n n y y HPUX11.00 y y (1) y y y y y @@ -5141,7 +5141,7 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel y n y n y n y ASCII Table 2 -- for RELEASE.txt -Platform static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM- High-level H4/H5 +Platform static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM- High-level H4/H5 exec safe VFD APIs tools (7) Solaris2.7 64-bit x y y n y y n Solaris2.7 32-bit x y y n y y y @@ -5174,12 +5174,12 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel y n y n y y y Notes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.4. (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4. (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, respectively. - (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except + (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++. (5) Using mpt. - (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being + (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being released at this time. - (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 + (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilities. Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding "Platforms Tested" table. @@ -5189,10 +5189,10 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel y n y n y y y Known Problems ============== * Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information. - The fix willl be available in the 1.6.2 release. + The fix willl be available in the 1.6.2 release. * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release - dll work fine. + dll work fine. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to @@ -5212,7 +5212,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -5221,7 +5221,7 @@ Known Problems able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning: warning: ANSI C does not support `long long' - + This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored. @@ -5241,14 +5241,14 @@ Known Problems the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the site: * On some platforms that use Intel compilers to build HDF5 fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90 - complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line + complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error) ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.0/F90_source_for_Crays @@ -5291,7 +5291,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -5336,8 +5336,8 @@ Library: For more information see http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/SZIP/index.html http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide.html - http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html + Complete list of changes: * Changed dataset modification time to _not_ be updated when raw data is @@ -5365,16 +5365,16 @@ Library: I/O filters: H5Pmodify_filter, H5Pget_filter_by_id and H5Pall_filters_avail. Also changed H5Zregister to use new method of registering filters with library. QAK - 2003/04/08 - * The first version of szip compression support were implemented. + * The first version of szip compression support were implemented. User should have static szlib library installed. Using function H5Pset_szip to pass the szip parameters to the HDF5 library. More detailed decription of the process will be followed. KY-2003/04/01 - * Added Fletcher32 checksum as a filter in pipeline. It only works in + * Added Fletcher32 checksum as a filter in pipeline. It only works in chunked dataset. SLU - 2003/2/11 * MPICH/MPE instrumentation feature added. Use --with-mpe[=DIR] to configure it. AKC - 2003/1/3 - * New functions H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and H5Gget_objtype_by_idx + * New functions H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and H5Gget_objtype_by_idx are added to the library. SLU - 2002/11/25 * H5Dget_offset is added to return the offset of a dataset's data relative to the beginning of the file. SLU - 2002/11/7 @@ -5399,7 +5399,7 @@ Library: H5D_SPACE_ALLOC_LATE for H5Dset_space_time(). This allows chunked datasets to be incrementally allocated as in the 1.4.x branch. QAK - 2002/08/27 - * Compact dataset is added to the library. The data will be stored in + * Compact dataset is added to the library. The data will be stored in the header message of dataset layout. Space allocation time has to be EARLY. No hyperslab is supported for parallel collective write. There is no API changes except activating H5Pset_layout and H5Pget_layout for @@ -5413,9 +5413,9 @@ Library: This can improve parallel I/O performance for chunked datasets. QAK - 2002/05/17 * New functions H5Glink2 and H5Gmove2 were added to allow link and move to - be in different locations in the same file. The old functions H5Glink - and H5Gmove remain valid. SLU - 2002/04/26 - * Fill-value's behaviors for contiguous dataset have been redefined. + be in different locations in the same file. The old functions H5Glink + and H5Gmove remain valid. SLU - 2002/04/26 + * Fill-value's behaviors for contiguous dataset have been redefined. Basicly, dataset won't allocate space until it's necessary. Full details are available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/Fill_Value, at this moment. SLU - 2002/04/11 @@ -5436,14 +5436,14 @@ Library: in order to correctly handle dataset region references. Moved H5Rget_object_type() to be only compiled into the library when v1.4 compatibility is enabled. - * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file + * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file close behavior. It has four values, H5F_CLOSE_WEAK, H5F_CLOSE_SEMI, - H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT. Two correspont functions - H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided. Two + H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT. Two correspont functions + H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided. Two new functions H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids are offerted to assist - this new feature. For full details, please refer to the reference - manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the - functions mentioned above. + this new feature. For full details, please refer to the reference + manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the + functions mentioned above. * Removed H5P(get|set)_hyper_cache API function, since the property is no longer used. * Improved performance of non-contiguous hyperslabs (built up with @@ -5481,19 +5481,19 @@ Tools: QAK - 2003/06/06 * h5diff to compare two HDF5 files was added * h5import to import ascii and binary data to an HDF5 file was added. - Old h5import tool in the tools/misc directory was renamed to - h5createU8 to reflect its purpose. h5createU8 will be deleted in - 1.6.1 release. + Old h5import tool in the tools/misc directory was renamed to + h5createU8 to reflect its purpose. h5createU8 will be deleted in + 1.6.1 release. * Two new scripts h5fc and h5c++ were added to compile F90 and C++ HDF5 applications. Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. ======================================= * Added C++ API support on HPUX11.00. BMR - 2003/03/19 - * Absoft compiler is supported for Fortran HDF5 Library. + * Absoft compiler is supported for Fortran HDF5 Library. When building with Absoft compiler, add -DH5_ABSOFT to C compilation flags to get correct names of C functions - called by Fortran APIs. + called by Fortran APIs. Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 release @@ -5527,7 +5527,7 @@ Library for floating point data). This adds a new API function: H5Pset_shuffle. KY - 2002/11/13 * Allow scalar dataspaces to be used for parallel I/O. QAK - 2002/11/05 - * New functions H5Gget_comment(modification), H5Aget_storage_size, + * New functions H5Gget_comment(modification), H5Aget_storage_size, H5Arename. SLU - 2002/10/29 * Fixed an assertion of H5S_select_iterate that did not account for scalar type that has no dimension sizes. AKC - 2002/10/15 @@ -5536,10 +5536,10 @@ Library * Fixed data corruption problem which could occur when fill values were written to a contiguously stored dataset in parallel. QAK - 2002/08/27 * Fixed VL memory leak when data is overwritten. The heap objects holding - old data are freed. If the fill value writting time is set to + old data are freed. If the fill value writting time is set to H5D_FILL_TIME_NEVER, the library prohibits user to create VL type dataset. - The library free all the heap objects storing VL type if there is nested - VL type(a VL type contains another VL type). SLU - 2002/07/10 + The library free all the heap objects storing VL type if there is nested + VL type(a VL type contains another VL type). SLU - 2002/07/10 * Tweaked a few API functions to use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned' or 'hsize_t', which may cause errors in some cases. @@ -5563,17 +5563,17 @@ Performance Tools ----- - * Added a -force option to h5redeploy. AKC - 2003/03/04 + * Added a -force option to h5redeploy. AKC - 2003/03/04 * The VL string bug(data and datatype cannot be shown) in h5dump is fixed. -SLU - 2002/11/18 - * Fixed segfault if h5dump was invoked with some options but no file + * Fixed segfault if h5dump was invoked with some options but no file (e.g., h5dump -H). -AKC, 2002/10/15 * Fixed so that the "-i" flag works correctly with the h5dumper. * Fixed segfault when "-v" flag was used with the h5dumper. -Documentation -------------- +Documentation +------------- @@ -5603,7 +5603,7 @@ Platforms Tested mpt 2.1.0.0 FreeBSD 4.7 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.5 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13 MPIch 1.2.4 @@ -5624,9 +5624,9 @@ Platforms Tested MPI_64bit_R5 g++ version 3.0 for C++ SunOS 5.7 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8/32 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90 Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 @@ -5638,7 +5638,7 @@ Platforms Tested IA-32 Linux 2.4.9 gcc 2.96 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 - + IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 2.96 20000731 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 @@ -5648,9 +5648,9 @@ Platforms Tested Code Warrior 8.0 Windows XP MSVC++.NET MAC OS X Darwin 6.5 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1161, based on gcc version 3.1 - + Supported Configuration Features Summary @@ -5669,7 +5669,7 @@ Solaris2.7 64-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.7 32-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 64-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y y y y (1) y y y -IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y +IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y (2) y y y y y IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y y (2) n n n y y HPUX11.00 y y (1) y y y y y @@ -5696,7 +5696,7 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel y n y n y n y ASCII Table 2 -- for RELEASE.txt -Platform static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM- High-level H4/H5 +Platform static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM- High-level H4/H5 exec safe VFD APIs tools (7) Solaris2.7 64-bit x y y n y y n Solaris2.7 32-bit x y y n y y y @@ -5729,12 +5729,12 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel y n y n y y y Notes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.4. (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4. (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, respectively. - (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except + (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++. (5) Using mpt. - (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being + (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being released at this time. - (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 + (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilities. Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding "Platforms Tested" table. @@ -5766,7 +5766,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -5775,7 +5775,7 @@ Known Problems able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning: warning: ANSI C does not support `long long' - + This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored. @@ -5795,14 +5795,14 @@ Known Problems the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. -* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays +* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the site: * On some platforms that use Intel compilers to build HDF5 fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90 - complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line + complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error) ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.0/F90_source_for_Crays @@ -5838,7 +5838,7 @@ INTRODUCTION This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.4.4 and HDF5-1.4.5, and contains information on the platforms tested and -known problems in HDF5-1.4.5. For additional information check the +known problems in HDF5-1.4.5. For additional information check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source. The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server @@ -5847,7 +5847,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information, see the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -5880,7 +5880,7 @@ New Features o Library ========= o General - --------- + --------- * Allow scalar dataspaces to be used for parallel I/O. QAK - 2002/11/05 * Added environment variable "HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK", which disables the version checking between the header files and the library linked @@ -5903,7 +5903,7 @@ New Features ------ * Several missing fortran APIs have been added to the library: - h5get_libversion_f h5tget_member_index_f h5dget_storage_size_f + h5get_libversion_f h5tget_member_index_f h5dget_storage_size_f h5check_version_f h5tvlen_create_f h5dvlen_get_max_len_f h5garbage_collect_f h5dwrite_vl_f h5dont_atexit_f h5dread_vl_f @@ -5937,11 +5937,11 @@ New Features ========================================= * C++ API now works on the Origin2000 (IRIX6.5.14.) BMR - 2002/11/14 - + o Misc. ========================================= - HDF5 1.4.5 works with Portland Group Compilers (pgcc, pgf90 and pgCC - version 4.0-2) on Linux 2.4 + HDF5 1.4.5 works with Portland Group Compilers (pgcc, pgf90 and pgCC + version 4.0-2) on Linux 2.4 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.4 Release @@ -5955,8 +5955,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.4 Release QAK - 2003/01/21 * Added improved error assertion for nil VL strings. It return error stack instead of a simple assertion. SLU - 2002/12/16 - * Fixed h5dump bug(cannot dump data and datatype) for VL string. - SLU - 2002/11/18 + * Fixed h5dump bug(cannot dump data and datatype) for VL string. + SLU - 2002/11/18 * Fixed error condition where "none" selections were not being handled correctly in serial & parallel. QAK - 2002/10/29 * Fixed problem where optimized hyperslab routines were incorrectly @@ -5980,15 +5980,15 @@ Platforms Tested AIX 5.1 (32 and 64-bit) C for AIX Compiler, Version 6 xlf 8.1.0.2 poe 3.2.0.11 - Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08 Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3 - Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.12 + Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08 Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3 + Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.12 Cray SV1 10.0.1. 0 Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3 Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.12 Cray T90IEEE 10.0.1.01u Cray Standard C Version 6.4.0.2.3 Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.3 FreeBSD 4.7 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.5 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m @@ -6003,16 +6003,16 @@ Platforms Tested Compaq Fortran X5.4A-1684 gcc version 3.0 for C++ SunOS 5.7 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8/32 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch 109508-04 2001/07/11 SunOS 5.8/64 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch 109508-04 2001/07/11 @@ -6021,7 +6021,7 @@ Platforms Tested IA-32 Linux 2.4.9 gcc 2.96 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 - + IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 2.96 20000731 Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0 @@ -6030,9 +6030,9 @@ Platforms Tested Windows XP .NET Windows NT4.0 Code Warrior 6.0 MAC OS X Darwin 6.2 - gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC + gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1161, based on gcc version 3.1 - + Supported Configuration Features Summary @@ -6053,7 +6053,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Solaris2.7 32-bit y y (1) y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 64-bit y n y y (1) y y y Solaris2.8 32-bit y n y y (1) y y y - IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y + IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y IRIX64_6.5 64-bit y y (2) y y y y y IRIX64_6.5 32-bit y y (2) n n n y y HPUX11.00 y y (1) y n n y y @@ -6075,7 +6075,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Linux 2.4 PGI (3) y n y n y n y Linux 2.4 IA32 y n y n n n y Linux 2.4 IA64 y n y n n n y - + Platform static- Thread- SRB GASS STREAM- exec safe VFD @@ -6111,23 +6111,23 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4. (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers. (4) No HDF4-related tools. - (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, + (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for all languages. (6) Debug mode only. - (7) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being + (7) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being released at this time. Known Problems ============== - * On Linux 2.4 IA64, Fortran test fails for h5dwrite_vl_f + * On Linux 2.4 IA64, Fortran test fails for h5dwrite_vl_f for integer and real base datatypes. * When fortran library is built with Intel compilers, compilation - for fflush1.f90, fflush2.f90 and fortanlib_test.f90 will fail + for fflush1.f90, fflush2.f90 and fortanlib_test.f90 will fail complaining about EXEC function. Comment the call to EXEC subroutine - in each program, or get a patch for the HDF5 Fortran source code. + in each program, or get a patch for the HDF5 Fortran source code. * Fortran external dataset test fails on Linux 2.4 with pgf90 compiler. @@ -6137,11 +6137,11 @@ Known Problems * Datasets or attributes which have a variable-length string datatype are not printing correctly with h5dump and h5ls. - * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten, - the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become + * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten, + the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become unnecessarily large. This is planned to be fixed in the next release. - * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the + * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some @@ -6152,17 +6152,17 @@ Known Problems * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX 11.00 platforms. - * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and + * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec. * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec. * The executables are always dynamic on Solaris 2.7 ans 2.8(64 and n32) even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec. - + * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause a hang in some cases when chunked storage is used. This is now set to - be off by default. One may turn it on by setting the environment + be off by default. One may turn it on by setting the environment variable HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES to a non-zero value such as 1. * On OSF1 v5.1 and IA32 h5dumpgentst program that generates test files @@ -6173,10 +6173,10 @@ Known Problems * On Cray T3E (sn6606 2.0.6.08 unicosmk CRAY T3E) with Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3 compiler optimization causes errors in many HDF5 Library tests. Use -g -h zero flags - to build HDF5 Library. + to build HDF5 Library. * On Cray SV1 10.0.1. 0 datatype convertion test fails. Please check HDF FTP site - if patch is available. We will try to provide one in the nearest future. + if patch is available. We will try to provide one in the nearest future. * For configuration, building and testing with Intel and PGI compilers see corresponding section in INSTALL file. @@ -6200,7 +6200,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information, see the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -6223,32 +6223,32 @@ New Features ============ o Configuration ================ - * The H4 to H5 tools have been removed from the main source and placed + * The H4 to H5 tools have been removed from the main source and placed in a separate package. You can get these tools from the HDF ftp site - (ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). The "--with-hdf4" command-line option + (ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). The "--with-hdf4" command-line option during configure is no longer valid. BW - 2002/06/25 o Library ========= o General - --------- + --------- * Fill-value forward-compatibility with release 1.5 was added. SLU - 2002/04/11 * A new query function H5Tget_member_index has been added for compound - and enumeration data types. This function retrieves a member's index + and enumeration data types. This function retrieves a member's index by name. SLU - 2002/04/05 * Added serial multi-gigabyte file size test. "test/big -h" shows the help page. AKC - 2002/03/29 - + o APIs ------ - * The F90 subroutines h5dwrite_f, h5dread_f, h5awrite_f, and h5aread_f - were overloaded with a "dims" argument of type INTEGER(HSIZE_T) to - specify the size of the array. We recommend using these subroutines + * The F90 subroutines h5dwrite_f, h5dread_f, h5awrite_f, and h5aread_f + were overloaded with a "dims" argument of type INTEGER(HSIZE_T) to + specify the size of the array. We recommend using these subroutines with the new type; module subroutines that accept "dims" as an i - INTEGER array of size 7 will be deprecated in release 1.6. + INTEGER array of size 7 will be deprecated in release 1.6. EIP - 2002/05/06 - + o Performance ------------- * Added internal "small data" aggregation, which can reduce the number of @@ -6305,15 +6305,15 @@ New Features * Intel C++ and F90 compilers Version 6.0 are supported on Linux 2.4. * Intel C++ compilers Version 6.0 are supported on Windows 2000. - + o Misc. ========================================= * zlib has been moved out of the Windows source release. Users should go to - the ZLIB homepage(http://www.zlib.org) to download the corresponding + the ZLIB homepage(http://www.zlib.org) to download the corresponding zlib library. - * The Windows binary release is built with the old version of the zlib - library. We expect users to use zlib 1.1.4 to build with the source - release. + * The Windows binary release is built with the old version of the zlib + library. We expect users to use zlib 1.1.4 to build with the source + release. * In the Windows-specific install document, we specify how to test backward compatibility. However, in this release, we are not testing the backward compatibility of HDF5. @@ -6337,7 +6337,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.3 Release library to go into infinite loop. QAK - 2002/06/10 * Fixed bug (#699, fix provided by a user) where a scalar dataspace was written to the file and then subsequently queried with the - H5Sget_simple_extent_type function; type was reported as H5S_SIMPLE + H5Sget_simple_extent_type function; type was reported as H5S_SIMPLE instead of H5S_SCALAR. EIP - 2002/06/04 * Clear symbol table node "dirty" flag when flushing symbol tables to disk, to reduce I/O calls made & improve performance. QAK - 2002/06/03 @@ -6390,11 +6390,11 @@ address it. Documentation ============= * Documentation was updated for the hdf5-1.4.4 release. - * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development. See + * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development. See http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_NewUG/current/. - * A "Parallel HDF5 Tutorial" is available at + * A "Parallel HDF5 Tutorial" is available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Tutor/. - * The "HDF5 Tutorial" is not distributed with this release. It is + * The "HDF5 Tutorial" is not distributed with this release. It is available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Tutor/. @@ -6408,20 +6408,20 @@ Platforms Tested AIX 4.3 (IBM SP RS6000) C for AIX Compiler, Version 5.0.2.0 xlf 7.1.0.2 poe 3.1.0.12 (includes mpi) - AIX 5.1 xlc 5.0.2.0 + AIX 5.1 xlc 5.0.2.0 xlf 07.01.0000.0002 mpcc_r 5.0.2.0; mpxlf_r 07.01.0000.0002 Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.57 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4 - Cray SV1 10.0.1.1 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 + Cray SV1 10.0.1.1 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4 FreeBSD 4.6 gcc 2.95.4 g++ 2.95.4 HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32.30 HP F90 v2.3 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 - HP-UX B.11.00 SysV HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 SysV HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP MPI [not a product] (03/24/2000) B6060BA IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 @@ -6440,16 +6440,16 @@ Platforms Tested Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877-48BBF gcc version 3.0 for C++ SunOS 5.7 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8/32 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch 109508-04 2001/07/11 SunOS 5.8/64 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch 109508-04 2001/07/11 @@ -6459,7 +6459,7 @@ Platforms Tested gcc 2.96 Intel(R) C++ Version 6.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 6.0 - + IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 2.96 20000731 Intel(R) C++ Version 6.0 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 6.0 @@ -6540,10 +6540,10 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Footnotes: (1) Using mpich. (2) Using mpt and mpich. - (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in + (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in serial mode. (4) No HDF4-related tools. - (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, + (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except on Windows where they are provided for all languages. (6) Linux 2.4 with Intel compilers. @@ -6554,11 +6554,11 @@ Known Problems * Datasets or attributes which have a variable-length string datatype are not printing correctly with h5dump and h5ls. - * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten, - the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become + * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten, + the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become unnecessarily large. This is planned to be fixed in the next release. - * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the + * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some @@ -6569,14 +6569,14 @@ Known Problems * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX 11.00 platforms. - * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and + * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec. * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec. - + * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause a hang in some cases when chunked storage is used. This is now set to - be off by default. One may turn it on by setting the environment + be off by default. One may turn it on by setting the environment variable HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES to a non-zero value such as 1. * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as @@ -6592,7 +6592,7 @@ Known Problems # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler. wl="-Wl," - * To build the Fortran library using Intel compilers, one has to + * To build the Fortran library using Intel compilers, one has to x modify the source code in the fortran/src directory to remove the !DEC and !MS compiler directives. x The build will fail in the fortran/test directory and then in the @@ -6600,7 +6600,7 @@ Known Problems those directories to contain two lines work.pc - ../src/work.pc + ../src/work.pc * To build the Fortran library on IA64 use setenv CC "ecc -DIA64" @@ -6627,7 +6627,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -6655,7 +6655,7 @@ New Features o Library ========= o General - --------- + --------- * Added a new test to verify the information provided by the configure command. * Changed internal error handling macros to reduce code size of library by @@ -6756,7 +6756,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.2 Release Documentation ============= * Documentation was updated for the hdf5-1.4.3 release. - * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development. See + * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development. See http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_NewUG/current/. * Parallel Tutorial is available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Tutor/ @@ -6773,15 +6773,15 @@ Platforms Tested poe 3.1.0.12 (includes mpi) Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.57 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4 - Cray SV1 10.0.0.8 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 + Cray SV1 10.0.0.8 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4 FreeBSD 4.5 gcc 2.95.3 g++ 2.95.3 HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32.30 HP F90 v2.3 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 - HP-UX B.11.00 SysV HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 SysV HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 HP MPI [not a product] (03/24/2000) B6060BA IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 @@ -6792,19 +6792,19 @@ Platforms Tested gcc 2.95.2 with mpich 1.2.1 g++ 2.95.2 pgf90 3.2-4 - OSF1 V5.1 Compaq C V6.3-028 + OSF1 V5.1 Compaq C V6.3-028 Compaq Fortran V5.4-1283 SunOS 5.7 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 - Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 - FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + (Solaris 2.7) Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 + FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8/32 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch 109508-04 2001/07/11 SunOS 5.8/64 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch 109508-04 2001/07/11 @@ -6813,9 +6813,9 @@ Platforms Tested IA-32 Linux 2.2.10smpx cc Intel 5.0.1 egcs-2.91.66 IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64 gcc version 2.96 20000731 - Intel(R) C++ Itanium(TM) Compiler + Intel(R) C++ Itanium(TM) Compiler for the Itanium(TM)-based applications, - Version 6.0 Beta, Build 20010905 + Version 6.0 Beta, Build 20010905 Windows 2000 (NT5.0) MSVC++ 6.0 DEC Visual Fortran 6.0 Windows NT4.0 MSVC++ 6.0 @@ -6841,7 +6841,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Solaris2.7 y y (1) y n y y y y Solaris2.8 64 y n y n y y y y Solaris2.8 32 y n y n y y y y - IA-64 y n n n n n y y + IA-64 y n n n n n y y IRIX6.5 y y (1) n n n y y y IRIX64_6.5 64 y y (2) y y n y y y IRIX64_6.5 32 y y (2) n n n y y y @@ -6868,7 +6868,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Solaris2.7 n x y n n y Solaris2.8 64 n y n n n y Solaris2.8 32 n x n n n y - IA-64 n n n n n y + IA-64 n n n n n y IRIX6.5 n x y n n y IRIX64_6.5 64 n x y n y y IRIX64_6.5 32 n x y n y y @@ -6892,7 +6892,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Footnotes: (1) Using mpich. (2) Using mpt and mpich. - (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail + (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in serial mode. (4) No HDF4-related tools. (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library. @@ -6905,11 +6905,11 @@ Known Problems * Datasets or attributes which have a variable-length string datatype are not printing correctly with h5dump and h5ls. - * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten, - the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become + * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten, + the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become unnecessarily large. This is planned to be fixed in the next release. - * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the + * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms. @@ -6921,11 +6921,11 @@ Known Problems * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX 11.00 platforms. - * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and + * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec. * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec. - + * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause a hang in some cases when chunked storage is used. This is now set to be off by default. One may turn it on by setting environment variable @@ -6933,12 +6933,12 @@ Known Problems * On IA64 systems one has to use -DIA64 compilation flag to compile h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilites. After configuration step manually modify - Makefile in the tools/h4toh4 and tools/h5toh4 directories to add + Makefile in the tools/h4toh4 and tools/h5toh4 directories to add -DIA64 to the compilation flags. - * On IA32 ansd IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC + * On IA32 ansd IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as Intel's ecc compiler), you will need to modify the generated - "libtool" program after configuration is finished. On or around line 102 + "libtool" program after configuration is finished. On or around line 102 of the libtool file, there are lines which look like: # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler. @@ -6952,7 +6952,7 @@ Known Problems %%%%1.4.2%%%% Release Information for hdf5-1.4.2 (31/July/01) -10. Release Information for hdf5-1.4.2 +10. Release Information for hdf5-1.4.2 ================================================================= @@ -6968,7 +6968,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -6999,33 +6999,33 @@ New Features * Parallel HDF5 now runs on the HP V2500 and HP N4000 machines. * F90 API: - Added aditional parameter "dims" to the h5dread_f/h5dwrite_f and - h5aread_f/h5awrite_f subroutines. This parameter is a 1-D array - of size 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions. + h5aread_f/h5awrite_f subroutines. This parameter is a 1-D array + of size 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions. This change enables portability between Windows and UNIX platforms. - In previous versions of the F90 APIs, the data buffer parameters of - the above functions were declared as assumed-shape arrays, which - were passed to the C functions by a descriptor. There is no - portable means, however, of passing descriptors from F90 to C, + In previous versions of the F90 APIs, the data buffer parameters of + the above functions were declared as assumed-shape arrays, which + were passed to the C functions by a descriptor. There is no + portable means, however, of passing descriptors from F90 to C, causing portability problems between Windows and UNIX and among UNIX platforms. With this change, the data buffers are assumed- size arrays, which can be portably passed to the C functions. - * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms. + * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms. See INSTALL_Windows_withF90.txt for details. * F90 APIs are available on HPUX 11.00 and 10.20 and IBM SP platforms. - * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under + * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under tools/gifconv. The convertor supports the ability to create animated gifs as well. * Verified correct operation of library on Solaris 2.8 in both 64-bit and 32-bit compilation modes. See INSTALL document for instructions on compiling the distribution with 64-bit support. - * Added support for the Metrowerks Code Warrior compiler for Windows. + * Added support for the Metrowerks Code Warrior compiler for Windows. * For H4->H5 converter utility, added a new option to choose not to convert HDF4 specified attributes(reference number, class) into HDF5 attributes. - * Added support chunking and compression in SDS and image in H4->H5 converter. - Currently HDF5 only supports gzip compression, so by default an HDF4 file - with any other compression method will be converted into an HDF5 file in - gzip compression. - * correct the order or reading HDF4 image array in H4->H5 conversion. + * Added support chunking and compression in SDS and image in H4->H5 converter. + Currently HDF5 only supports gzip compression, so by default an HDF4 file + with any other compression method will be converted into an HDF5 file in + gzip compression. + * correct the order or reading HDF4 image array in H4->H5 conversion. * Added new parallel hdf5 tests in t_mpi. The new test checks if the filesystem or the MPI-IO can really handle greater than 2GB files. If it fails, it prints information message only without failing the @@ -7040,8 +7040,8 @@ New Features * Added new checking in H5check_version() to verify the five HDF5 version information macros (H5_VERS_MAJOR, H5_VERS_MINOR, H5_VERS_RELEASE, H5_VERS_SUBRELEASE and H5_VERS_INFO) are consistent. - - + + Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.1 Release ================================== @@ -7050,21 +7050,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.1 Release * Fixed problems with Pablo build and linking with non-standard MPI I/O. * Fixed build on Linux systems with --enable-static-exec flag. It now works correctly. - * IMPORTANT: Fixed file metadata corruption bug which could cause + * IMPORTANT: Fixed file metadata corruption bug which could cause metadata data loss in certain situations. * The allocation by alignment (H5Pset_alignment) feature code somehow got dropped in some 1.3.x version. Re-implemented it with "new and improved" algorithm. It keeps track of "wasted" file-fragment in the free-list too. * Removed limitation that the data transfer buffer size needed to be - set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all' - selection code to handle. Any size dimensioned datasets should be + set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all' + selection code to handle. Any size dimensioned datasets should be handled correctly now. * Changed behavior of H5Tget_member_type to correctly emulate HDF5 v1.2.x when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled. - * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to + * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to enable or disable large file support on Linux. - * Fixed various bugs releated to SDS dimensional scale conversions in H4->H5 + * Fixed various bugs releated to SDS dimensional scale conversions in H4->H5 converter. * Fixed a bug to correctly convert HDF4 objects with fill value into HDF5. * Fixed a bug of H5pubconf.h causing repeated definitions if it is included @@ -7082,18 +7082,18 @@ Documentation ============= * The H5T_conv_t and H5T_cdata_t structures are now properly defined - in the H5Tregister entry in the "H5T" section of the "HDF5 Reference - Manual" and described in detail in section 12, "Data Conversions," in + in the H5Tregister entry in the "H5T" section of the "HDF5 Reference + Manual" and described in detail in section 12, "Data Conversions," in the "Datatypes" chapter of the "HDF5 User's Guide." * The new tools h52gif and gif2h5 have been added to the "Tools" section of the Reference Manual. - * A "Freespace Management" section has been added to the "Performance" + * A "Freespace Management" section has been added to the "Performance" chapter of the User's Guide. * Several user-reported bugs have been fixed since Release 1.4.1. * The "HDF5 Image and Palette Specification" (in the "HDF5 Application - Developer's Guide") has been heavily revised. Based on extensive user - feedback and input from visualization software developers, Version 1.2 - of the image specification is substantially different from prior + Developer's Guide") has been heavily revised. Based on extensive user + feedback and input from visualization software developers, Version 1.2 + of the image specification is substantially different from prior versions. @@ -7108,15 +7108,15 @@ Platforms Tested xlf 7.1.0.2 poe 2.4.0.14 (includes mpi) Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.49a Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.1 - Cray SV1 10.0.0.2 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.1 + Cray SV1 10.0.0.2 Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.1 Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.1 FreeBSD 4.3 gcc 2.95.3 g++ 2.95.3 HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32.30 HP F90 v2.3 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 - HP-UX B.11.00 SysV HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 + HP-UX B.11.00 SysV HP C HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 HP F90 v2.4 IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.2m @@ -7128,19 +7128,19 @@ Platforms Tested pgf90 3.2-4 OSF1 V4.0 DEC-V5.2-040 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev 564) Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270 - SunOS 5.6 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.6) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 FORTRAN 90 + SunOS 5.6 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 + (Solaris 2.6) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.7 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.7) Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 + (Solaris 2.7) Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 FORTRAN 90 - 2.0 Patch 107356-04 + 2.0 Patch 107356-04 SunOS 5.8/32 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 2000/09/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 2000/09/11 SunOS 5.8/64 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 - (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 + (Solaris 2.8) Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 2000/09/11 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 2000/09/11 TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0.7 i386 pgcc Rel 3.1-4i with mpich-1.2.1 with @@ -7220,7 +7220,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Footnotes: (1) Using mpich. (2) Using mpt and mpich. - (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail + (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in serial mode. (4) No HDF4-related tools. (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library. @@ -7229,11 +7229,11 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Known Problems ============== - * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten, - the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become + * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten, + the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become unnecessarily large. This is planned to be fixed in the next release. - * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the + * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms. * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output in some @@ -7244,13 +7244,13 @@ Known Problems * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX 11.00 platforms. - * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and + * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec. * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec. - + * For 24-bit image conversion from H4->H5, the current conversion is - not consistent with HDF5 image specification. + not consistent with HDF5 image specification. * In some cases, and SDS with an UNLIMITED dimension that has not been written (current size = 0) is not converted correctly. @@ -7269,7 +7269,7 @@ Known Problems ===================================================================== - + HDF5 Release 1.4.1 @@ -7285,7 +7285,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -7307,10 +7307,10 @@ New Features ============ * XML output option for h5dump utility. - + A new option --xml to output data in XML format has been added. The XML output contains a complete description of the file, marked up in - XML. + XML. The XML conforms to the HDF5 Document Type Definition (DTD), which is available at: @@ -7353,25 +7353,25 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 Release Documentation ============= - PDF and Postscript versions of the following documents are available + PDF and Postscript versions of the following documents are available for this release: Document Filename -------- -------- Introduction to HDF5 H5-R141-Introduction.pdf - HDF5 Reference Manual H5-R141-RefManual.pdf + HDF5 Reference Manual H5-R141-RefManual.pdf C++ APIs to HDF5 documents H5-R141-Cplusplus.pdf Fortran90 APIs to HDF5 documents H5-R141-Fortran90.pdf PDF and Postscript files containing H5-R141-DocSet.pdf all of the above H5-R141-DocSet.ps - These files are not included in this distribution, but are available + These files are not included in this distribution, but are available via the Web or FTP at the following locations: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/PSandPDF/ ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/docs/ - While these documents are labeled Release 1.4.1, they describe - Release 1.4.0 as well. + While these documents are labeled Release 1.4.1, they describe + Release 1.4.0 as well. Platforms Tested @@ -7392,8 +7392,8 @@ Due to the nature of this release only C, C++ libraries and tools were tested. g++ 2.95.2 OSF1 V4.0 DEC-V5.2-040 Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270 - SunOS 5.6 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 - (Solaris 2.6) + SunOS 5.6 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 + (Solaris 2.6) SunOS 5.7 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 (Solaris 2.7) Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 @@ -7419,11 +7419,11 @@ Known Problems * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX 11.00 platforms. - * The executable are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and + * The executable are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec. * The shared library failed compilation on IRIX 6.5. - + * After "make install" or "make install-doc" one may need to reload the source from the tar file before doing another build. @@ -7434,7 +7434,7 @@ Known Problems 8. Release Information for hdf5-1.4.0 =================================================================== - + HDF5 Release 1.4.0 @@ -7451,7 +7451,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -7462,11 +7462,11 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: CONTENTS - New Features -- h4toh5 Utility +- h4toh5 Utility - F90 Support - C++ Support -- Pablo Support -- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.0 +- Pablo Support +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.0 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 - Documentation @@ -7495,15 +7495,15 @@ New Features * Added new Virtual File Driver, Stream VFD, to send/receive entire HDF5 files via socket connections. * As parts of VFL, HDF-GASS and HDF-SRB are also added to this - release. To find out details, please read INSTALL_VFL file. + release. To find out details, please read INSTALL_VFL file. * Increased maximum number of dimensions for a dataset (H5S_MAX_RANK) from 31 to 32 to align with HDF4 & netCDF. * Added 'query' function to VFL drivers. Also added 'type' parameter to VFL 'read' & 'write' calls, so they are aware of the type of data being accessed in the file. Updated the VFL document also. * A new h4toh5 utility, to convert HDF4 files to analogous HDF5 files. - * Added a new array datatype to the datatypes which can be created. - Removed "array fields" from compound datatypes (use an array datatype + * Added a new array datatype to the datatypes which can be created. + Removed "array fields" from compound datatypes (use an array datatype instead). * Parallel HDF5 works correctly with mpich-1.2.1 on Solaris, SGI, Linux. * You can now install the HDF5 documentation using the @@ -7514,26 +7514,26 @@ New Features Check doc/html/TechNotes/openmp-hdf5.html for details. -h4toh5 Utility +h4toh5 Utility ============== - The h4toh5 utility is a new utility that converts an HDF4 file to an - HDF5 file. For details, see the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to + The h4toh5 utility is a new utility that converts an HDF4 file to an + HDF5 file. For details, see the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to HDF5 Objects": http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/H4-H5MappingGuidelines.pdf Known Bugs: The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform - to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. + to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html - Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace - is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is + Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace + is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is incorrectly described.) For more information, please see: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.html - + This bug has been fixed for the snapshot of hdf5 1.4 release. March 12th,2001 Known Limitations of the h4toh5 release @@ -7555,7 +7555,7 @@ h4toh5 Utility be an H5T_INTEGER type. * For attributes of any HDF4 object, data of type 'DFNT_CHAR8' will be converted to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type. - * For an HDF4 Vdata, it is difficult to determine whether data + * For an HDF4 Vdata, it is difficult to determine whether data of type 'DFNT_CHAR8' is intended to be bytes or characters. The h4toh5 utility will consider them to be C characters, and will convert them to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type. @@ -7569,10 +7569,10 @@ h4toh5 Utility with analogous chunked storage. An HDF4 object that uses compression will be converted to an - uncompressed HDF5 object. + uncompressed HDF5 object. An HDF4 object that uses external storage will be converted to an - HDF5 object without external storage. + HDF5 object without external storage. 4. Memory Use @@ -7589,29 +7589,29 @@ h4toh5 Utility The h4toh5 utility requires HDF5-1.4.0 and HDF4r1.4 - h4toh5 utility has been tested on all platforms listed below (see + h4toh5 utility has been tested on all platforms listed below (see section "Platforms Tested") except TFLOPS. - + F90 Support =========== - This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated - F90 API support. The Fortran Library is created when the + This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated + F90 API support. The Fortran Library is created when the --enable-fortran flag is specified during configuration. - Not all F90 subroutines are implemented. Please refer to the HDF5 + Not all F90 subroutines are implemented. Please refer to the HDF5 Reference Manual for more details. - - F90 APIs are available for the Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, DEC UNIX, - T3E, SV1 and O2K (64 bit option only) platforms. The Parallel version of + + F90 APIs are available for the Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, DEC UNIX, + T3E, SV1 and O2K (64 bit option only) platforms. The Parallel version of the HDF5 F90 Library is supported on the O2K and T3E platforms. Changes since the last prototype release (July 2000) ---------------------------------------------------- - * h5open_f and h5close_f must be called instead of h5init_types and + * h5open_f and h5close_f must be called instead of h5init_types and h5close_types. - * The following subroutines are no longer available: + * The following subroutines are no longer available: h5pset_xfer_f h5pget_xfer_f @@ -7625,45 +7625,45 @@ F90 Support h5pget_core_f h5pset_family_f h5pget_family_f - + * The following functions have been added: h5pset_fapl_mpio_f h5pget_fapl_mpio_f h5pset_dxpl_mpio_f h5pget_dxpl_mpio_f - - * In the previous HDF5 F90 releases, the implementation of object - references and dataset region references was not portable. This - release introduces a portable implementation, but it also introduces - changes to the read/write APIs that handle references. If object or - dataset region references are written or read to/from an HDF5 file, - h5dwrite_f and h5dread_f must use the extra parameter, n, for the + + * In the previous HDF5 F90 releases, the implementation of object + references and dataset region references was not portable. This + release introduces a portable implementation, but it also introduces + changes to the read/write APIs that handle references. If object or + dataset region references are written or read to/from an HDF5 file, + h5dwrite_f and h5dread_f must use the extra parameter, n, for the buffer size: h5dwrite(read)_f(dset_id, mem_type_id, buf, n, hdferr, & - ^^^ + ^^^ mem_space_id, file_space_id, xfer_prp) - For other datatypes the APIs were not changed. - - + For other datatypes the APIs were not changed. + + C++ Support =========== - This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated + This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated C++ API support. The HDF5 C++ library is built when the --enable-cxx flag is specified during configuration. Check the HDF5 Reference Manual for available C++ documentation. - C++ APIs are available for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, and FreeBSD. + C++ APIs are available for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, and FreeBSD. Pablo Support ============= This version does not allow proper building of the Pablo-instrumented version of the library. A version supporting the pablo build is - available on the Pablo Website at + available on the Pablo Website at www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Pablo.Release.5/HDFLibrary/hdf5_v1.4.tar.gz @@ -7724,7 +7724,7 @@ Library Configuration ------------- * The hdf5.h include file was fixed to allow the HDF5 Library to be - compiled with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. + compiled with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. * Configuration for parallel HDF5 was improved. Configure now attempts to link with libmpi.a and/or libmpio.a as the MPI libraries by default. It also uses "mpirun" to launch MPI tests by default. It @@ -7774,14 +7774,14 @@ Tools * h5dump correctly displays the committed copy of predefined types correctly. * Added an option, -V, to show the version information of h5dump. - * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like + * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like TFLOPS. * The test script for h5toh4 used to not able to detect the hdp dumper command was not valid. It now detects and reports the failure of hdp execution. * Merged the tools with the 1.2.2 branch. Required adding new macros, VERSION12 and VERSION13, used in conditional compilation. - Updated the Windows project files for the tools. + Updated the Windows project files for the tools. * h5dump displays opaque and bitfield data correctly. * h5dump and h5ls can browse files created with the Stream VFD (eg. "h5ls <hostname>:<port>"). @@ -7794,10 +7794,10 @@ Tools Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2 ================================ - * Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big + * Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big endian float in some special cases. - * Corrected configuration error which was not including compression - support correctly. + * Corrected configuration error which was not including compression + support correctly. * Cleaned up lots of warnings. * Changed a few h5dump command line switches and added long versions of the switches. @@ -7806,7 +7806,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2 * Fixed fairly obscure bug in hyperslab I/O which could (in rare cases) not copy all the data during a transfer. * Removed ragged array code from library. - * F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported + * F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported platforms. @@ -7822,26 +7822,26 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 Release Documentation ============= - * A new document summarizing the changes in the library leading up to - the current release has been added: + * A new document summarizing the changes in the library leading up to + the current release has been added: HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release - This document is in the Application Developer's Guide and is of - particular interest to developers who must keep an application + This document is in the Application Developer's Guide and is of + particular interest to developers who must keep an application synchronized with the library. * The documentation for the Fortran90 and C++ APIs is linked to the - opening page of the Reference Manual. Fortran90 functions are + opening page of the Reference Manual. Fortran90 functions are individually referenced from the corresponding C functions through- out the Reference Manual. - * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated to reflect changed - function syntax and to fix reported bugs. - * Functions that are new at this release were added to the Reference - Manual. - * Functions that have been removed from the library were removed from + * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated to reflect changed + function syntax and to fix reported bugs. + * Functions that are new at this release were added to the Reference + Manual. + * Functions that have been removed from the library were removed from the User's Guide and the Reference Manual. - * PostScript and PDF versions of the Release 1.4 document set are + * PostScript and PDF versions of the Release 1.4 document set are not available at the time of Release 1.4.0. - + Platforms Tested ================ AIX 4.3.3.0 (IBM SP powerpc) xlc 3.6.6 @@ -7865,7 +7865,7 @@ Platforms Tested mpich-1.2.1 OSF1 V4.0 DEC-V5.2-040 Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270 - SunOS 5.6 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 + SunOS 5.6 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 (Solaris 2.6) WorkShop Compilers 5.0 99/10/25 Fortran 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 @@ -7874,7 +7874,7 @@ Platforms Tested 2.0 Patch 107356-04 Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 mpich-1.2.1 - SunOS 5.5.1 gcc-2.7.2 + SunOS 5.5.1 gcc-2.7.2 (Solaris 2.5.1 (x86)) TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0 mpich-1.2.1 with local changes Windows NT4.0, 2000 (NT5.0) MSVC++ 6.0 @@ -7931,17 +7931,17 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary Footnotes: (1) Using mpich. (2) Using mpt and mpich. - (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail + (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in serial mode. (4) No HDF4-related tools. Known Problems ============== - * The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing. If another - application is already using that port address, the test will hang - indefinitely and has to be terminated by the kill command. To try the - test again, change the port address in test/stream_test.c to one not + * The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing. If another + application is already using that port address, the test will hang + indefinitely and has to be terminated by the kill command. To try the + test again, change the port address in test/stream_test.c to one not being used in the host. * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris @@ -7950,7 +7950,7 @@ Known Problems The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on Linux platforms using the gcc-2.95.2 compiler. - + The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with this option. @@ -7959,7 +7959,7 @@ Known Problems The executable files in hdf5/bin are dynamic-linked for IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32 modes) and IRIX 6.5, even though they are compiled with static library. - + It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms during configuration. @@ -7971,10 +7971,10 @@ Known Problems able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning: warning: ANSI C does not support `long long' - + This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored. - * SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will + * SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level. * When building hdf5 tools and applications on windows platform, a linking @@ -7982,8 +7982,8 @@ Known Problems on debug version when running VC++6.0. This warning doesn't affect building and testing hdf5 applications. We will continue investigating this. - * h5toh4 converter fails two cases(tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll - version on windows 2000 and NT. The reason is possibly due to Windows NT + * h5toh4 converter fails two cases(tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll + version on windows 2000 and NT. The reason is possibly due to Windows NT DLL convention on freeing memory. It seems that memory cannot be freed across library or DLL. It is still under investigation. @@ -7991,7 +7991,7 @@ Known Problems the configured with --with-gass. * HDF-SRB testing got segmentation error on Solaris 2.7. - + * The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows. It is not supported in the TFLOPS machine. @@ -8006,7 +8006,7 @@ Known Problems * Certain platforms give false negatives when testing h5ls: - Solaris x86 2.5.1, Cray T3E and Cray J90 give errors during testing - when displaying object references in certain files. These are benign + when displaying object references in certain files. These are benign differences due to the difference in sizes of the objects created on those platforms. h5ls appears to be dumping object references correctly. @@ -8015,18 +8015,18 @@ Known Problems different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly. - * Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays (T3E and SV1) - replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src - subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from + * Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays (T3E and SV1) + replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src + subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from the ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/hdf5-1.4.0/src/crayf90/ directory. * The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform - to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. + to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html - Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace - is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is + Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace + is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is incorrectly described.) For more information, please see: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm @@ -8037,17 +8037,17 @@ Known Problems ================================================================= INTRODUCTION -This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and HDF5-1.2.2, and contains information on the platforms where HDF5-1.2.2 -was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. +was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. -The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server +The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory: /HDF/HDF5/docs/ For more information look at the HDF5 home page at: - + http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: @@ -8057,7 +8057,7 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: CONTENTS -- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1 +- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 - Known Problems - Platforms Tested @@ -8108,10 +8108,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 Known Problems ============== -o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: hyperslab selections will +o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level. o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on. -o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype. +o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype. Platforms Tested ================ @@ -8125,13 +8125,13 @@ Platforms Tested mpt.1.3 FreeBSD 4.0 gcc 2.95.2 HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32 - HP-UX B.11.00 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler - (static library only, h5toh4 tool is not available) + HP-UX B.11.00 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler + (static library only, h5toh4 tool is not available) IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m mpt.1.4 - Linux 2.2.10 SMP gcc 2.95.1 + Linux 2.2.10 SMP gcc 2.95.1 mpicc(gcc-2.95.1) gcc (egcs-2.91.66) mpicc (egcs-2.91.66) @@ -8162,7 +8162,7 @@ Configuration ------------- * The hdf5.h include file was fixed to allow the HDF5 Library to be compiled - with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. + with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. * Configuration for parallel HDF5 was improved. Configure now attempts to link with libmpi.a and/or libmpio.a as the MPI libraries by default. It also uses "mpirun" to launch MPI tests by default. It tests to @@ -8195,7 +8195,7 @@ Tools ------ * Added an option, -V, to show the version information of h5dump. - * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like + * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like TFLOPS. * The test script for h5toh4 used to not able to detect the hdp dumper command was not valid. It now detects and reports the @@ -8204,10 +8204,10 @@ Tools Documentation ------------- - * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated. - See doc/html/PSandPDF/index.html for more details. + * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated. + See doc/html/PSandPDF/index.html for more details. + - Platforms Tested: ================ Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and tools were tested. @@ -8224,7 +8224,7 @@ Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and to Linux 2.2.10 SuSE egcs-2.91.66 configured with (i686-pc-linux-gnu) --disable-hsizet - mpich-1.2.0 egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux + mpich-1.2.0 egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux OSF1 V4.0 DEC-V5.2-040 SunOS 5.6 cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2 no optimization @@ -8236,13 +8236,13 @@ Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and to Known Problems: ============== -o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will +o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level. %%%%1.2.0%%%% Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0 - + 5. Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0 =================================================================== @@ -8254,13 +8254,13 @@ applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0 was tested on. Compiler & libraries Platform Information Comment - -------- ---------- -------- - + -------- ---------- -------- + AIX 4.3.2 (IBM SP) 3.6.6 Cray J90 10.0.0.6 cc 6.3.0.0 - Cray T3E 2.0.4.61 cc 6.2.1.0 + Cray T3E 2.0.4.61 cc 6.2.1.0 mpt.1.3 FreeBSD 3.2 gcc 2.95.1 @@ -8268,7 +8268,7 @@ applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0 was tested on. HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32 gcc 2.8.1 - IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 + IRIX 6.5 MIPSpro cc 7.30 IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32) MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m mpt.1.3 (SGI MPI 3.2.0.0) @@ -8279,19 +8279,19 @@ applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0 was tested on. OSF1 V4.0 DEC-V5.2-040 - SunOS 5.6 cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2 + SunOS 5.6 cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2 no optimization gcc 2.8.1 SunOS 5.7 cc WorkShop Compilers 5.0 gcc 2.8.1 - + TFLOPS 2.7.1 cicc (pgcc Rel 3.0-4i) mpich-1.1.2 with local changes Windows NT4.0 intel MSVC++ 5.0 and 6.0 - Windows NT alpha 4.0 MSVC++ 5.0 + Windows NT alpha 4.0 MSVC++ 5.0 Windows 98 MSVC++ 5.0 @@ -8306,7 +8306,7 @@ B. Known Problems Hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level. - + C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 --------------------------- @@ -8320,7 +8320,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * Self-contained documentation for installations isolated from the Internet. -* HDF5 Tutorial was added to the documentation +* HDF5 Tutorial was added to the documentation 2. Configuration ------------- @@ -8352,7 +8352,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * Optimizations to compound datatype conversions and I/O operations. -* Added nearly 100 optimized conversion functions for native datatypes +* Added nearly 100 optimized conversion functions for native datatypes including support for non-aligned data. * Added support for bitfield, opaque, and enumeration types. @@ -8404,23 +8404,23 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * Improved the algorithm that translates an HDF5 hyperslab selection into an MPI type for better collective I/O performance. -8. New API functions +8. New API functions ----------------- a. Property List Interface: ------------------------ H5Pset_xfer - set data transfer properties - H5Pset_preserve - set dataset transfer property list status + H5Pset_preserve - set dataset transfer property list status H5Pget_preserve - get dataset transfer property list status H5Pset_hyper_cache - indicates whether to cache hyperslab blocks during I/O - H5Pget_hyper_cache - returns information regarding the caching of + H5Pget_hyper_cache - returns information regarding the caching of hyperslab blocks during I/O - H5Pget_btree_ratios - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset + H5Pget_btree_ratios - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset transfer property list H5Pset_btree_ratios - gets B-tree split ratios for a dataset transfer property list - H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length + H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length datatype allocation H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length datatype allocation @@ -8435,26 +8435,26 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 c. Dataspace Interface: -------------------- H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks - get number of hyperslab blocks - H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks + H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks currently selected - H5Sget_select_elem_npoints - get the number of element points + H5Sget_select_elem_npoints - get the number of element points in the current selection - H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist - get the list of element points + H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist - get the list of element points currently selected - H5Sget_select_bounds - gets the bounding box containing + H5Sget_select_bounds - gets the bounding box containing the current selection d. Datatype Interface: ------------------- - H5Tget_super - return the base datatype from which a + H5Tget_super - return the base datatype from which a datatype is derived H5Tvlen_create - creates a new variable-length dataype H5Tenum_create - creates a new enumeration datatype H5Tenum_insert - inserts a new enumeration datatype member - H5Tenum_nameof - returns the symbol name corresponding to a + H5Tenum_nameof - returns the symbol name corresponding to a + specified member of an enumeration datatype + H5Tvalueof - return the value corresponding to a specified member of an enumeration datatype - H5Tvalueof - return the value corresponding to a - specified member of an enumeration datatype H5Tget_member_value - return the value of an enumeration datatype member H5Tset_tag - tags an opaque datatype H5Tget_tag - gets the tag associated with an opaque datatype @@ -8468,7 +8468,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 H5Rcreate - creates a reference H5Rdereference - open the HDF5 object referenced H5Rget_region - retrieve a dataspace with the specified region selected - H5Rget_object_type - retrieve the type of object that an + H5Rget_object_type - retrieve the type of object that an object reference points to g. Ragged Arrays (alpha) (names of those API functions were changed): @@ -8486,7 +8486,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * Enhancements to the h5ls tool including the ability to list objects from more than one file, to display raw hexadecimal data, to show file addresses for raw data, to format output more reasonably, - to show object attributes, and to perform a recursive listing, + to show object attributes, and to perform a recursive listing, * Enhancements to h5dump: support new data types added since previous versions. @@ -8496,7 +8496,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 %%%%1.0.1%%%% Release Information for hdf5-1.0.1 - + 4. Changes from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.0.1 ===================================================================== @@ -8506,7 +8506,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * [Bug-Fix]: Configure failed for all IRIX versions other than 6.3. It now configures correctly for all IRIX 6.x version. -* Released Parallel HDF5 +* Released Parallel HDF5 Supported Features: ------------------ @@ -8526,7 +8526,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 IBM SP2 SGI Origin 2000 - Changes In This Release: + Changes In This Release: ----------------------- o Support of Access to Extendable Dimension Datasets. @@ -8570,7 +8570,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 ==================================================================== * Added fill values for datasets. For contiguous datasets fill value - performance may be quite poor since the fill value is written to the + performance may be quite poor since the fill value is written to the entire dataset when the dataset is created. This will be remedied in a future version. Chunked datasets using fill values do not incur any additional overhead. See H5Pset_fill_value(). @@ -8621,17 +8621,17 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 %%%%1.0.0 Alpha 2%%%% Release Information for hdf5-1.0.0 Alpha 2 -1. Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to +1. Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release ===================================================================== * Two of the packages have been renamed. The data space API has been - renamed from `H5P' to `H5S' and the property list (template) API has + renamed from `H5P' to `H5S' and the property list (template) API has been renamed from `H5C' to `H5P'. -* The new attribute API `H5A' has been added. An attribute is a small +* The new attribute API `H5A' has been added. An attribute is a small dataset which can be attached to some other object (for instance, a - 4x4 transformation matrix attached to a 3-dimensional dataset, or an + 4x4 transformation matrix attached to a 3-dimensional dataset, or an English abstract attached to a group). * The error handling API `H5E' has been completed. By default, when an @@ -8643,7 +8643,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * Support for large files and datasets (>2GB) has been added. There is an html document that describes how it works. Some of the types for function arguments have changed to support this: all arguments - pertaining to sizes of memory objects are `size_t' and all arguments + pertaining to sizes of memory objects are `size_t' and all arguments pertaining to file sizes are `hsize_t'. * More data type conversions have been added although none of them are @@ -8669,7 +8669,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 * Data types can be stored in the file as independent objects and multiple datasets can share a data type. -* The raw data I/O stream has been implemented and the application can +* The raw data I/O stream has been implemented and the application can control meta and raw data caches, so I/O performance should be improved from the first alpha release. @@ -8681,14 +8681,14 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1 applications or I/O libraries and described and accessed through HDF5. -* Hard and soft (symbolic) links are implemented which allow groups to +* Hard and soft (symbolic) links are implemented which allow groups to share objects. Dangling and recursive symbolic links are supported. * User-defined data compression is implemented although we may generalize the interface to allow arbitrary user-defined filters which can be used for compression, checksums, encryption, performance monitoring, etc. The publicly-available `deflate' - method is predefined if the GNU libz.a can be found at configuration + method is predefined if the GNU libz.a can be found at configuration time. * The configuration scripts have been modified to make it easier to @@ -8786,16 +8786,16 @@ Property Lists H5Pset_mpi - set MPI-IO properties H5Pget_xfer - get data transfer properties + H5Pset_xfer - set data transfer properties - + H5Pset_preserve - set dataset transfer property list status + + H5Pset_preserve - set dataset transfer property list status + H5Pget_preserve - get dataset transfer property list status + H5Pset_hyper_cache - indicates whether to cache hyperslab blocks during I/O - + H5Pget_hyper_cache - returns information regarding the caching of + + H5Pget_hyper_cache - returns information regarding the caching of hyperslab blocks during I/O - + H5Pget_btree_ratios - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset + + H5Pget_btree_ratios - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset transfer property list + H5Pset_btree_ratios - gets B-tree split ratios for a dataset transfer property list - + H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length + + H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length datatype allocation + H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length datatype allocation @@ -8885,13 +8885,13 @@ Dataspaces H5Soffset_simple - set selection offset H5Sselect_valid - determine if selection is valid for extent + H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks - get number of hyperslab blocks - + H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks + + H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks currently selected - + H5Sget_select_elem_npoints - get the number of element points + + H5Sget_select_elem_npoints - get the number of element points in the current selection - + H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist - get the list of element points + + H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist - get the list of element points currently selected - + H5Sget_select_bounds - gets the bounding box containing + + H5Sget_select_bounds - gets the bounding box containing the current selection Datatypes @@ -8942,15 +8942,15 @@ Datatypes H5Tset_sign - set integer sign type H5Tset_size - set size in bytes H5Tset_strpad - set string padding - + H5Tget_super - return the base datatype from which a + + H5Tget_super - return the base datatype from which a datatype is derived + H5Tvlen_create - creates a new variable-length dataype + H5Tenum_create - creates a new enumeration datatype + H5Tenum_insert - inserts a new enumeration datatype member - + H5Tenum_nameof - returns the symbol name corresponding to a + + H5Tenum_nameof - returns the symbol name corresponding to a + specified member of an enumeration datatype + + H5Tvalueof - return the value corresponding to a specified member of an enumeration datatype - + H5Tvalueof - return the value corresponding to a - specified member of an enumeration datatype + H5Tget_member_value - return the value of an enumeration datatype member + H5Tset_tag - tags an opaque datatype + H5Tget_tag - gets the tag associated with an opaque datatype @@ -8959,10 +8959,10 @@ Datatypes - H5Tregister_soft - register general type conversion function Filters - H5Tregister - register a conversion function + H5Tregister - register a conversion function Compression - H5Zregister - register new compression and uncompression + H5Zregister - register new compression and uncompression functions for a method specified by a method number Identifiers @@ -8972,7 +8972,7 @@ References + H5Rcreate - creates a reference + H5Rdereference - open the HDF5 object referenced + H5Rget_region - retrieve a dataspace with the specified region selected - + H5Rget_object_type - retrieve the type of object that an + + H5Rget_object_type - retrieve the type of object that an object reference points to Ragged Arrays (alpha) |