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@@ -622,11 +622,6 @@ A. Warnings about compilers
A.1. GNU (Intel platforms)
Versions before 2.8.1 have serious problems allocating registers
when functions contain operations on `long long' datatypes.
- Supplying the `--disable-hsizet' switch to configure (documented
- in Appendix B, "Large (>2GB) versus small (<2GB) file capability,")
- will prevent HDF5 from using `long long' datatypes in
- situations that are known not to work, but it limits the HDF5
- address space to 2GB.
A.2. COMPAQ/DEC
The V5.2-038 compiler (and possibly others) occasionally
@@ -656,10 +651,8 @@ B. Large (>2GB) versus small (<2GB) file capability
than 2GB, it is necessary to use the non-ANSI `long long' data
type on some platforms. However, some compilers (e.g., GNU gcc
versions before 2.8.1 on Intel platforms) are unable to produce
- correct machine code for this datatype. To disable use of the
- `long long' type on these machines, say:
+ correct machine code for this datatype.
- $ ./configure --disable-hsizet
C. Building and testing with other compilers
C.1. Building and testing with Intel compilers