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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 646b33e..00df5c6 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.9.81-FA_a5 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.9.111-FA_a5 currently under development ================================================================================ @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - Added code to display the version information of XL fortran and C++ + in the summary of configure. (AKC - 2012/02/28 - HDFFV-7793) - Configure now generates Makefiles that build in "silent make mode" by default in which compile and link lines are significantly simplified for clarity. To override this and view actual compile and @@ -91,6 +93,12 @@ New Features Library: -------- + - I added a new parameter of object access property list to the function + H5Rdereference (Issue 2763). It's called H5Rdereference2 now. The former + H5Rdereference function has been deprecated to H5Rdereference1. (SLU - + 2011/7/18) + - H5Tcreate now supports string type (fixed-length and variable-length). + (SLU - 2011/05/20) - Added ability to cache files opened through external links. Added new public functions H5Pset_elink_file_cache_size(), H5Pget_elink_file_cache_size(), and H5Fclear_elink_file_cache(). @@ -150,6 +158,12 @@ New Features Parallel Library: ----------------- + - Special Collective IO (IO when some processes do not contribute to the + IO) and Complex Derived Datatype MPI functionalities are no longer + conditionally enabled in the library by configure. They are always + enabled in order to take advantage of performance boosts from these + behaviors. Older MPI implementations that do not allow for these + functionalities can no longer by used by HDF5. (MAM - 2011/07/08). - Modified parallel tests to run with arbitrary number of processes. The modified tests are testphdf5 (parallel dataset access), t_chunk_alloc (chunk allocation), and t_posix_compliant (posix compliance). The rest of @@ -158,6 +172,38 @@ New Features Fortran Library: ---------------- + HDF5 Fortran library was enhanced to support Fortran 2003 standard. + The following features are available when the HDF5 library is configured + using --enable-fortran --enable-fortran2003 configure flags AND + if fortran compiler is Fortran2003 compliant: + + - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type: + h5pget_f + h5pget_fill_value_f + h5pinsert_f + h5pregister_f + h5pset_f + h5pset_fill_value_f + h5rcreate_f + h5rderefrence_f + h5rget_name_f + h5rget_obj_type_f + - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type + and simplified signatures: + h5aread_f + h5awrite_f + h5dread_f + h5dwrite_f + - New subroutines + h5dvlen_reclaim_f + h5literate_by_name_f + h5literate_f + h5ovisit_f + h5tconvert_f + + - Subroutines with additional optional parameters: + h5pcreate_class_f + (EIP - 2011/10/14) - Added for the C APIs the Fortran wrappers: h5dget_access_plist_f @@ -169,11 +215,11 @@ New Features C++ Library: ------------ - - New member functions - + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name - + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*. + - New member functions + + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name + + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*. (BMR - 2010/05/02) - + DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's + + DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's data size in memory. (BMR - 2009/07/26) - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to replace the incorrect IdComponent::dereference(). @@ -195,6 +241,33 @@ New Features Tools: ------ + - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/" + by using an escape character. For example, for a dataset "/dset" + containing attribute "speed(m/h)", use "h5dump -a "/dset/speed(\/h)" + to show the content of the attribute. See details at HDFFV-7523 + (PC -- 2012/03/12) + - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a + wildcard in the filename. Example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarr*.h5". + HDFFV-7876 (ADB - 2012/03/12). + - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB) + when used with layout (-l) or compression (-f) option. + It would perform much better prior to the improvement, + especially for cases that chunk dimentions looks like + "1024x5x1" (compare to "1x5x1024"). When bigger numbers + are toward front and smaller number is toward back in chunk + dimentions. HDFFV-7862 (JKM - 2012/03/01) + - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not + interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of + subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to + open dataset "datset_name"" message is output because a dataset + name contains a '[' character. HDFFV-7689 (ADB - 2012/01/31) + - h5dump: Corrected schema location: + <hdf5:HDF5-File + xmlns:hdf5="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File" + xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" + xsi:schemaLocation="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File.xsd"> + (ADB - 2011/08/10) - h5diff: Added new level for -v (verbose) option. The new levels are 1 and 2. So -v1 and -v2 can be specified to view more information about attributes differences. @@ -216,7 +289,7 @@ New Features - h5diff: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details) (JKM - 2010/01/25) - h5diff: fix for displaying garbage value on LE machine for BE data. - (JKM - 2009/11/20) + (JKM - 2009/11/20) - h5dump: subsetting now allows default for count. Also trailing ; in short form can be omitted after last specified value. (ADB - 2009/09/04) @@ -265,6 +338,21 @@ New Features - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, "NROWS" (used to store number of records) was deprecated (PVN - 2008/11/24) + - Added Fortran wrappers for Dimension Scale APIs. HDFFV-3797 + h5dsset_scale_f + h5dsattach_scale_f + h5dsdetach_scale_f + h5dsis_attached_f + h5dsis_scale_f + h5dsset_label_f + h5dsget_label_f + h5dsget_scale_name_f + h5dsget_num_scales_f + (EIP for SB - 2011/10/13) + + - New API: h5ltpath_valid (Fortran: h5ltpath_valid_f) which checks + if a path is correct and determines if a link resolves to a valid + object and does not dangle. (MSB- 2012/3/15) Documentation ------------- @@ -280,6 +368,48 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Library ------- + - H5Pset_data_transform had seg fault in some cases like x*-100. It + works correctly now and handles other cases like 100-x or 2/x. + (SLU - 2012/3/15. Issue 7922) + - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object + header format. (NAF - 2012/3/15 - HDFFV-7879) + - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused seg fault when the file + is closed. It's fixed. The attemp to create a dataset will fail + with the error stack indicating the file is read-only. (SLU - + 2012/1/25. Issue 7756) + - Fixed a seg fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset with chunks + larger than 1 MB. (NAF - 2011/11/30 - HDFFV-7833) + - The library allowed the conversion of strings between ASCII and UTF8 + (Issue 7582). We have corrected it to report an error under this + situation. (SLU - 2011/11/8) + - The library had seg fault when it tried to shrink the size of compound type + through H5Tset_size immediately after the type was created (Issue + 7618). It's fixed now. (SLU - 2011/10/26) + - Fixed a bug that occurred when using H5Ocopy on a committed datatype + containing an attribute using that committed datatype. + (NAF - 2011/10/13 - Issue 5854) + - #ifdef _WIN32 instances changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API and added + H5_HAVE_VISUAL_STUDIO checks where necessary. CMake only as configure + never set _WIN32. + - CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv + discovered 3 problems in tests and tools' library (Issue 7674): + 1. In dsets.c, left shifting an unsigned int for 32 bits or more + caused undefined behavior. + 2. In dt_arith.c, the INIT_INTEGER macro definition has an overflow + when the value is negative minimal and is being subtracted one. + 3. In tools/lib/h5tools_str.c, right shifting an int value for 32 bits + or more caused undefined behavior. + All the problems have been corrected. (SLU - 2011/9/2) + - In v1.6 library, there was EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the + super block. We took it out in v1.8 library because it's meaningless + for the MULTI file. v1.8 library saves the EOA for the metadata file, + instead. But this caused some backward compatibility problem. + v1.8 library couldn't open the file created with v1.6 library. We + fixed the problem by checking the EOA value to detect the file + created with v1.6 library. (SLU - 2011/6/22) + - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message + didn't say which filter isn't registered. It's fixed now. + (SLU - 2011/6/3) - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the reference count 0 (zero). I have fixed it. It is 1 (one) now. (SLU - 2011/2/18) @@ -444,9 +574,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release in some timezones to get false errors. This a deficiency in the Windows mktime() function, and has been handled properly. SJW - 2008/06/19 - Fixed the problem with the searching of target file for H5Lcreate_external(). - The searching pattern will depend on whether the target file's - pathname is an absolute or a relative path. Please see the description - in the RM for H5Lcreate_external(). (VC - 2008/04/08) + The searching pattern will depend on whether the target file's + pathname is an absolute or a relative path. Please see the description + in the RM for H5Lcreate_external(). (VC - 2008/04/08) - Fixed possible file corruption bug when encoding datatype descriptions for compound datatypes whose size was between 256 & 511 bytes and the file was opened with the "use the @@ -463,6 +593,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Configuration ------------- + - Added --enable-fortran2003 flag to enable Fortran2003 support + in the HDF5 Fortran library. The flag should be used along with the + --enable-fortran flag and takes affect only when Fortran compiler + is Fortran2003 compliant. (EIP - 2011/11/14) + + - In Windows platform, the default VFD, was Windows VFD, is restored back + to the SEC2, aka POSIX, VFD. The Windows VFD is deprecated. HDFFV-7740 + (AKC 2011/09/26) - Removed config/ibm-aix6.x. All IBM-AIX settings are in one file, ibm-aix. (AKC - 2011/4/14) - Shared C libraries are no longer disabled on Mac when Fortran @@ -510,7 +648,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release prior to configuration. MAM - 2009/03/09 - BZ #1401. - Fixed error with 'make check install' failing due to h5dump needing other tools built first. MAM - 2008/10/24. - - When using shared szip, it is no longer necessary to specify + - Wpen using shared szip, it is no longer necessary to specify the path to the shared szip libraries in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. MAM - 2008/10/24. - The file libhdf5_fortran.settings is not installed since its content @@ -520,13 +658,88 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Performance ------------- + - ifdefs added to tests around include unistd.h and function to simulate + getlogin() on Windows. + (ADB - 2011/08/15) - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file. (ADB - 2009/06/11) Tools ----- + - h5dump: Added tools library error stack to properly catch error + information generated within the library. + HDFFV-7958 (ADB 2012/03/12) + - h5dump: Dangling links no longer throw error message, change process + when open link fails. + HDFFV-7839 (ADB 2012/03/12) + - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with + --follow-symlinks option, the result should be same. It worked for + comparing two files, but didn't work for comparing two objects. + HDFFV-7835 (JKM 2012/03/09) + - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML + functions from DDL functions. Corrected indentation and formatting + errors. Also fixed subsetting counting overflow (HDFFV-5874). Verified + all tools call tools_init() in main. + HDFFV-7560 (ADB 2012/02/17) + - h5diff: fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when + comparing the two dangling symlinks with follow-symlinks option. + HDFFV-7836 (JKM 2012/01/13) + - h5repack: fixed memory leak for handling variable length string in + attribute. HDFFV-7840 (JKM 2012/01/06) + - h5ls: fixed segfault when access region reference data in an + attribute. HDFFV-7838 (JKM 2011/12/29) + - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different + dimention or rank, along with '-c' option to display details. + HDFFV-7770 (JKM 2011/10/24) + - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable object and attribute + regardless of non-comparables. HDFFV-7693 (JKM 2011/09/16) + - Fixed h5repack to update values of references(object and region) of + attributes in h5repack for 1) references, 2) ARRAY of references, + 3) VLEN of references, and 4) COMPOUND of references. + (JIRA HDF5 5932) PC -2011/09/14 + - h5diff: fixed segfault over dataset with container types + (array,lven) with multiple nested compound types. + (ex: compound->array->compound, compound->vlen->compound) + HDFFV-7712 JKM (2011/09/01) + - h5repack: added macro to handle failure in H5Dread/write when memory + allocation failed inside the library. (PC -- 2011/08/19) + - Fixed h5jam not to allow specifying an HDF5 formatted file as input + file for -u (user block file) option, because the original HDF5 file + will not be accessible if allows. HDFFV-5941 (JKM 2011/08/15) + - Revised command help pages of h5jam and h5unjam. The descriptions + were not up to date and some were missing. + HDFFV-7515 (JKM 2011/08/15) + - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy dataset if the layout is changed + from chunked with unlimited dims to contiguous. HDFFV-7649 + (PC -- 2011/07/15) + - h5diff: "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type are + different, which is wrong based on h5diff description in Reference + Manual. HDFFV-7656 (PC -- 2011/07/15) + - Fixed h5diff to display instructive error message and exit with 1 + when mutually exclusive options (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon) + are used together. HDFFV-7600 (JKM 2011/07/07) + - Fixed h5dump to display the first line of each element into correct + position for multiple dimention array type. + Before this fix, the first line of each element in array were + displayed after the last line of previous element without + moving to the next line (+indentation). + Bug #HDFFV-5878 (JKM 2011/06/15) + - Fixed h5dump to display correct value for H5T_STD_I8LE dataset + on a system (ppc64, linux, Big-Endian, clustering). + Bug #HDFFV-7594 (ABERT & JKM 2011/05/12) + - Fixed h5diff to compare file itself correctly. Previously h5diff + reported either different or not compatible in certain cases even + comparing file itself. This fix also improve performance when + comparing same target objects through verifying the obj&file + addresses before comparing the details in the objects (ex: datasets + or attributes) Bug #HDFFV-5928 (XCAO & JKM 2011/05/06) - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure upon source directory is read-only. Bug# HDFFV-4342 (JKM 2011/4/12) + - Fixed h5dump displaying incorrect values for H5T_STD_I8BE type data in + attribute on Big-Endian machine. H5T_STD_I8BE is unsigned 8bit type, + so h5dump is supposed to display -2 instead of 254. It worked + correctly on Little-Endian system , but not on Big-Endian system. + Bug #HDFFV-4358 (JKM 2011/04/08) - Updated to unify option name to '--enable-error-stack' for printing HDF5 error stack messages for HDF5 tools. h5ls and h5dump for now. For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option, which is deprecated. @@ -613,7 +826,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release (NAF - 2008/10/15) - Fixed unnecessary indentation of committed datatypes in h5dump. (NAF - 2008/10/15) - - Fixed bugs in h5stat:segmemtation fault when printing groups and + - Fixed bugs in h5stat:segmemtation fault when printing groups and print warning message when traversal of objects is unsuccessful. (see bug #1253) (VC- 2008/10/13) - Fixed bug in h5ls that prevented relative group listings (like @@ -633,8 +846,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes when doing binary output. PVN - 2008/06/05 + High-Level APIs: ------ + - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function. It had some memory problems when + dealing with some complicated data types. HDFFVI-7701 (SLU - 2011/10/19) + - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached and H5DSdetach_scale caused by using H5Tget_native_type function to determine the native type for reading REFERENCE_LIST attribute. The bug was exposed @@ -665,27 +882,31 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release - Documentation ------------- F90 APIs -------- - + - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open + and H5close correspodningly. While the H5open call just adds overhead, + the H5close call called by an Fortran application shuts down the HDF5 + library making it unaccessible to the application. + HDFFV-915 (EIP & SB - 2011/10/13) + C++ APIs -------- - - The constructor PropList::PropList(id) was fixed to act properly - according to the nature of 'id'. When 'id' is a property class id, - a new property list will be created. When 'id' id a property list id, - a copy of the property list will be made. (BMR - 2010/5/9) - - The parameters 'size' and 'bufsize' in CommonFG::getLinkval and - CommonFG::getComment, respectively, now have default values for - user's convenience. (BMR - 2009/10/23) - - NULL pointer accessing was fixed, bugzilla 1061. (BMR - 2009/10/05) - - read/write methods of DataSet and Attribute classes were fixed - to handle string correctly. (BMR - 2009/07/26) + - The constructor PropList::PropList(id) was fixed to act properly + according to the nature of 'id'. When 'id' is a property class id, + a new property list will be created. When 'id' id a property list id, + a copy of the property list will be made. (BMR - 2010/5/9) + - The parameters 'size' and 'bufsize' in CommonFG::getLinkval and + CommonFG::getComment, respectively, now have default values for + user's convenience. (BMR - 2009/10/23) + - NULL pointer accessing was fixed, bugzilla 1061. (BMR - 2009/10/05) + - read/write methods of DataSet and Attribute classes were fixed + to handle string correctly. (BMR - 2009/07/26) - Fixed bug that caused segfaults in Attribute::read. (BMR - 2008/04/20) - Fixed bug in PropList::getClassName to use portable HDfree instead of free. (BMR - 2008/04/20) @@ -706,53 +927,67 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Platforms Tested ================ - AIX 6.1 xlc 11.1.0.3 - (NCSA BP) xlC 11.1.0.3 - xlf 13.1.0.3 - mpcc_r 11.1.0.3 - mpxlf_r 13.1.0.3 - - FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 - (duty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 - gcc 4.2.1 20080123 - g++ 4.2.1 20080123 - gfortran 4.2.1 20070620 - FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 - (liberty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 - gcc 4.2.1 20080123 - g++ 4.2.1 20080123 - gfortran 4.2.1 20080123 - - Linux 2.6.9 (RHEL4) Intel 10.0 compilers - (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu) - Linux 2.4.21-47 gcc 3.2.3 20030502 - (osage) - Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10 gcc 3.4.6 20060404 - (kagiso) PGI 7.0-7 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) - Intel 9.1 (icc, ifort, icpc) - 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 - SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0 - (cobalt) Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 - SGI MPI - SunOS 5.10 Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc - Patch 124867-11 2009/04/30 - (linew) Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc - Patch 127000-11 2009/10/06 - Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc - Patch 124863-16 2009/09/15 - IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_292.til1 ia64 - (NCSA tg-login) gcc 3.2.2 - Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1 - Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1 - mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2 - + AIX 5.3 xlc 10.1.0.5 + (NASA G-ADA) xlC 10.1.0.5 + xlf90 12.1.0.6 + + FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386 gcc 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + (loyalty) g++ 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + gcc 4.6.1 20110422 + g++ 4.6.1 20110422 + gfortran 4.6.1 20110422 + + FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 gcc 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + (freedom) g++ 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + gcc 4.6.1 20110422 + g++ 4.6.1 20110422 + gfortran 4.6.1 20110422 + + Linux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and 4.4.2 + #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 + (jam) (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) and 4.4.2 + PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.4-0 32-bit + PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.6-0 32-bit + Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 11.1 + Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 11.1 + Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 11.1 + MPICH mpich2-1.3.1 compiled with + gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2 + + Linux 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 gcc 4.1.2 and 4.4.2 + #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 + (koala) (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) and 4.4.2 + tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries + Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for + applications running on Intel(R) 64, + Version 11.1. + PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4 + for 64-bit target on x86-64 + MPICH mpich2-1.3.1 compiled with + gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2 + + SGI ProPack 7 Linux Intel(R) C++ Version 11.1 20100806 + 2.6.32.19-0.3.1.1982.0.PTF- Intel(R) Fortran Version 11.1 20100806 + default #1 SMP SGI MPT 2.01 + SGI Altix UV + (NCSA ember) + + SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun C 5.9 Sun OS_sparc Patch 124867-16 + (linew) Sun Fortran 95 8.3 Sun OS_sparc Patch +127000-13 + Sun C++ 5.9 Sun OS_sparc Patch 124863-62 + Sun C 5.10 SunOS_sparc Patch 141861-07 + Sun Fortran 95 8.4 SunOS_sparc Patch +128231-06 + Sun C++ 5.10 SunOS_sparc 128228-11 + Windows XP Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 Visual Studio 2010 Cygwin(1.7.7 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and gfortran) - + Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 Visual Studio 2010 Cygwin(1.7.7 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and gfortran) @@ -786,14 +1021,12 @@ Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP parallel parallel SunOS5.10 64-bit n y n y y y SunOS5.10 32-bit n y n y y y -AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit n y n y y y Windows XP n y(3) n(3) y y y Windows XP x64 n y(3) n(3) y y y Windows Vista n y(3) n(3) y y y Windows Vista x64 n y(3) n(3) y y y Mac OS X 10.5 Intel n y n y y y -FreeBSD 6.2 32-bit n n n y y y -FreeBSD 6.2 64-bit +FreeBSD 8.2 32- and 64-bit n x n x y y RedHat EL4 2.6.9 i686 GNU W y(2) y(4) y(2) y y y RedHat EL4 2.6.9 i686 Intel W n y n y y n RedHat EL4 2.6.9 i686 PGI W n y n y y n @@ -814,14 +1047,12 @@ Platform Shared Shared Shared static- Thread- C libs F90 libs C++ libs exec safe SunOS 5.10 32-bit y y y x y SunOS 5.10 64-bit y y y x y -AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit n n n x y Windows XP y y(3) y y n Windows XP x64 y y(3) y y n Windows Vista y y(3) y y y Windows Vista x64 y y(3) y y y Mac OS X 10.5 Intel y y y x n -FreeBSD 6.2 32-bit y y y x n -FreeBSD 6.2 64-bit y y y x n +FreeBSD 8.2 32- and 64-bit y x x y y RHEL4 2.6.9 i686 GNU W y y(4) y x y RHEL4 2.6.9 i686 Intel W y y y x n RHEL4 2.6.9 i686 PGI W y y y x n @@ -847,6 +1078,18 @@ SuSe Linux 2.6.5 Known Problems ============== +* The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer + conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library + is built with optimization -O3 or -O2. The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal + (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem. Users should lower down the + optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of + "configure" like: + + CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure + + It will overwrite the library's default optimization level. (Issue 7829. + SLU - 2012/2/7) + * --with-mpe configure option does not work with Mpich2. AKC - 2011/03/10) * While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can @@ -865,13 +1108,6 @@ Known Problems it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort signal. This is fixed and will be available in the next release. AKC - 2009/11/3 -* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used. - The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount - of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more - memory. - LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA - AKC - 2009/10/31 - * The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has @@ -1019,13 +1255,13 @@ Known Problems ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE - set RETURN_VALUE=$status + set RETURN_VALUE=$status cat $STDOUT_FILE tail +3 $STDERR_FILE - exit $RETURN_VALUE + 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 |