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@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ New Features
semi would work, but was not mandatory. This change was made to allow
clang-format to correctly format the source code.
- (SAM - 2021/03-03)
+ (SAM - 2021/03/03)
- Improved performance of H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist
@@ -844,8 +844,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
H5S_NO_CLASS is an internal class value that should not have been
exposed via a public API call.
- In debug builds of the library, this can cause assert() functions to trip. In
- non-debug builds, it will produce normal library errors.
+ In debug builds of the library, this can cause assert() function to
+ trip. In non-debug builds, it will produce normal library errors.
The new library behavior is for H5Sset_extent_none() to convert
the dataspace into one of type H5S_NULL, which is better handled
@@ -976,6 +976,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
Tools
-----
+ - Changed how h5dump and h5ls identify long double.
+
+ Long double support is not consistent across platforms. Tools will always
+ identify long double as 128-bit [little/big]-endian float nn-bit precision.
+ New test file created for datasets with attributes for float, double and
+ long double. In addition any unknown integer or float datatype will now
+ also show the number of bits for precision.
+ These files are also used in the java tests.
+
+ (ADB - 2021/03/24, HDFFV-11229)
+
- Fixed tools argument parsing.
Tools parsing used the length of the option from the long array to match