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* [svn-r9727] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-12-291-15/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix/Code Cleanup/Doc Cleanup/Optimization/Branch Sync :-) Description: Generally speaking, this is the "signed->unsigned" change to selections. However, in the process of merging code back, things got stickier and stickier until I ended up doing a big "sync the two branches up" operation. So... I brought back all the "infrastructure" fixes from the development branch to the release branch (which I think were actually making some improvement in performance) as well as fixed several bugs which had been fixed in one branch, but not the other. I've also tagged the repository before making this checkin with the label "before_signed_unsigned_changes". Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel & fphdf5 FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/backward compatibility Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/"purify options" Solaris 2.8 (sol) w/FORTRAN & C++ AIX 5.x (copper) w/parallel & FORTRAN IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/FORTRAN Linux 2.4 (heping) w/FORTRAN & C++ Misc. update:
* [svn-r7158] Frank Baker2003-07-031-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Renamed old "HDF5 User's Guide" as "HDF5 User's Guide, Release 1.4.5". Added navigation bar link to new user's guide on HDF server. Changed release tag line (in old UG only) back to "Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.5, February 200 3" Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r7140] Frank Baker2003-07-021-6/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Add short copyright notice. Update release tag line. Description: Added short copyright notice as comment in source files; does not display in browser. Updated release tag line in footers to read as follows: Describes HDF5 Release 1.6.0, July 2003 Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r6478] Frank Baker2003-03-141-77/+74
| | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: DreamWeaver (DW) adaptation of the HDF5 doc set, introducing the use of stylesheets and DW libraries. Stylesheets -- for consistent format management. DW libraries -- for managing common elements across documents. Platforms tested: IE 5 and 6 Netscape
* [svn-r4299] Purpose:Frank Baker2001-08-021-26/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Bringing 'last minute' release branch edits into development branch. Description: RM_H5T.html Datatypes.html Reworked H5T_conv_t description in both. Added H5T_cdata_t struct definition to both. Details in Datatypes.html; structs and pointer in RM_H5T.html. Copy edits. Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3823] Frank Baker2001-04-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Purpose: Update "Describes HDF5 Release..." footer from R1.4 to "Release 1.5, Unreleased Development Branch" Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3822] Frank Baker2001-04-181-2/+1
| | | | | | | | Purpose: Update "Describes HDF5 Release..." footer from R1.4 to "Release 1.5, Unreleased Development Branch" Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3802] Frank Baker2001-04-111-94/+64
| | | | | Purpose: Importing UG changes from 1.4 release branch into development branch (1.5)
* [svn-r3387] Frank Baker2001-02-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Marking files for "Release 1.4, February 2001." Description: Across doc files Updating "Describes HDF5 Release..." entry to "Describes HDF5 Release 1.4, February 2001." Copyright.html: Added 2001 to years copyrighted. index.html: Changed header to Release 1.4 (from 1.4 Beta) Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3381] Frank Baker2001-02-091-4/+216
| | | | | | | Purpose: Added array datatype class section. Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3363] Frank Baker2001-02-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: The variable specifying one possible creation length for a variable-length string was misidentified. Solution: Changed erroneous occurence of H5T_STRING_VARIABLE to the correct occurence of H5T_VARIABLE. Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3311] Frank Baker2001-01-191-4/+0
| | | | | | | Purpose, Description, and Solution: Removed cross-links to Ragged Array doc files (above). Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3187] Frank Baker2000-12-221-2/+0
| | | | | | | | Purpose: Removed index links to Palettes.html (removed from doc set) in all User Guide files. Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3118] Frank Baker2000-12-121-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Cross-referencing "HDF5 Predefined Datatypes" in the UG. Description: Added PredefDTypes.html and RM links to Section 6, "Predefined Atomic Datatypes" in Datatypes.html. Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r3105] Frank Baker2000-12-081-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | Purpose: Thoughout doc set (UG, RM, Intro, FormatSpec, and index/TOC pages): Added/updated "Describes HDF5 Release ..." entry. In many cases, verified/updated "Last modified ..." entry. Platforms tested: IE 5
* [svn-r2706] Purpose:Bill Wendling2000-10-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix Description: the line: #include <hdf5.h> needed to be escaped to be seen in the browser. Solution: Changed to: #include &lt;hdf5.h&gt; Platforms tested: Seen in Netscrape
* [svn-r2434] H5.intro.htmlFrank Baker2000-07-171-3/+3
| | | | | | Datatypes.html Fixed confusing references to "simple datatypes." Minor edits.
* [svn-r2018] Datatypes.htmlFrank Baker2000-03-091-192/+1444
| | | | Merging changes from Release 1.2 into development branch (Rel 1.4).
* [svn-r1404] Frank Baker1999-07-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | H5.format.html Copy edits Beginning of revisions to bring the Specification up-to-date and move it to present tense Couple of new intro paragraphs, designed largely to offer the user a bit more context H5.user.html Datatypes.html Font correction and minor formatting changes. H5.user.PrintGen.html H5.user.PrintTpg.html New files to enable creating a searchable and printable version of the HDF5 User's Guide. These files enable the creation of a PDF file containing the entire document. H5.user.PrintGen.html controls the print job; H5.user.PrintTpg.html is the title page for the PDF volume.
* [svn-r1306] Changes since 19990602Robb Matzke1999-06-071-32/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------- ./doc/html/Datatypes.html ./test/dtypes.c Added documentation and tests for opaque types. ./tools/h5ls.c Added a `-x' or `--hexdump' argument which is not fully implemented (because I want to synchronize h5tools.c first) but which will eventually print raw data in hexadecimal format without any translation from disk. This would be useful for debugging references and VL types. ./tools/h5tools.c Added support for references (not quite finished yet, but compiles -- I wanted to sync up this file before Patrick and I got too far apart...) ./src/H5R.c Checked for error return value from H5R_get_object_type() ./src/H5A.c ./src/H5D.c Changed error return values from NULL to FAIL ./test/Makefile.in ./test/trefer.c Creates trefer1.h5 and trefer2.h5 so that the second test doesn't clobber the first file since the files might be useful for debugging.
* [svn-r1244] Datatypes.htmlFrank Baker1999-05-031-4/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | DatatypesEnum.html EnumMap.gif Added enumeration datatypes -- First pass, only minimal editing. Intro paragraph in Datatypes.html; details in DatatypesEnum.html. EnumMap.gif is a figure for DatatypesEnum.html. Tools.html Added new h5toh4 supported object and data type. H5.intro.html Corrected transposed "start coordinates" in Example 1.
* [svn-r985] Checking in changes from "HDF5 Release 1.0" CVS branch that have ↵Frank Baker1998-12-211-11/+214
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | not yet been checked into "HDF5 Development" branch. General ======= Various "copy edit" types of repairs. Revisions to document cross-linking. Added structural links tying all docs together (banners at top and bottom of documents, similar to Reference Manual banners of the Beta release). Set background color to white in all documents. NCSAfooterlogo.gif hdf2.jpg New image files to make the documents more self-contained (i.e., to prevent loading images from NCSA and HDF home servers). index.html Redesigned to isolate links external to the installation in a single location. Intro to HDF5 ============= H5.intro.html Fixed banner linking Intro to other docs. Set all URLs to be relative within the distribution; nothing points back to the HDF server. Updates to "Limits of the Current Release" and "Changes in the Current Release." HDF5 User's Guide ================= Changed several User Guide section titles such that all sections that are primarily about a particular interface are now titled in the format "The xxxxx Interface (H5x)". H5.user.html Commented out links to developer docs since they are marked in MANIFEST as not being for distribution in the release. Removed 2nd and 3rd indices from page. Changed "freeform" lists of sections (TOCs) to aligned tables. Datatypes.html Removed the sentence "I'm deferring definition until later since they're probably not as important as the other data types." from Section 3.3, "Properties of Date and Time Atomic Types." Added info regarding 'char' versus 'string' datatypes. Added as Section 3.7, "Character and String Datatype Issues." References.html Commented out substantial material (at end of document) from References planning document that is not appropriate for the User Guide but that is worth keeping around. Groups.html Final edits from elimination of "current working group." HDF5 Reference Manual ===================== Removed "Draft" from the <title>__</title> lines. RM_H5Front.html Removed 2nd and 3rd indices from page. Changed "freeform" lists of sections (TOCs) to aligned tables. RM_H5F.html RM_H5P.html Add file mounting information.
* [svn-r971] Changes since 19981214Robb Matzke1998-12-171-100/+83
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------- ./INSTALL Added warning that enabling debugging code can adversely affect performance even when the debugging isn't turned on at run-time. Performance testing shows that under certain circumstances (like data type conversions of compound types) the H5_timer functions, although only a few lines each, contribute a fairly large percent to the execution time. ./src/H5T.c ./src/H5Tpkg.h ./src/H5Tpublic.h Improved the H5Tunregister() function to make unregistering more flexible. It takes the same arguments as H5Tregister() but also accepts wild cards. All conversion functions that match the H5Tunregister() search criteria are removed from the global type conversion table. The H5Tregister_hard() and H5Tregister_soft() were combined into a single function called H5Tregister() which is the counterpart to H5Tunregister(). A new `persistence' argument was added to differentiate between the two types of conversion functions. The application is allowed to register a hard conversion function for the no-op conversion path although the library isn't obligated to call it (it usually does). This is mostly for completeness, but the application might use it to help determine if the raw data pipeline was able to use the optimized path for the case when no type conversion is necessary. The library doesn't allow this path to be unregistered although the application can redefine it as often as it likes. Fixed the type conversion tables in preparation for MT-safety and to fix previosly-known design bugs wrt. unregistering conversion functions or changing the C function associated with a conversion path. The MT-safety stuff is documented in a separate white paper. Increased the conversion function debugging name from 9 characters to 31 characters so the output can be more descriptive. Moved conversion path statistics from the H5T_cdata_t member into the conversion path itself. This makes H5T_cdata_t contain only application-visible data structures. ./src/H5A.c ./src/H5D.c ./src/H5Ofill.c ./src/H5P.c ./src/H5T.c Improved the way type conversion functions are called so the caller doesn't have to check for data type debugging and increment type conversion timers and statistics. Changed check for no-op conversion since it is now application-definable and there may even be more than one definition at a time in a multi-threaded application (one thread might be using the no-op conversion path when some other thread changes its definition -- the first thread still sees the original defintion until it's done with the operation). ./doc/html/Datatypes.html Updated the user guide to reflect the changes to data type conversion registration functions. ./bin/trace ./src/H5.c Added tracing support for the new H5T_pers_t data type. ./test/dtypes.c Added printf to display alignment value if non-aligned data types are being tested. ./test/h5test.c Modified the H5Tunregister() calls to use the new arguments. All 94 of those calls can be replaced by a single call to the new H5Tunregister() function. ./src/H5.c Added HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY around an auto variable and initialized the elapsed time to zero when gettimeofday() is not available. ./src/H5F.c ./src/H5Fprivate.h ./src/H5P.c Added an H5*_init() functions which do the same thing as H5*_init_interface() but can be called from other packages and don't do anything if the interface is already initialized. This fixes a couple memory leaks in applications that repeatedly close and open the library with H5close(). ./src/H5Tconv.c Optimized some data alignment code in the hardware conversion functions. Hardware conversions accumulate statistics about source and destination data alignment and print that information when the conversion function is unregistered (usually when the application exits) if data type debugging is compiled into the library and enabled at run-time. The conversion caching was cleaned up for the compound data type conversion function. It now caches conversion paths in a manner that will be MT-safe and is much simpler than the old method. Also cleaned up some array index maps. ./src/H5detect.c Fixd mispelling of alingemnt. ./src/H5private.h Changed `TRUE' to `1' in assignment to interface_initialize_g in FUNC_ENTER macro definition. ./tools/testh5dump.sh Completely rewritten to make it shorter, better documented, and conforming to most of the other test outputs. The comparison of the actual output with the expected output is insensitive to differences in white space. The test now passes for the first time on Linux where the output width wasn't as expected but the output was otherwise correct. ./tools/testfiles/tall-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tall-2.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tall-3.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tattr-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tattr-2.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tattr-3.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tattr-4.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tcomp-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tcomp-2.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tcomp-3.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tcomp-4.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tdset-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tdset-2.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tdset-3.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tdset-4.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tgroup-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tgroup-2.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tgroup-3.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tlink-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tlink-2.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tlink-3.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tlink-4.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tlink-5.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tslink-1.ddl ./tools/testfiles/tslink-2.ddl Changed `../h5dump' to just `h5dump'. ./config/alpha-dec-osf4.0 Added more warning and optimization switches to the native compiler.
* [svn-r952] Changes since 19981125Robb Matzke1998-11-251-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------- ./doc/html/Datatypes.html ./src/H5.c ./src/H5T.c ./src/H5Tconv.c ./src/H5Tpkg.h ./src/H5Tpublic.h ./src/H5detect.c ./test/chunk.c ./test/dtypes.c ./test/h5test.c ./test/mtime.c ./test/tattr.c ./test/th5s.c ./tools/h5dump.c ./tools/h5dumputil.c ./tools/h5import.c ./tools/h5ls.c ./tools/h5toh4.c ./tools/h5tools.c Renamed the old H5T_NATIVE_CHAR type to H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR to denote that it is always signed. Added a new H5T_NATIVE_CHAR type which has the same range, representation, and behavior as either H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR or H5T_NATIVE_UCHAR depending on the compiler and its command-line switches for the application source file which references H5T_NATIVE_CHAR. If source files are compiled with different switches then each source file will resolve H5T_NATIVE_CHAR appropriately so it matches the C type `char' in that source file. NOTE: THERE ARE OTHER DOCUMENTATION FILES THAT I DIDN'T CHANGE BECAUSE I CAN'T MODIFY THE SOURCE. ./test/extend.c Swapped two lines to prevent diagnostic messages from messing up the formatted output.
* [svn-r830] ======Frank Baker1998-10-291-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Intro ====== H5.intro.html Major rewrite to Groups section. New Example 7 (groups). Added TOC and requisite links. Numbered sections. Labelled figures and centered those that were not. Fixed table formatting. =========== User Guide =========== H5.user.html Linked in Chunking.html. Linked in References.html. Linked in DDL.html. Chunking.html Minor edits. DDL.html References.html New documents. Datatypes.html Added "R Reference" to base name description and "H5T_STD_ROBJ -- Reference to an entire object in a file" to list of datatype names. Files.html H5Fflush Added scope parameter. Groups.html Removed references to "current working group." Removed H5Gpush, H5Gpop, and H5Gset functions. Removed note that H5Glink and H5Gunlink were not implemented. ================= Reference Manual ================= RM_*.html and Tools.html Updated Reference Manual internal cross-linking (the link banner at the top and bottom of each page). Changed Returns SUCCEED (0) if successful; otherwise FAIL (-1). to read Returns a non-negative value if successful; otherwise returns a negative value. and several derived changes where circumstances differred only slightly. Minor copy edits throughout. RM_H5.html Corrected H5open "Purpose" statement. RM_H5A.html Changed H5Aget_name return type to hssize_t. RM_H5F.html H5Fflush Added scope parameter. Added H5Freopen. RM_H5Front.html Reordered listing of interfaces to alphabetical order (H5, H5A, H5D, ...) Added H5I, H5R, and H5RA. RM_H5G.html H5Gopen Edited "Description." H5Gget_objinfo Added named datatype to list of valid values for loc_id. RM_H5I.html Identifier Interface New section. RM_H5P.html Added H5Pset_fill_value and H5Pget_fill_value. Several minor copy edits. RM_H5R.html Reference Interface New section. H5RA.html Essentially a new section. It was in the tree previously, but it did not actually have content. RM_H5S.html Changed H5Sget_select_npoints return type to hssize_t. Tools.html Updated h5dump documentation.
* [svn-r680] H5.user.htmlFrank Baker1998-09-091-5/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A little editorial cleanup. Added link to Ragged.html, Ragged Arrays. Added link to Environment.html, Environmental Variables and Configuration Parameters. Added link to Copyright.html. Ragged.html Added "Use at your own risk" notice. Environment.html New file for environmental variables and configuration parameters. Datatypes.html Added the following datatypes: H5T_NATIVE_HSIZE H5T_NATIVE_HSSIZE H5T_NATIVE_HERR H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL Section 8, "Data Conversions" Added named link tag to catch hyperlink from RM. Revised "Note:" to emphasize limited inate data-conversion capability. Copyright.html New file. Copyright statement, linked into User's Guide and Reference Manual. Glossary.html Unlinked for Beta. General Changed email link at bottom of "user guide level documents" (as contrasted with "developer guide level documents" listed on the lower half of the User's Guide front page) to HDF Help Desk, hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Changed the following function names: From: To: H5version H5get_libversion H5vers_check H5check_version H5Anum_attrs H5Aget_num_attrs H5Fget_create_template() H5Fget_create_plist() H5Fget_access_template() H5Fget_access_plist() H5Gstat H5Gget_stat H5Sextent_npoints H5Sget_simple_extent_npoints H5Sextent_ndims H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims H5Sextent_dims H5Sget_simple_extent_dims H5Sget_class H5Sget_simple_extent_type H5Sselect_npoints H5Sget_select_npoints
* [svn-r673] Changes since 19980908Robb Matzke1998-09-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------- ./COPYING Reformatted as text instead of C. Removed zlib crew from the list of contributors since no zlib code is actually in the hdf5 library. ./INSTALL ./INSTALL.ascired ./MANIFEST Minor updates for Beta release including version number change. ./INSTALL_MAINT Added information about making a release. ./RELEASE Updated function list based on public header files. ./bin/checkposix Got rid of complaints about some obvious things. ./doc/html/H5.api.html ./doc/html/RM_H5F.html ./src/H5F.c ./src/H5Fpublic.h ./test/tfile.c Changed H5Fget_create_template() and H5Fget_access_template() to H5Fget_create_plist() and H5Fget_access_plist() since that conforms better to lots of other names. ./doc/html/Datatypes.html ./doc/html/ExternalFiles.html ./doc/html/Files.html ./doc/html/H5.api.html ./doc/html/H5.sample_code.html ./doc/html/RM_H5F.html ./doc/html/RM_H5Front.html Changed `template' to `property list', etc. ./doc/html/Ragged.html [NEW] Documentation for ragged arrays. ./src/H5Iprivate.h ./src/H5Ipublic.h ./src/H5I.c Changed the scope of some symbols to be more local. ./src/H5.c ./src/H5AC.c ./src/H5D.c ./src/H5E.c ./src/H5F.c ./src/H5Ffamily.c ./src/H5Fistore.c ./src/H5Flow.c ./src/H5Fsec2.c ./src/H5Fsplit.c ./src/H5Fstdio.c ./src/H5G.c ./src/H5Gnode.c ./src/H5HG.c ./src/H5I.c ./src/H5O.c ./src/H5Ocomp.c ./src/H5Odtype.c ./src/H5Oefl.c ./src/H5Omtime.c ./src/H5Oname.c ./src/H5P.c ./src/H5S.c ./src/H5Shyper.c ./src/H5Tbit.c ./src/H5Tconv.c ./src/H5V.c ./src/H5Z.c ./src/H5private.h Fixed some violations of our naming scheme by adding HD to the beginning of all Posix functions.
* [svn-r584] Changes since 19980806Robb Matzke1998-08-101-6/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------- ./doc/html/Datatypes.html ./doc/html/H5.format.html ./src/H5.c ./src/H5Odtype.c ./src/H5T.c ./src/H5Tconv.c ./src/H5Tpkg.h ./src/H5Tpublic.h ./test/dtypes.c Changed the values of the H5T_str_t type in order to make a distinction between C's null terminated strings and strings which are not null terminated. The string character set and padding method are saved to the hdf5 file instead of using defaults. Added conversion function from one fixed-length string type to another. ./test/chunk.c Fixed to work with new filter API
* [svn-r467] Restructuring documentation.Quincey Koziol1998-07-081-0/+1370