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* [svn-r15922] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-10-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring revisions 15289:15457 from trunk into metadata journaling branch. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.5.2 (amazon) in debug mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
* [svn-r15237] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-06-181-24/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge revisions 14900:15037 from trunk into metadata journaling branch Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.5.2 (amazon) in debug mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
* [svn-r14796] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-04-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Switch v1 B-tree nodes from using previous cache to use the new journaling cache code. This is a major switch for the cache callbacks. Switched the metadata caching code from having a pointer to the file it's in to receiving a pointer to the file, when needed. This was necessary in order to avoid crashing when two files IDs were open on the same underlying file and one of those files was closed with cache entries using the file pointers. Also took out the check in the caching code for reading off the end of the file, which didn't play nicely with the multi-file VFD. Switching the cache from having a pointer internally to requiring one externally meant tweaking almost all the test code. :-/ Added correct exit codes to cache2 tests that didn't have them already, so the 'make check' will stop when they fail. Use the path to the h5diff in this build in the tools/h5recover testing script, since we can't guarantee a user has HDF5 already installed. Assorted minor tweaks to get everything to compile more cleanly and pass all the tests (on my Mac :-). Tested on: Mac OS X (10.5.2) w/C++ (more testing coming up shortly, I just didn't have my "rsync testbed" set up for this branch when I started making changes to the code)
* [svn-r14278] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-11-201-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remember # of elements in file selection, instead of querying more than once - Handle building chunk map for single element as special case Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
* [svn-r14211] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-10-181-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove --enable-hdfv1_6 configure flag, now that all dependencies on it have been removed and new --with-default-api-version=[v16|v18] and --disable-deprecated-symbols flags have taken its place. Update types in bin/trace so that bin/reconfigure runs cleanly. Run bin/reconfigure to regenerate configure script, along with other associated files, etc. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
* [svn-r14208] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-10-181-79/+292
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make H5Pget_filter_by_id() API versioned and switch internal usage to H5Pget_filter_by_id2(). Add simple regression test for H5Pget_filter_by_id1(). Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
* [svn-r14206] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-10-171-25/+94
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make H5Pget_filter API versioned and switch internal usage to H5Pget_filter2. Add regression test for H5Pget_filter1. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
* [svn-r14017] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-07-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix problem with fill value messages where the version of the format for a fill value message could depend on the "use the latest format" flag from the file after it was initially created. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty)
* [svn-r14012] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-07-241-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix problem with I/O pipeline messages where the version of the format for a I/O pipeline message could depend on the "use the latest format" flag from the file after it was initially created. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) Solaris/32 2.10 (linew)
* [svn-r13825] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-05-311-1/+29
| | | | | | | | | Incremental step forward in fixing problems with fill values that have a variable-length daattype. This set of changes fixes problems with the copying the property list values. tested Tn: Mac OS X/32 10.4.9 (amazon)
* [svn-r13753] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-05-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Check in "unique, but sharable" optimization to ISOHM code, which allows object header messages that are only used in one object to remain in the sole user's header, but migrates messages that are used in more than one header into the ISOHM heap. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.9 (amazon) FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r13573] Pedro Vicente Nunes2007-04-021-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fixes Reset external file list slots name_offset to a state when created (0) in H5P_dcrt_copy so that it conforms to an assertion in H5D_update_entry_info that assumes the name_offset is 0 at this point this fixes the problem of h5repack and external files, add a new test and files for an external file h5diff, check for an error return in H5D_get_storage_size tested linux 32, 64
* [svn-r13475] There's a configure issue linking szip's shared libraries when ↵Mike McGreevy2007-03-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | running on kagiso. The static szip libraries are working as intended, but when shared szip libraries are present and intended for use they cannot be opened. A check has been implemented to test if shared szip libraries are functional on current platform. If they are not, and the user is trying to use them, szip is now disbaled and the user is informed. This issue occurs on kagiso, and the resolution was tested on kagiso.
* [svn-r13253] Updated all C and C++ style source code files with the THG ↵Albert Cheng2007-02-071-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | copyright notice. Tested platform: Kagiso only since it is only a comment block change. If it works in one machine, it should work in all, I hope. Still need to check the parallel build on copper.
* [svn-r13217] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-01-291-7/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | Move fill value messages into new shared message method calling scheme. Only update an opened dataset's fill value property if it's different from the default fill value settings. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r13183] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-01-231-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Checkpoint work toward getting the fill value message into the shared message interface regime. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r13167] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-01-221-296/+305
| | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of two different types of fill value struct (merge H5O_fill_t and H5O_fill_new_t) and clean up & simplify dataset initialization code. (In preparation for shared object header message method call refactoring). Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon)
* [svn-r13166] Fixed bug in H5Ocopy where shared attributes that were deleted ↵James Laird2007-01-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | during H5Ocopy would become shared NULL messages (oops!). Added a test for this case. Also fixed the #define that caused errors on Windows (and probably other platforms). This may fix the Daily Test error. Tested on Windows, smirom, kagiso, and juniper.
* [svn-r13068] Ran bin/reconfigure. Some of the scripts have been changed or ↵James Laird2006-12-181-25/+25
| | | | | | | | | haven't been run in a while, so many of the source files were updated with tracing macros, etc. No code changes by me. Tested on kagiso and smirom.
* [svn-r13015] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-12-041-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | Migrate more object header routines to use the H5O_msg_ prefix and put them into the src/H5Omessage.c code module. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon) FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux/32 2.4 (heping) AIX/32 5.? (copper)
* [svn-r12941] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Clean up warnings assigned to me from today's meeting - still need to tackle the datatype conversion ones... Tested on: FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux/32 2.4 (heping) Linux/64 2.4 (mir)
* [svn-r12842] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-021-5/+525
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Refactor generic property list initialization code to put property list specific routines in property list modules, instead of scattered to the four winds. Also, introduce property list class initialization objects, to make adding new property list classes in the library easier. Fix daily test failure by using H5Pget_elink_prefix() API routine instead of looking at the "raw" generic property list information. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon) FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe Linux/32 2.4 (heping) w/C++ & FORTRAN Linux/64 2.4 (mir) w/build-all & 1.6 compat
* [svn-r12805] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Fix off-by-one memory error when retrieving I/O pipeline filter's name. Tested on: Linux/64 2.4 (mir) FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir)
* [svn-r12803] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-231-194/+210
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Finish new version of the I/O pipeline message, which is much smaller than the previous version. This version is used with the "use the latest version of the format" flag. Closed several memory leaks/overruns (found with valgrind). Also, lots of compiler & formatting cleanups. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r12706] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-021-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | Clean up some of the warnings on 64-bit Linux... Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r11738] Purpose:James Laird2005-11-181-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Configure feature Description: Added 'make trace' target. Solution: Added tracing to 1.7. This was done automatically in 1.6, but left out of 1.7 until now (oops!). Tracing in 1.7 only happens manually, when the user types 'make trace.' Tracing automatically requires more framework than it's worth. I also fixed a couple of tracing bugs and ran trace. Platforms tested: mir, sleipnir, modi4 Misc. update:
* [svn-r11415] Purpose: Internal design change.Raymond Lu2005-09-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Description: H5T_register() replaces any existing data conversion path with a new path. Solution: Added a parameter to H5T_register() and H5T_path_find() to signal the library whether the new conversion path is from API function H5Tregister() or from private function like H5T_init_interface(). If it is from H5Tregister(), replace existing path. If it's from H5T_init_interface() and the library is trying to register default hard conversion functions, don't replace existing path because the path is registered by the library. For example, the library registered H5T_conv_int_float() and is trying to register H5T_conv_long_float(). The size of long is equal to int. There's no need to replace the path H5T_conv_int_float(). Platforms tested: h5committest and fuss.
* [svn-r11337] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-09-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Changed some scale+offset filter symbols from H5_SO_... -> H5Z_SO_... to indicate that they are in the H5Z package. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r11325] Purpose:MuQun Yang2005-08-311-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update scaleoffset filter. Description: 1. Using enum type to describe scale offset type(int, Dscale or Escale) 2. Changing some macro names 3. Fixing some minor bugs Solution: Platforms tested: sol 2.8, linux 2.4, aix 5.1(32-bit and 64-bit) Misc. update:
* [svn-r11245] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-08-131-80/+80
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Trim trailing whitespace, which is making 'diff'ing the two branches difficult. Solution: Ran this script in each directory: foreach f (*.[ch] *.cpp) sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//' $f > sed.out && mv sed.out $f end Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r10677] Purpose:MuQun Yang2005-04-271-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some comments for H5Pset_scaleoffset. Description: Solution: Platforms tested: No need to test. Misc. update:
* [svn-r10671] Purpose:Xiaowen Wu2005-04-261-9/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature. Description: The H5Pset_scaleoffset is changed for the scaleoffset filter to handle both integer and floating-point data. Currently, the D-scaling method from GRIB has been implemented for compressing floating-point data. Solution: One more parameter is added to the H5Pset_scaleoffset interface to let user specify what type of data is used and what method to use as well as corresponding parameters. Platforms tested: heping Misc. update:
* [svn-r10628] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-04-181-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Clean up various warnings reported by the Windows team. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r10396] Purpose:Xiaowen Wu2005-03-241-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor modification. Description: Remove some redundant codes. Solution: Platforms tested: heping Misc. update:
* [svn-r10024] Purpose:Xiaowen Wu2005-02-171-3/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature. Description: Add H5Zset_scaleoffset function for setting up the scaleoffset filter. Solution: Platforms tested: heping, copper, arabica Misc. update:
* [svn-r9857] Purpose: MaintenanceElena Pourmal2005-01-221-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Description: Removed PABLO from the source Solution: Platforms tested: arabica with 64-bit, copper with parallel, heping with GNU C and C++ and PGI fortran (but I disabled hl, there is some weird problem only on heping: F9XMODFLAG is not propagated to the Makefile files Misc. update:
* [svn-r9758] Purpose:MuQun Yang2005-01-061-0/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding framework of N-bit filter Description: N-bit filter is required for NetCDF project. To add N-bit filter, configure.in configure, Makefile.in under src and other filter-related source code needs to be updated. Currently, N-bit tests are turned off from the library. So the change will affect daily test. Solution: Platforms tested: sol 2.7, linux 2.4, aix 5.1 Misc. update:
* [svn-r9727] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-12-291-23/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-r9563] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-11-231-7/+105
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Change how default allocation time is handled internally to the library, to avoid some performance issues with property lists. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Solaris 2.7 (arabica) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8791] Purpose: Rewrote metadata cache (H5AC.c, etc.) to improve ↵John Mainzer2004-07-021-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | performance. Description: Replaced the old metadata cache with a cache with a modified LRU replacement policy. This should improve the hit rate. Solution: Since we want to flush cache entries in increasing address order, I used the threaded binary B-tree code to store the cache entries. There is a fair bit of overhead here, so we may want to consider other options. While the code is designed to allow the support of other replacement algorithms, at present, only a modified version of LRU is supported. The modified LRU algorithm requires that a user selectable portion of the cache entries be clean. The clean entries are evicted first when writes are not permitted. If the pool of clean entries is used up, the cache grows beyond its user specified maximum size. The cache can also exceed its maximum size if the combined size of the protected (or locked) entries exceeds the maximum size of the cache. Platforms tested: eirene (serial, parallel, fp), h5committested Misc. update:
* [svn-r8782] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-07-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Clean up almost all warnings from Windows builds. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8781] James Laird2004-07-011-13/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: HDF5 now supports SZIP with no encoder. Description: SZIP can be configured to have both encoder and decoder or just to have the decoder. HDF5 can now query the configuration of any filter, and will throw errors if users try to write using a filter with encoding disabled. Solution: Added H5Zget_filter_info function, changed API for H5Pget_filter and H5P_get_filter_by_id. See SZIP RFC. Platforms tested: Copper (fortran, C++, parallel), Sleipnir (C++), Arabica (fortran, C++), Verbena (fortran, C++) Misc. update:
* [svn-r8760] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup & small bug fix Description: Regenerate dependency files Add htri_t as separate type from hbool_t for code tracing purposes. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8731] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-231-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup & minor optimization Description: Re-work the way interface initialization routines are specified in the library to avoid the overhead of checking for them in routines where there is no interface initialization routine. This cleans up warnings with gcc 3.4, reduces the library binary size a bit (about 2-3%) and should speedup the library's execution slightly. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/gcc34 h5committest
* [svn-r8683] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Use 'size_t' instead of 'hsize_t' to track the number of elements in memory buffers, especially for type conversion. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8620] Snapshot version 1.7 release 27HDF Admin2004-06-061-1/+2
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* [svn-r8600] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-05-311-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Don't recompute the internal index value for looking up the chunk in the hash table, just use the value already computed from iterating through the chunks. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/parallel
* [svn-r8590] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-05-271-11/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization & bug fix Description: When dimension information is being stored in the storage layout message on disk, it is stored as 32-bit quantities, possibly truncating the dimension information, if a dimension is greater than 32-bits in size. Solution: Fix the storage layout message problem by revising file format to not store dimension information, since it is already available in the dataspace. Also revise the storage layout data structures to be more compartmentalized for the information for contiguous, chunked and compact storage. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/parallel Solaris 2.7 (arabica) h5committest
* [svn-r8383] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-04-181-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Clean up lots of warnings based on those reported from the SGI compilers as well as gcc. Platforms tested: SGI O3900, IRIX64 6.5 (Cheryl's SGI machine) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/ & w/o parallel h5committest
* [svn-r8158] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-02-061-42/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup/optimization Description: Query property list values once, at the beginning of the I/O routines, instead of querying the property list values multiple (lots!) of times in lower level routines. Solution: Create "property list caches" for internal library queries of the property list values. Platforms tested: IBM p690 (copper) w/parallel & fphdf5 h5committest