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* [svn-r15510] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-08-211-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Clean up warnings & formatting Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.5.4 (amazon) More tests forthcoming
* [svn-r15485] Purpose: Allow library to shut down properly when objects have ↵Neil Fortner2008-08-191-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | reference count > 1. Description: Added a new field 'app_count' to H5I_id_info_t struct, to track the reference count on an id due to the application. the old 'count' field tracks the total. Generally any id visible to the application gets placed in app_count. Added app_ref boolean parameter to H5I_inc_ref, H5I_dec_ref, H5I_register, H5I_clear_type, and a few other functions, to specify whether the operation(s) being performed on the id(s) are due to the application (TRUE) or not (FALSE). Test added for this case. Tested: kagiso, smirom, linew (h5committest)
* [svn-r15131] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-06-031-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Finish omnibus chunked dataset I/O refactoring, to separate general actions on chunked datasets from actions that are specific to using the v1 B-tree index. Cleaned up a few bugs and added some additional tests also. 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-r14903] Undoing change committed in r14902.Scot Breitenfeld2008-04-301-257/+16
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* [svn-r14902] Merged fortran_1_8 branch changes r14505:14901 into the trunk. ↵Scot Breitenfeld2008-04-301-16/+257
| | | | New fortran wrappers added.
* [svn-r14860] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-04-241-257/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Omnibus raw data I/O revisions, with wide-ranging changes and refactoring, in order to prepare for implementing "fast append" feature. These changes remove the majority of the code duplication for raw data I/O which has crept in over the last ten years and introduces a more object- oriented design for operating on different types of dataset storage. Chunked storage no longer has it's own I/O routines, it is now handled as either contiguous (if chunk is not pulled into the cache) or compact (if the chunk is cached in memory). No bug or feature changes, at least intentionally... :-) 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-r14326] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-12-061-27/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Keep skip list for tracking chunks with dataset (instead of creating/ destroying it for each I/O operation) and just delete the skip list nodes. - Avoid computations for normalizing selection offset when offset not set. - Avoid updating object modification time twice during dataset creation. - Avoid updating dataset layout message (and object modification time) until dataset is closed. 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-r14271] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-11-201-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid copying maximum dimensions for temporary dataspaces used for describing chunks during raw data I/O. 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-r14192] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-10-081-64/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Deprecate H5Dextend in favor of H5Dset_extent (without using API versioning, due to changed behavior) and switch internal usage to H5Dset_extent 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-r14010] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-07-241-33/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix problem with dataspace messages where the version of the format for a dataspace message could depend on the "use the latest format" flag from the file after it was initially created. Also, move debuging routine into separate file. 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-r13943] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-07-051-13/+19
| | | | | | | | | Allow H5Dset_extent() to reduce the size of dimensions that aren't unlimited Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r13825] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-05-311-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | 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 Koziol2007-05-141-123/+132
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-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-r13390] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-02-261-4/+2
| | | | | | | | Make H5O_protect/H5O_unprotect use pinned cache entries instead of protected entries (allowing the object header routines to be semi-reentrant). Tested on: FreeBSD 6.2 (duty)
* [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-r13240] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-02-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | More cleanups on the object header message handling code, to make it easier to work with and move forward on the creation order coding. Various other minor cleanups & warning fixes. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)
* [svn-r13232] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-02-041-9/+7
| | | | | | | | | Remove the "scaffolding" for shared message method invocation and simplify the way shared messages are dealt with in general. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon)
* [svn-r13223] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-01-301-58/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | Move datatype messages into new shared message method interface Clean up various formatting & compiler warnings Minor optimizations Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r13177] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-01-231-22/+22
| | | | | | | | Final tweaks before the big twist to fix shared message method calling. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.8 (amazon) FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)
* [svn-r13146] Verifies that current dataspace dimensions are not equal to ↵Christian Chilan2007-01-171-1/+10
| | | | | | H5S_UNLIMITED. Checks performed in H5Screate_simple() and H5Sset_extent_simple().
* [svn-r13068] Ran bin/reconfigure. Some of the scripts have been changed or ↵James Laird2006-12-181-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | 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-r13046] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-12-121-8/+6
| | | | | | | | Minor editing & code cleanups. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r13016] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-12-041-33/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | Finish moving object header message routines into their own source code module, along with renaming them to have "H5O_msg_" prefix... 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-r13015] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-12-041-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | 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-r13012] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-12-031-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Refactor object header code to separate process of creating an object header message from the process of writing to an existing one. Start renaming operations that deal with object header messages to have "H5O_msg_" prefix... 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-r13002] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-301-0/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fix problem with copying objects when the dataset to copy has an "older" version of the layout message and needs to compute the size of the dataset's storage after the dataspace information is available. Minor random cleanups also... Tested on: FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) Too minor/weird to test w/h5committest...
* [svn-r12902] Checkin of Shared Object Header Message work.James Laird2006-11-131-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | This feature is still in progress; Shared Object Header Messages are not complete as a feature and are not thoroughly tested. There are still "TODO" comments in the code (comments with the word "JAMES" in them, so as not to be confused with other TODO comments). Hopefully this checkin will reduce the liklihood of conflicts as I finish implementing this feature. All current tests pass on juniper, copper (parallel), heping, kagiso, and mir.
* [svn-r12767] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Code cleanup to improve formatting & reduce compiler warnings. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r12708] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-031-44/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the "use the latest version of the format" support to datatype messages. And a regression test to check that it's working. Also, found that we have been over-allocating space for compound datatype messages (when they have array datatypes or can use the latest version of the format) and trimmed the size back. Clean up datatype & dataspace encode/decode routines by having them allocate & release "fake" file structures, which gets them out of needing to "know" about the internals of file structures. Other minor whitespace/formatting cleanups, etc. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r12706] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-021-19/+17
| | | | | | | | | 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-r12700] Alert:Quincey Koziol2006-10-021-61/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | File format is not stable, don't keep files produced! Description: First stage of checkins modifying the format of groups to support creation order. Implement "dense" storage for links in groups. Try to clarify some of the symbols for the H5L API. Add the H5Pset_latest_format() flag for FAPLs, to choose to use the newest file format options (including "dense" link storage in groups) Add the H5Pset_track_creation_order() flag for GCPLs, to enable creation order tracking in groups (although no index on creation order yet). Remove --enable-group-revision configure flag, as file format issues are now handled in a backwardly/forwardly compatible way. Clean up lots of compiler warnings and other minor formatting issues. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe Linux/32 2.4 (heping) w/FORTRAN & C++ Linux/64 2.4 (mir) w/enable-v1.6 compa Mac OSX/32 10.4.8 (amazon) AIX 5.3 (copper) w/parallel & FORTRAN
* [svn-r12218] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2006-04-101-19/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Remove remnents of references to unimplemented H5S_COMPLEX dataspace. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux 2.4 32-bit (heping) Linux 2.4 64-bit (mir) Solaris 2.9 (shanti)
* [svn-r11712] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-11-151-36/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature Description: Check in baseline for compact group revisions, which radically revises the source code for managing groups and object headers. WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! This initiates the "unstable" phase of the 1.7.x branch, leading up to the 1.8.0 release. Please test this code, but do _NOT_ keep files created with it - the format will change again before the release and you will not be able to read your old files!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! Solution: There's too many changes to really describe them all, but some of them include: - Stop abusing the H5G_entry_t structure and split it into two separate structures for non-symbol table node use within the library: H5O_loc_t for object locations in a file and H5G_name_t to store the path to an opened object. H5G_entry_t is now only used for storing symbol table entries on disk. - Retire H5G_namei() in favor of a more general mechanism for traversing group paths and issuing callbacks on objects located. This gets us out of the business of hacking H5G_namei() for new features, generally. - Revised H5O* routines to take a H5O_loc_t instead of H5G_entry_t - Lots more... Platforms tested: h5committested and maybe another dozen configurations.... :-)
* [svn-r11686] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-11-071-0/+101
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature Description: Add in baseline "object copy" code from Peter [in the form of a new API routine: H5Gcopy()]. There's still some work to do (like handling variable- length datatypes and possibly support for references) and it hasn't been tested on mounted files yet, but the core functionality is there and working correctly. I've also got a set of patches to update the 1.6 branch with tweaks to keep the branches mostly in sync, but Elena will kill me if I import them before the 1.6.5 release is out... :-) Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) h5committested
* [svn-r11245] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-08-131-38/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-r11078] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-07-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix Description: Correct memory leak when a dataset is attempted to be opened, but turns out to be a group or named datatype. Also, clean up code that was leading to the leak and zero out empty group entries to help prevent similar errors in the future. Platforms tested: FreebSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r11014] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-07-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Refactor metadata cache to merge "dirtied" flag in with other flags for H5AC_unprotect and H5C_unprotect. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) h5committest
* [svn-r10978] Purpose:John Mainzer2005-06-241-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Interim checkin of code changes moving management of the is_dirty flag into the cache code. Description: Prior to this checkin, management of the is_dirty flag was handled above the level of the metadata cache. This can no longer be allowed, as it introduces a race condition in the proposed fix for a cache coherency bug in PHDF5. Solution: Move management fo the is_dirty flag to the cache code proper. Entries are now marked as dirty via a flag on the unprotect call. Platforms tested: h5committested Misc. update:
* [svn-r10628] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-04-181-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Clean up various warnings reported by the Windows team. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Too minor to require h5committest
* [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-r9727] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-12-291-8/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-r9354] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-10-011-232/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix & code cleanup Description: More dataset cleanups to get to a point where we can fix the chunked I/O bug. Also fix a couple of errors in the recent file object resurrection changes which should hopefully address the recent daily test failres (H5T.c) Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Solaris 2.7 (arabica) h5committest
* [svn-r9273] Purpose:John Mainzer2004-09-181-0/+120
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Port fix of parallel I/O mode confusion bug from the 1.6 tree to the 1.7 tree. Description: Collective I/O is not supported for point selections. Thus when some processes attempted I/O with point selections, and others without, some attempted collective I/O while others did independent I/O. Solution: Arranged for all processes to compare notes before starting I/O, and for all to use independent I/O if any one of them can't do collective I/O. Platforms tested: copper h5committested eirene (parallel) Misc. update:
* [svn-r8987] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-08-021-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Fix another batch of minor differences between the development and release branches. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8981] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-08-021-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Various minor tweaks to clean code up and bring it into closer syncronization with the release branch. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel h5committested IRIX64 6.5 (modi4)
* [svn-r8964] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-07-281-4/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | Revise new feature Description: Add buffer type and version # bytes to the encoded datatype and dataspace buffers (for H5Tencode & H5Sencode) Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8953] James Laird2004-07-271-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Bug fix Description: When a simple dataspace is created, its extent should be set before using it, or it will silently function as a NULL dataspace. Solution: Added checks on user-supplied dataspaces. Now dataspaces without extents set will throw errors; users must explicitly set a dataspace to be NULL. Platforms tested: sleipnir, windows
* [svn-r8943] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-07-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix Description: Close memory leak I introduced in H5Sencode() routine. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8932] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-07-221-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Clean up collective chunking code a bit. Also, add '--enable-instrument' configure flag to have a mechanism for determining that optimized operations happened correctly in the library (instead of just the "normal" way) by allowing 'flag' properties to be set outside the library and set when the "right" thing happens. This is mainly for debugging and regression checks, so we make certain we don't break optimized I/O by accident. It's enabled by default when --enable-debug is on (which is on by default in the development branch and off by default in the release branch), but can also be independently controlled with its own configure flag. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel IBM p690 (copper) w/parallel