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* [svn-r27916] Re-merge of r27884-27891 from the trunk + bugfix for a fewDana Robinson2015-09-301-6/+12
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | H5S recursive functions where an aliased pointer was incorrectly set too early. Tested on: Ubuntu 15.04 (Linux 3.19 x86_64) w/ gcc 4.9.2 serial and parallel (w/ MPICH 3.1.4)
| * [svn-r27891] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-09-271-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert changes to 'all' and 'none' selections: the serialized header info is handled in the general H5S_select_deserialize() routine. Tested on: MacOSX/64 10.10.5 (amazon) w/serial & parallel (h5committest forthcoming)
| * [svn-r27889] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-09-271-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Advance the decoding pointer for 'all' and 'none' selections properly. Tested on: MacOSX/64 10.10.5 (amazon) w/serial & parallel (h5committest forthcoming)
* | [svn-r27912] Revert of r27887, which caused failures in the vds test. TheseDana Robinson2015-09-291-12/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | changes will be merged more carefully so we can more easily identify any errors that arise. Tested on: Ubuntu 15.04 (Linux 3.19 x86_64) w/ gcc 4.9.2 serial and parallel (w/ MPICH 3.1.4)
* | [svn-r27887] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-09-271-6/+12
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge changes from trunk to the branch. Tested on: MacOSX/64 10.10.5 (amazon) w/serial & parallel (h5committest not required on this branch)
| * [svn-r27884] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-09-261-6/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update dataspace selection encode/decode routines to avoid type aliasing errors. Tested on: Linux/64 2.6.x (platypus) w/production (h5committest forthcoming)
* | [svn-r27835] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-09-211-8/+8
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Sync w/trunk. Tested on: MacOSX/64 10.10.5 (amazon) w/serial & parallel (h5committest not required on this branch)
| * [svn-r27768] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-09-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Complete revamp of package initialization/shutdown mechanism in the library. Each package now has a single init/term routine. This new way should avoid packages being re-initialized during library shutdown and is also be _much_ more proactive about giving feedback for resource leaks internal to the library. Introduces a new "module" header file for packages in the library (e.g src/H5Fmodule.h) which sets up some necessary package configuration macros for the FUNC_ENTER/LEAVE macros. (The VFL drivers have their own slightly modified version of this header, src/H5FDdrvr_module.h) Also cleaned up a bunch of resources leaks all across the library and tests, along with addressing many warnings, as I encountered them. Tested on: MacOSX/64 10.10.5 (amazon) w/serial & parallel Linux/64 3.10.x (kituo) w/serial & parallel Linux/64 2.6.x (ostrich) w/serial
* | [svn-r27632] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-08-311-17/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert changes to pass file pointer to selection serialize/deserialize routines. Also patch back in some changes that were merged out in the previous merge w/trunk. Tested on: MacOSX/64 10.10.5 (amazon) w/serial (h5committest not required on this branch)
* | [svn-r27479] Add checking for invalid inputs to H5Dset_virtual: point ↵Neil Fortner2015-08-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | selections, incorrect numbers of elements selected, incorrect "slice" through limited dimensions, incorrect number of printf substitutions. Patch source selection space extent with bounds of selection if extent is unknown before returning via H5Pget_virtual_srcspace. Write updated VDS dataspace to file when it changes due to unlimited selections. Other minor fixes/cleanup. Tested: ummon
* | [svn-r27450] Add descriptions for all non-public functions.Neil Fortner2015-07-311-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Other comments. Add some input checking. Tested: ummon
* | [svn-r27191] Merged r26781 to r27185 from trunkDana Robinson2015-06-111-21/+29
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | Tested on: 64-bit Ubuntu Linux VM w/ gcc 4.8.2 (C++ and Fortran 2003 also tested)
| * [svn-r27133] - Add a new attribute function characterstic for format:Mohamad Chaarawi2015-06-011-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * H5_ATTR_FORMAT(X,Y,Z) __attribute__((format(X, Y, Z))) - Rename UNUSED attribute characterstic to H5_ATTR_UNUSED. - Rename NORETURN attribute characterstic to H5_ATTR_NORETURN tested with h5committest.
* | [svn-r26962] Add support for unlimited selections to VDS code.Neil Fortner2015-04-291-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not tested (except for percival-unlim example) Fix percival-unlim example Other bug fixes/cleanup Tested: Fedora 64
* | [svn-r26878] Fix errors in unlimited selection serialize/deserializeNeil Fortner2015-04-211-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Other minor fixes Tested: jam
* | [svn-r26828] Implement support for unlimited selections (not supported by ↵Neil Fortner2015-04-161-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VDS code yet). Add tests for unlimited selections. Various other minor changes. Tested: ummon
* | [svn-r26476] Add support for I/O in all cases with fixed size datasets and ↵Neil Fortner2015-03-181-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | no point selections. Add source dataspace extent patching (should allow closing the source file). Note fill values and various other features are not yet supported. Note there are still some code coverage assertions in the selection matching algorithm - if you hit these try taking them out. Note make check still fails in h5dump test (unrelated to this checkin). Tested: ummon
* [svn-r26302] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-02-251-16/+25
| | | | | | | | | Revise dataspace encode/decode routines to make them work better with future virtual dataset feature. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.10.2 (amazon) w/serial (h5committest forthcoming)
* [svn-r25766] Description:Quincey Koziol2014-11-031-17/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Revert r25273, 25283 & 25439 (the hyperslab improvement changes). They are buggy and it's taking me a long time to correct the problem. I'll check in a revised form of the changes when I've got them straightened out. Tested on: Mac OSX 10.10.0 (amazon) w/gcc 4.9.x, C++, FORTRAN Linux 2.6.x (jam) w/parallel
* [svn-r25273] Description:Quincey Koziol2014-06-131-2/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | Bring in Chao/Neil/my changes to optimize hyperslab selection operations further, along with 3 new public API routines: H5Scombine_hyperslab(), H5Sselect_select() and H5Scombine_select(), along with many minor cleanups to the code and fixing a few compiler warnings. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.9.3 w/gcc 4.9.x and parallel w/OpenMPI (h5commttest forthcoming)
* [svn-r24709] rename H5V to H5VM since H5V is needed in the fastforward ↵Mohamad Chaarawi2014-02-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | project for view objects. The addition of view objects in the fastforward project is expected to be brough into the trunk sometimes in the future, which is why we need to make this change. Tested Manually on Jam and Ostrich. Tested with h5commitest - Koala with intel compilers failed, but nothing had to do with those changes. error on Koala: error while loading shared libraries: libirng.so
* [svn-r23713] Description:Quincey Koziol2013-05-211-27/+27
| | | | | | | | | | Clean up warnings, switch library code to use Standard C/POSIX wrapper macros, remove internal calls to API routines, update checkapi and checkposix scripts. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.8.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN Big-Endian Linux/64 (ostrich)
* [svn-r22608] Description:Quincey Koziol2012-07-261-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Switch propert list/class iteration from internal to external form of iteration, cleaning up and simplifying the code a bit. Bring other general improvements from plist_encode_decode branch back to trunk. Clean up many warnings. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.7.4 (amazon) w/gcc 4.7, debug and C++ & FORTRAN (too minor to require h5committest)
* [svn-r21919] Description:Quincey Koziol2012-02-091-40/+40
| | | | | | | | Refactor function name macros and simplify the FUNC_ENTER macros, to clear away the cruft and prepare for further cleanups. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.7.3 (amazon) w/debug, production & parallel
* [svn-r19092] Description:Quincey Koziol2010-07-191-16/+83
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring "shape same" changes from LBL branch to trunk. These changes allow shapes that are the same, but projected into dataspaces with different ranks to be detected correctly, and also contains code to project a dataspace into greater/lesser number of dimensions, so the I/O can proceed in a faster way. These changes also contain several bug fixes and _lots_ of code cleanups to the MPI datatype creation code. Many other misc. code cleanup are included as well... Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (amani) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode
* [svn-r18037] Description:Quincey Koziol2009-12-191-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring r18035 from merge_metadata_journaling branch to trunk: More "brush clearing" convergence between metadata_journaling branch and the trunk. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode
| * [svn-r18035] Description:Quincey Koziol2009-12-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More "brush clearing" convergence between metadata_journaling branch and the trunk. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) debug & prod (h5committest not required on this branch)
* | [svn-r18031] Description:Quincey Koziol2009-12-171-1/+1
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring r18030 from merge_metadata_journaling branch to trunk: Bring "brush clearing" changes (whitespace & style issues, mostly) from metadata_journaling branch to the "merging" branch, to converge the trunk and the metadata_journaling branch. Also, some other minor cleanups along the way. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode
| * [svn-r18030] Description:Quincey Koziol2009-12-171-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring "brush clearing" changes (whitespace & style issues, mostly) from metadata_journaling branch to the "merging" branch, to converge the trunk and the metadata_journaling branch. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.2 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode
* | [svn-r15565] Snapshot version 1.9 release 15HDF Tester2008-08-311-0/+1
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* | [svn-r15510] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-08-211-7/+8
|/ | | | | | | | Clean up warnings & formatting Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.5.4 (amazon) More tests forthcoming
* [svn-r14307] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-11-291-12/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Extracted common code from H5D_select_read/H5D_select_write into single routine (H5D_select_io) and made H5D_select_read/H5D_select_write "gateway" routines, passing I/O buffer to operate on in "op" struct. - Create optimized pathway in H5D_select_io for I/O operations on single elements. - Make "get linear offset of first element" callback for each type of selection (used in "optimized pathway", above) 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-r14278] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-11-201-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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-r13825] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-05-311-14/+14
| | | | | | | | | 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-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-r11245] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-08-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-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 Koziol2004-12-291-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-r8732] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Reduce compiler warnings on SGI IRIX Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) SGI IRIX6 (Cheryl's machine) Too minor to require full h5committest
* [svn-r8731] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-231-63/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-r8677] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup & optimization Description: Remove old structures that used a union to store information about the dataspace extent and just store the information directly in the dataspace extent itself. Remove ifdef'd references to permutation ordering in dataspaces. We'll definitely need more than this code if/when we implement this feature. Change allocation of dataspace information from calloc() to malloc(). Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8673] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-06-131-27/+60
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Revised dataspace selections to use a more "object oriented" mechanism to set the function pointers for each selection and selection iterator. This reduces the amount and number of times that dataspace selection info has to be copied. Additionally, change hyperslab selection information to be dynamically allocated instead of an inline struct. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8590] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-05-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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-r8544] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-05-201-19/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Expand the use of macros to inline trivial function pointer lookup and calls to reduce the overall number of functions invoked during normal operation of the library. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/parallel Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8460] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-05-011-11/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Move the element size for the selection into the selection iterator instead of always passing it as a parameter. Also, eleminate another 64-bit multiply for "all" selections. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8457] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-05-011-13/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Stop straddling the line and always use elements instead of bytes to determine how how I/O to perform on a selection. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8406] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-04-221-9/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Make calculation of "all" selection sequence length information more efficient. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) h5comittest
* [svn-r8376] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-04-171-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup Description: Update null dataspace changes to try to write older version of dataspace information whenever possible. Refactor common code to only one location. Allow I/O operations to succeed on null dataspaces. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) h5committest
* [svn-r8368] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2004-04-171-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Compute value for array instead of using memset(), since we are looping through the array indices anyway. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r8314] Purpose: Progressive check-inRaymond Lu2004-04-061-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | Description: NULL dataspace. This step is mainly for dataspace header message and a test. Solution: The test mainly checks NULL dataspace features. Backward compatibility is tested in the fill value test. Platforms tested: h5committest