From 894c62f9256ce5df54a9fc95647c45b46d973ec1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Barbara Jones Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:01:23 -0500 Subject: [svn-r2406] Fixed a few syntax errors and took out line about referring to HISTORY file for more details. --- RELEASE | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index e0e50fd..7efe93b 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ INTRODUCTION This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and HDF5-1.2.2, and contains information on the platforms where HDF5-1.2.2 -was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. For more details check the -HISTORY file in the HDF5 source. +was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory: @@ -26,28 +25,29 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: CONTENTS -- Features added and bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 +- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1 +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 - Known Problems - Platforms Tested -Features added since HDF5-1.2.1 +Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1 =============================== * Added internal free-lists to reduce memory required by the library and - H5garbage_collect API function + H5garbage_collect API function. * h5dump displays opaque and bitfield types. * New features added to snapshots. Use 'snapshot help' to see a complete list of features. * Improved configure to detect if MPIO routines are available when parallel mode is requested. -Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 +Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 ========================== * h5dump correctly displays compound datatypes, including simple and nested compound types. * h5dump correctly displays the committed copy of predefined types. - * Corrected an error in h5toh4 which did not convert the 32bits - int from HDF5 to HDF4 corectly for the T3E platform. + * Corrected an error in h5toh4 which did not convert the 32-bit + int from HDF5 to HDF4 correctly for the T3E platform. * Corrected a floating point number conversion error for the Cray J90 platform. The error did not convert the value 0.0 correctly. @@ -55,17 +55,17 @@ Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 correctly. * Fixed error in hyperslab iteration which was not walking through the correct sequence of array elements if hyperslabs were staggered in a - certain pattern + certain pattern. * Fixed several other problems in hyperslab iteration code. - * Fixed another H5Giterate bug which was causes groups with large numbers + * Fixed another H5Giterate bug which caused groups with large numbers of objects in them to misbehave when the callback function returned non-zero values. * Changed return type of H5Aiterate and H5A_operator_t typedef to be herr_t, to align them with the dataset and group iterator functions. * Changed H5Screate_simple and H5Sset_extent_simple to not allow dimensions - of size 0 with out the same dimension being unlimited. + of size 0 without the same dimension being unlimited. * Improved metadata hashing & caching algorithms to avoid - many hash flushes and also remove some redundant I/O when moving metadata + many hash flushes and also removed some redundant I/O when moving metadata blocks in the file. * The libhdf5.settings file shows the correct machine byte-sex. * The "struct(opt)" type conversion function which gets invoked for @@ -73,24 +73,24 @@ Bug fixes since HDF5-1.2.1 types. This required a small change in the datatype conversion function API. -Known Problems: +Known Problems ============== -o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will +o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level. -o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on -o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with compound datatype +o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on. +o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype. -Platforms tested -================= +Platforms Tested +================ AIX 4.3.3 (IBM SP) 3.6.6 | binaries mpicc using mpich 1.1.2 | are not mpicc_r using IBM MPI-IO prototype | available - AIX 4.3.2.0 xlc 5.0.1.0 + AIX 4.3.2.0 (IBM SP) xlc 5.0.1.0 + Cray J90 10.0.0.7 cc 6.3.0.2 Cray T3E 2.0.5.29 cc 6.3.0.2 mpt.1.3 - Cray J90 10.0.0.7 cc 6.3.0.2 FreeBSD 4.0 gcc 2.95.2 HP-UX B.10.20 HP C HP92453-01 A.10.32 HP-UX B.11.00 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler -- cgit v0.12