From 8a086b16434f623de655f9eb17bb097ecaf53c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: HDF Admin Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:36:23 -0500 Subject: [svn-r5148] Snapshot version 1.5 release 24 --- README.txt | 2 +- doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt | 338 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 2 +- src/H5public.h | 4 +- 4 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index be839aa..2dec445 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.5.24 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.5.25 currently under development Please refer to the release_docs/INSTALL file for installation instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt index 85ac11d..ccfdcdf 100644 --- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt +++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.5.23 released on Sat Mar 23 04:13:18 CST 2002 +HDF5 version 1.5.24 released on Sat Apr 6 11:34:52 CST 2002 ================================================================================ @@ -35,103 +35,118 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.2 Library ------- - * Fixed bug with contiguous hyperslabs not being detected, causing - slower I/O than necessary. - * Fixed bug where non-aligned hyperslab I/O on chunked datasets was - causing errors during I/O - * The RCSID string in H5public.h was causing the C++ compiling problem - because when it was included multiple times, C++ did not like multiple - definitions of the same static variable. All occurance of RCSID - definition are removed since we have not used it consistently before. - * Fixed bug with non-zero userblock sizes causing raw data to not write - correctly. - * Fixed build on Linux systems with --enable-static-exec flag. It now - works correctly. - * IMPORTANT: Fixed file metadata corruption bug which could cause metadata - data loss in certain situations. - * The allocation by alignment (H5Pset_alignment) feature code somehow - got dropped in some 1.3.x version. Re-implemented it with "new and - improved" algorithm. It keeps track of "wasted" file-fragment in - the free-list too. - * Removed limitation that the data transfer buffer size needed to be - set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all' selection - code to handle. Any size dimensioned datasets should be handled - correctly now. - * Changed behavior of H5Tget_member_type to correctly emulate HDF5 v1.2.x - when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled. - * Tweaked a few API functions to use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned' or - 'hsize_t', which may cause errors in some cases. - * Fixed a bug of H5pubconf.h causing repeated definitions if it is included - more than once. hdf5.h now includes H5public.h which includes - H5pubconf.h. Applications should #include hdf5.h which handles multiple - inclusion correctly. - * Fixed H5FDmpio.h to be C++ friendly by making Parallel HDF5 API's to be - external to C++. - * Fixed a bug in H5FD_mpio_flush() that might result in negative file seek - if both MPIO and Split-file drivers are used together. - * Added new parallel hdf5 tests in t_mpi. The new test checks if the - filesystem or the MPI-IO can really handle greater than 2GB files. - If it fails, it prints information message only without failing the - test. - * Fixed a bug when reading chunked datasets where the edge of the dataset - would be incorrectly detected and generate an assertion failure. - * Fixed a bug where reading an entire dataset wasn't being handled - optimally when the dataset had unlimited dimensions. Dataset is read - in a single low-level I/O now, instead of being broken into separate - pieces internally. - * Fixed a bug where reading or writing chunked data which needed datatype - conversion could result in data values getting corrupted. - * Fixed a bug where appending a point selection to the current selection - would not actually append the point when there were no points defined - currently. - * Fixed a bug where 'or'ing a hyperslab with a 'none' selection would - fail. Now adds that hyperslab as the first hyperlab in the selection. - * Fixed a bug in the 'big' test where quota limits weren't being detected - properly if they caused close() to fail. - * Fixed a bug in internal B-tree code where a B-tree was not being copied + * Fixed bug where selection offset was being ignored for certain hyperslab + selections when optimized I/O was being performed. QAK - 2002/04/02 + * Added serial multi-gigabyte file size test. "test/big -h" shows + the help page. AKC - 2002/03/29 + * Fixed bug where variable-length string type doesn't behave as + string. SLU - 2002/03/28 + * Fixed bug in H5Gget_objinfo() which was not setting the 'fileno' + of the H5G_stat_t struct. QAK - 2002/03/27 + * Fixed data corruption bug in hyperslab routines when contiguous + hyperslab that spans entire dimension and is larger than type + conversion buffer is attempted to be read. QAK - 2002/03/26 + * Fixed bug where non-zero fill-value was not being read correctly from + certain chunked datasets when using an "all" or contiguous hyperslab + selection. QAK - 2002/02/14 + * Fixed bug where a preempted chunk in the chunk data could still be + used by an internal pointer and cause an assertion failure or core + dump. QAK - 2002/02/13 + * Fixed bug where raw data re-allocated from the free-list would sometimes + overlap with the metadata accumulator and get corrupted. QAK - 2002/01/23 + * Fixed bug where variable-length datatypes for attributes was not working correctly. + * Retired the DPSS virtual file driver (--with-gridstorage configure + option). + * Corrected behavior of H5Tinsert to not allow compound datatype fields to + be inserted past the end of the datatype. + * Fixed the internal macros used to encode & decode file metadata, to avoid + an unaligned access warning on IA64 machines. * Fixed an off-by-one error in H5Sselect_valid when hyperslab selections which would allow hyperslab selections which overlapped the edge of the selection by one element as valid. - * Fixed the internal macros used to encode & decode file metadata, to avoid - an unaligned access warning on IA64 machines. - * Corrected behavior of H5Tinsert to not allow compound datatype fields to - be inserted past the end of the datatype. - * Retired the DPSS virtual file driver (--with-gridstorage configure - option). - * Fixed bug where variable-length datatypes for attributes was not working + * Fixed a bug in internal B-tree code where a B-tree was not being copied correctly. - * Fixed bug where raw data re-allocated from the free-list would sometimes - overlap with the metadata accumulator and get corrupted. QAK - 1/23/02 - * Fixed bug where a preempted chunk in the chunk data could still be - used by an internal pointer and cause an assertion failure or core - dump. QAK - 2/13/02 - * Fixed bug where non-zero fill-value was not being read correctly from - certain chunked datasets when using an "all" or contiguous hyperslab - selection. QAK - 2/14/02 + * Fixed a bug in the 'big' test where quota limits weren't being detected + properly if they caused close() to fail. + * Fixed a bug where 'or'ing a hyperslab with a 'none' selection would + fail. Now adds that hyperslab as the first hyperlab in the selection. + * Fixed a bug where appending a point selection to the current selection + would not actually append the point when there were no points defined + currently. + * Fixed a bug where reading or writing chunked data which needed datatype + conversion could result in data values getting corrupted. + * Fixed a bug where reading an entire dataset wasn't being handled + optimally when the dataset had unlimited dimensions. Dataset is read + in a single low-level I/O now, instead of being broken into separate + pieces internally. + * Fixed a bug when reading chunked datasets where the edge of the dataset + would be incorrectly detected and generate an assertion failure. + * Added new parallel hdf5 tests in t_mpi. The new test checks if the + filesystem or the MPI-IO can really handle greater than 2GB files. + If it fails, it prints information message only without failing the + test. + * Fixed a bug in H5FD_mpio_flush() that might result in negative file seek + if both MPIO and Split-file drivers are used together. + * Fixed H5FDmpio.h to be C++ friendly by making Parallel HDF5 API's to be + external to C++. + * Fixed a bug of H5pubconf.h causing repeated definitions if it is included + more than once. hdf5.h now includes H5public.h which includes + H5pubconf.h. Applications should #include hdf5.h which handles multiple + inclusion correctly. + * Tweaked a few API functions to use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned' or + 'hsize_t', which may cause errors in some cases. + * Changed behavior of H5Tget_member_type to correctly emulate HDF5 v1.2.x + when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled. + * Removed limitation that the data transfer buffer size needed to be + set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all' selection + code to handle. Any size dimensioned datasets should be handled + correctly now. + * The allocation by alignment (H5Pset_alignment) feature code somehow + got dropped in some 1.3.x version. Re-implemented it with "new and + improved" algorithm. It keeps track of "wasted" file-fragment in + the free-list too. + * IMPORTANT: Fixed file metadata corruption bug which could cause metadata + data loss in certain situations. + * Fixed build on Linux systems with --enable-static-exec flag. It now + works correctly. + * Fixed bug with non-zero userblock sizes causing raw data to not write + correctly. + * The RCSID string in H5public.h was causing the C++ compiling problem + because when it was included multiple times, C++ did not like multiple + definitions of the same static variable. All occurance of RCSID + definition are removed since we have not used it consistently before. + * Fixed bug where non-aligned hyperslab I/O on chunked datasets was + causing errors during I/O + * Fixed bug with contiguous hyperslabs not being detected, causing + slower I/O than necessary. + Configuration ------------- - * Changed the default value of $NPROCS from 2 to 3 since 3 processes - have a much bigger chance catching parallel errors than just 2. - * Basic port to Compaq (nee DEC) Alpha OSF 5. - * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to enable - or disable large file support on Linux. + * Can use just enable-threadsafe if the C compiler has builtin pthreads + support. * Require HDF (a.k.a. hdf4) software that consists of a newer version of zlib library which consists of the compress2() function. Versions HDF version 4.1r3 and newer meets this requirement. The compress2 uses a newer compression algorithm used by the HDF5 library. Also, 4.1r3 has an hdp tool that can handle "loops" in Vgroups. - * Can use just enable-threadsafe if the C compiler has builtin pthreads - support. + * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to enable + or disable large file support on Linux. + * Basic port to Compaq (nee DEC) Alpha OSF 5. + * Changed the default value of $NPROCS from 2 to 3 since 3 processes + have a much bigger chance catching parallel errors than just 2. Tools ----- - * Fixed segfault when "-v" flag was used with the h5dumper. + * Fixed limitation in h5dumper with object names which reached over 1024 + characters in length. We can now handle arbitrarily larger sizes for + object names. BW - 2002/02/27 * Fixed so that the "-i" flag works correctly with the h5dumper. + * Fixed segfault when "-v" flag was used with the h5dumper. Documentation @@ -141,9 +156,90 @@ Documentation New Features ============ - * A helper script called ``h5cc'', which helps compilation of HDF5 - programs, is now distributed with HDF5. See the reference manual - for information on how to use this feature. + * A new query function H5Tget_member_index has been added for compound + and enumeration data types, to retrieve member's index by name. + SLU - 2002/04/05 + * Improved performance of "regular" hyperslab I/O when using MPI-IO and the + datatype conversion is unneccessary. QAK - 2002/04/02 + * Improved performance of single hyperslab I/O when datatype conversion is + unneccessary. QAK - 2002/04/02 + * Added new "H5Sget_select_type" API function to determine which type of + selection is defined for a dataspace ("all", "none", "hyperslab" or + "point"). QAK - 2002/02/7 + * Added support to read/write portions of chunks directly, if they are + uncompressed and too large to cache. This should speed up I/O on chunked + datasets for a few more cases. QAK - 2002/01/31 + * Parallel HDF5 is now supported on HP-UX 11.00 platforms. + * Added H5Rget_obj_type() API function, which performs the same functionality + as H5Rget_object_type(), but requires the reference type as a parameter + in order to correctly handle dataset region references. Moved + H5Rget_object_type() to be only compiled into the library when v1.4 + compatibility is enabled. + * Changed internal error handling macros to reduce code size of library by + about 10-20%. + * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file + close behavior. It has four values, H5F_CLOSE_WEAK, H5F_CLOSE_SEMI, + H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT. Two correspont functions + H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided. Two + new functions H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids are offerted to assist + this new feature. For full details, please refer to the reference + manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the + functions mentioned above. + * Removed H5P(get|set)_hyper_cache API function, since the property is no + longer used. + * Improved performance of non-contiguous hyperslabs (built up with + several hyperslab selection calls). + * Improved performance of single, contiguous hyperslabs when reading or + writing. + * As part of the transition to using generic properties everywhere, the + parameter of H5Pcreate changed from H5P_class_t to hid_t, as well + the return type of H5Pget_class changed from H5P_class_t to hid_t. + Further changes are still necessary and will be documented here as they + are made. + * Added a new test to verify the information provided by the configure + command. + * The H5Pset_fapl_split() accepts raw and meta file names similar to the + syntax of H5Pset_fapl_multi() in addition to what it used to accept. + * Added perform programs to test the HDF5 library performance. Programs + are installed in directory perform/. + * Added new checking in H5check_version() to verify the five HDF5 version + information macros (H5_VERS_MAJOR, H5_VERS_MINOR, H5_VERS_RELEASE, + H5_VERS_SUBRELEASE and H5_VERS_INFO) are consistent. + * Added a new public macro, H5_VERS_INFO, which is a string holding + the HDF5 library version information. This string is also compiled + into all HDF5 binary code which helps to identify the version + information of the binary code. One may use the Unix strings + command on the binary file and looks for the pattern "HDF5 library + version". + * Added a parallel HDF5 example examples/ph5example.c to illustrate + the basic way of using parallel HDF5. + * Added two simple parallel performance tests as mpi-perf.c (MPI + performance) and perf.c (PHDF5 performance) in testpar. + * Improved regular hyperslab I/O by about a factor of 6 or so. + * Modified the Pablo build procedure to permit building of the instrumented + library to link either with the Trace libraries as before or with the + Pablo Performance Caputure Facility. + * Verified correct operation of library on Solaris 2.8 in both 64-bit and + 32-bit compilation modes. See INSTALL document for instructions on + compiling the distribution with 64-bit support. + * Parallel HDF5 now runs on the HP V2500 and HP N4000 machines. + * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under + tools/gifconv. The convertor supports the ability to create animated + gifs as well. + * Added a global string variable H5_lib_vers_info_g which holds the + HDF5 library version information. This can be used to identify + an hdf5 library or hdf5 application binary. + Also added a verification of the consistency between H5_lib_vers_info_g + and other version information in the source code. + * File sizes greater than 2GB are now supported on Linux systems with + version 2.4.x or higher kernels. + * F90 APIs are available on HPUX 11.00 and IBM SP platforms. + * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms. See + INSTALL_Windows.txt for details. + * F90 API: + - Added aditional parameter "dims" to the h5dread/h5dwrite and + h5aread/h5awrite subroutines. This parameter is 1D array of size + 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions. * C++ API: - Added two new member functions: Exception::getFuncName() and Exception::getCFuncName() to provide the name of the member @@ -153,83 +249,9 @@ New Features implementation. The new operator= functions invoke H5Tcopy, H5Scopy, and H5Pcopy to make a copy of a datatype, dataspace, and property list, respectively. - * F90 API: - - Added aditional parameter "dims" to the h5dread/h5dwrite and - h5aread/h5awrite subroutines. This parameter is 1D array of size - 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions. - * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms. See - INSTALL_Windows.txt for details. - * F90 APIs are available on HPUX 11.00 and IBM SP platforms. - * File sizes greater than 2GB are now supported on Linux systems with - version 2.4.x or higher kernels. - * Added a global string variable H5_lib_vers_info_g which holds the - HDF5 library version information. This can be used to identify - an hdf5 library or hdf5 application binary. - Also added a verification of the consistency between H5_lib_vers_info_g - and other version information in the source code. - * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under - tools/gifconv. The convertor supports the ability to create animated - gifs as well. - * Parallel HDF5 now runs on the HP V2500 and HP N4000 machines. - * Verified correct operation of library on Solaris 2.8 in both 64-bit and - 32-bit compilation modes. See INSTALL document for instructions on - compiling the distribution with 64-bit support. - * Modified the Pablo build procedure to permit building of the instrumented - library to link either with the Trace libraries as before or with the - Pablo Performance Caputure Facility. - * Improved regular hyperslab I/O by about a factor of 6 or so. - * Added two simple parallel performance tests as mpi-perf.c (MPI - performance) and perf.c (PHDF5 performance) in testpar. - * Added a parallel HDF5 example examples/ph5example.c to illustrate - the basic way of using parallel HDF5. - * Added a new public macro, H5_VERS_INFO, which is a string holding - the HDF5 library version information. This string is also compiled - into all HDF5 binary code which helps to identify the version - information of the binary code. One may use the Unix strings - command on the binary file and looks for the pattern "HDF5 library - version". - * Added new checking in H5check_version() to verify the five HDF5 version - information macros (H5_VERS_MAJOR, H5_VERS_MINOR, H5_VERS_RELEASE, - H5_VERS_SUBRELEASE and H5_VERS_INFO) are consistent. - * Added perform programs to test the HDF5 library performance. Programs - are installed in directory perform/. - * The H5Pset_fapl_split() accepts raw and meta file names similar to the - syntax of H5Pset_fapl_multi() in addition to what it used to accept. - * Added a new test to verify the information provided by the configure - command. - * As part of the transition to using generic properties everywhere, the - parameter of H5Pcreate changed from H5P_class_t to hid_t, as well - the return type of H5Pget_class changed from H5P_class_t to hid_t. - Further changes are still necessary and will be documented here as they - are made. - * Improved performance of single, contiguous hyperslabs when reading or - writing. - * Improved performance of non-contiguous hyperslabs (built up with - several hyperslab selection calls). - * Removed H5P(get|set)_hyper_cache API function, since the property is no - longer used. - * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file - close behavior. It has four values, H5F_CLOSE_WEAK, H5F_CLOSE_SEMI, - H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT. Two correspont functions - H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided. Two - new functions H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids are offerted to assist - this new feature. For full details, please refer to the reference - manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the - functions mentioned above. - * Changed internal error handling macros to reduce code size of library by - about 10-20%. - * Added H5Rget_obj_type() API function, which performs the same functionality - as H5Rget_object_type(), but requires the reference type as a parameter - in order to correctly handle dataset region references. Moved - H5Rget_object_type() to be only compiled into the library when v1.4 - compatibility is enabled. - * Parallel HDF5 is now supported on HP-UX 11.00 platforms. - * Added support to read/write portions of chunks directly, if they are - uncompressed and too large to cache. This should speed up I/O on chunked - datasets for a few more cases. -QAK, 1/31/02 - * Added new "H5Sget_select_type" API function to determine which type of - selection is defined for a dataspace ("all", "none", "hyperslab" or - "point"). -QAK, 2/7/02 + * A helper script called ``h5cc'', which helps compilation of HDF5 + programs, is now distributed with HDF5. See the reference manual + for information on how to use this feature. Platforms Tested diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index fe5a14b..6c09c6a 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.5.24 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.5.25 currently under development ================================================================================ diff --git a/src/H5public.h b/src/H5public.h index 3f531bf..ccdab2d 100644 --- a/src/H5public.h +++ b/src/H5public.h @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ /* Version numbers */ #define H5_VERS_MAJOR 1 /* For major interface/format changes */ #define H5_VERS_MINOR 5 /* For minor interface/format changes */ -#define H5_VERS_RELEASE 24 /* For tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */ +#define H5_VERS_RELEASE 25 /* For tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */ #define H5_VERS_SUBRELEASE "" /* For pre-releases like snap0 */ /* Empty string for real releases. */ -#define H5_VERS_INFO "HDF5 library version: 1.5.24" /* Full version string */ +#define H5_VERS_INFO "HDF5 library version: 1.5.25" /* Full version string */ #define H5check() H5check_version(H5_VERS_MAJOR,H5_VERS_MINOR, \ H5_VERS_RELEASE) -- cgit v0.12