From afcd1ddb398e04006da8b11a95a60cec61da7349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Lu Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:30:40 -0500 Subject: [svn-r11006] Misc. update: Document a known problem with Fletcher32 filter. --- release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 7fbbf1a..132bbdb 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -721,6 +721,13 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel y n y n y y y Known Problems ============== +* The dataset created with the v1.6.2 library can't be read with the v1.6.3 + library or after when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is enabled. There was a bug + in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 checksum in the library before + v1.6.3. The checksum value wasn't consistent between big-endian and + little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3. However, after + fixing the bug, the checksum value is no longer the same as before on + little-endian system. SLU - 2005/6/30 * For the version 6(6.02 and 6.04) of Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2). The library failed in several tests but all related to multi driver. The problem has -- cgit v0.12