[svn-r3474]

Purpose: Updating hdf5/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt from hdf5/RELEASE.txt. Platforms tested: IE 5
2001-02-20 15:57:47 -05:00
parent 5a21563a18
commit 24000cb5f6
1 changed files with 37 additions and 14 deletions
--- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ CONTENTS
 - h4toh5 Utility 
 - F90 Support
 - C++ Support
+- Pablo Support 
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.0 
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
 - Platforms Tested
@@ -43,7 +44,11 @@ New Features
     complete list of features.
   * Improved configure to detect if MPIO routines are available when
     parallel mode is requested.
-   * Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented.
+   * Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented. See:
+
+        http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/mthdf/MTHDFpaper.htm
+
+     for more details.
   * Added data sieve buffering to raw data I/O path. This is enabled
     for all VFL drivers except the mpio & core drivers. Setting the
     sieve buffer size is controlled with the new API function,
@@ -65,6 +70,8 @@ New Features
     ``make install-doc'' command. The documentation is installed in the
     $(prefix)/doc directory where $(prefix) is the prefix specified by
     the (optional) ``--prefix'' flag during configuration.
+   * HDF5 can operate correctly in the OpenMP environment in a limited way.
+     Check doc/html/TechNotes/openmp-hdf5.html for details.

 h4toh5 Utility 
 ==============
@@ -78,10 +85,13 @@ h4toh5 Utility

      The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
      to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. 
+
        http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
+
      Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace 
      is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is 
      incorrectly described.)  For more information, please see:
+
        http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm
 
    Known Limitations of the h4toh5 release
@@ -99,14 +109,14 @@ h4toh5 Utility
    following additional rules:

       * For the data of an HDF4 SDS, image, and palette, if the data is
-	 declared 'DFNT_CHAR8' it will be assumed to be integer and
-	 will be an H5T_INTEGER type.
+         declared 'DFNT_CHAR8' it will be assumed to be integer and will
+         be an H5T_INTEGER type.
       * For attributes of any HDF4 object, data of type 'DFNT_CHAR8'
-	 will be converted to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
+         will be converted to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
       * For an HDF4 Vdata, it is difficult to determine whether data 
-	 of type 'DFNT_CHAR8' is intended to be bytes or characters.
-	 The h4toh5 utility will consider them to be C characters, and
-	 will convert them to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
+         of type 'DFNT_CHAR8' is intended to be bytes or characters. The
+         h4toh5 utility will consider them to be C characters, and will
+         convert them to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.


    3. Compression, Chunking and External Storage
@@ -161,6 +171,7 @@ F90 Support
         h5close_types.

       * The following subroutines are no longer available: 
+
             h5pset_xfer_f
             h5pget_xfer_f
             h5pset_mpi_f
@@ -175,6 +186,7 @@ F90 Support
             h5pget_family_f
             
       * The following functions have been added:
+
             h5pset_fapl_mpio_f
             h5pget_fapl_mpio_f
             h5pset_dxpl_mpio_f
@@ -206,6 +218,12 @@ C++ Support

        C++ APIs are available for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, and FreeBSD. 
 
+Pablo Support
+=============
+	This version does not allow proper building of the Pablo-instrumented
+        version of the library.  A version supporting the pablo build is
+	available on the Pablo Website at 
+	www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Pablo.Release.5/HDFLibrary/hdf5_v1.4.tar.gz

 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.0
 ==========================
@@ -346,14 +364,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
    * Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big endian float
      in some special cases.
    * Corrected configuration error which was not including compression support
-        correctly.
+      correctly.
    * Cleaned up lots of warnings.
    * Changed a few h5dump command line switches and added long versions of
-        the switches.
+      the switches.
    * Changed parameters for H5Tconvert, H5Pset_bufer and H5Pget_buffer from
-        size_t to hsize_t
+      size_t to hsize_t
    * Fixed fairly obscure bug in hyperslab I/O which could (in rare cases)
-        not copy all the data during a transfer.
+      not copy all the data during a transfer.
    * Removed ragged array code from library.
    * F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported platforms.

@@ -361,7 +379,8 @@ Platforms Tested
 ================


-  AIX 4.3.3.0 (IBM SP powerpc)  mpcc_r 3.6.6
+  AIX 4.3.3.0 (IBM SP powerpc)  xlc 3.6.6
+  				mpcc_r 3.6.6
  Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.45      Cray Standard C Version 6.4.0.0
                                Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.2
  Cray SV1 sn9605 10.0.0.7      Cray Standard C Version 6.4.0.0
@@ -412,7 +431,8 @@ Known Problems
  on Linux platforms using the gcc-2.95.2 compiler.

  The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
-  on IBM SP2 platform.
+  on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode.  The parallel mode works fine
+  with this option.

  The compilation fails if configured with --enable-static-exec on IRIX 6.5.

@@ -455,7 +475,7 @@ Known Problems
  It is not supported in the TFLOPS machine.

 * Shared library option is broken for IBM SP and some Origin 2000 platforms.
-  One needs to run ./configure with '--disable-shared'
+  One needs to run ./configure with '--disable-shared --enable-static'.

 * The ./dsets tests failed in the TFLOPS machine if the test program,
  dsets.c, is compiled with the -O option.  The hdf5 library still works
@@ -482,8 +502,11 @@ Known Problems

 * The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
  to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. 
+
      http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
+
  Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace 
  is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is 
  incorrectly described.)  For more information, please see:
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm