Purpose:
Bug fix
Description:
In several if statements, '>' was used in place of '<='. This
caused exceptions thrown inappropriately. Replaced '>' by '<='
where applicable.
Platforms tested:
SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
Windows 98
Purpose:
Eliminated warnings
Description:
On IRIX and Windows 98, if a function, that returns a value, throws
an exception in "else" statement, the compiler still complains that
the function doesn't return a value.
Solution:
Replaced:
if (something valid)
return a value
else
throw an exception
with:
if (something invalid)
throw an exception
return a value
Platforms tested:
Windows 98
SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
Linux 6.2 (eirene)
IRIX64 (modi4) - only tested that the warnings went away, still working
on other configuration problems.
Purpose: Usability enhancement
Description:
- Added more information about the failure to all the throw's,
i.e, member function name and more detail about the failure, where
appropriate. Also, added exception throws for private functions,
such as p_close to provide more specific details.
- Added two api functions: Exception::getFuncName() and
Exception::getCFuncName() to provide the name of the member
function where failure occurs.
- Fixed some typos, one of which caused segn. fault in some
situations (resetIdComponent was accidentally called twice
in a couple of places :)
Platforms:
arabica (sparc-sun-solaris 2.7)
Feasibility improvement
Description:
- Some member functions in class Exception can be called without
an Exception instance exits, but because they are not static, they
cannot.
- Many exception throwings don't provide any information to callers.
Solution:
- Add 'static' to several member functions in class Exception.
- Added <class name::function name> to some exceptions thrown
in H5File.cpp and H5FcreatProp.cpp. I'm trying this for users'
comments. More information may be added later and to all
exceptions.
- Changed the comment line for emacs editor to:
// C++ informative line for the emacs editor: -*- C++ -*-
because... I'd rather not say that the code "may look like C" :-)
Platforms tested:
Linux (gcc version egcs-2.91.66)
Fix and improve
Description:
- Put functions that are common to H5File and Group into a
prototype class, CommonFG. I didn't do that before because
of the fear of the consequences of multiple inheritance, since
H5File and Group already inherit from different super classes.
I recently read a C++ book and learned to use MI more safely.
This change reduced some more of code redundancy.
- Added missing const to some function parameters
- Added missing return statements for some functions.
Platforms tested:
Solaris/CC 5.0 (arabica)
Purpose:
Support portability
Description:
I forgot that source file extension .C will not work on Windows.
Solution:
Changed all source file from *.C to *.cpp for portability.
Platforms tested:
arabica (sparc-sun-solaris 2.7)
