Merge 1.8 and h5dump/tools and tests based on tools library from trunk.
Reduced warnings.
HDFFV-7949:
Remove duplicated functions in h5ls
Tested: local linux,h5committest
hdffv-7514 - GMQS: h5dump - improve effectiveness of testing scripts for handling expected output files
description:
Removed top 3 lines from expected output file and update testing scripts
accordingly. These lines started to become maintainence headaches.
First phase for h5dump test update. Next phase will be for h5ls.
this is prerequisite for 'hdffv-7602 tools - upgrade tools' test scripts to share test files among tools, providing framework for test file re-usability.'
Tested:
jam (linux32-LE), koala (linux64-LE), heiwa (linuxppc64-BE), tejeda (mac32-LE), linew (solaris-BE), cmake (jam)
Bug fix
Description:
Variable length strings and sequences with NULL pointers were not handled
by library, causing problems access the data. This also affected fill values
for variable-length datatypes.
Solution:
Address the issues in the library by detecting NULL sequences/strings
and avoid trying to convert them.
Patched up dumper to display NULL sequences/strings.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
h5committest
