Bring r20557:22085 from trunk to this branch, also fixing some other
issues/failures in the branch simultaneously. The h5repack tests are still
failing, but Neil will be checking into those, so the branch can be fully
functional again.
Tested on:
Mac OSX/64 10.7.3 (amazon) w/debug
Bring revisions 16636:16821 from trunk to revise_chunks branch
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty)
Mac OS X/32 10.5.6 (amazon)
(h5committest not needed on this branch)
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
