Bug fix.
Description:
The chunking code was using internal allocation routines to put blocks on
a free list for reuse, instead of using the system allocation routines (ie.
malloc, free, etc.). This causes problems when user filters attempt to
allocate/free chunks for their algorithm's use.
Solution:
Switched the chunking code back to using the system allocation routines,
we can address performance issues with them if it becomes a real problem.
Platforms tested:
Linux 2.2.x (eirene) && IRIX64 6.5 (modi4)
New feature.
Description:
Added a "small data" block allocation mechanism to the library, similar to
the mechanism used for allocating metadata currently.
See the RFC for more details:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/SmallData/SmallData.html
This reduces the number of I/O operations which hit the disk for my test
program from 19 to 15 (i.e. from 393 to 15, overall).
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN and FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir) w/C++
Code cleanup
Description:
Previously, the I/O pipeline (pline), external file list (efl) and fill-
value (fill) structs were passed down the raw data function call chain,
even into and/or through functions which didn't use them. Since all three
of these pieces of information are available from the dataset creation
property list, just pass the dataset creation property list down the
function call chain and query for the information needed in a particular
function.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
Purpose:
H5Dset_extent API function
Description:
1 new public function: H5Dset_extent, that allows shrinking a dataset
several private functions that free the previously allocated chunks
H5F_istore_prune_by_extent, H5B_prune_by_extent : removes the chunks
H5F_istore_initialize_by_extent : initializes them with the fill value
H5S_select_fill is used to fill the selection in the memory buffer
Platforms tested:
Windows 2000
SUN( arabica)
LINUX (eirene)
IRIX64 (modi4)
Bug Fix
Description:
The H5Gget_objinfo() function was not setting the 'fileno' field in the
H5G_stat_t struct passed in.
Solution:
Added a "file serial number" to each file currently open in the library
and put that in the 'fileno' field. If a file is opened twice (with
H5Fopen) and the VFL driver detects that it is the same file (i.e. the
two file structures have the same "shared file info" in the library's
memory structures), they will have the same serial number.
This serial number has two drawbacks:
- If a VFL driver doesn't/can't detect that two calls to H5Fopen with
the same file actually _are_ the same file, each will get a
different serial number
- If the same file is closed and re-opened, the serial number will be
different.
It is be possible to fix the second drawback for many VFL drivers, but it
would be a lot of effort and probably isn't worth it until we've got a
good reason to do it. Dunno if we'll ever be able to fix the first
drawback...
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
VS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bug Fix
Description:
When file space was returned to the file space free-list for reuse,
occasionally raw data allocations which used space from the free-list
would overlap with the metadata accumulator and get over-written with
the cached information in the accumulator, corrupting the data.
Solution:
Check if the space about to be recycled on the free-list is going to be
used for raw data and also overlaps with the metadata accumulator cache,
avoiding using space that fits those criteria.
This fixes bug #701
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
Purpose:
Modify H5Fclose behavior
Description:
The HDF5 actual file close behaves in several ways in terms of if there
are still objects(dataset, group, datatype) opened in file.
Solution:
Added a new file access property, file close degree. It has four values,
H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT
H5F_CLOSE_WEAK
H5F_CLOSE_SEMI
H5F_CLOSE_STRONG
The way a file is closed is decided by these values.
Platforms tested:
IRIX64 6.5, SunOS 5.6, FreeBSD 4.4
Bug Fix
Description:
The file metadata macros generate unaligned access warnings on the IA64
architecture.
Solution:
Got rid of bogus big-endian vs. little-endian differentiation when encoding
and decoding file metadata and use proper set of macros to prevent unaligned
access problems.
This fixes bug #672.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (sleipnir)
Code cleanup.
Description:
Fix a few compiler warnings from the file creation property list -> generic
property list conversion. Also change a hard-wired value (8) for the
number of B-tree key values to a value that uses the enum's generated by
the compiler.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Code cleanup (sorta)
Description:
When the first versions of the HDF5 library were designed, I remembered
vividly the difficulties of porting code from a 32-bit platform to a 16-bit
platform and asked that people use intn & uintn instead of int & unsigned
int, respectively. However, in hindsight, this was overkill and
unnecessary since we weren't going to be porting the HDF5 library to
16-bit architectures.
Currently, the extra uintn & intn typedefs are causing problems for users
who'd like to include both the HDF5 and HDF4 header files in one source
module (like Kent's h4toh5 library).
Solution:
Changed the uintn & intn's to unsigned and int's respectively.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Bug Fix, Code Cleanup, Code Optimization, etc.
Description:
Fold in the hyperslab speedups, clean up compile warnings and change a
few things from using 'unsigned' or 'hsize_t' to use 'size_t' instead.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.3 (hawkwind), Solaris 2.7 (arabica), Irix64 6.5 (modi4)
Update
Description:
Changed
#include <hdf_file.h>
construct to
#include "hdf_file.h"
so that the GNU compiler can more easily pick up the dependencies
which it places in the .depend and Dependencies files. Also
regenerated the Dependencies to go along with this.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Code cleanup.
Description:
Fixed _lots_ (I mean _tons_) of warnings spit out by the gcc with the
extra warnings. Including a few show-stoppers for compression on IRIX
machines.
Solution:
Changed lots of variables' types to more sensible and consistent types,
more range-checking, more variable typecasts, etc.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.2 (hawkwind), IRIX64-64 (modi4)
Purpose:
a bug fix
Description:
Get rid of warning information for comments on windows(**/* */)
Solution:
add a space between ** and /*. Now it is ** /*
Platforms tested:
windows 2000
Code optimization
Description:
Minor tweaks throughout the optimized regular hyperslab code to increase
speed. This set of improvements increase the benchmark time from taking
~5.46 seconds to ~4.50 seconds, or around a 20% further speedup.
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.6 (baldric)
Feature symmetry
Description:
A while ago I needed to get the 'type' of data being accessed during writes
to the VFL driver, so I put in code to get the information down there.
Albert asked for the same information during reads, so I've added that in.
Tested:
FreeBSD 4.1.1 (hawkwind)
Bug Fix
Description:
When parallel I/O is turned on, there were some macros used in the H5D
routines which poked around in the H5F_t structure. This breaks the
privacy of that structure and ties the H5D code too tightly to the H5F_t
struct.
Solution:
Added a small function to retrieve the the value (driver_id) needed from
the H5F_t function.
Platforms tested:
Eyeballed only, Albert needs this right away...
Maintainance & performance enhancements
Description:
Re-arranged header files to protect private symbols better.
Changed optimized regular hyperslab I/O to compute the offsets more
efficiently from previous method of using matrix operations.
Added sequential I/O operations at a more abstract level (at the same level
as H5F_arr_read/write), to support the optimized hyperslab I/O.
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.6 (baldric) & FreeBSD 4.1.1 (hawkwind)
Rearrange code
Description:
The data sieve buffering code for contiguously stored datasets was
wedged in the H5F_arr_read/H5F_arr_write routines.
Solution:
Created a new H5Fcontig.c to hold I/O routines for contiguously stored
datasets (like H5Fistore.c for chunked dataset I/O routines) and moved
data sieving code into those routines.
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.6 (i.e. baldric)
Implemented new feature
Description:
Added data sieve buffering code to raw I/O data path. This is enabled for
all the VFL drivers except the mpio & core drivers. Also added two new
API functions to control the sieve buffer size: H5Pset_sieve_buf_size() and
H5Pget_sieve_buf_size().
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.6 (i.e. baldric)
has turned off error reporting in the library.
Also, changed the way property lists are managed and closed so that they
can be automatically closed when the library terminates.
to double-check things. I've turned them back on again now. I also changed
the internal representation of a few struct fields to be float instead of
double, since the HP/UX 10.20 compiler was having problems with the alignment
of the doubles.
but I fixed lots of misc. compiler warnings in other code and also tracked down
the memory overwrite bug that was causing the development branch to core dump
on most machines.
----------------------
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5FDmpio.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5Smpio.c
The `driver_id' for a file was accidently put in two
structs. I removed it from the H5F_file_t struct since it's
really an attribute of the VFL stuff.
More careful incrementing/decrementing the driver ID to fix a
memory leak.
./src/H5P.c
Rewrote H5Pcreate() in terms of H5P_copy() of a default
property list. This fixes some referencing counting bugs.
----------------------
./MANIFEST
./src/H5FDmulti.c [NEW]
./src/H5FDmulti.h [NEW]
./src/Makefile.in
./src/hdf5.h
The split driver was reimplemented as a more general "multi"
driver which is capable of splitting data into multiple files
like the family driver except the partioning is done by memory
usage type instead of address. The H5Pset_fapl_split()
function just calls H5Pset_fapl_multi() with arguments which
prepare to split the address space into two files: meta and
raw data.
This is the first version. I plan to allow the open() call to
relax a bit which would allow one to open an hdf5 file when
only the meta-data file is present. This would allow a very
large file to be split and stored on tape and the relatively
small meta file to be mirrored on disk to allow limited
browsing of the file (any request for raw data would fail).
./src/H5private.h
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5FD.c
./src/H5FDprivate.h
./src/H5FDpublic.h
./src/H5FDcore.c
./src/H5FDfamily.c
./src/H5FDmpio.c
./src/H5FDsec2.c
Added the ability for a file driver to store information in
the superblock which would be needed if the file were opened
again later for reading. The format is driver-defined which
allows users to extend it however they like.
./doc/html/H5.format.html
Added information about the new driver information block of
the superblock. This is where file drivers store information
they need in order to reopen the file later.
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5FD.c
./src/H5FDprivate.h
./src/H5FDpublic.h
./src/H5FDcore.c
./src/H5FDfamily.c
./src/H5FDmpio.c
./src/H5FDsec2.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5R.c
The file access properties and the file access property list
were decoupled, which allows the property list to more cleanly
contain properties for various levels of the file and which
allows the property list to be modified more cleanly when
opening files.
./src/H5.c
./src/H5FDpublic.h
Removed H5FD_MEM_META and H5FD_MEM_GROUP since they're never
used.
./src/H5D.c
Changed the way we detect the MPIO driver in all these special
cases.
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Rpublic.h
./test/tfile.c
The default file sizeof(offset) was changed to be a function
of haddr_t instead of hsize_t.
THE H5RPUBLIC.H DEFINITIONS WILL HAVE PROBLEMS IF THE USER
CREATES A FILE WITH NON-DEFAULT OFFSET AND SIZE SIZES!
./src/H5F.c
Fixed an uninitialized memory access bug in file closing
related to the VFL.
./src/H5T.c
./src/H5Tpublic.h
Added an H5T_NATIVE_HADDR predefined datatype which
corresponds to the `haddr_t' type.
./test/Makefile.in
Reformatted long lines.
./test/big.c
./test/cmpd_dset.c
./test/dsets.c
./test/dtypes.c
./test/extend.c
./test/external.c
Removed the H5F_ACC_DEBUG flag from file creation/open calls.
./test/big.c
Plugged a memory leak.
./test/h5test.c
Added support for the `multi' driver.
Removed #warning about not having the stdio driver. Plans are
to not implement it since the sec2 driver serves the same
purpose and testing didn't show any difference in execution
times between the two.
----------------------
This extensive change is the virtual file layer implementation. I've
ported and tested the sec2, family, and core drivers and only ported
the mpio driver (Albert will test it). So if you need MPIO I would
recommend sticking with the previous version for a while.
You will get a few compile warnings about split and stdio drivers not
being implemented and possibly tracing information not inserted in
some of the drivers. You can safely ignore them but I plan to fix
them.
I'm still working on the split driver because I just realized that it
needs a part of the VFL that isn't written yet.
Documentation is being updated also because there were some minor
changes (mostly just name changes). It should be available on my web
site later this week.
./MANIFEST
./src/Makefile.in
./src/hdf5.h
./src/H5Flow.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5Fstdio.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5Fsec2.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5Fsplit.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5Fmpio.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5Ffamily.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5Fcore.c [REMOVED]
./src/H5MFpublic.h [REMOVED]
./src/H5FD.c [NEW]
./src/H5FDcore.c [NEW]
./src/H5FDcore.h [NEW]
./src/H5FDfamily.c [NEW]
./src/H5FDfamily.h [NEW]
./src/H5FDmpio.c [NEW]
./src/H5FDmpio.h [NEW]
./src/H5FDprivate.h [NEW]
./src/H5FDpublic.h [NEW]
./src/H5FDsec2.c [NEW]
./src/H5FDsec2.h [NEW]
Removed/added files for virtual file layer.
./bin/trace
./src/H5.c
Removed unused public datatypes and added new VFL public
datatypes.
Changed an error message.
./config/BlankForm
./config/dec-flags
./config/gnu-flags
./config/hpux10.20
./config/hpux9.03
./config/irix5.x
./config/irix6.x
./config/solaris2.x
./config/unicosmk
Removed the H5F_OPT_SEEK and H5F_LOW_DFLT constants from the
configuration since they're no longer applicable. The default
file driver is always the sec2 driver and it always optimizes
calls to lseek() or lseek64().
./config/depend.in
C preprocessor errors generated during automatic dependency
building are sent to /dev/null to prevent them from appearing
twice in the make output.
./src/H5AC.c
./src/H5B.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5G.c
./src/H5Gent.c
./src/H5Gnode.c
./src/H5HG.c
./src/H5HL.c
./src/H5O.c
./src/H5Oattr.c
./src/H5Odtype.c
./src/H5Oefl.c
./src/H5Oshared.c
./src/H5T.c
./src/H5detect.c
./test/ohdr.c
Changed H5F_ADDR_UNDEF to HADDR_UNDEF to be more consistent
with the `haddr_t' datatype which is now a public type.
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5P.c
./src/H5Ppublic.h
./src/H5Tconv.c
./test/cmpd_dset.c
./test/dsets.c
./test/overhead.c
./test/tselect.c
./test/tvltypes.c
The H5P_DATASET_XFER constant was changed to H5P_DATA_XFER
because the properties apply to all types of I/O operations,
not just datasets.
./src/H5B.c
./src/H5Bprivate.h
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5Dpublic.h
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Farray.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5Fpublic.h
./src/H5Gnode.c
./src/H5Gpkg.h
./src/H5HG.c
./src/H5HL.c
./src/H5O.c
./src/H5R.c
./src/H5Sall.c
./src/H5Shyper.c
./src/H5Smpio.c
./src/H5Spoint.c
./src/H5Sprivate.h
./test/big.c
./test/h5test.c
./test/istore.c
./testpar/t_dset.c
./testpar/t_file.c
./tools/h5debug.c
./tools/h5ls.c
Modified to work with the virtual file layer by calling H5FD_*
functions instead of H5F_low_* functions and by passing file
access and data transfer properties by object ID instead of
pointer.
Changed H5D_transfer_t to H5FD_mpio_xfer_t since the
COLLECTIVE vs. INDEPENDENT transfer mode is specific to the
MPIO file driver.
Moved MPIO-specific stuff into the MPIO driver.
./src/H5B.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
The H5F_mpio_* private functions were renamed and placed in
the H5FDmpio driver except those which appeared in H5Smpio.c.
./src/H5E.c
./src/H5Epublic.h
Added major error number H5E_VFL for virtual file layer
related errors.
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
Changed the logic that controls whether the boot block is
written. Instead of assuming that the first call to write the
boot block is only to allocate space, I've added a function
argument which makes this explicit.
Changed the way files are compared so that a driver-defined
comparison function can be called. Files which belong to
different drivers are always considered different.
Removed H5F_driver_t since file drivers are now identified by
object ID instead of a special non-user-extendible datatype.
Removed all the hard-coded low-level file properties which
have been replaced by the various file drivers.
./src/H5I.c
./src/H5Iprivate.h
Added the H5I_inc_ref() which was removed a few months ago
since we finally have a use for it.
./src/H5Ipublic.h
Added the H5I_VFL object ID type to identify file drivers in
the virtual file layer.
./src/H5MF.c
./src/H5MFprivate.h
Moved all the allocation/deallocation code into the virtual
file layer which allows file drivers to override much of it.
./src/H5P.c
./src/H5Ppublic.h
Moved file driver-specific code into the various file driver
files.
The H5Pcopy() and H5Pclose() functions make calls into the
virtual file driver to manage the memory for driver-specific
file access and data transfer properties.
./src/H5private.h
./src/H5public.h
The `haddr_t' type is now public.
./test/tfile.c
Added a few more comments.
final parameter (so that VL datatypes have a way to pass in the custom memory
allocation routines).
Fixed a conversion bug when VL fields were part of a compound datatype that
was causing the no-op conversion routine to be used instead of the vlen routine.
Added the H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager and H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager routines to
allow users to provide their own custom memory allocation routines for VL data
read in from the file and reclaimed with H5Dvlen_reclaim.
Finished coding on H5Dvlen_reclaim so it works now.
----------------------
Remove changes from CVS
./bin/release
Added a `--nocheck' switch which causes the script to not
check the contents of the MANIFEST file against CVS. This is
sometimes useful when you need to make a quick snapshot but
the MANIFEST file is not quite up to date.
./src/H5D.c
Removed warnings for unused variables
./src/H5Fprivate.h
Removed the WIN32 definition for `uint' and changed the data
type for `eof_written' from `uint' to `uintn'. Shouldn't this
really be `hbool_t'?
./src/H5Odtype.c
./src/H5T.c
./src/H5Tconv.c
./src/H5Tpkg.h
./src/H5Tpublic.h
./test/dtypes.c
./doc/html/H5.format.html
Added support for bitfields and opaque data types.
H5F.c:
H5Flow.c:
H5Fprivate.h:
Joined work by Quincey, Robb and me to eliminate the initial writes
of BOOTBLOCK when the file is first created. Also, eliminate the
repeatedly encoding of BOOTBLOCK in the flushing code. Introduced
the eof_written flag to indicate when it is not necessary to go
do a dumb write at eof.
(But something is not right if the userblock is not zero.)
H5Fmpio.c:
Added code to allow setting the MPIO debug output mask via
the environment variable H5F_mpio_Debug.
----------------------
./tools/h5ls.c
Added a `--address' (`-a') switch which causes h5ls to display
file addresses for raw data. For contiguous datasets it's just
a nice simple number, but for chunked datasets it's a list of
logical dataset coordinates, file addresses, filter masks, and
storage sizes.
Changed `--dump' switch to `--data'.
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
Enhanced the indexed-storage B-tree iterator so it can dump
raw data addresses (and other info) to the standard error
stream.
Added H5Ddebug() so h5ls has a way to dump addresses for
datasets. I'm not sure what else this API function should do,
so I think we should discuss it before we document it. So far,
h5ls is the only thing that uses it, and we can easily change
that.
./src/H5Tconv.c
./test/dtypes.c
Finally had a chance to verify Paul's H5T_conv_s_s (general
string to string conversions) bug fixes and incorporate them
into H5T_conv_f_f (general floating-point to floating-point
conversions) and H5T_conv_i_i (general integer to integer
conversons). Thanks Paul.
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5S.c
./src/H5Sprivate.h
Added performance timers around data space read and write
callbacks. They were already there for the gather/scatter
callbacks.
The timings for read/write callbacks are displayed along with
gather/scatter when data space debugging is turned on.
./bin/iostats
Updated to print totals. Added a `--fast' option that doesn't
do any output except the totals and is much faster.
./bin/trace
Changed __unused__ to UNUSED to match source code.
./config/gnu-flags
Updated error message for pgcc. I've sent bug reports to the
pgcc people but the new version still has the same bug.
./configure.in
./config/conclude.in
./config/depend.in
Fixed dependencies for non-GNU makes when run in a directory
other than the hdf5 source tree.
Updated GNU `make dep' rules to copy the distributed
dependencies for non-GNU makes into the source tree when run
in some other directory.
----------------------
./src/H5B.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Farray.c
./src/H5Fcore.c
./src/H5Ffamily.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5Flow.c
./src/H5Fmpio.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5Fsec2.c
./src/H5Fsplit.c
./src/H5Fstdio.c
./src/H5Gnode.c
./src/H5HG.c
./src/H5HL.c
./src/H5O.c
Changed H5F_block_read/write() to take a file transfer
property list instead of just a parallel I/O mode. This will
allow us to pass additional parameters to the I/O functions
without having so many arguments to worry about.
This fixes a bug I introduced last Friday for parallel HDF5
./src/H5B.c
Fixed decoding of B-tree keys when iterating through the
leaves of the B-tree. This fixes a bug for applications that are
adding new entries to groups and also listing the groups.
----------------------
./config/depend.in
Fixed automatic dependencies. We were storing dependencies for
*.o files instead of *.lo files after shared libraries were
added.
./config/gnu-flags
./config/linux-gnulibc1
Moved `-march=pentiumpro -mcpu=pentiumpro -malign-double' from
the linux file to this file and caused it to depend on the CPU
name. This fixes one of Elena's bugs.
./src/H5B.c
./src/H5Bprivate.h
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5Dprivate.h
./src/H5Dpublic.h
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Farray.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5Fmpio.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5Fpublic.h
./src/H5Gnode.c
./src/H5P.c
./src/H5RA.c
./src/H5Sall.c
./src/H5Shyper.c
./src/H5Smpio.c
./src/H5Spoint.c
./src/H5Sprivate.h
./src/H5Tpublic.h
./test/istore.c
Added an H5Dget_storage_size() function that reports the
amount of storage allocated for raw data in a dataset.
Changed H5D_xfer_* to H5F_xfer_* because these properties are
more general than datasets. This also allows some of the
lower-level I/O functions to get this information easier.
./src/H5S.c
./src/H5Sall.c
Added two new functions H5S_all_read() and H5S_all_write()
which are optimizations that copy data directly between file
and memory without having to go through the scatter gather
step. This knocks quite a bit of time off the I/O and
reading/writing entire datasets is a fairly common operation.
./tools/h5ls.c
Reports the logical size of data, the allocated size of data,
and the percent utilization.
./MANIFEST
Removed old pablo files, added new files. Snapshots should now
start to work again.
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5Fmpio.c
Removed two warnings signed vs. unsigned comparisons and check
for overflow.
./configure [REGENERATED]
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5O.c
Removed H5AC, H5B, and H5T from the default list of packages
to debug (because they're pretty expensive debugging), and
added H5O. Also fixed a bug for undefined variable in H5D when
H5S debugging is turned on but H5T debugging is turned off.
./config/conclude.in
Fixed installation of header files for building in a directory
other than the source directory. This fixes a bug where
H5config.h wasn't being installed.
./src/H5.c
./src/H5A.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5G.c
./src/H5I.c
./src/H5Iprivate.h
./src/H5P.c
./src/H5R.c
./src/H5RA.c
./src/H5S.c
./src/H5T.c
./src/H5TB.c
./src/H5Tprivate.h
./src/H5Z.c
./src/H5detect.c
./src/H5private.h
Changed the way the library shuts down again. Now it handles
cycles between packages and isn't so sensitive to dependencies
between packages. A package might shut down only to be
restarted to process a request from some other package being
shut down. Loops are detected after 100 iteractions and the
shutdown is aborted with a message on standard error. This
also makes it a lot easier to debug.
./src/H5A.c
Fixed H5A_write() and H5A_read() so they pass a non-null
background buffer to the conversion functions. This is
necessary when an attribute has a compound data type.
./src/H5Flow.c
./src/H5Fprivate.h
./src/H5Fsec2.c
Reindented new Win32 stuff.
./src/H5Odtype.c
Fixed a bug when enumeration types are used in a compound data
type. The byte pointer wasn't incremented after the type
information was written.
./tools/h5ls.c
Compound data types display their total size because it's not
always obvious from looking at the members.
Scalar attributes show their space as `scalar' instead of
`{}'.
The index value is not printed for attributes that have only a
few values. Instead the word `Data:' is printed on the first
line of attribute data.
Named types display their data type only if verbose output was
requested.
added a new member to the H5F_search_t struct to store the path name
we needed this to be able to tell if a file is already open since NT does not
use the inode.
