DLL accommodation
Description:
In the inline constructor below:
DSetCreatPropList() : PropList( H5P_DATASET_CREATE) {}
H5P_DATASET_CREATE causes the famous "unresolved symbol" error
when building the Release version of dsets_cpp with DLL.
H5P_DATASET_CREATE uses H5P_CLS_DATASET_CREATE_g, which is
imported from hdf5dll. The inline constructor used in dsets.cpp
causes the use of H5P_CLS_DATASET_CREATE_g, which is then
considered undefined because dsets_cppdll is not using hdf5dll.
This only occurs in the Release version because the Debug build
disables inline.
Solution:
Made the affected constructor not inlined, i.e., its implementation
went in the cpp file.
Note that this problem does not occur in 1.4 branch because
H5P_DATASET_CREATE was defined differently, i.e., did not involve
external storage.
Platforms tested:
SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
Linux 6.2 (eirene)
Windows 2000
Purpose:
Switch from old property list to new generic property list.
Description:
Changed C++ according to the new generic property list.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD, SunOS 5.7.
Kludge
Description:
Since we're only about halfway through converting the internal use of
property lists from the "old way" to the generic property lists, we turned
off snapshots to avoid exposing lots of API changes to users, until the
APIs settled down.
Getting the snapshots rolling again seems to have become a priority, so
some changes are going to have to be made now that were going to be
postponed until we were completely finished with the conversion. This
requires that the old API functions be able to deal with both the old
and new property lists smoothly.
Solution:
Kludge together the property list code so that they can transparently handle
dealing with both the old and new property lists
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
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)
Purpose: bug fix
Description:
I found a couple of places where virtual destructors were missing
and could cause small memory leaks. Also, some destructors were
not virtual when they should be.
Solution:
- added virtual destructors, which also free dynamically allocated
memory
- added virtual to several destructors
- also, fixed several typos
Platforms tested:
Solaris 2.7 (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)
