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HDF5 version 1.8.5 released on Fri Jun 4 13:27:31 CDT 2010
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INTRODUCTION
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============
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This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.4 and HDF5 1.8.5, and
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contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.5.
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For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt and HISTORY-1_8.txt
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in the release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source.
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Links to the HDF5 1.8.5 source code, documentation, and additional materials
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can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
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http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
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The HDF5 1.8.5 release can be obtained from:
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http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
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User documentation for 1.8.5 can be accessed directly at this location:
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http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
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New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
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descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
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in 1.8.0?" document:
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http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html
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All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
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from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.5 (current
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release) versus Release 1.8.4":
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http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
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If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
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help@hdfgroup.org
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CONTENTS
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========
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- New Features
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- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
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- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
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- Platforms Tested
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- Supported Configuration Features Summary
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- Known Problems
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New Features
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============
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Configuration
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- CMake Early Access: This release adds support for building HDF5 using
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the CMake system. Initial work has targeted Windows, but other platforms
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can be used. See the CMake.TXT file for more information. Version
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2.8.1 of CMake is required.
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- Configure now adds appropriate defines for supporting large (64-bit)
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files on all systems, where supported, by default, instead of only Linux.
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This large file support is controllable with the --enable-largefile
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configure option. The Linux-specific --enable-linux-lfs option has been
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deprecated in favor of this new option. Please note that specifying
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--disable-large does NOT attempt to "turn off" largefile support if it
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is natively supported by the compiler, but rather just disables
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configure from actively trying to add any additional compiler flags.
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(MAM - 2010/05/05 - Bug # 1772/1434)
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- Fixed an signal handling mask error in H5detect that might result in
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SIGBUS or SIGSEGV failures in some platforms such as Linux on Sparc.
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(AKC - 2010/4/28 - Bug # 1764)
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- Fixed various "strict aliasing" problems, allowing higher levels
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of compiler optimization (in particular, allowing '-O3' to work
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with recent versions of GCC). (QAK - 2010/04/26)
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- Upgraded versions of autotools used to generate configuration suite.
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We now use Automake 1.11.1, Autoconf 2.65, and Libtool 2.2.6b.
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(MAM - 2010/04/15)
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- Added the xlc-* and mpcc_r-* BASENAME patterns to be recognized as IBM
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compilers so that the IBM compiler options can be added properly. This
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allows non-system-default compiler command names (e.g. xlc-m.n.k.l) be
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recognized. (AKC - 2009/11/26)
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Library
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-------
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- Performance is substantially improved when extending a dataset with early
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allocation. (NAF - 2010/03/24 - Bug # 1637)
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- Added support for filtering densely stored groups. Many of the API
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functions related to filters have been extended to support dense groups
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as well as datasets. Pipeline messages can now be stored in a group's
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object header. (NAF/QAK - 2009/11/3)
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Parallel Library
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- None
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Tools
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- h5dump: Added the new packed bits feature which prints packed bits stored
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in an integer dataset. (AKC/ADB - 2010/5/7)
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- h5diff: Fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when specifying
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invalid options (ex: -v and -q). (JKM - 2010/02/17)
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- h5diff: Added new flag --no-dangling-links (see --help for details).
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(JKM - 2010/02/10)
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- h5diff: Added new flag --follow-symlinks (see --help for details).
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(JKM - 2010/01/25)
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- h5diff: Added a fix to correct the display of garbage values when
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displaying big-endian data on a little-endian machine. (JKM - 2009/11/20)
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High-Level APIs
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---------------
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- None
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F90 API
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-------
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- None
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C++ API
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- New member functions
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+ Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name.
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+ Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*.
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(BMR - 2010/05/10)
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+ Added DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's
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data size in memory. (BMR - 2009/07/26)
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Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
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===================================================
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- AIX 6.1 has been added. (AKC - 2010/1/4)
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Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
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==========================
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Library
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- Fixed a memory leak during library shutdown when objects opened by
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an application are not closed before the library shuts down.
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(MAM - 2010/08/16)
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Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
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==========================
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Configuration
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- Fixed various "strict aliasing" problems, allowing higher levels
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of compiler optimization (in particular, allowing '-O3' to work
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with recent versions of GCC). (QAK - 2010/04/26)
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Library
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- Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when using non-default sizes
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of addresses and/or lengths. This bug could also cause uncorrupted files
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with this property to be unreadable. This bug was introduced in 1.8.5.
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(NAF - 2010/07/16 - 1951)
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- valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute
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is written (Bug #1956). I fixed it by taking out the memcpy step in the
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attribute code. (SLU - 2010/07/28)
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- Fixed a file corruption bug that could happen when shrinking a compressed
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dataset. (NAF - 2010/05/20)
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- Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are
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used as fill values. (MAM - 2010/05/12 - Bug # 1826)
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- Fixed an H5Rcreate failure when passing in a -1 for the dataspace
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identifier. (ADB - 2010/4/28)
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- Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the
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H5O_COPY_EXPAND_REFERENCE_FLAG flag set. (NAF - 2010/04/08 - Bug # 1815)
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- Added a mechanism to the H5I interface to save returned object identifier
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structures for immediate re-use if needed. This addresses a potential
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performance issue by delaying the case when the next identifier to be
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registered has grown so large that it wraps around and needs to be
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checked to see whether it is available for distribution.
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(MAM - 2010/03/15 - Bug # 1730)
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- Files can now be concurrently opened more than once using the core file
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driver, as long as the backing store is used. (NAF - 2010/03/09)
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- Added support for H5O_COPY_EXPAND_EXT_LINK_FLAG to H5Ocopy. External
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links will now be expanded if this flag is set.
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(NAF - 2010/03/05 - Bug # 1733)
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- Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would
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reopen the source file if nothing else worked. (NAF - 2010/03/05)
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- Fixed a bug where fractal heap identifiers for attributes and shared
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object header messages could be incorrectly encoded in the file for
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files created on big-endian platforms.
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Please see http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems if you
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suspect you have a file with this problem.
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(QAK - 2010/02/23 - Bug # 1755)
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- Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered
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by expanding and shrinking chunked datasets in certain ways.
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(NAF - 2010/02/16)
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- H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type. But when it's in
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a compound type, it said it's a VL type. THis has been fixed to be
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consistent; it now always returns a string type.
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(SLU - 2009/12/10 - Bug # 1584)
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- Allow "child" files from external links to be correctly located when
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relative to a "parent" file that is opened through a symbolic link.
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(QAK - 2009/12/01)
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Parallel Library
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- Parallel mode in AIX will fail some of the testcheck_version.sh tests
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where it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort
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signal. Fixed. (AKC - 2009/11/3)
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Tools
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- Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when a non-existent file is
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specified. (JKM - 2010/04/27 - Bug # 1793)
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- Fixed h5copy failure when copying a dangling link that is specified
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directly. (JKM - 2010/04/22 - Bug # 1817)
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- Fixed an h5repack failure that lost attributes from a dataset of
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reference type. (JKM - 2010/3/25 - Bug # 1726)
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- Fixed h5repack error that set NULL for object reference values for
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datasets, groups, or named datatypes. (JKM - 2010/03/19 - Bug # 1814)
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F90 API
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- None
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C++ API
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- The constructor PropList::PropList(id) was fixed to act properly
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according to the nature of 'id'. When 'id' is a property class
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identifier, a new property list will be created. When 'id' is a
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property list identifier, a copy of the property list will be made.
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(BMR - 2010/5/9)
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- The parameters 'size' and 'bufsize' in CommonFG::getLinkval and
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CommonFG::getComment, respectively, now have default values for the
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user's convenience. (BMR - 2009/10/23)
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- NULL pointer accessing was fixed. (BMR - 2009/10/05 - Bug # 1061)
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- Read/write methods of DataSet and Attribute classes were fixed
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to handle string correctly. (BMR - 2009/07/26)
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High-Level APIs:
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------
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- Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached, and H5DSdetach_scale
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caused by using the H5Tget_native_type function to determine the native
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type for reading the REFERENCE_LIST attribute. This bug was exposed
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on Mac PPC. (EIP - 2010/05/22 - Bug # 1851)
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- Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes were
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allocated after the last reference to a dimension scale was removed
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from the list of references in a VL element of the DIMENSION_LIST
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attribute. Modified the function to comply with the specification:
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the DIMENSION_LIST attribute is now deleted when no dimension scales
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are left attached. (EIP - 2010/05/14 - Bug # 1822)
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Fortran High-Level APIs:
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------
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- None
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Platforms Tested
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The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
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AIX 5.3 xlc 7.0.0.9, 8.0.0.20, 9.0.0.4
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(LLNL Up) xlC 7.0.0.9, 8.0.0.20, 9.0.0.4
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xlf 9.1.0.9, 10.1.0.9, 11.1.0.7
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mpcc_r 7.0.0.9
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mpxlf_r 09.01.0000.0008
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AIX 6.1 xlc 10.1.0.6
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(NCSA BP) xlC 10.1.0.6
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xlf 12.1.0.7
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Cray XT3 (2.1.56) cc (pgcc) 10.0-0
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(SNL red storm) ftn (pgf90) 10.0-0
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CC (pgCC) 10.0-0
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FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
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(duty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
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gcc 4.3.4 20090419
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g++ 4.3.4 20090419
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gfortran 4.3.4 20090419
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FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE amd64 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
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(liberty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
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gcc 4.4.1 20090421
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g++ 4.4.1 20090421
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gfortran 4.4.1 20090421
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Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
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#1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
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(jam) g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
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G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
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Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.7
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PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.4-0 32-bit
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Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 32-bit
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applications, Version 11.1 Build 20090827
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MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
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gcc 4.1.2 and GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2
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Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP gcc 4.1.2 20080704 and gcc 4.4.2
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x86_64 GNU/Linux GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
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(amani) g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
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G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
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Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
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applications running on Intel(R) 64,
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Version 11.1 Build 20090827.
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PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 10.4-0
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for 32 & 64-bit target on x86-64
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MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
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gcc 4.1.2 and GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2
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Linux 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 #1 Intel(R) C++ Version 11.0.074
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SGI Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 11.0.074
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(cobalt) SGI MPI 1.38
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SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-14
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(linew) Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc
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Patch 127000-13
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Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124863-23
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Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18- Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026
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92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp- Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
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perfctr #7 SMP Open MPI 1.2.2
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(abe) MVAPICH2-0.9.8p28p2patched-intel-ofed-1.2
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compiled with icc v10.0.026 and ifort 10.0.026
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Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
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SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux applications running on Intel(R) 64,
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(SNL Glory) Versions 11.1.
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Windows XP Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
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Cygwin(1.7.5 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and
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gfortran)
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Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
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Windows Vista Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
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Windows Vista x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
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MAC OS 10.6.3 (Intel) i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1
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(pahra) GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910
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i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1
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Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 11.1
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MAC OS 10.5.8 (Intel) i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
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(tejeda)
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MAC OS 10.5 (PPC) powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
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(juniper-w)
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OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 HP C V7.3-009
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HP C++ V7.3-009
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HP Fortran V8.0-1-104669-48GBT
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Supported Configuration Features Summary
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In the tables below
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y = tested and supported
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n = not supported or not tested in this release
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C = Cluster
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W = Workstation
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x = not working in this release
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dna = does not apply
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( ) = footnote appears below second table
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<blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
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Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP
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parallel parallel
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Solaris2.10 32-bit n y n y y y
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Solaris2.10 64-bit n y n y y y
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Windows XP n y(4) n(4) y y y
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Windows XP x64 n y(4) n(4) y y y
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Windows Vista n y(4) n(4) y y y
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Windows Vista x64 n y(4) n(4) y y y
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Mac OS X 10.5 PPC n n n n y n
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Mac OS X 10.5 Intel n y n y y y
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Mac OS X 10.6 Intel n y n y y y
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AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit n y n y y n
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AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit n y n y y n
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FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit n y n y y y
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RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y y y y y y
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RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W y y(2) y y y y
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RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W n y n y y n
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RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI W n y n y y n
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y y(3) y y y y
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W n y n y y n
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W n y n y y y
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 C y y y y y y
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RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre C y y y y y n
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Cray XT3 2.1.56 y y y y y n
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OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 n y n y y n
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Platform Shared Shared Shared Thread-
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C libs F90 libs C++ libs safe
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Solaris2.10 32-bit y y y y
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Solaris2.10 64-bit y y y y
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Windows XP y y(4) y n
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Windows XP x64 y y(4) y n
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Windows Vista y y(4) y n
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Windows Vista x64 y y(4) y n
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Mac OS X 10.5 PPC y n n n
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Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel) y(5) n y n
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Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel) y(5) n y n
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AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n n
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AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit n n n n
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FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit y n y y
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RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W y y y y
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RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W y y(2) y y
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RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W y y y n
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RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI W y y y n
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W y y y y
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel W y y y n
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI W y y y n
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SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 C y n
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RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre C y y y n
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Cray XT3 2.1.56 n n n n
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OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 n n n n
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(1) Fortran compiled with g95.
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(2) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
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(3) With PGI compiler for Fortran.
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(4) Using Visual Studio 2008. (Cygwin shared libraries are not
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supported.)
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(5) Shared C and C++ are disabled when Fortran is configured in.
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Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
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"Platforms Tested" table.
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Known Problems
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* The library's test dt_arith.c exposed a compiler's rounding problem on
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Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double. The
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library's own conversion works correctly. A macro is defined for Cygwin
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to skip this test until we can solve the problem. (Please see bug #1813.)
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SLU - 2010/5/5
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* All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible. In H5FDpublic.h, the
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structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8. There is a new parameter added to
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get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions. A new callback function
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get_type_map was added. The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
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out in 1.8. The problem only happens when users define their own driver
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for 1.6 and try to plug it into a 1.8 library. This affects a very small
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number of users. (See bug report #1279.) SLU - 2010/2/2
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* MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully
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link C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option.
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Read all of the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions.
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ADB - 2009/11/11
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* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used.
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The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount
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of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more
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memory.
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LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA
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AKC - 2009/10/31
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* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
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cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not
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existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has
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the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
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* Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
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/ dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
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collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
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with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28
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* For gcc v4.3 and v4.4, with production mode, if -O3 is used, H5Tinit.c
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would fail to compile. Actually bad H5Tinit.c is produced. If -O (same
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as -O1) is used, H5Tinit.c compiled okay but test/dt_arith would fail.
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When -O0 (no optimizatio) is used, H5Tinit.c compilete okay and all
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tests passed. Therefore, -O0 is imposed for v4.3 and v4.4 of gcc.
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AKC - 2009/04/20
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* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and
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tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of its sub-tests. These sub-tests
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are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but the yod
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command does not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod always
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returns 0 if it can launch the executable. The test suite shell expects
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a non-zero for this particular test, therefore it concludes the test has
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failed when it receives 0 from yod. Skip all the "failing" test for now
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by changing them as following.
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======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh =========
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TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
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======== Change to ===============================
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echo SKIP TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
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======== Original tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh =========
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TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d grp_rename
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TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets
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TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets
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TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested
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H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
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======== Change to ===============================
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echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d grp_rename
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echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets
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echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets
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echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested
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echo SKIP H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
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AKC - 2008/11/10
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* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the
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message, "yod allocation delayed for node recovery". This interferes with
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test suites that do not expect seeing this message. See the section of "Red
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Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
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AKC - 2008/05/28
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* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
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use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
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optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
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* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
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the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
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processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
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verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
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* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
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with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
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There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
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library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
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endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
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However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
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before on little-endian system. Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
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datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
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SLU - 2005/6/30
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* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
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messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command `poe'.
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Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
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and run the tests again.
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The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use,"
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but HDF5 does not use sockets. This failure is due to problems with the
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poe command trying to set up the debug socket. To resolve this problem,
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check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
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These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
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commands. First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
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Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
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* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
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if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
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of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
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for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
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successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
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fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
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executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
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* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
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when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
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* On FREE-BSD systems when shared libraries are disabled, make install fails
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in install-examples with the error '"Makefile", line 635: Need an operator'.
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When this error occurs removing or commenting out the line "export
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(LL_PATH)" (line 635 in examples/Makefile) will allow make
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install to finish installing examples. The problem will be fixed in the
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next release. LRK - 2010/05/26
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* On cobalt, an SGI Altix SMP ia64 system, Intel compiler version 10.1 (which
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is the default on that system) does not work properly and results in
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failures during make check (in a static build) and make installcheck (during
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a shared build). This appears to be a compiler optimization problem.
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Reducing optimization by setting CFLAGS to -O1 or below resolves the issue.
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Alternatively, using a newer version of the compiler (11.0) also works as
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intended. MAM - 2010/06/01
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