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[svn-r3454] Purpose:

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Fixed doc
Description:
    Added a pointer to the paper about the Thread Safety stuff which Robb
    wrote.
Platforms tested:
    ENIAC
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Bill Wendling 2001-02-19 14:37:14 -05:00
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@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ New Features
complete list of features.
* Improved configure to detect if MPIO routines are available when
parallel mode is requested.
* Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented.
* Added Thread-Safe support. Phase I implemented. See:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/mthdf/MTHDFpaper.htm
for more details.
* Added data sieve buffering to raw data I/O path. This is enabled
for all VFL drivers except the mpio & core drivers. Setting the
sieve buffer size is controlled with the new API function,
@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ h4toh5 Utility
The h4toh5 utility is a new utility that converts an HDF4 file to an
HDF5 file. For details, see the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to
HDF5 Objects":
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/H4-H5MappingGuidelines.pdf
Known Bugs:
@ -162,6 +167,7 @@ F90 Support
h5close_types.
* The following subroutines are no longer available:
h5pset_xfer_f
h5pget_xfer_f
h5pset_mpi_f
@ -176,6 +182,7 @@ F90 Support
h5pget_family_f
* The following functions have been added:
h5pset_fapl_mpio_f
h5pget_fapl_mpio_f
h5pset_dxpl_mpio_f
@ -347,14 +354,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
* Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big endian float
in some special cases.
* Corrected configuration error which was not including compression support
correctly.
correctly.
* Cleaned up lots of warnings.
* Changed a few h5dump command line switches and added long versions of
the switches.
the switches.
* Changed parameters for H5Tconvert, H5Pset_bufer and H5Pget_buffer from
size_t to hsize_t
size_t to hsize_t
* Fixed fairly obscure bug in hyperslab I/O which could (in rare cases)
not copy all the data during a transfer.
not copy all the data during a transfer.
* Removed ragged array code from library.
* F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported platforms.
@ -425,9 +432,9 @@ Known Problems
and testing hdf5 applications. We will continue investigating this.
* h5toh4 converter fails two cases(tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll version on
windows 2000 and NT.
The reason is possibly due to windows NT DLL convention on freeing memory. It seems
that memory cannot be free across library or DLL. It is still under investigated.
windows 2000 and NT. The reason is possibly due to windows NT DLL
convention on freeing memory. It seems that memory cannot be free
across library or DLL. It is still under investigated.
* The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows.
It is not supported in the TFLOPS machine.
@ -460,8 +467,11 @@ Known Problems
* The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification.
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace
is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is
incorrectly described.) For more information, please see:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm