h5dump output change, new tests
Description:
the storage layout output format the storage layout output format had some changes
same for the user defined filter
add an option (-y) for not printing the array indices (default is print indices )
the option for escaping non printable characters covers all characters (default is not escape)
(this might be not very portable, the test files are tstring.ddl and tstringe.ddl )
add tests for the new options
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux
solaris
AIX
Misc. update:
Description: After I added H5S_NULL dataspace to dumper test, the output violate
XML schema for attribute data.
Solution: changed.
Platforms tested: RH8(fuss), minor change, only dumper is involved.
h5dump new feature
Description:
add processing of tab characters (in the context of the new option process CR/LF)
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux
solaris
AIX
Misc. update:
Code cleanup
Description:
Add more files that should be removed to the clean & distclean targets.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir)
Too minor to require h5committest
h5dump update
Description:
updated the h5dump test files generator , so that it coincides with the 1.6 branch
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux (small)
Misc. update:
Description:
added the code for print strings with new line and display the path of references (new source files h5tools_ref.c and .h )
added a test suite in testh5dump.sh.in for
( note : to create testh5dump.sh , one must redo ./configure; this detects the availability of filters
and generates testh5dump.sh accordingly)
1) storage layout
2) fill value
3) print reference with path
4) print strings with new lines
5) filters
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux
solaris
AIX
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
Correct path to new testh5dump.sh, now that it's generated.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w & w/o srcdir
Too minor to require h5committest
Update shell scripts
Description:
Switch to generating the testh5dump.sh script at configure time, so we can
determine which filters are available to test.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
too small to require h5committest
h5dump new version
Description:
added the changes already made for 1.6
support for dumping of
1) filters
2) storage layout
3) fill value
4) comments
5) superblock
6) file contents
7) array indices
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux
solaris
AIX
Misc. update:
Bug fixes
Description:
Updated dependencies
Fixed error with C++ compiler builds of main library
Added H5Pset_data_transform to MPE info
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
Code cleanup
Description:
Clean up lots of warnings based on those reported from the SGI compilers
as well as gcc.
Platforms tested:
SGI O3900, IRIX64 6.5 (Cheryl's SGI machine)
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/ & w/o parallel
h5committest
small bug fix
Description:
a dataset creation property list was not closed
Solution:
closed it, calling H5Pclose(dcpl);
Platforms tested:
linux (small fix)
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
Fix h5tools routines to not try to call MPI_Init() unless an MPI-based
VFD is actually used.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/parallel
Linux 2.4 (verbena) w/parallel
New Feature. (Contributed by Robb)
Description:
Allow h5ls to specify a VFL with the '--vfl=' command line flag.
Add MPI-I/O & MPI-POSIX VFL drivers to list of drivers available for
h5ls and h5dump.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/parallel
h5committested
Description: h5dump and h5ls failed an assertion check when a dataset's
datatype is enumerate type and there are special characters in the names
of these values.
Platforms tested: h5committest
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
Code cleanup
Description:
Change field member count and indices for compound and enumerated types from
'int' to 'unsigned' to better reflect actual use.
Cleaned up a few other minor compiler warnings, etc.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
Linux 2.4 (verbena)
too minor to require h5committest
Bug fixes and code cleanup
Description:
Changes to h5dump code:
- Dump shared datatypes for any class of datatype, not just compound
datatypes.
- Cleaned up formatting to greatly reduce the amount of trailing
whitespace emitted in output. Also removed some spurious blank
lines from named datatype output.
Added code to generate named datatype attribute test file.
Added tests for dumping named datatypes in attributes for both DDL and
XML output.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
h5committest
Code cleanup
Description:
Remove various "fixtype" routines which duplicate (and actually pre-date)
the functionality in H5Tget_native_type in favor of having the tools call
H5Tget_native_type(). This provides the same functionality (actually better
functionality, since the old "fixtype" routines didn't handle alignment of
compound fields correctly) and reduces the amount of code to maintain.
Add additional tests to dump out a "complex" compound datatype which
exercises more code in the library for aligning compound fields correctly.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.8 (sleipnir)
h5committest
Updated the copyright notice--mostly by rearranging
some text to make them consistent.
Solution:
Platforms tested:
"h5committested"--sol is down, so, no SUn test.
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
Object references were not getting written out correctly to the file, with
recent changes to their memory structure.
Solution:
Convert the object references correctly.
Platforms tested:
h5committested
Code cleanup
Description:
Remove recent changes which duplicated code from config/conclude.in, now
that the output of XML schema XID's is portable.
Platforms tested:
h5committested
Code cleanups & bug fixes
Description:
Lots of changes to chase 'objno' and 'fileno' changes in H5G_stat_t struct,
including changing the output of object IDs from "<number>:<number>" to just
"<number>".
Same change to XML schema XIDs from "xid_<number>-<number>" to just
"xid_<number>"
Cleaned up a number of memory leaks
Use the H5_PRINTF_HADDR_FMT macro for printing 'haddr_t's
Platforms tested:
h5committested
bug fix
Description:
1. function rindex is not recognized by windows. Using strrchr instead.
Thereafer strings.h is not necessary.
2. Variable p_type is defined as "hid_t" type at one function; but it is never used.
At the end of that function, H5Tclose(p_type) is assigned. It may cause problems.
So erase two lines.
Solution:
See above
Platforms tested:
windows 2000, linux 2.4, sol 2.7, AIX 5.1.
Misc. update:
Bug Fix
Description:
pmake failed during make of h5dump because of some undefined
variables.
Solution:
Defined the variables.
Platforms tested:
Modi4 (small change and only Irix specific)
Misc. update:
This is an omibus update to the h5dump program.
1. Fixes bug 888
2. updates XML output to 1.6
Description:
Solution:
Platforms tested:
verbena, arabica, copper (64)
Misc. update:
MANIFEST updated
Need to do release notes.
Bug Fix
Description:
The SUBDIRS macro is now defined as "" in the config/commence.in
file. We shouldn't have definitions of this macro before the
inclusion of config/commence.in.
Solution:
Placed all definitions of SUBDIRS after config/commence.in inclusion.
Platforms tested:
Modi4 (Small fix yet again).
Misc. update:
Cleanup
Description:
h5dumpgentest is already included in TEST_PROGS. Removed its old
entry in PROGS.
Platforms tested:
Only in Copper since this is trivial.
Misc. update:
added writing more attributes to one test file
Description:
added the writing of 3D attributes to one test file of h5ls
Solution:
Platforms tested:
Windows 2000 (octopus)
Linux 2.4 (rockaway)
SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
IRIX 6.5 (modi4)
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
This would sometimes coredump in machines like PSC Alpha cluster
or linux icc if -g is not used.
Solution:
The real problem was because char string arrays were declared
without including space for the null terminator. E.g.,
char s[5][2]={ "s1", "s2", ...}
is not correct. Increased the size and also need to change
the H5S... definitions too.
Platforms tested:
"h5committested"--the h5dumpgentest passed without problem though
it failed in Fortran but that is a current known problem.
Tested in verbena using icc and also in PSC's cluster.
Misc. update:
Can't find this error in the v1.5 know problem list.
Bug fix
Description:
A few groups were left open after they were used.
Solution:
Closed them. :-)
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.8 (sleipnir)
h5committested
Feature Add
Description:
It's now possible to print out characters as actual characters
instead of their decimal equivalent numbers. It's the same thing that
h5ls does. The flag to do this is "--string" or "-r".
Platforms tested:
Verbena (Fortran & C++)
Arabica (Fortran)
Modi4 (Fortran & Parallel)
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
"$@" was used to represent all argument provided. This has the
unfortunate effect as one argument of "" when actually no argument
was given. Some machines throw the "" away but some like Tflops
and Alpha Q, retains them as a single argument of "". This caused
the no filename given test to fail.
Solution:
Replaced "$@" with a plain $@.
Platforms tested:
h5committested
Misc. update:
Code cleanup
Description:
Clean up miscellaneous warnings which have crept into the code.
Fix "_POSIX_C_SOURCE not defined" warning on FreeBSD.
Adjust gcc compiler flags to be more concise for production mode.
Refactor the H5O code so that there is a stronger boundary between code
in the H5O package and code in the library which just calls H5O routines.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) serial & parallel and gcc 2.95.4 & gcc 3.2.2
Misc. update:
Update MANIFEST if you add or remove any file.
patch
Description:
Tflops interprets "$@" as "" when no parameter is given (e.g., the
case of missing file name). Changed it to use $@ till Tflops fixes it.
Platforms tested:
Tflops, burrwhite (pp), modi4(pp)
Code cleanup
Description:
Various code cleanups to allow the development branch to be compiled with
a C++ compiler (i.e. CC=g++ )
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) C++
Lots of performance improvements & a couple new internal API interfaces.
Description:
Performance Improvements:
- Cached file offset & length sizes in shared file struct, to avoid
constantly looking them up in the FCPL.
- Generic property improvements:
- Added "revision" number to generic property classes to speed
up comparisons.
- Changed method of storing properties from using a hash-table
to the TBBT routines in the library.
- Share the propery names between classes and the lists derived
from them.
- Removed redundant 'def_value' buffer from each property.
- Switching code to use a "copy on write" strategy for
properties in each list, where the properties in each list
are shared with the properties in the class, until a
property's value is changed in a list.
- Fixed error in layout code which was allocating too many buffers.
- Redefined public macros of the form (H5open()/H5check, <variable>)
internally to only be (<variable>), avoiding innumerable useless
calls to H5open() and H5check_version().
- Reuse already zeroed buffers in H5F_contig_fill instead of
constantly re-zeroing them.
- Don't write fill values if writing entire dataset.
- Use gettimeofday() system call instead of time() system when
checking the modification time of a dataset.
- Added reference counted string API and use it for tracking the
names of objects opening in a file (for the ID->name code).
- Removed redundant H5P_get() calls in B-tree routines.
- Redefine H5T datatype macros internally to the library, to avoid
calling H5check redundantly.
- Keep dataspace information for dataset locally instead of reading
from disk each time. Added new module to track open objects
in a file, to allow this (which will be useful eventually for
some FPH5 metadata caching issues).
- Remove H5AC_find macro which was inlining metadata cache lookups,
and call function instead.
- Remove redundant memset() calls from H5G_namei() routine.
- Remove redundant checking of object type when locating objects
in metadata cache and rely on the address only.
- Create default dataset object to use when default dataset creation
property list is used to create datasets, bypassing querying
for all the property list values.
- Use default I/O vector size when performing raw data with the
default dataset transfer property list, instead of querying for
I/O vector size.
- Remove H5P_DEFAULT internally to the library, replacing it with
more specific default property list based on the type of
property list needed.
- Remove redundant memset() calls in object header message (H5O*)
routines.
- Remove redunant memset() calls in data I/O routines.
- Split free-list allocation routines into malloc() and calloc()-
like routines, instead of one combined routine.
- Remove lots of indirection in H5O*() routines.
- Simplify metadata cache entry comparison routine (used when
flushing entire cache out).
- Only enable metadata cache statistics when H5AC_DEBUG is turned
on, instead of always tracking them.
- Simplify address comparison macro (H5F_addr_eq).
- Remove redundant metadata cache entry protections during dataset
creation by protecting the object header once and making all
the modifications necessary for the dataset creation before
unprotecting it.
- Reduce # of "number of element in extent" computations performed
by computing and storing the value during dataspace creation.
- Simplify checking for group location's file information, when file
has not been involving in file-mounting operations.
- Use binary encoding for modification time, instead of ASCII.
- Hoist H5HL_peek calls (to get information in a local heap)
out of loops in many group routine.
- Use static variable for iterators of selections, instead of
dynamically allocation them each time.
- Lookup & insert new entries in one step, avoiding traversing
group's B-tree twice.
- Fixed memory leak in H5Gget_objname_idx() routine (tangential to
performance improvements, but fixed along the way).
- Use free-list for reference counted strings.
- Don't bother copying object names into cached group entries,
since they are re-created when an object is opened.
The benchmark I used to measure these results created several thousand
small (2K) datasets in a file and wrote out the data for them. This is
Elena's "regular.c" benchmark.
These changes resulted in approximately ~4.3x speedup of the
development branch when compared to the previous code in the
development branch and ~1.4x speedup compared to the release
branch.
Additionally, these changes reduce the total memory used (code and
data) by the development branch by ~800KB, bringing the development
branch back into the same ballpark as the release branch.
I'll send out a more detailed description of the benchmark results
as a followup note.
New internal API routines:
Added "reference counted strings" API for tracking strings that get
used by multiple owners without duplicating the strings.
Added "ternary search tree" API for text->object mappings.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}
Other platforms/configurations tested?
FreeBSD 4.7 (sleipnir) serial & parallel
Solaris 2.6 (baldric) serial
Renamed h5dumptst.c to h5dumpgentest.c.
Added a test to run h5dumpgentest to make it can run without error. Note
that this does not verify if it is generating the correct test files.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}? YES
Misc. update:
Update MANIFEST if you add or remove any file. YES
Changed the file name nofilename.ddl to tnofilename.ddl, to be consistent
with the other file names.
Platforms tested:
eirene only since this is a very simple change.
Improvement
Description:
Moved the code parsing for missing file name in the parse_command_line
routine.
Added a test checking if the tool fails as expected when no file name is
given.
Platforms tested:
Tested h5committest {arabica (fortran), eirene (fortran, C++)
modi4 (parallel, fortran)}? YES
Misc. update:
Update MANIFEST if you add or remove any file. YES, added nofilename.ddl
Bug fix (ID 765 and part of ID 841)
Description:
"h5dump -H" would core dump. It was because the code was not
checking if there was any file argument after option parsing.
It referred to an non-existing filename argument.
There was also some very old but not commented code which allowed
the use of back slash to escape a filename begun with '-'. The
'--' option is better and more common practice.
Solution:
Added code to check if there is still a filename argument after parsing.
(This checking probably should goto inside the option_parsing routine.
Also removed that old code mentioned above.
Platforms tested:
eirene, arabica and modi4
updated copyright note.
Copied the UNUSED correction from v1.4.
Added an example to the usage of -- option.
Description:
[describe the bug, or describe the new feature, etc]
Solution:
[details about the changes, algorithm, etc...]
[Please as detail as you can since your own explanation is
better than others guessing it from the code.]
Platforms tested:
arabica (fortran), modi4 (pp, fortran),eirene (fortran, CC).
Bug Fix
Description:
On AIX machines, the number of script interpreters which ran the
testh5dump.sh script would strip too many of the quotes away, causing
problems if you're quoting something with a space in it.
Solution:
Just got rid of the spaces and used ',' instead.
Platforms tested:
AIX and Linux
Migrate from configure macros of XYZ_ABC to H5_XYZ_ABC
Description:
configure generates many macros definitions on the fly and
were stored in src/H5config.h which is included by H5public.h.
But other software that uses hdf5 may also run their own configure.
There can be a clash in macro name space. We decided awhile ago
to prepend all generated macros with "H5_" to avoid conflicts.
The process has started and this commit completes it (at least attempt
to).
Solution:
Many macros symbols (e.g. SIZEOF_xxx and HAVE_xxx were changed to
H5_SIZEOF_xxx and H5_HAVE_xxx). Then H5private.h no longer includes
H5config.h. This cuts H5config.h away from HDF5 source code.
Pending issues:
The module of fortran and pablo are to be resolved in a different
commit.
Platforms tested:
eirene (parallel), arabica (solaris 7 --enable-fortran, --enable-cxx)
Bug Fix
Description:
There was a problem with having a lot of groups nested together. We
could only handle 1024 characters at most, but, in a parallel program
especially, it could occur that there were lots and lots of groups
and would be more than 1024.
Solution:
I made the "objname" part of the obj_t structure a pointer instead of
a fixed size. Added code to allocate/deallocate the memory we need
for it. Had to fix how the "prefix" was being handled in the h5dump
program. It was also set to only 1024 characters in length. I made it
dynamic.
Added a test case...Go me!
Platforms tested:
Linux, Solaris
Oops
Description:
I added files for testing the group comments dumping feature, but
didn't actually add it to the testh5dump.sh script.
Solution:
Added it.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Feature Add
Description:
Added support for dumping Group Comments. This involved a
modification of the DDL as well.
Solution:
Steal code from h5ls and put it in the h5dump. The ddl.html file was
updated as normal. And a test was created...
Platforms tested:
Dangermouse, Modi4, Kelgia
Removing the DPSS (gridstorage) driver source code.
Description:
The DPSS (using Grid-Storage) driver is retired.
Removed the configure option with-gridstorage from configure.in.
Cvs remove the following files
./src/H5FDdpss.c
./src/H5FDdpss.h
./test/dpss_read.c
./test/dpss_write.c
Regenerated Dependencies files (some had to be hand-edited since
'make depend' did not cover them.)
Removed reference to DPSS Virtual file driver from H5F.c.
Platforms tested:
modi4 (Parallel; -with-gass=...), eirene, arabica (fortran, cxx).
Bug Fix.
Description:
The H5Rget_object_type function could not get the object type for dataset
region references.
Solution:
Added a new function, H5Rget_obj_type, to replace H5Rget_object_type.
The new function requires the reference type as an additional parameter,
in order to allow queries on different reference types to be performed
correctly.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4. (sleipnir)
Code cleanup
Description:
Windows is generating hundreds of warnings from some of the practices in
the library. Mostly, they are because size_t is 32-bit and hsize_t is
64-bit on Windows and we were carelessly casting the larger values down to
the smaller ones without checking for overflow.
Also, some other small code cleanups,etc.
Solution:
Re-worked some algorithms to eliminate the casts and also added more
overflow checking for assignments and function parameters which needed
casts.
Kent did most of the work, I just went over his changes and fit them into
the the library code a bit better.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Code cleanup for better compatibility with C++ compilers
Description:
C++ compilers are choking on our C code, for various reasons:
we used our UNUSED macro incorrectly when referring to pointer types
we used various C++ keywords as variables, etc.
we incremented enum's with the ++ operator.
Solution:
Changed variables, etc.to avoid C++ keywords (new, class, typename, typeid,
template)
Fixed usage of UNUSED macro from this:
char UNUSED *c
to this:
char * UNUSED c
Switched the enums from x++ to x=x+1
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
Some so-called "operating systems" (*cough*Windows*cough*) can't
handle large string sizes.
Solution:
Replace the Usage string with individual strings which all call
fprintf() themselves.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
Object IDs command-line options weren't being picked up.
Solution:
The wrong flag was being checked for. Changed the flag from "v" to
"i", which is what the documentation says.
Platforms tested:
Linux
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)
Improvement
Description:
The stdout and stderr were both redirected to an output file. This
works fine in tradition sequential Unix machines. But in some
parallel systems (like mpi-jobs in IBM SP), the stderr is merged
with stdout alright but not in the exact order as expected. This
is not deterministic in parallel jobs. So, the test output are
all there but the ordering maynot be as expected.
Solution:
Redirect stderr to separated file and append it to the stdout
file after test-command is executed. Then compare it with
the expected output. This eliminate the assumption that
stdout and stderr must merged in "chronical orders".
Platforms tested:
tested in v1.4. Folded it into v1.5.
Code cleanups, mostly..
Description:
Work on pacifying the SGI compiler to get the generic properties working
correctly with --enable-parallel and --enable-fortran. It's not quite
fixed yet, but I need to head home and these patches help... :-/
Platforms tested:
IRIX64 6.5 (modi4)
Feature shift
Description:
Take out the v1.2.x compatibility stubs and put in the hooks for v1.4.x
compatibility when needed.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.3 (hawkwind)
Purpose:
Bug Fix
Description:
The way we were generating Dependencies and .depend files was broken.
If the $srcdir or other macros began with a ".", then it would match
anything and cause problems since it would then overwrite the
beginning of the header file's path.
Solution:
Wrote a Perl script which can handle this type of weirdness better.
It's only used when the environment is a GNU one with a GCC
compiler...
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
Bug Fix/Feature Add
Description:
Added new flag ("-f" and "--family") to allow user to specify which
file driver to use to open the file. If they don't specify anything,
then it defaults to the old behaviour of trying each driver in turn
until one actually opens the file.
If the driver the user specified doesn't succeed in opening the
file, then we do NOT try other file drivers.
Platforms tested:
Linux
code warrior support
and some clean up
the macros file_seek and file_offset_t that were repeated over sevral files were put only in
H5private.h
H5private .h was updated for win32
vthe
Description:
Solution:
Platforms tested:
small bug fix
Description:
If specifying --stride, it was checking for the wrong short-form of
the command-line parameters.
Solution:
Changed the 'T' to 'S' which is the new short form for the stride
option.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Update
Description:
If the count for a subset isn't specified, then we default to the
remainder of the dataset.
Solution:
Check for the count to be specified. If not, then find the dimensions
of the dataset and subtract from the the "start" parameter.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Update
Description:
Updated the way the subsetting data is retrieved. It now does it one
row of blocks at a time. It may still run out of memory, but this is
at least a good first step.
Also, the start parameter defaults to (0, 0, ...) if it isn't
specified.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Update
Description:
Applied fix to h5dumper which was applied to the 1.4 branch. Done
just before creating subdirectories in the 1.4 branch.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Bug Fix.
Description:
Kent is correct about the malloc error. It's harmless if it's not
needed anyway.
Solution:
Removed the #ifdef's since all platforms should use this.
Platforms tested:
Linux
Purpose:
a bug fix on windows(possible on other platforms)
Description:
not allocating enough space for a string at dump_all for debug version
a string tmp is defined at dump_all(....),
The memory that is allocated to tmp is malloc(strlen(prefix)+strlen(name)+1);
However, there is one testing case : strlen(prefix) is 0 and
tmp is allocated in the following:
strcat(tmp,"/");
strcat(tmp,name);
....
free(tmp);
the program fails when freeing tmp for debug (dll) version on windows 2000
Solution:
For windows platform:
allocate memory strlen(prefix)+strlen(name)+2
Platforms tested:
[machines you have tested the changed version. This is absolute
important. Test it out on at least two or three different platforms
such as Big-endian-32bit (SUN/IRIX), little-endian-32(LINUX) and
64-bit (IRIX64/UNICOS/DEC-ALPHA) would be good.]
