Omnibus raw data I/O revisions, with wide-ranging changes and
refactoring, in order to prepare for implementing "fast append" feature.
These changes remove the majority of the code duplication for raw data
I/O which has crept in over the last ten years and introduces a more object-
oriented design for operating on different types of dataset storage.
Chunked storage no longer has it's own I/O routines, it is now handled
as either contiguous (if chunk is not pulled into the cache) or compact (if the
chunk is cached in memory).
No bug or feature changes, at least intentionally... :-)
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
in debug mode
Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
in production mode
Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, in production mode
Mac OS X/32 10.5.2 (amazon) in debug mode
Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
Correct the prototype for H5Sselect_elements() to take an 'hsize_t *' for
the coordinates, instead of 'hsize_t **'.
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.5.1 (amazon)
for it, too. This round of checkin isn't well tarnished yet. I'll come back to work on Jan. 8. I'll revise it then.
Tested it on kagiso, smirom, linew.