when getting the hdf4 from our ftp site.
Solution used here is to repeat the request
and to use the wget -c flag so we do not
start over on every retry.
to remove cruft and to remove unused site tests
and make the tests somewhat more understandable.
Also did a fix to libdispatch/dwinpath to convert
relative paths to absolute paths. This will, I hope,
take care of some windows path problems when using
$srcdir in shell scripts.
Fix github issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/899
which came from e-support UOY-859712.
The problem was that the vlen_max parameter
to libsrc/var.c#NC_check_vlen was of type size_t.
However, it is being called, sometimes, with values
of size X_INT64_MAX. The resulting truncation was
causing dimension failures as noted in the e-support
report.
Fix is to change the vlen_max argument (and some
local variables in NC_check_vlen) to be of declared
as unsigned long long.
The file docs/indexing.dox tries to provide design
information for the refactoring.
The primary change is to replace all walking of linked
lists with the use of the NCindex data structure.
Ncindex is a combination of a hash table (for name-based
lookup) and a vector (for walking the elements in the index).
Additionally, global vectors are added to NC_HDF5_FILE_INFO_T
to support direct mapping of an e.g. dimid to the NC_DIM_INFO_T
object. These global vectors exist for dimensions, types, and groups
because they have globally unique id numbers.
WARNING:
1. since libsrc4 and libsrchdf4 share code, there are also
changes in libsrchdf4.
2. Any outstanding pull requests that change libsrc4 or libhdf4
are likely to cause conflicts with this code.
3. The original reason for doing this was for performance improvements,
but as noted elsewhere, this may not be significant because
the meta-data read performance apparently is being dominated
by the hdf5 library because we do bulk meta-data reading rather
than lazy reading.
