Hi Dana, > This is a brief RFC that outlines a new HDF5 API function, H5free_memory(), > which can be used to free memory returned from the HDF5 library (e.g., via > functions like H5Tget_member_name()). This will be of particular interest to > Windows users, since this will help mitigate the problems of linking to > multiple versions of the C runtime.
For Python in particular, this looks very interesting. Currently we have to build HDF5 using the same compiler as the Python.org releases; this means VS2008 for Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2. The HDF Group can't support old compiler versions forever, so this might be a good way to support future HDF5 releases without building/testing the HDF5 source ourselves. Andrew _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
