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  Changes and new features in V1.1

 

Only relatively minor changes have taken place since the previous version (V1.0) of the ARY_ system. The most significant of these are as follows:

  1. An obscure bug resulting from an un-annulled HDS locator has been fixed. This could occasionally result in corrupted files if the ARY_STYPE routine was called repeatedly from successive invocations of an application in an ADAM monolith.

  2. Two new routines have been introduced, primarily to provide facilities required by the NDF_ system:

  3. A stand-alone (non-ADAM) version of the ARY_ library has been added and new linker options files have been provided to allow linking with either version.

  4. The encoding of ARY_ system identifiers has been changed to improve the chance of detecting erroneous identifier values.

  5. Messages about array data structures now contain the full HDS object name, including the full container file name.

  6. A few minor documentation errors have been corrected.

No changes to existing applications should be required, neither should any re-compilation or re-linking be necessary.



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ARY A Subroutine Library for Accessing ARRAY Data Structures
Starlink User Note 11
R.F. Warren-Smith
28th April 1998
E-mail:rfws@star.rl.ac.uk