A null-padded fixed string inside a compound or an array member printed
trimmed ("" for three NULs, "a" for "a\0b"), where h5dump prints every
byte ("\000\000\000", "a\000b"); only top-level strings were shown in
full. DATA blocks now render elements through one function that keeps
the padding at any depth.
The README now lists the remaining known differences from h5dump:
nested compounds print inline, and long double values are printed as
errors (exit 1) with the datatype as an H5T_FLOAT block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
An OBJ that was a soft link was resolved and its target object compared,
so two files whose /g/s both point at /z differed when /z did: exit 1,
where h5diff (without --follow-symlinks) compares the links' target paths
and exits 0.
A soft link is now compared as a link wherever it is, OBJ included.
--follow-symlinks compares the objects soft links lead to instead, walks
into soft-linked groups, resolves relative targets against the link's
group, and treats two dangling links as the same; exit codes equal
h5diff's on 14 cases. External links are never followed (documented).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
With a tolerance, integers were converted to f64 before comparing, so
int64/uint64 values above 2^53 that differ compared equal: -d 0 on 2^60
and 2^60 + 1 exited 0, where h5diff exits 1. Integer pairs are now
compared in i128 (the delta against floor(D), the relative quotient from
an exact difference), and the report prints the exact difference.
h5diff compares exactly when -p is below the f64 epsilon (2^60 and
2^60 + 1 differ at -p 1e-18, and nextafter(2, 0) and 2 at -p 1.5e-16);
h5rs now does the same.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The path walk skipped the second hard link to an object, so a file that
shares one dataset between /x and /y differed from a file holding two
identical copies: "</y> exists only in <B>", exit 1, where h5diff exits 0.
For a hard-linked group every member was reported the same way.
diff now enumerates every path below the start object (a hard link back
to an ancestor is recorded but not descended into), so each name is
compared. A group whose links cannot be read is now an error instead of
an empty group.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
New workspace crate clawhdf5-tools with one binary, h5rs, built only on the
clawhdf5 facade and clawhdf5-format (no libhdf5, no C):
- ls [-r] [-v] FILE[/path]: h5ls's listing (same text in its first two
columns) plus the datatype; -v adds address, link count, layout and chunk
index, chunk size, storage, filters, datatype and attributes.
- dump [--json] [-A] [-p] [-d PATH] FILE: h5dump DDL (byte-identical to
h5dump 1.14.6 on the test files) or hdf5-json.
- stat FILE: h5stat's object/link/rank/layout/filter/attribute counts, raw
data and total size.
- diff [-r] [-q] [-d D] [-p R] A B [OBJ1 [OBJ2]]: structural and value
differences, exit 0/1/2 like h5diff.
- check [--data] FILE: walks every object, parses every message, verifies
the checksums of every v2+ structure (including the fractal heap blocks
the library never checks), checks chunk indexes against their datasets
and raw data for out-of-file or overlapping extents; every problem with
its address.
Values over --max-bytes are reported, not read; dense-storage heaps are
verified before objects are read from them; panics are caught (exit 3).
Tests compare with h5ls, h5stat, h5dump and h5diff and with h5py's values,
and flip the checksum of every checksummed structure in a v1.14-format file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
