D-scale floats were rebuilt as `minval + code / 10^D` in f64 and then
rounded to f32 once, but libhdf5 (H5Z_scaleoffset_modify_3/4 with
`float`/`powf`) computes `(float)(int)code / powf(10, D) + min` in single
precision. The two differ by 1 ULP for some values: le_data.h5
/Scale_offset_float_data_{le,be} gave 1.6663332 (0x3fd54a69) where
libhdf5 gives 1.6663333 (0x3fd54a6a). Use f32 arithmetic for 4-byte
floats and `(double)(long)code / pow(10, D) + min` for 8-byte ones.
Test: scaleoffset_float_dscale_matches_libhdf5_bits (le_data.h5 float
LE/BE and double chunks, bit-exact against h5py); failed before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
clawhdf5-format
Pure-Rust HDF5 binary format parsing and writing — no C dependencies.
Features
- Zero-copy superblock, object header, and B-tree parsing
- Chunked dataset read/write with filter pipelines
no_stdsupport (disablestdfeature)- Optional parallel reads via Rayon
- SHA-256 provenance tracking
Usage
use clawhdf5_format::Superblock;
let data = std::fs::read("data.h5").unwrap();
let sb = Superblock::from_bytes(&data).unwrap();
println!("HDF5 version {}.{}", sb.version_major(), sb.version_minor());
License
MIT