Crash on H5garbage_collect

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All,

In what cases can H5garbage_collect cause a crash ? Also if one closes
all the HDF5 resources like datatypes, dataspace, datasets after its use
, Is it mandatory to call the garbage collect ?

Regards

Ramakrishnan

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Hi Ramakrishnan,

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On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Ramakrishnan Iyer wrote:

All,
In what cases can H5garbage_collect cause a crash ? Also if one closes all the HDF5 resources like datatypes, dataspace, datasets after its use , Is it mandatory to call the garbage collect ?

  It is not mandatory to call H5garbage_collect(). If you are getting a crash when calling it, it's very likely that your application has corrupted memory somehow. If that's the case, I would suggest using the "--enable-using-memchecker" configure flag and running your application with Purify or valgrind to locate the memory corruption.

  Quincey