GrADS 2.0.a1

[Wesley Ebisuzaki]

Oliver,

    The bug was fixed properly.  I shouldn't depended on floor(24/24.0)
== 1.

                Wesley


Oliver König wrote:
> Hi Wesley,
> I still found "-ffast-math" in the makefiles. doesn't that cause the "Invalid
> Date/Time value. Hour = 24 -- greater than 23" bug?
> Regards,
> oliver
>
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:06:51 Wesley Ebisuzaki wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>    After some queries about the next g2ctl/wgrib2, I just put them on
>> the web.
>> For this version, you need to upgrade both programs.  Not everything works
>> with 2.0.a1.  For example I couldn't get ecwmf thinned gaussian grids to
>> work.
>>
>>            Wesley
>>
>> Jennifer Adams wrote:
>>
>>> I have posted a new release -- 2.0.a1. The src and binaries are here:
>>>
>>> ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-src-2.0.a1.tar.gz
>>> ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a1-darwin-intel.tar.gz
>>> ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a1-RHEL5-x86_64.tar.gz
>>>
>>> This release has some significant bug fixes:
>>>
>>> 0. Detection of linear and wrapping axes for netcdf files opened with
>>> sdfopen
>>> 1. GRIB2 grids that have a bitmap were being drawn upside down
>>> 2. Fixed display for gxout=model and gxout=grid
>>> 3. Fixed handling of templated netcdf data sets opened with xdfopen
>>> 4. Fixed detection of unlimited axis in hdf files opened with sdfopen
>>> 5. Fixed I/O of PDEF files
>>> 6. Fix to gribmap when creating index files >250mb
>>> 7. Added some debug statements for detection of errors in calls to
>>> seekgb() in the grib2c library.
>>>
>>> These bugs were causing catastrophic errors (especially #6) and so it
>>> seemed worthwhile to put out a new release. I have yet to make any
>>> changes to the build system -- I know it's hard to build from source,
>>> and I hope to make it easier, but right now fixing catastrophic bugs
>>> in the GrADS core is a higher priority for me.
>>>
>>> To take advantage of the debug statements (#7 above), you must change
>>> the value of debug in line 75 of gaio.c:
>>>   static gaint debug=1;
>>> and then build from source. The binary distributions have debug set to 0.
>>>
>>> I will work on getting out some more binaries for: Mac PowerPC, SunOS,
>>> and RHEL4 x86_64. Sorry, we don't have any 32-bit linux boxes at COLA
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> Please post comments and questions and bug reports here, no matter how
>>> technical they are. The gradsusr posts are archived and searchable,
>>> which makes this the best place to report and resolve problems.
>>>
>>> Jennifer
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jennifer M. Adams
>>> IGES/COLA
>>> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
>>> Calverton, MD 20705
>>> jma at cola.iges.org <mailto:jma at cola.iges.org>
>>>