[gdal-dev] problem with 5D variables in NetCDF

[Michael Sumner]

Hello,

No objections to using the file - I manufactured it to test the higher 
dimension cases.

Cheers, Mike


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Michael Sumner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The 5D dataset in this NetCDF file causes an error on Windows but not 
>> on Linux.
>>
>> http://staff.acecrc.org.au/~mdsumner/gdal/foo.nc
>>
>> The Windows FWTools is recent, and the Linux version is old:
>>
>> Linux: GDAL 1.5dev, FWTools 1.3.2, released 2007/06/01
>>
>> Windows: GDAL 1.6.0dev, FWTools 2.2.6, released 2008/08/22
>>
>> Is this a known problem? Variables of 2D, 3D and 4D all seem fine on 
>> Windows even
>> when in a file containing a 5D variable.
>>
>> I've put details below for (1) the file, (2) the SDS on Linux, (3) 
>> the SDS on Windows.
>
> Mike,
>
> I have confirmed this problem and discovered that gdalinfo on the
> same thing reports problems on linux if run under valgrind (but
> happened not to crash).  So the bug is not actually new.  I have
> filed:
>
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2582
>
> on the issue, and am committing a fix in subversion now.
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
> Do you have any objection to foo.nc being incorporated into the GDAL test
> suite as public domain data?
>
> Best regards,
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