Hi John,
On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:26 PM, John Knutson wrote:
> Quincey Koziol wrote:
>> Try using the 'h5debug' tool in the tools/misc subdirectory. You
>> should be able to walk the low level file structure with it (and a handy
>> copy of the file format spec. :-).
>>
>>
> I guess it can be done with this tool but it sure makes it difficult,
> requiring
> 1) multiple runs of the program, probably hundreds of times to walk an entire
> file, and
> 2) enough knowledge about the format to know what address to specify to get
> it to do the walk
>
> What I'd *really* like is a tool that dumped the file with the interpreted
> data in one column and the address and hex dump in another, e.g.
>
> Addresses:
>
> Base: 0 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> File Free-space Info: 18446744073709551615 0020: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>
> End of File: 17971784 0028: 48 3a 12 01 00 00 00 00
>
> Driver Information Block: 18446744073709551615 0030: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>
> Root Group Symbol Table Entry: 0 0038: 00 00 00 00
Interesting idea, I'll keep that in mind for future work on the debug
tool.
Thanks,
Quincey
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