New version of ncgen

> Subject: 1995124 netCDF-2.4-beta4 comments
> Organization: CSIRO Division of Oceanography
> Keywords: 199512032150.AA10339

Hi Stephen,

Earlier this week, you wrote about a limitation of ncgen:

> Well, you almost did. The trouble is that the ncgen code sets its own idea
> of the maximum number of attributes, in the following line from
> ncgen/ncgen.h:
> 
>     #define MAX_NC_ATTS        500  /* max number of attributes in a netCDF */
>
> I don't understand why it doesn't use the library-wide definition,
> as stated in the following line from libsrc/netcdf.h:
> 
>     #define MAX_NC_ATTRS 2000        /* max global or per variable attributes 
> */

I've gotten a chance to revise ncgen so it now has no limitations on the
maximum number of attributes, variables, or dimensions.  In doing so, the
run-time size of ncgen decreased significantly, since it now allocates space
dynamically for these as needed instead of reserving arrays with maximum
sizes.

If you have a chance, please try the new version of ncgen, available as part
of the current beta5 release of netCDF 2.4 in

    ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4-beta.tar.Z

and let me know if there are any problems.  Thanks.

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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