[netCDF #QCX-463169]: possible bug in 4.3.3.1 with unlimited dimensions in NetCDF-4 format?

Hello Ellen,

Thank you very much for the test program! I've duplicated your error, and am 
currently working on narrowing down when the bug was introduced.  I've created 
a ticket in our JIRA system, which can be viewed at 
https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-326, if you are interested.

I will follow up with you once we know more, thanks again!

-Ward


> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded from NetCDF 4.1.3 to NetCDF 4.3.3.1 and am seeing a
> problem in our regression test when writing unlimited dimensions to a
> NetCDF-4 format file.  Specifically, if the unlimited dimension is last
> instead of the first in the dimension list, or if I declare more than
> one unlimited dimension, the program errors with the NC_EEDGE error:
> 
> Error: NetCDF: Start+count exceeds dimension bound
> 
> This does not occur in our current NetCDF version 4.1.3.
> 
> To isolate the issue, I built NetCDF 4.3.3.1 outside of our build
> infrastructure and wrote a standalone C program to write to a NetCDF-4
> file, so I am bypassing MATLAB completely.
> 
> Can you please help me determine if this is a bug in the NetCDF code,
> specifically in dvarput.c?
> 
> Below is the standalone C program that will throw the error above when
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Ellen Johnson
> Software Engineer
> Image and Scientific File Formats
> MathWorks
> 
> 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <netcdf.h>
> 
> #define FILE_NAME "unlim.nc"
> 
> /* 3D matrix, 6 x 4 x 3 */
> 
> #define NDIMS 3
> #define X_LEN 6
> #define Y_LEN 4
> #define Z_LEN 3
> 
> /* Handle errors by printing an error message */
> 
> #define ERR(e) {printf("Error: %s\n", nc_strerror(e)); return 2;}
> 
> int
> main()
> 
> {
> size_t start[NDIMS] = {0, 0, 0};
> size_t count[NDIMS] = {X_LEN, Y_LEN, Z_LEN};
> ptrdiff_t stride[NDIMS] = {1, 1, 1};
> float mydata[X_LEN * Y_LEN * Z_LEN];
> int i;
> int retval;
> 
> int ncid, varid;
> int dimids[NDIMS];
> 
> for (i = 0; i < (X_LEN * Y_LEN * Z_LEN); i++)
> mydata[i] = i;
> 
> 
> /* create the file in NetCDF-4 format */
> if ((retval = nc_create(FILE_NAME, NC_NETCDF4, &ncid)))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> 
> /* define dimensions */
> if ((retval = nc_def_dim(ncid, "time", X_LEN, &dimids[0])))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> if ((retval = nc_def_dim(ncid, "lat", Y_LEN, &dimids[1])))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> if ((retval = nc_def_dim(ncid, "lon", NC_UNLIMITED, &dimids[2])))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> /* define the variable */
> if ((retval = nc_def_var(ncid, "data", NC_FLOAT, NDIMS, dimids, &varid)))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> 
> /* end define mode */
> if ((retval = nc_enddef(ncid)))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> 
> /* write data */
> if ((retval = nc_put_vars_float(ncid, varid, start, count, stride,
> mydata)))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> 
> /* close the file */
> if ((retval = nc_close(ncid)))
> ERR(retval);
> 
> printf("\n\n*** SUCCESS writing example file %s!\n", FILE_NAME);
> 
> return 0;
> 
> }
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QCX-463169
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed