scripts to reproduce JLD issues on julia 0.7

jld_alignment_issue.jl

module Tst
using JLD

GC.gc()

Aarray = Vector{Float64}[[1.2,3.4],[1.1]]
str = "abc"
stringsA = ["x","y","z"]
strings16 = convert(Vector{JLD.UTF16String}, stringsA)
bigdata = [1:10000;]

fn = "tst.tmp.jld"

fid = jldopen(fn, "w")
write(fid, "Aarray", Aarray)
write(fid, "str", str)
write(fid, "stringsA", stringsA)
write(fid, "stringsU", stringsA)
write(fid, "strings16", strings16)
write(fid, "bigdata", bigdata)
close(fid)

fidr = jldopen(fn, "r", mmaparrays=true)
try
    read(fidr, "bigdata") == bigdata
finally
    close(fidr)
end

GC.gc()

end # module

jld_bitsunion_issue.jl

module Tst2
using JLD

GC.gc()

struct BitsUnion
    x::Union{Int64, Float64}
end
bitsunion = BitsUnion(5.0)

fn = "tst.tmp.jld"

fid = jldopen(fn, "w")
write(fid, "bitsunion", bitsunion)
close(fid)

fidr = jldopen(fn, "r", mmaparrays=true)
try
    read(fidr, "bitsunion") == bitsunion
finally
    close(fidr)
end

GC.gc()

end # module