Revising numeric overflows document

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Subject: Revising numeric overflows document
From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:19:03 -0500 (CDT)
Hi all,
    I've posted a short document describing the changes I think are necessary
to accomodate supporting netCDF-3 datatype conversions here:
    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/planning/DP/Overflow.html

    Please comment and send suggestions to me.  If there's enough interest, we
can have a separate meeting to discuss the changes.

    Quincey
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Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>     I've posted a short document describing the changes I think are necessary
> to accomodate supporting netCDF-3 datatype conversions here:
>     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/planning/DP/Overflow.html
> 
>     Please comment and send suggestions to me.  If there's enough interest, we
> can have a separate meeting to discuss the changes.
> 
>     Quincey

Let me ask a question...

I would first define a dataset and set it's fill value.

Then I would pass a pointer to my version of the conversion function?
What would it do? Just copy the fill_buf to dst_buf?

Then I would try to transfer data.

Would I know that the callback function has been called? 

Ed