There's something I just don't understand here.
Suppose, on machine A, that I have an array of C struct data, of type
"struct s1", and using HOFFSET, I create a compound type. Then I write
a bunch of data.
Then, on machine B, which packs its structs differently, I open the
file, and read the data into an array of the same "struct s1". Will my
data be messed up because of the different padding on machine B?
I can see that, using the HOFFSET macro, you adjust the compound type
to the actual struct when the file is created, because of the
H5Tcompound_insert calls. But readers don't give you any information
about the C struct they are reading into. How do you know the padding
isn't different?
Thanks!
Ed
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