Re: compound types on different machines - is this expected?

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• Subject: Re: compound types on different machines - is this expected?
• From: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:27:43 -0600

Elena Pourmal <epourmal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Here is an example how to use H5Tget_native instead of constructing memory 
> type
>
> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/training/other-ex5/h5nestc.c
>

OK, this seems like magic!

I've changed by program to use the get_native_type function, and now
everything works perfectly. I've read the documentation for
H5Tget_native_type and it's really not clear to me how it manages to
deal with the padding of a struct.

Can someone explain what's going on? What does get_native_type do for
compound types?

Thanks,

Ed
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Ed Hartnett  -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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