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

Hi Ed,

> > Ed,
> >
> > You are using file datatype to read your data.
> > Please use H5Tget_native_type to get memory type for the H5Dread call.
> >
> > Elena
> 
> Sorry, but what would I do with the result of H5Tget_native_type? I'm
> not following how I would use this...

    It's the datatype you should use in memory that corresponds to the dataset's
datatype on disk.

    Quincey