New overloaded functions and tests

Description:
    - Added VarLenType::VarLenType(const DataType& base_type)
    - Marked VarLenType::VarLenType(const DataType* base_type) deprecated
    - Added a static wrapper for H5Tdetect_class for PredType
        static bool DataType::detectClass(const PredType& pred_type, ...)
    - Removed the deprecated function Exception::printError() from code
    - Miscellaneous improvements in comments
    - Added test functions test_detect_type_class() and test_vltype()
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Linux/64 (jelly)
    Darwin (osx1010test)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/c++/src/H5IdComponent.cpp b/c++/src/H5IdComponent.cpp
index 284c6c5..fe2d27e 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5IdComponent.cpp
+++ b/c++/src/H5IdComponent.cpp
@@ -368,8 +368,10 @@ IdComponent::IdComponent()
 // Exception:   H5::IdComponentException
 // Description:
 //              This function is protected so that the user applications can
-//              only have access to its code via allowable classes, namely,
-//              Attribute and H5Location subclasses.
+//              only have access to its code via H5Location subclasses.
+//      September 2017
+//              This function should be moved to H5Location now that Attribute
+//              inherits from H5Location.
 // Programmer   Binh-Minh Ribler - Jul, 2004
 //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 H5std_string IdComponent::p_get_file_name() const