[svn-r17987] Description:

	Bring r17945:17986 from trunk to revise_chunks branch
	(needs to have autotools files regenerated before testing, those will
be checked in in a few minutes)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/c++/test/trefer.cpp b/c++/test/trefer.cpp
index f17f37a..c4ac93b 100644
--- a/c++/test/trefer.cpp
+++ b/c++/test/trefer.cpp
@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ static void test_reference_obj(void)
 	H5std_string read_comment1 = group.getComment(".", 10);
 	verify_val(read_comment1, write_comment, "Group::getComment", __LINE__, __FILE__);
 
+        // Test that getComment handles failures gracefully
+        try {
+            H5std_string read_comment_tmp = group.getComment(NULL);
+        }
+        catch (Exception E) {} // We expect this to fail
+
 	// Close group
 	group.close();