[svn-r12686] Added compression to Packet Tables. Now both C and C++ packet tables

have an extra parameter that sets the deflate filter.

Added tests, made examples use the new APIs.

Cleaned up include files a little and removed some casts that I hope are
superfluous.  If anybody encounters strange errors in the packet table
tests where the chunk size is set to some extremely large value, please
let me know, but I was unable to reproduce this error on any system.

Tested on mir, heping, sol, juniper, VS 6.0.  Looked for the chunk size
error on several other systems a month or two ago.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/hl/c++/src/H5PacketTable.h b/hl/c++/src/H5PacketTable.h
index 3ba4e5e..cdfb3ee 100644
--- a/hl/c++/src/H5PacketTable.h
+++ b/hl/c++/src/H5PacketTable.h
@@ -103,10 +103,11 @@ public:
     /* Constructor
      * Creates a packet table in which to store fixed length packets.
      * Takes the ID of the file the packet table will be created in, the name of
-     * the packet table, the ID of the datatype of the set, and the size
-     * of a memory chunk used in chunking.
+     * the packet table, the ID of the datatype of the set, the size
+     * of a memory chunk used in chunking, and the desired compression level
+     * (0-9, or -1 for no compression).
      */
-    FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, char* name, hid_t dtypeID, int chunkSize);
+    FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, char* name, hid_t dtypeID, hsize_t chunkSize, int compression = -1);
 
     /* "Open" Constructor
      * Opens an existing fixed-length packet table.
@@ -169,7 +170,7 @@ public:
      * Takes the ID of the file the packet table will be created in, the name of
      * the packet table, and the size of a memory chunk used in chunking.
      */
-    VL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, char* name, int chunkSize);
+    VL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, char* name, hsize_t chunkSize);
 
     /* "Open" Constructor
      * Opens an existing variable-length packet table.