[svn-r20517] Description:

	Bring r20513 from trunk to 1.8 branch:

	Correct several problems with compound datatypes that don't have any
fields added:

- Change assertion to error report when a file is encountered which has this
	situation.

- Added check to attribute creation to avoid creating attributes with a
	datatype like this (datasets and named datatypes already have the check)

Tested on:
       FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
       FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
       Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x,
               w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
       Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (amani) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
               w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
       Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
               w/szip filter, w/threadsafe, in production mode
       Linux/PPC 2.6 (heiwa) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5A.c b/src/H5A.c
index 1c75e46..666a2a8 100644
--- a/src/H5A.c
+++ b/src/H5A.c
@@ -389,14 +389,18 @@ H5A_create(const H5G_loc_t *loc, const char *name, const H5T_t *type,
 
     /* Check if the dataspace has an extent set (or is NULL) */
     if(!(H5S_has_extent(space)))
-        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ARGS, H5E_BADVALUE, FAIL, "dataspace extent has not been set")
+        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ATTR, H5E_BADVALUE, FAIL, "dataspace extent has not been set")
+
+    /* Check if the datatype is "sensible" for use in a dataset */
+    if(H5T_is_sensible(type) != TRUE)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ATTR, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "datatype is not sensible")
 
     /* Build the attribute information */
     if(NULL == (attr = H5FL_CALLOC(H5A_t)))
-        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_RESOURCE, H5E_NOSPACE, FAIL, "memory allocation failed for attribute info")
+        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ATTR, H5E_CANTALLOC, FAIL, "memory allocation failed for attribute info")
 
     if(NULL == (attr->shared = H5FL_CALLOC(H5A_shared_t)))
-        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_FILE, H5E_NOSPACE, FAIL, "can't allocate shared attr structure")
+        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ATTR, H5E_CANTALLOC, FAIL, "can't allocate shared attr structure")
 
     /* If the creation property list is H5P_DEFAULT, use the default character encoding */
     if(acpl_id == H5P_DEFAULT)