[svn-r18582] Description:

	Bring r18533:18581 from trunk to revise_chunks branch.

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, in production mode
        Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                in production mode
        Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode
        Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
                in production mode

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5T.c b/src/H5T.c
index 4b77559..7dfe0f2 100644
--- a/src/H5T.c
+++ b/src/H5T.c
@@ -1863,12 +1863,6 @@ H5T_get_class(const H5T_t *dt, htri_t internal)
 
     assert(dt);
 
-    /* Lie to the user if they have a VL string and tell them it's in the string class */
-    if(dt->shared->type==H5T_VLEN && dt->shared->u.vlen.type==H5T_VLEN_STRING)
-        ret_value=H5T_STRING;
-    else
-        ret_value=dt->shared->type;
-
     /* Externally, a VL string is a string; internally, a VL string is a VL. */
     if(internal) {
         ret_value=dt->shared->type;