[svn-r17977] Bug fix for 1584. H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type. But when it's in a

compound type, it says it's a VL type.  We want to tell user a VL string is a string.  But
internally we treat it as a VL type.  I added a flag as a parameter of H5T_detect_class.  
It tells whether the caller is the public function H5Tdetect_class.  I also added a 
detection for VL string in the private function for the compound case (or array or nested 
VL type).

Tested on jam and amani - I tested the same change for 1.8 with h5committest.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5Tprivate.h b/src/H5Tprivate.h
index 9189f04..afa6ceb 100644
--- a/src/H5Tprivate.h
+++ b/src/H5Tprivate.h
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ H5_DLL herr_t H5T_lock(H5T_t *dt, hbool_t immutable);
 H5_DLL herr_t H5T_close(H5T_t *dt);
 H5_DLL H5T_t *H5T_get_super(const H5T_t *dt);
 H5_DLL H5T_class_t H5T_get_class(const H5T_t *dt, htri_t internal);
-H5_DLL htri_t H5T_detect_class(const H5T_t *dt, H5T_class_t cls);
+H5_DLL htri_t H5T_detect_class(const H5T_t *dt, H5T_class_t cls, hbool_t from_api);
 H5_DLL size_t H5T_get_size(const H5T_t *dt);
 H5_DLL int    H5T_cmp(const H5T_t *dt1, const H5T_t *dt2, hbool_t superset);
 H5_DLL herr_t H5T_debug(const H5T_t *dt, FILE * stream);