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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>1999-09-29 00:30:21 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>1999-09-29 00:30:21 (GMT)
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[svn-r1689] Mainly adding support for "native" variable-length strings (C only currently),
but I fixed lots of misc. compiler warnings in other code and also tracked down the memory overwrite bug that was causing the development branch to core dump on most machines.
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diff --git a/src/H5Tpublic.h b/src/H5Tpublic.h
index d9284f1..b735465 100644
--- a/src/H5Tpublic.h
+++ b/src/H5Tpublic.h
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ typedef enum H5T_pers_t {
H5T_PERS_SOFT = 1 /*soft conversion function */
} H5T_pers_t;
-/* Variable Length Datatype struct */
+/* Variable Length Datatype struct in memory */
+/* (This is only used for VL sequences, not VL strings, which are stored in char *'s) */
typedef struct {
size_t len; /* Length of VL data (in base type units) */
void *p; /* Pointer to VL data */