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authorDana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org>2011-10-21 20:59:16 (GMT)
committerDana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org>2011-10-21 20:59:16 (GMT)
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[svn-r21647] Added a comment explaining the purpose of the change in the modification time format.
Trivial change - just made sure it compiled on Windows.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/H5Omtime.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/H5Omtime.c b/src/H5Omtime.c
index 2e2c060..0c60060 100644
--- a/src/H5Omtime.c
+++ b/src/H5Omtime.c
@@ -105,8 +105,11 @@ H5FL_DEFINE(time_t);
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Function: H5O_mtime_new_decode
*
- * Purpose: Decode a new modification time message and return a pointer to a
- * new time_t value.
+ * Purpose: Decode a new modification time message and return a pointer to
+ * a new time_t value.
+ *
+ * The new modification time message format was added due to the
+ * performance overhead of the old format.
*
* Return: Success: Ptr to new message in native struct.
*
@@ -158,8 +161,11 @@ done:
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Function: H5O_mtime_decode
*
- * Purpose: Decode a modification time message and return a pointer to a
- * new time_t value.
+ * Purpose: Decode a modification time message and return a pointer to a
+ * new time_t value.
+ *
+ * The new modification time message format was added due to the
+ * performance overhead of the old format.
*
* Return: Success: Ptr to new message in native struct.
*