[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, 0 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/bad_compound.h5 b/test/bad_compound.h5
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1834a2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/bad_compound.h5