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Diffstat (limited to 'c++/src/H5DataType.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | c++/src/H5DataType.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/c++/src/H5DataType.h b/c++/src/H5DataType.h index 104eed4..c5c8a7d 100644 --- a/c++/src/H5DataType.h +++ b/c++/src/H5DataType.h @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ namespace H5 { #endif +/*! \class DataType + \brief Class DataType provides generic operations on HDF5 datatypes. + + DataType inherits from H5Object because a named datatype is an HDF5 + object and is a base class of ArrayType, AtomType, CompType, EnumType, + and VarLenType. +*/ class H5_DLLCPP DataType : public H5Object { public: // Creates a datatype given its class and size @@ -47,10 +54,8 @@ class H5_DLLCPP DataType : public H5Object { // Commits a transient datatype to a file; this datatype becomes // a named datatype which can be accessed from the location. - void commit( H5File& loc, const char* name); - void commit( H5File& loc, const H5std_string& name); - void commit( H5Object& loc, const char* name); - void commit( H5Object& loc, const H5std_string& name); + void commit(H5Location& loc, const char* name); + void commit(H5Location& loc, const H5std_string& name); // Determines whether this datatype is a named datatype or // a transient datatype. |