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Diffstat (limited to 'src/H5Dvirtual.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/H5Dvirtual.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/H5Dvirtual.c b/src/H5Dvirtual.c index 0b88ad5..99c090f 100644 --- a/src/H5Dvirtual.c +++ b/src/H5Dvirtual.c @@ -1933,8 +1933,12 @@ H5D__virtual_is_space_alloc(const H5O_storage_t H5_ATTR_UNUSED *storage) FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE_NOERR - /* Need to decide what to do here. For now just return TRUE VDSINC */ - ret_value = TRUE;//storage->u.virt.serial_list_hobjid.addr != HADDR_UNDEF; + /* Just return TRUE, since the global heap object containing the mappings is + * created when the layout message is encoded, and nothing else needs to be + * allocated for virtual datasets. This also ensures that the library never + * assumes (falsely) that no data is present in the dataset, causing errors. + */ + ret_value = TRUE; FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value) } /* end H5D__virtual_is_space_alloc() */ |