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diff --git a/src/H5Tnative.c b/src/H5Tnative.c
index b22e3e5..5b685b1 100644
--- a/src/H5Tnative.c
+++ b/src/H5Tnative.c
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ done:
* Oct 3, 2002
*
* Modifications:
+ * Raymond Lu
+ * 27 April 2010
+ * I changed the way that the offset, alignment, and size of
+ * nested compound type are calculated by using H5T_cmp_offset.
+ * The old way had a bug in it (see bug #1850).
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -312,12 +317,27 @@ H5T_get_native_type(H5T_t *dtype, H5T_direction_t direction, size_t *struct_alig
HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ARGS, H5E_BADTYPE, NULL, "cannot insert member to compound datatype")
}
- /* Update size, offset and compound alignment for parent. */
- if(offset)
- *offset = *comp_size;
- if(struct_align && *struct_align < children_st_align)
- *struct_align = children_st_align;
- *comp_size += children_size;
+ /* Update size, offset and compound alignment for parent in the case of
+ * nested compound type. The alignment for a compound type as one field in
+ * a compound type is the biggest compound alignment among all its members.
+ * i.g. in the structure
+ * typedef struct s1 {
+ * char c;
+ * int i;
+ * s2 st;
+ * unsigned long long l;
+ * } s1;
+ * typedef struct s2 {
+ * short c2;
+ * long l2;
+ * long long ll2;
+ * } s2;
+ * The alignment for ST in S1 is the biggest structure alignment of all the
+ * members of S2, which is probably the LL2 of 'long long'. -SLU 2010/4/28
+ */
+ if(H5T_cmp_offset(comp_size, offset, children_size, (size_t)1, children_st_align,
+ struct_align) < 0)
+ HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ARGS, H5E_BADTYPE, NULL, "cannot compute compound offset")
/* Close member data type */
for(i=0; i<nmemb; i++) {