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/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
 * Copyright by The HDF Group.                                               *
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/*
 * Programmer:	Quincey Koziol
 *		Saturday, September 12, 2015
 *
 * Purpose:	This file contains declarations which define macros for the
 *		H5A package.  Including this header means that the source file
 *		is part of the H5A package.
 */
#ifndef _H5Amodule_H
#define _H5Amodule_H

/* Define the proper control macros for the generic FUNC_ENTER/LEAVE and error
 *      reporting macros.
 */
#define H5A_MODULE
#define H5_MY_PKG      H5A
#define H5_MY_PKG_ERR  H5E_ATTR
#define H5_MY_PKG_INIT YES

/**\defgroup H5A H5A
 * \brief Attribute Interface
 *
 * \details The Attribute Interface, H5A, provides a mechanism for attaching
 *          additional information to a dataset, group, or named datatype.
 *
 *          Attributes are accessed by opening the object that they are
 *          attached to and are not independent objects. Typically an
 *          attribute is small in size and contains user metadata about the
 *          object that it is attached to.
 *
 *          Attributes look similar to HDF5 datasets in that they have a
 *          datatype and dataspace. However, they do not support partial
 *          I/O operations and cannot be compressed or extended.
 *
 */

#endif /* _H5Amodule_H */