On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:

> Will that work with the HDF5 1.6 library? 

Not quite. See 1.6 counterpart here 
http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/api16-c.html
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> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
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> On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Elena Pourmal wrote:
> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> You can use HDF5 compound datatype. It is portable across architectures. 
>> Please see C example  h5ex_t_cpxcmpd.c at 
>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/api18-c.html under 
>> the Datatypes section how to use it. User's Guide also has a section on 
>> compound datatypes (under the Datatypes link).
>> 
>> Elena
>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> 
>>> I have the following data structure that I would like to store into a 
>>> single HDF5 data set:
>>> 
>>> struct {
>>> int v1
>>> int v2
>>> int v3
>>> int v4
>>> float v5
>>> int v6
>>> }
>>> 
>>> What would be the best way to do this? I know there is a way to store a 
>>> "custom" data type but I am coming up empty finding out how to do this. 
>>> Also what are the downsides to using a custom data type with respect to 
>>> portability across architectures? 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help
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