Hi Mark,
On May 3, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Mark Howison wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We use this call in H5hut to allow the user to do a point selection on
> a dataset. Previously, I thought it worked like in this example:
>
> 1) I call H5Sselect_elements() with the H5S_SELECT_SET operation, an
> "coord" array of [0,3,6,9] and num_elements=4
> 2) I do a H5Dread to a buffer with enough space for 4 elements, and I
> get back a *packed* array with elements 0,3,6,9 and nothing in between
>
> Recently though our regression test for this in H5hut failed with
> 1.8.5 and 1.8.6, and when I looked closer I realized that H5Dread is
> giving me a sparsely packed array that wants to be 10 elements long
> with only 0,3,6,9 filled in and the others left untouched.
>
> Did the behavior of H5Sselect_elements() change in a recent release,
> or has there always been something wrong with our regression test, and
> I never should have gotten back a packed array from H5Dread?
Nope, H5Sselect_elements has never returned a packed array. I'd lean
toward an incorrect regression test. (Although it's always possible to have a
bug in the HDF5 library, also)
Quincey
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