Jason, Could you explain more about your intention? Why do you want to convert VLEN to opaque data? Thanks.
Ray On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Jason Sommerville wrote: > I encountered a problem when attempting to register a conversion function to > convert VLENs to an opaque data type. After some digging, I came across this > three-year-old thread > > http://hdf-forum.184993.n3.nabble.com/hdf-forum-VLEN-conversion-problems-td193957.html > > which describes my problem exactly. To sum up, the memory buffer passed to my > conversion function appears to point to heap ids rather than to valid memory. > Also, and this was not mentioned in the older thread, the buf_stride > parameter is set to zero. Supposedly a bug report was filed (where?). > > 1) Has any progress been made on this issue? > 2) Is there another way around this problem? > > One idea that occurred to me is that it is conceivable that under normal > operation a built-in conversion function is normally called that converts > from the heap representation of VLENs to the memory representation. If so, is > there a way to call that function from my conversion? > > Thanks, > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
