Hi all,
I'm creating some Enum DataTypes in HDF5 and have successfully created several
by calling enumCreate, enumInsert and then 'commit' to store them in the file.
I'm running into a minor issue which I can't explain.
Some of the enums should be backed by 16 bit ints, some by 32 bit ints and some
by 64 bit ints. I've had no trouble creating 16 or 32 bit int backed enums but
encountered unexpected behaviour when creating 64 bit int backed enums.
The issue is this:
The library seems to accept each call I make, produces no errors on the console
and no error statuses are returned. Yet despite this, the enums keep turning
out as 32 bit int backed enums, and indeed the values for actual names seem to
be capped to 32 bit numbers.
For example, the following would work fine:
enum LunchSelection
{
CAKE = 5,
DEATH = 7
}
The following would end up with the same output as above:
enum LunchSelection
{
CAKE = 5,
DEATH = 1125899906842631 // This ends up just being 7, despite the
fact that it is actually (2^50) + 7
}
In the second example, the 32 most significant bits are removed and the 32
least significant bits remain to form a valid 32 bit number. I'd get output
similar to the following from h5dump:
DATATYPE "LunchSelection" H5T_ENUM {
H5T_STD_I32LE;
"CAKE" 5;
"DEATH" 7;
};
The only clue I've managed to find anywhere is that in standard C++, enums
backed by a 64 bit int are not supported without certain compiler extensions
that may be non-standard. My knowledge and experience of C++ is extremely
limited so I do not know how reliable this information is. Any suggestions or
ideas would be very much welcome.
I'm using HDF5 1.8.8 win 64 shared.
Kind regards,
Justin
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