Thanks, Barbara. I was able to get the HDF5 library compiled with the 
--enable-fortran2003 flag and my data set successfully read.  Thank you for 
your help and time!
Cheers,
-Corey

On Nov 14, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Barbara Jones wrote:

> Hi Corey,
> 
> The F2003 features in HDF5 are fully supported (not beta). I can't think of 
> any reason not to compile HDF5 with F2003 enabled.
> On our web site we provide pre-built binaries for Linux (32-bit, 64-bit) that 
> are built with F2003 enabled using gcc/g++/gfortran 4.8.1, in case you can 
> use those.
> See: 
>  http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
> 
> -Barbara
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Corey Bettenhausen
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:11 PM
> To: HDF Users Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] Reading 64-bit integers from Fortran
> 
> Hi Barbara,
> Well, glad to hear it's possible.  I had it in my head that the F2003 
> features were basically "beta" features and may or may not be stable. I'm 
> assuming this isn't the case then?  Is there any reason not to compile HDF5 
> with F2003 enabled (give the presense of F2003 support in the compiler)? 
> Thanks for your help.
> Cheers,
> -Corey
> 
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Barbara Jones wrote:
> 
>> Hi Corey,
>> 
>> The sentence you pointed out is one of the limitations of Fortran support in 
>> HDF5 *prior* to HDF5-1.8.8. 
>> With HDF5-1.8.8 we added support for Fortran 2003, so now this is not 
>> a limitation in HDF5.  (See Section
>> 3 in that document for the Fortran 2003 features in HDF5.)
>> 
>> On the "Examples by API" page, there are many Fortran examples that 
>> use Fortran 2003, including an example that reads 64-bit integers 
>> (h5ex_t_int_F03.f90):
>> 
>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/examples/api18-fortran.html
>> 
>> (I attached h5ex_t_int_F03.f90 to this message.)
>> 
>> Please note that if you wish to use the F2003 features in HDF5, you 
>> need to have a Fortran compiler that supports Fortran 2003, and you 
>> need to have built HDF5 with F2003 support enabled.  The 
>> NewFeatures_F2003.pdf document discusses this, as well.
>> 
>> For example, to build HDF5 with Fortran 2003 support on Unix you would 
>> specify these options with configure:
>> --enable-fortran --enable-fortran2003
>> 
>> If you have further questions, let me know!
>> 
>> -Barbara
>> 
>> ====================
>> Barbara Jones
>> The HDF Helpdesk
>> 
>> The HDF Group
>> [email protected]
>> ====================
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Corey Bettenhausen
>> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:21 AM
>> To: HDF Users Discussion List
>> Subject: [Hdf-forum] Reading 64-bit integers from Fortran
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to read some 64-bit integer VIIRS data in HDF5 format via 
>> Fortran. After a quick search I found this document:
>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/fortran/NewFeatures_F2003.pdf
>> 
>> "For example, if an HDF5 dataset stores 64-bit integers, data cannot be read 
>> by an HDF5 Fortran application into the buffer of the appropriate type like 
>> INTEGER*8 or INTEGER(KIND=big_enough_to_store) because there is no interface 
>> provided by the HDF5 Fortran Library."
>> 
>> Is this still the case with version 1.8.12? I couldn't find any 
>> documentation to suggest otherwise, but wanted to confirm.
>> Thanks,
>> -Corey
>> 
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