NOTE: The netcdf-hdf mailing list is no longer active. The list archives are made available for historical reasons.
Pedro Vicente Nunes <pvn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Ed > >>> I also noticed that H5DSget_num_scales returns -1 (FAIL) in one case >>> when there is no scale attached. I'll take a look why we did that >>> this way, but probably we can return 0 for this case > >>Well that would be better. > > I changed the return value of H5DSget_num_scales for a case when there are no > scales attached from FAIL (-1) to 0 > the code is checked in our cvs repo > > the lines of code that were returning -1 in your case are inside the > H5DSget_num_scales function > > /* try to find the attribute "DIMENSION_LIST" on the >>data<< dataset */ > if ((has_dimlist = H5LT_find_attribute(did,DIMENSION_LIST))<0) > return FAIL; > > /* it does not exist */ > if (has_dimlist == 0) > return 0; > > previously it returned FAIL here , the rationale was because it did not find > the DIMENSION_LIST attribute. > it is more correct to return 0, like you noticed, meaning that there was no > attempt to previously attach a dimension scale to this dataset > > thanks for the suggestion > Great! Thanks, I'll do a cvs update and try it immediately. Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
netcdf-hdf archives: