It occurs to me that the h5dump program does a lot of stuff that would
be really useful to have in library code. As an example, I was running
into a problem today that I suspected was due to a type definition that
was in use incorrectly. I was ultimately able to confirm my suspicion
by reading code, but during that search I thought it'd be really handy
to have a function that I could use to dump out the structure of the
data type to some output stream or other.
h5dump already does what I was interested in, but it's not library code
and would be difficult to integrate into my program to look at the
definition of a type that's only defined in memory.
Anyway, I thought it'd be super useful to have some of this code in
h5dump moved into a high level library for debugging (or other) purposes.
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