Hello,

Thank you very much. This is exactly what I was looking for, except that I was
looking for a directly overloaded Fortran version. This is close enough :-)

Regards,

Pierre

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 03:06:16PM +0000, Scot Breitenfeld wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 6:55 AM, Pierre de Buyl
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am developing a Fortran code that uses HDF5. The Fortran API
> datatypes listed
> at https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/PredefDTypes.html indicate that
> the
> Fortran interface supports only H5T_NATIVE_INTEGER. I remember that
> someone
> hinted at using convert or some other trick to store longer integers
> but (i) the
> list is hard to search for, as there is no search facility and (ii) I
> am looking
> for a standard solution, if possible.
> I need to store a variable that is "bind(c)" and of type "c_int64_t",
> as defined
> in the iso_c_binding. This variable cannot be stored in the HDF5 file
> as the
> h5dwrite_f routine is only overloaded to accept "integer" (i.e. the
> default
> kind).
> If I am mistaken, I would be glad to know how to overcome the problem.
> 
> You can read/write any fortran type which has a C representation if you
> use the F2003 interface for
> H5Dread and H5Dwrite.
> Take a look at the examples with the _F03 in the name (they use the
> F2003 interfaces):
> https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/examples/api18-fortran.html
> But you would also be interested in rwdset_fortran2003.f90 at
> https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/examples/f-src.html
> Scot
> 
> Else, I would have a more general question: is it planned for HDF5 to
> support
> routinely the iso_c_binding kinds? A priori the overloading could be
> limited to
> the typical c_int8_t, c_int16_t, c_int32_t and c_int64_t (if available
> on the
> platform) and resolved at compile type, even if the user chose to
> declare the
> variables as "integer", "integer(kind=some_other_kind)".
> In my situation, I would like to store a PRNG seed and thus need an
> exact
> mapping of the c_int64_t type on disk.
> Thanks for any info.
> Regards,
> Pierre

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