Hi there, I’m studying the API for HDF5 file image operations and I am a bit puzzled by H5Pget_file_image which retrieves a copy of the file image designated for a VFD to use as the initial contents of a file.
H5Pget_file_image wants to allocate the memory for the file image itself, either with malloc or with some function provided by the application using H5Pset_file_image_callbacks. I find this design needlessly complex (perhaps due to my ignorance). Why couldn’t H5Pget_file_image let the application do the allocation just like, say, H5Fget_file_image? Thanks in advance, Andrea -- Andrea Bedini @andreabedini, http://www.andreabedini.com See the impact of my research at https://impactstory.org/AndreaBedini use https://keybase.io/andreabedini to send me encrypted messages Key fingerprint = 17D5 FB49 FA18 A068 CF53 C5C2 9503 64C1 B2D5 9591
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