On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Erik Schnetter <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Originally, __attribute__ is a built-in keyword for the compiler. It is
> not a macro, as others suggested earlier. If you #define it to be empty,
> then the compiler will never see the keyword, as the preprocessor deletes
> it. So using #undef exactly undoes the action of the HDF5 header file,
> making the original keyword again visible to the compiler.
>

This sounds like a good idea to me. I'd suggest only doing the #undef for
version 1.8.15 with the following check

((H5_VERS_MAJOR==1) && (H5_VERS_MINOR==8) && (H5_VERS_RELEASE==15)

since only that particular version is affected.
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