Re: error saving empty matrix in HDF5 format

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 2, 2004, at 11:19 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> According to John W. Eaton <address@hidden> (on 03/02/04):
> > I applied these changes, but I think maybe we should use Paul's
> > suggestion of storing the dimensions in the attributes section.
>
> I agree, but we need to check that the empty array is available in
> the hdf library. In any case this would just be a matter of fixing up
> the ls-hdf5.cc{save_hdf5_empty, load_hdf5_empty} functions I added.
> So a reasonable structure is there even in this patch...

It would be nice to have the data files not so heavily dependent
on a particular release of hdf5.  Could you save it instead as an
empty string or empty something else, but with the vector attribute
empty_dims?  Or is nothing allowed to be empty?  How about
an empty group?

Paul Kienzle
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