[Support #KOM-880811]: chunksize, NC_STRING questions

Hi Charlie,

> The netCDF4 daily snapshots finally build on my development
> machines again, and support all the interfaces I need.
> This is good for many reasons, including that it allows me
> to easily use DAP on Debian-based machines (Debian lacks Opendap
> packages) via the DAP in libnetcdf mechanism.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. Is the prototype for chunksizep in nc_def_var_chunking()
> unnecessarily weak? Could you use
> 
> const size_t *chunksizep
> 
> instead of
> 
> size_t *chunksizep
> 
> ? (can chunksizep contents change during call?)

Yes, good catch!  The call shouldn't change the values of the chunk sizes.

> 2. What is (or will be) the syntax for indicating a netCDF4
> NC_STRING in CDL syntax?

There's an example in the source file ncdump/tst_string_data.cdl.

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: KOM-880811
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed