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<h1>HDF5 Glossary</h1>
</center>
<i>(<b>Under construction!</b>
This is the bare beginning of a Glossary to accompany the HDF5 documentation;
it is by no means complete.)</i>
<i>(<b>Under construction!</b>
This is the bare beginning of a Glossary to accompany the HDF5
documentation; it is by no means complete.)</i>
<ol type=A>
<li><a href="#Glossary-Basic">Basic Types</a>
<li><a href="#Glossary-Complex">Complex Types</a>
<li><a href="#Glossary-DiskIO">Disk I/O Types</a>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Glossary-Basic">basic data types</a>
<li><a href="#Glossary-Complex">complex data types</a>
<li>data types
<ul>
<li><a href="#Glossary-Basic">basic data types</a>
<li><a href="#Glossary-Complex">complex data types</a>
<li><a href="#Glossary-DiskIO">disk I/O data types</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#Glossary-DiskIO">disk I/O data types</a>
</ul>
<P>Since many of the typedefs in the HDF5 API are not well-defined yet,
the types below may change radically en route to a final API...
<hr>
<a name="Glossary-Basic">Basic Types:</a>
<a name="Glossary-Basic">basic data types:</a>
<ul>
<li><em>(Some data types may change substantially en route to
Release 1.0.)</em>
<li>char - 8-bit character (only for ASCII information)
<li>int8 - 8-bit signed integer
<li>uint8 - 8-bit unsigned integer
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<li>float64 - 64-bit IEEE float
</ul>
<a name="Glossary-Complex">Complex Types:</a>
<a name="Glossary-Complex">Complex data types:</a>
<ul>
<li><em>(Some data types may change substantially en route to
Release 1.0.)</em>
<li>hid_t - 32-bit unsigned integer used as ID for memory objects
<li>hoid_t - 32-bit unsigned integer (currently) used as ID for disk-based
objects
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<li>herr_t - 32-bit integer to indicate succeed/fail codes from functions
</ul>
<a name="Glossary-DiskIO">Disk I/O Types:</a>
<a name="Glossary-DiskIO">disk I/O data types:</a>
<ul>
<li><em>(Some data types may change substantially en route to
Release 1.0.)</em>
<li>hoff_t - (64-bit?) offset on disk in bytes
<li>hlen_t - (64-bit?) length on disk in bytes
</ul>