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H5T_GET_PRECISION

Syntax | Return Value | Arguments | Keywords | Version History | See Also

The H5T_GET_PRECISION function returns the precision in bits of an atomic datatype. The precision is the number of significant bits which, unless padded, is 8 times larger than the byte size from H5T_GET_CSET.

Syntax

Result = H5T_GET_PRECISION(Datatype_id)

Return Value

Returns the bit precision, or 0 if the datatype is not atomic.

Arguments

Datatype_id

An integer representing the datatype's identifier to be queried.

Keywords

None

Version History

5.6
Introduced

See Also

H5T_GET_INPAD, H5T_GET_ORDER, H5T_GET_PAD, H5T_GET_SIZE

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