compound data type problem in alpha13

Sent this to Ed last weekend, but I thought maybe someone on the list might have some insights:
Hi Ed: I found a bug in one of the compound data type examples. The attached patch fixes it. I'm puzzled by one thing though. Your example for writing an array of ints in a compound type was this: 

    /* Create a file with a compound type which contains an array of
     * int. Write a little data. */
    if (nc_create(FILE_NAME, NC_NETCDF4, &ncid)) ERR;
if (nc_def_compound(ncid, sizeof(struct dim_rec), "SFDimRec", &typeid)) ERR; 
    if (nc_insert_compound(ncid, typeid, "starfleet_id",
               HOFFSET(struct dim_rec, starfleet_id), NC_INT)) ERR;
    if (nc_insert_array_compound(ncid, typeid, "abilities",
HOFFSET(struct dim_rec, abilities), NC_INT, 1, dim_sizes)) ERR; 
    if (nc_def_dim(ncid, STARDATE, DIM_LEN, &dimid)) ERR;
if (nc_def_var(ncid, "dimension_data", typeid, 1, dimids, &varid)) ERR; 
    if (nc_put_var(ncid, varid, dim_data_out)) ERR;
    if (nc_close(ncid)) ERR;
    /* Open the file and take a look. */
    {
   if (nc_open(FILE_NAME, NC_WRITE, &ncid)) ERR;
   if (nc_inq_var(ncid, 0, name, &xtype, &ndims, dimids, &natts)) ERR;
/* if (strcmp(name, "starbase_13") || ndims != 1 || natts != 0 || dimids[0] != 0) ERR; 
   if (nc_inq_compound(ncid, xtype, name, &size, &nfields)) ERR;
if (nfields != 5 || size != sizeof(struct sf_med_rec) || strcmp(name, "SFMedRec")) ERR; 
   if (nc_get_var(ncid, varid, med_data_in)) ERR;
   for (i=0; i<DIM_LEN; i++)
      if (med_data_in[i].num_heads != med_data_out[i].num_heads ||
      med_data_in[i].num_arms != med_data_out[i].num_arms ||
      med_data_in[i].num_toes != med_data_out[i].num_toes ||
      med_data_in[i].ago != med_data_out[i].ago ||
      med_data_in[i].num_hairs != med_data_out[i].num_hairs) ERR;*/
   if (nc_close(ncid)) ERR;
    }
 }

I changed the latter part of it to this

    {
   if (nc_open(FILE_NAME, NC_WRITE, &ncid)) ERR;
   if (nc_inq_var(ncid, 0, name, &xtype, &ndims, dimids, &natts)) ERR;
if (strcmp(name, "dimension_data") || ndims != 1 || natts != 0 || dimids[0] != 0) ERR; 
   if (nc_inq_compound(ncid, xtype, name, &size, &nfields)) ERR;
if (nfields != 2 || size != sizeof(struct dim_rec) || strcmp(name, "SFDimRec")) ERR; 
   if (nc_get_var(ncid, varid, dim_data_in)) ERR;
   for (i=0; i<DIM_LEN; i++)
{if (dim_data_in[i].starfleet_id != dim_data_out[i].starfleet_id) ERR; 
     for (j = 0; j < NUM_DIMENSIONS; j++)
if (dim_data_in[i].abilities[j] != dim_data_out[i].abilities[j]) ERR; 
     }
   if (nc_close(ncid)) ERR;
    }
 }

This works fine.  However, if I insert
ierr = nc_inq_compound_field(ncid, xtype, 1, name, &offset, &field_xtype, &field_ndims, &field_sizes); printf("%s %d %d %d name type ndims dim1\n",name,field_xtype,field_ndims,field_sizes[0]); 


I get

abilities 0 0 0 name type ndims dim1
I would have expected '4 1 7', since the field is an 1-d array of ints with length 7. I suspect this is a bug in the implementation of arrays as compound type fields, but I may be missing something. 


-Jeff

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--- tst_compounds.c.orig        Sat Mar  4 14:47:54 2006
+++ tst_compounds.c.new Sat Mar  4 14:47:51 2006
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
         int starfleet_id;
         int abilities[NUM_DIMENSIONS];
   };
-   struct dim_rec dim_data_out[DIM_LEN];
+   struct dim_rec dim_data_out[DIM_LEN], dim_data_in[DIM_LEN];
/* StarFleet Human Resources Department has data records for all 
    * employees. */
@@ -281,16 +281,15 @@
      {
         if (nc_open(FILE_NAME, NC_WRITE, &ncid)) ERR;
         if (nc_inq_var(ncid, 0, name, &xtype, &ndims, dimids, &natts)) ERR;
-/*      if (strcmp(name, "starbase_13") || ndims != 1 || natts != 0 || 
dimids[0] != 0) ERR;
+        if (strcmp(name, "dimension_data") || ndims != 1 || natts != 0 || 
dimids[0] != 0) ERR;
         if (nc_inq_compound(ncid, xtype, name, &size, &nfields)) ERR;
-        if (nfields != 5 || size != sizeof(struct sf_med_rec) || strcmp(name, 
"SFMedRec")) ERR;
-        if (nc_get_var(ncid, varid, med_data_in)) ERR;
+        if (nfields != 2 || size != sizeof(struct dim_rec) || strcmp(name, 
"SFDimRec")) ERR;
+        if (nc_get_var(ncid, varid, dim_data_in)) ERR;
         for (i=0; i<DIM_LEN; i++)
- if (med_data_in[i].num_heads != med_data_out[i].num_heads || - med_data_in[i].num_arms != med_data_out[i].num_arms || 
-               med_data_in[i].num_toes != med_data_out[i].num_toes ||
-               med_data_in[i].ago != med_data_out[i].ago ||
-               med_data_in[i].num_hairs != med_data_out[i].num_hairs) ERR;*/
+       {if (dim_data_in[i].starfleet_id != dim_data_out[i].starfleet_id) ERR;
+       for (j = 0; j < NUM_DIMENSIONS; j++)
+            if (dim_data_in[i].abilities[j] != dim_data_out[i].abilities[j]) 
ERR;
+       }
         if (nc_close(ncid)) ERR;
      }
   }

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