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
See Also
H5T_GET_INPAD, H5T_GET_ORDER, H5T_GET_PAD, H5T_GET_SIZE