IDL HDF5 Limitations

The IDL HDF5 library currently has the following limitations:

Conversion cannot be forced from the HDF5 datatype to a different IDL type (such as single-precision instead of double), although data can be converted after reading from the file.

Only the first (or top) error message from the HDF5 error stack is printed.

Variable-length and opaque datatypes are currently ignored.

The low-level property interface (H5P) is not exposed.