[MOAB-dev] Getting ent set data when tag_size > 1

[Jason Kraftcheck]

James Porter wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 13:59 -0500, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
>> If you're going to propose changes, why not propose dropping the
>> single-value versions entirely.  They are a legacy from the SIDL days that
>> just confuse things (e.g. the current discussion.)  Really, all the
>> type-specific get/set functions are legacy gunk from SIDL.
> 
> Wouldn't it be necessary to keep about the EH versions at least? For
> implementations that store entity handles as pointers to something,
> they'd need a way to know that you're setting entity handles in order to
> do something special to serialize them.
> 

There is nothing now that says one cannot pass handle tags through the
non-type-specific one.  The method of serializing the data is determined by
the 'tag_type' argument passed to the createTag function.

- jason