Equivalent Data Types

Certain data types are considered equivalent with respect to their representation in memory and in a CDF. The following groups contain equivalent data types.

     CDF_CHAR       CDF_INT2       CDF_INT4      CDF_REAL4      CDF_REAL8
     CDF_UCHAR      CDF_UINT2      CDF_UINT4     CDF_FLOAT      CDF_DOUBLE
     CDF_INT1                                                   CDF_EPOCH
     CDF_UINT1
     CDF_BYTE

Note that while the signed and unsigned forms of a data type are considered equivalent by the CDF library, they must be correctly interpreted by an application to produce the desired results.