Abort if datasets could not be created

git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusExternal/FlexIO/trunk@99 21a6bef8-4479-4f54-8f8d-0db94a2919ef

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5IO.cc b/src/H5IO.cc
index 7a2a07b..1acd7a8 100644
--- a/src/H5IO.cc
+++ b/src/H5IO.cc
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#include <assert.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -319,7 +320,8 @@ int H5IO::createdataset(char *name,IObase::DataType nt,int rank,CONST int *dims)
   //printf("+++createdataset index=%u\n",index);
   // dump the old one and create a new one
   dataset = H5Dcreate(file, name, datatype, dataspace,
-                      H5P_DEFAULT);
+		      H5P_DEFAULT);
+  assert (dataset>=0);
   datasetvalid=1;
   return 1;
 }
@@ -334,7 +336,8 @@ int H5IO::createdataset(IObase::DataType nt,int rank,CONST int *dims){
   sprintf(buffer,"H5IO-Dataset%09u",index); // current index in file
   //printf("Creating dataset [%s]\n",buffer);
   dataset = H5Dcreate(file,buffer, datatype, dataspace,
-                      H5P_DEFAULT);
+		      H5P_DEFAULT);
+  assert (dataset>=0);
   datasetvalid=1;
   return 1;
 }