External Issue: getHDF5Type should not halt on unsupported HDF5 datatype

16587, “hokiegeek2”, “getHDF5Type should not halt on unsupported HDF5 datatype”, “2020-10-15T13:45:26Z”

Summary of Problem

The getHDF5Type function halts a Chapel program if the Chapel data type is unsupported in HDF5:

I recommend changing the halt clause to a throws clause