[svn-r9727] Purpose:

    Bug Fix/Code Cleanup/Doc Cleanup/Optimization/Branch Sync :-)

Description:
    Generally speaking, this is the "signed->unsigned" change to selections.
However, in the process of merging code back, things got stickier and stickier
until I ended up doing a big "sync the two branches up" operation.  So... I
brought back all the "infrastructure" fixes from the development branch to the
release branch (which I think were actually making some improvement in
performance) as well as fixed several bugs which had been fixed in one branch,
but not the other.

    I've also tagged the repository before making this checkin with the label
"before_signed_unsigned_changes".

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel & fphdf5
    FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe
    FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/backward compatibility
    Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/"purify options"
    Solaris 2.8 (sol) w/FORTRAN & C++
    AIX 5.x (copper) w/parallel & FORTRAN
    IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/FORTRAN
    Linux 2.4 (heping) w/FORTRAN & C++


Misc. update:

4 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/c++/examples/chunks.cpp b/c++/examples/chunks.cpp
index 3cc4e20..0efd95d 100644
--- a/c++/examples/chunks.cpp
+++ b/c++/examples/chunks.cpp
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ int main (void)
       /*
        * Define the column (hyperslab) to read.
        */
-      hssize_t offset[2] = { 0, 2 };
+      hsize_t offset[2] = { 0, 2 };
       hsize_t  count[2] = { 10, 1 };
       int      column[10];        // buffer for column to be read
 
diff --git a/c++/examples/extend_ds.cpp b/c++/examples/extend_ds.cpp
index c4409db..9c12304 100644
--- a/c++/examples/extend_ds.cpp
+++ b/c++/examples/extend_ds.cpp
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int main (void)
        * Select a hyperslab.
        */
       DataSpace fspace1 = dataset.getSpace ();
-      hssize_t     offset[2];
+      hsize_t     offset[2];
       offset[0] = 0;
       offset[1] = 0;
       hsize_t      dims1[2] = { 3, 3};            /* data1 dimensions */ 
diff --git a/c++/examples/readdata.cpp b/c++/examples/readdata.cpp
index 1797d27..7e5b195 100644
--- a/c++/examples/readdata.cpp
+++ b/c++/examples/readdata.cpp
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int main (void)
        * Define hyperslab in the dataset; implicitly giving strike and 
        * block NULL.
        */
-      hssize_t     offset[2];	// hyperslab offset in the file
+      hsize_t      offset[2];	// hyperslab offset in the file
       hsize_t      count[2];	// size of the hyperslab in the file
       offset[0] = 1;
       offset[1] = 2;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int main (void)
       /*
        * Define memory hyperslab. 
        */
-      hssize_t     offset_out[3];	// hyperslab offset in memory
+      hsize_t      offset_out[3];	// hyperslab offset in memory
       hsize_t      count_out[3];	// size of the hyperslab in memory
       offset_out[0] = 3;
       offset_out[1] = 0;
diff --git a/c++/examples/writedata.cpp b/c++/examples/writedata.cpp
index 8e0404c..0bed680 100644
--- a/c++/examples/writedata.cpp
+++ b/c++/examples/writedata.cpp
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int main (void)
        * Select hyperslab for the dataset in the file, using 3x2 blocks, 
        * (4,3) stride and (2,4) count starting at the position (0,1).
        */
-      hssize_t start[2]; // Start of hyperslab
+      hsize_t start[2]; // Start of hyperslab
       hsize_t stride[2]; // Stride of hyperslab
       hsize_t count[2];  // Block count
       hsize_t block[2];  // Block sizes
@@ -156,14 +156,14 @@ int main (void)
       /*
        * Select sequence of NPOINTS points in the file dataspace.
        */
-      hssize_t coord[NPOINTS][FSPACE_RANK]; /* Array to store selected points 
+      hsize_t coord[NPOINTS][FSPACE_RANK]; /* Array to store selected points 
                                               from the file dataspace */ 
       coord[0][0] = 0; coord[0][1] = 0;
       coord[1][0] = 3; coord[1][1] = 3;
       coord[2][0] = 3; coord[2][1] = 5;
       coord[3][0] = 5; coord[3][1] = 6;
 
-      fspace.selectElements( H5S_SELECT_SET, NPOINTS, (const hssize_t **)coord);
+      fspace.selectElements( H5S_SELECT_SET, NPOINTS, (const hsize_t **)coord);
 
       /*
        * Write new selection of points to the dataset.