[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:

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/c++/src/H5CompType.h b/c++/src/H5CompType.h
index 0c530b1..bc96969 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5CompType.h
+++ b/c++/src/H5CompType.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class H5_DLLCPP CompType : public DataType {
 	// Returns the type class of the specified member of this compound
 	// datatype.  It provides to the user a way of knowing what type
 	// to create another datatype of the same class
-	H5T_class_t getMemberClass( int member_num ) const;
+	H5T_class_t getMemberClass( unsigned member_num ) const;
 
 	// Returns the dimensionality of the specified member. 
 	int getMemberDims( int member_num, size_t* dims, int* perm ) const;
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ class H5_DLLCPP CompType : public DataType {
 	int getMemberIndex(const string& name) const;
 
 	// Returns the offset of a member of this compound datatype. 
-	size_t getMemberOffset( int memb_no ) const;
+	size_t getMemberOffset( unsigned memb_no ) const;
 
 	// Returns the name of a member of this compound datatype. 
-	string getMemberName( int member_num ) const;
+	string getMemberName( unsigned member_num ) const;
 
 	// Returns the compound datatype of the specified member in 
 	// this compound datatype.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class H5_DLLCPP CompType : public DataType {
    private:
 	// Contains common code that is used by the member functions
 	// getMemberXxxType
-	hid_t p_get_member_type(int member_num) const; 
+	hid_t p_get_member_type(unsigned member_num) const; 
 };
 #ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
 }