[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, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/config/ia64-linux-gnu b/config/ia64-linux-gnu
index 60b67aa..41cdf97 100644
--- a/config/ia64-linux-gnu
+++ b/config/ia64-linux-gnu
@@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ fi
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Compiler flags. The CPPFLAGS values should not include package debug
 # flags like `-DH5G_DEBUG' since these are added with the
-# `--enable-debug' switch of configure.  For ecc 7.1, because of the 
-# overlapping definitions of int64_t(starting from int8_t) in sys/types.h 
-# and stdint.h, we added -D__GNUC__ to CFLAGS.
-# This problem is no longer true and the -D_GNUC__ actually caused failure.
-# So it is removed.
+# `--enable-debug' switch of configure.
 
 case $CC_BASENAME in
     ecc|icc)