[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, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/examples/h5_select.c b/examples/h5_select.c
index 498795c..0c34b1a 100644
--- a/examples/h5_select.c
+++ b/examples/h5_select.c
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  * Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.         *
  * All rights reserved.                                                      *
@@ -67,12 +66,12 @@ main (void)
                                                    read selection from the
                                                    dataset on the disk */
 
-   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 */
 
-   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 */ 
    herr_t ret;
    unsigned i,j;
@@ -171,7 +170,7 @@ main (void)
     coord[3][0] = 5; coord[3][1] = 6;
 
     ret = H5Sselect_elements(fid, H5S_SELECT_SET, NPOINTS, 
-                             (const hssize_t **)coord);
+                             (const hsize_t **)coord);
 
     /*
      * Write new selection of points to the dataset.