[svn-r22254] Description:

	Bring r22085:22251 from trunk to revise_chunks branch.

	Also tackle some testing issues in test/objcopy.c test and clean up
some warnings.

Tested on:
        FreeBSD/32 8.2 (loyalty) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
        FreeBSD/64 8.2 (freedom) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
        Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x,
                w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
        Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (koala) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
                w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
        Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                w/szip filter, w/threadsafe, in production mode
        Linux/PPC 2.6 (ostrich) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
        Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (ember) w/Intel compilers, w/paralle, C++ & FORTRAN,
                in production mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.7.3 (amazon) in debug mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.7.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
                in production mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.7.3 (amazon) w/parallel, in debug mode

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5A.c b/src/H5A.c
index cc6a7a5..63a908d 100644
--- a/src/H5A.c
+++ b/src/H5A.c
@@ -2523,6 +2523,36 @@ done:
 
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    H5A_type
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Return the datatype for an attribute.
+ *
+ * Return:      Success:        Ptr to entry
+ *              Failure:        NULL
+ *
+ * Programmer:  Neil Fortner
+ *              Friday, November  11, 2011
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+H5T_t *
+H5A_type(const H5A_t *attr)
+{
+    H5T_t *ret_value;   /* Return value */
+
+    FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI(NULL)
+
+    HDassert(attr);
+
+    /* Set return value */
+    ret_value = attr->shared->dt;
+
+done:
+    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value)
+} /* end H5A_type() */
+
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Function:	H5Aexists
  *
  * Purpose:	Checks if an attribute with a given name exists on an opened