[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, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5SLprivate.h b/src/H5SLprivate.h
index 633e3e5..5ee6ac4 100644
--- a/src/H5SLprivate.h
+++ b/src/H5SLprivate.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ typedef herr_t (*H5SL_operator_t)(void *item, void *key,
 /* Private routines */
 /********************/
 H5_DLL H5SL_t *H5SL_create(H5SL_type_t type, double p, size_t max_level);
-H5_DLL ssize_t H5SL_count(H5SL_t *slist);
+H5_DLL size_t H5SL_count(H5SL_t *slist);
 H5_DLL herr_t H5SL_insert(H5SL_t *slist, void *item, void *key);
 H5_DLL void *H5SL_remove(H5SL_t *slist, void *key);
 H5_DLL void *H5SL_search(H5SL_t *slist, void *key);