[svn-r18625] Description:

    Checkpoint progress on Bz#1398 - strict aliasing issues.  (Lots of compiler
warnings & code cleanups also)

Tested on:
    FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
    FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) 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 (amani) 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, in production mode
    Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
        in production mode
    Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode
    Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
    Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode
    Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
        in production mode

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5Tpkg.h b/src/H5Tpkg.h
index 45b0e7f..0ec9632 100644
--- a/src/H5Tpkg.h
+++ b/src/H5Tpkg.h
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ H5_DLL herr_t H5T_conv_ldouble_ullong(hid_t src_id, hid_t dst_id,
 /* Bit twiddling functions */
 H5_DLL void H5T_bit_copy(uint8_t *dst, size_t dst_offset, const uint8_t *src,
 			  size_t src_offset, size_t size);
-H5_DLL void H5T_bit_shift(uint8_t *buf, ssize_t shift_dist, size_t offset, size_t size);
+H5_DLL herr_t H5T_bit_shift(uint8_t *buf, ssize_t shift_dist, size_t offset, size_t size);
 H5_DLL void H5T_bit_set(uint8_t *buf, size_t offset, size_t size,
 			 hbool_t value);
 H5_DLL uint64_t H5T_bit_get_d(uint8_t *buf, size_t offset, size_t size);