[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, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/test/big.c b/test/big.c
index 38e96c1..c28e047 100644
--- a/test/big.c
+++ b/test/big.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ writer (hid_t fapl, int wrt_n)
 {
     hsize_t	size1[4] = {8, 1024, 1024, 1024};
     hsize_t	size2[1] = {GB8LL};
-    hssize_t	hs_start[1];
+    hsize_t	hs_start[1];
     hsize_t	hs_size[1];
     hid_t	file=-1, space1=-1, space2=-1, mem_space=-1, d1=-1, d2=-1;
     int		*buf = malloc (sizeof(int) * WRT_SIZE);
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ reader (hid_t fapl)
     FILE	*script = NULL;
     hid_t	file=-1, mspace=-1, fspace=-1, d2=-1;
     char	ln[128], *s;
-    hssize_t	hs_offset[1];
+    hsize_t	hs_offset[1];
     hsize_t	hs_size[1] = {WRT_SIZE};
     int		*buf = malloc (sizeof(int) * WRT_SIZE);
     int		i, j, zero, wrong, nerrors=0;