[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, 3 deletions

diff --git a/test/ttst.c b/test/ttst.c
index 10eb017..5663050 100644
--- a/test/ttst.c
+++ b/test/ttst.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ char **sort_uniq_words;
 
 static int tst_strcmp(const void *_s1, const void *_s2)
 {
-    return(HDstrcmp(*(const char **)_s1,*(const char **)_s2));
+    return(HDstrcmp(*(const char * const *)_s1,*(const char * const *)_s2));
 }
 
 /****************************************************************
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static void
 test_tst_init(void)
 {
     time_t curr_time;   /* Current time, for seeding random number generator */
-    char *tmp_word=NULL;/* Temporary pointer to word in word set */
+    char *tmp_word;/* Temporary pointer to word in word set */
     size_t u,v,w;       /* Local index variables */
 
     /* Compute the number of words in the test set */
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ test_tst_init(void)
     /* Create randomized set of unique words */
     for(u=0; u<num_uniq_words; u++)
         rand_uniq_words[u]=uniq_words[u];
-    curr_time=time(NULL);
+    curr_time=HDtime(NULL);
     HDsrandom((unsigned long)curr_time);
     for(u=0; u<num_uniq_words; u++) {
         v=u+(HDrandom()%(num_uniq_words-u));