[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, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/testpar/t_file.c b/testpar/t_file.c
index 6fcde32..7f703a5 100644
--- a/testpar/t_file.c
+++ b/testpar/t_file.c
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ test_split_comm_access(void)
     hid_t acc_tpl;		/* File access properties */
     hbool_t use_gpfs = FALSE;   /* Use GPFS hints */
     herr_t ret;			/* generic return value */
-    char *filename;
+    const char *filename;
 
-    filename = (char *) GetTestParameters();
+    filename = GetTestParameters();
     if (VERBOSE_MED)
 	printf("Split Communicator access test on file %s\n",
 	    filename);
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ test_split_comm_access(void)
 	ret=H5Fclose(fid);
 	VRFY((ret >= 0), "");
 
-	/* detele the test file */
+	/* delete the test file */
 	if (sub_mpi_rank == 0){
-	    mrc = MPI_File_delete(filename, info);
+	    mrc = MPI_File_delete((char *)filename, info);
 	    /*VRFY((mrc==MPI_SUCCESS), ""); */
 	}
     }