3a96de8b17
Bring r24256 & r24261 from trunk to 1.8 branch:
Switch H5I internal data structure from using hash table to skip lists.
Also, a few misc. cleanups.
Tested on:
FreeBSD/32 8.2 (loyalty) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
FreeBSD/64 8.2 (freedom) w/gcc4.6, 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 (koala) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
Solaris/32 2.11 (emu) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
w/szip filter, w/threadsafe, in production mode
Linux/PPC 2.6 (ostrich) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
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