[svn-r22225] Description:
Bring r22220, r22221 & r22224 from trunk to 1.8 branch: improved h5repack metadata block size testing, and some code 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