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added documentation for file open flags; added flags to h5pt_openr_par_align(); added H5PartSetViewEmpty() and h5pt_setview_empty() calls for creating empty hyperslab selections (previously kludge was to use H5PartSetViewIndices with a null list); fixed memory leak with file open flags in the Fortran interface; fixed missing statement in 1.6.x logic for _H5Part_have_group()

Implemented two halo exchange routines: one uses an MPI vector datatype and the other manually packs and unpacks the send and recv buffers. The MPI datatype method is not currently working due to a "double free" error in libc. The manual buffering method has been debuged and works.

* read/write call variants for different datatypes
* HDF5 properties tuned for lustre filesystems and the Cray XT (enabled using flags passed during file open)
* HDF5 chunking for field data
* HDF5 alignment (set during file open)
* support for both HDF5 1.6 and 1.8 using #if statements
* a new error reporting level: debug_detail (HDF5 errors are now printed at debug level 1 by default)

These changes have undergone limited testing.
I will begin using this version for my H5Part projects so that I can test it more thoroughly.

~Mark

- h5pt_opena() open in append mode added
- h5pt_opena_par() open in append mode paralell version added

	- h5pt_set_verbosity_level()
		* bugfix: level was not a pointer

	- attribute interface
		* bugfixes, was completly messed up, what did I do?

	- h5pt_openpar_r()
	  h5pt_openpar_w()
		* bugfix: arg "comm" as been pass as pointer instead of value

	- h5pt_openr_par()
		* fixed typo
	- h5pt_openw_par()
		* fixed typo

src/H5BlockF.c
	- use Fortron function name in definition, define macros for
	  function names only, if we have to rename them
	- use function "_H5Part_strdupfor2c()" and "_H5Part_strc2for()" 
	  for string conversion

	- f_h5pt_openr()
		* type-cast result to get rid of the warning

	- f_h5pt_set_verbosity_level()
		* added
	- f_h5pt_getstepattribinfo()
	  f_h5pt_getfileattribinfo()
		* type of var "type" changed from "hid_t" to
		  "h5part_int64_t"