H5Part development and discussion

[John Biddiscombe <biddisco AT cscs.ch>]

Please find attached a patch which allows H5Part to build on MSVC7/8 and 
I also compiled on linux gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2) once 
the changes were made to make sure it's ok still.

The Win32 support is not as bad as it looks (only tried 32 bit compiler, 
but will also use 64 bit soon). Mostly it is in H5Part.c where 'errno' 
is used a lot, I had to macro  a set_errno and get_errno to make it 
tidy. In a few places it was necessary to add a cast in front of malloc 
becuase under msvc you must compile as cpp and not C (see my previous 
post of a month or two ago).

I will send further patches to address my list of fixes of the 
aforementioned email if this is accepted and applied.

thanks

JB

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