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David Young committed b505226ad58
Change hdset_reg_ref_t and H5R_ref_t from arrays of unsigned char to structs containing those arrays. Encapsulating the arrays in this way makes it easier to write and think about pointers to these types, casts to/from these types, etc. An interesting side-effect that we probably should *not* rely on is that the struct-encapsulation changes the alignment so that some GCC warnings about casts that increase the alignment requirement of the operand go away. Warnings like that have to be taken seriously: I will add -Werror=cast-align to the default compiler flags so that they stop the build quickly. GCC warnings led me to some surprising casts in test/trefer.c. I found that it was possible to make many simplifications after introducing the struct-encapsulation that I described, above.