hdf5_ep

[svn-r18032] Description:
	Bring r18031 from trunk to 1.8 branch:

	Bring r18030 from merge_metadata_journaling branch to trunk:

	Bring "brush clearing" changes (whitespace & style issues, mostly) from
metadata_journaling branch to the "merging" branch, to converge the trunk and
the metadata_journaling branch.

	Also, some other minor cleanups along the way.

Tested on:
       FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode
       FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
	(h5committested on trunk)