restart of branch, this is to include changes from trunk

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merged fixes from previous instance of branch (r38875:40542), addressing #856 and #586

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removed whitespace at the end of lines

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formatted code: removed whitespace at end of lines and added some empty lines to increase readability

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formatted code: added some empty lines to increase readability

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removed compiler warning about missing newline at end of file

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fixed signedness of variable and cleaned up whitespace

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Test case and possible fix for Issue #1002

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