Cleaned up ANSTO code to merge with sinqdev.sics

This is our new RELEASE-4_0 branch which was taken from ansto/93d9a7c
Conflicts:
	.gitignore
	SICSmain.c
	asynnet.c
	confvirtualmot.c
	counter.c
	devexec.c
	drive.c
	event.h
	exebuf.c
	exeman.c
	histmem.c
	interface.h
	motor.c
	motorlist.c
	motorsec.c
	multicounter.c
	napi.c
	napi.h
	napi4.c
	network.c
	nwatch.c
	nxscript.c
	nxxml.c
	nxxml.h
	ofac.c
	reflist.c
	scan.c
	sicshipadaba.c
	sicsobj.c
	site_ansto/docs/Copyright.txt
	site_ansto/instrument/lyrebird/config/tasmad/sicscommon/nxsupport.tcl
	site_ansto/instrument/lyrebird/config/tasmad/taspub_sics/tasscript.tcl
	statusfile.c
	tasdrive.c
	tasub.c
	tasub.h
	tasublib.c
	tasublib.h

hmdata.c

@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ void clearHMData(pHMdata self)
   if (self->tofMode) {
     size *= getNoOfTimebins(self);
   }
-  memset(self->localBuffer, 0, size * sizeof(HistInt));
+  if(self->localBuffer != NULL){
+    memset(self->localBuffer, 0, size * sizeof(HistInt));
+  }
+  self->nextUpdate = time(NULL) + self->updateIntervall;
 }
 
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -145,18 +148,10 @@ int configureHMdata(pHMdata self, pStringDict pOpt, SConnection * pCon)
     self->localBuffer = NULL;
   }
 
-  /*
-     note: remove update request in histmem.c 
-   */
-  if (self->updateIntervall > 0) {
-    /*
-       we do buffer
-     */
-    status = resizeBuffer(self);
-    if (!status) {
-      SCWrite(pCon, "ERROR: failed to resize buffer", eError);
-      return 0;
-    }
+  status = resizeBuffer(self);
+  if (!status) {
+    SCWrite(pCon, "ERROR: failed to resize buffer", eError);
+    return 0;
   }
   return 1;
 }
@@ -313,7 +308,7 @@ static int updateHMbuffer(pHistMem hist, int bank, SConnection * pCon)
   }
   if (status == OKOK) {
     return 1;
-  } else {
+  } else { 
     return HWFault;
   }
 }
@@ -541,7 +536,7 @@ static pNXDS hmDataToNXDataset(pHMdata self)
   if (isInTOFMode(self)) {
     result->rank++;
   }
-  result->dim = malloc(self->rank * sizeof(int));
+  result->dim = malloc(self->rank * sizeof(int64_t));
   if (result->dim == NULL) {
     free(result);
     return NULL;