Dave Allured

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It looks like there is a simple mistake in the documentation for **abi-dumper**, and there is no actual circular dependency. **abi-dumper/README.md** says this: ``` Requires ... ABI Compliance Checker >=...

I have also seen the same test.67 failure in several recent builds, all on Mac OS 10.15. These are the only versions that I tested, so other versions are probably...

@ArchangeGabriel, thank you, this is helpful. So it seems the relevant change in behavior was between 2021 October 1 and 2021 December 23. I would like to look into this...

Synthesized! I had not really thought about that. Well, I see at least two opportunities for roundoff deviation to creep in. Yes, cosine is one of them. `tFloat64 += 0.01`...

I suspect that the user's guide is in error, and the correct record size limit per variable for **64-bit offset** is actually **2^64 - 4**, not **2^32 - 4**. This...

> [The 64-bit Offset Format](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/file_format_specifications.html#offset_format_spec) ... ``` The rationale for this limitation is to permit aggregate access to all the data in a netCDF variable (or a record's worth of...

In my opinion, and emphasizing what I said before: * The sanity check as originally reported above, in recent netcdf-C versions, is in error. * The correct record size limit...

> Package Version: 4.7.2 > Operating System: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 > Hardware: Intel Xeon Gold 6130, 384 GB DDR4 SDRAM, 2 x 400 GB SSD Thanks. This means that...

Ed, I always thought the main point of netcdf4 classic was to ensure data type compatibility with netcdf3. Yes, testing has been mentioned as another reason from time to time....