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                                            Dana Robinson

Add bounds checking to avoid heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Do you have a test file? There's no test to ensure this is really fixed.

Add bounds checking to avoid heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

We've removed the gif tools from the HDF5 library, so I'm going to close this.

Turn on parallel CI tests in Autotools & CMake

> For CMake you can easily use the REGEX form to run serial then parallel - Larry does it for HPC Maybe we can start by running parallel tests just...

Reading a hyperslab of a limited dataset after an unlimited dataset increases the execution time of the former after multiple runs.

Possibly due to realloc() being slow on Windows.

Fix sporadic h5diff_172 test failure w/ NVHPC

This isn't fixed. We're still getting h5diff mkdir failures after #4171 was merged.

Cannot compile with mpif90 that is based on clang/flang (clang: error: unknown argument: '-soname')

Hi @AnastKap! Thanks for the bug report! Unfortunately, we will be dropping support for the Autotools in HDF5 2.0 (March 2025). If we do a 1.14.6 patch release, I'll try...

Cannot compile with mpif90 that is based on clang/flang (clang: error: unknown argument: '-soname')

Even though this isn't a merge, I've slapped the "merge to 1.14.6" label on it so we don't forget it.

Cannot compile with mpif90 that is based on clang/flang (clang: error: unknown argument: '-soname')

> I could successfully build HDF5 with clang+flang 20.1.6 using CMake and suggest closing this. IIRC this was only a problem with libtool in Autotools builds and could be closed...

A memory leak was found while testing h5_extended_fuzzer with libfuzzer

Which version of the library is this, how are you configuring and building the library, and how are you exercising the code? I don't see this problem via valgrind w/...

HDF5 1.12.1 on MacOS with CMake and Macports zlib

Is this still a problem in 1.14? Can this be closed?