Valeriu Ohan

> Looks good. Maybe squash the 1st and 3rd commits together? I squashed all three of them, as the second didn't make much sense by itself.

Please make sure that all tests pass, on both HTSlib and samtools. I get 13 failures when building samtools (develop) against this HTSlib branch.

By convention, the [size](https://github.com/samtools/htslib/blob/886a6656799452d89fcdc06c9c101ea1eae51a82/hts.c#L2163) of `meta` is `l_meta + 1`, with the last element set to `'\0'`. Thus, the length is `l_meta`, similar to `strlen` behaviour. However, there might be...

Indeed, that archive file seems to be incomplete, but you should use the official [tarball](https://github.com/samtools/htslib/releases/download/1.12/htslib-1.12.tar.bz2).

We followed up on that community thread, but there seems to be no current solution for disabling the auto-generated (incomplete) archives. However, we'll keep this issue open, in case there...

@rulixxx We are quite aware of this aspect and we are planning to invest more resources in the documentation and the user guide. In the meantime, can you describe your...

Also, are you building from Xcode and do you have [-ObjC](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1490/_index.html) set in your linker flags?

> was looking for a quick way to get the coordinates spanned by the file. Do you mean something like: ``` chr1 61772 17129271 chr2 262 6221917 ``` > Can...

Might also help with https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase-detail/5720834143944704

No. And it seems `-t` has been used for tag sorting, in the meantime. `merge` needs some rework, as there are quite a few old PRs that address it. Also,...