Merging in latest from upstream (HDFFV/hdf5:refs/heads/develop)
* commit 'abcf30f232914c1ec9b8c5f2a3bb3a621af7bfe4':
HDFFV-10284 Add VS2017 support
Add commentary around calling H5Screate_simple with a single element
Miscellaneous improvements (cont.) Description: Put back H5Location::getNumObjs and marked as deprecated in favor of Group::getNumObjs. Platforms tested: Linux/32 2.6 (jam) Darwin (osx1010test)
Miscellaneous improvements Description: Moved H5Location::getNumObjs to Group::getNumObjs (i.e., H5Gget_info) Switched reinterpret_cast to static_cast in H5Object::iterateAttrs Miscellaneous cleanup Platforms tested: Linux/32 2.6 (jam) Linux/64 (platypus) Darwin (osx1010test)
HDFFV-10282 refactor out assert calls in tools
Fix the t_bigio test so that it runs on 32bit machines
