Removes the memory allocation sanity checks feature (#2218)

* Removes the memory allocation sanity checks feature

* Committing clang-format changes

* Removes zero size checks for H5MM_(c|m)alloc()

* Explicitly return NULL when size == 0 in H5allocate_memory()

* Committing clang-format changes

* Format fix

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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5Zdevelop.h b/src/H5Zdevelop.h
index a757163..346eb0e 100644
--- a/src/H5Zdevelop.h
+++ b/src/H5Zdevelop.h
@@ -353,15 +353,6 @@ extern "C" {
  *          release builds. Static links to the MSVC CRT can also introduce
  *          new memory allocator state.
  *
- *          Note that the HDF5 library enabled memory sanity checks by default
- *          in debug builds for many years. The heap canaries introduced to
- *          buffers by this mechanism would cause problems when filters
- *          attempted to reallocate these buffers. The sanity checks are no
- *          longer enabled by default in any configuration. When in doubt,
- *          memory sanity checking can be disabled explicitly by configuring
- *          with `--disable-memory-alloc-sanity-check` in the Autotools or
- *          setting `HDF5_MEMORY_ALLOC_SANITY_CHECK` to `OFF` in CMake.
- *
  *          The library does provide H5allocate_memory() and H5free_memory()
  *          functions that will use the library's allocation and free functions,
  *          however using these functions will require linking your filter to