Remove cdash warnings for unused variables, type cast (including HDF5
char vs. int8) and virtual functions overloads.

Getting and defining available Variables at Open
Storing Variable position in Metadata, added to VariableBase
mpidummy: Added support for MPI_Reduce, MPI_Gatherv
Added utils and BPLS

Implemented basic buffer reading functionality
Added threading for bp serialization/deserialization
Refactored MPI functionality
Engine is now a reference
Initial Read API

Restoring std:: for cstdio functions
Removing warnings explicitly with pragmas

Removed ADIOS copy constructor explicitly, as it wasn't allowed by clang
compiler in testing/xml/TestXMLConfig.cpp

Using more portable preprocessor definitions to avoid warning on Windows
for ctime and fopen

Introduced std::throw_with_nested for bad_alloc in STLVector Capsule

Removed std:: in C function calls to avoid confusion with actual C++
only calls

Bugs: 1) Missing binary mode in FilePointer fopen and FStream ofstream
transports
      2) Replacing reinterpret_cast of size_t to uint_64, not the same
on Windows 64-bit

Removed some warnings generated by Visual Studio

Added static_cast for type conversions

Refactor XML reader to restore original check on single engine
conditions and eliminate warnings. Test added.

Allow ctime and fopen "not secure" warnings: now using binary fstream as
default file IO library on Windows

Using language primitives in test data instead of fixed width integers.
casting size_t to unsigned long in mpidummy to remove warning on Mac