When there is a compound attribute among the attributes, HDFVIEW crashes upon clicking the dataset after opening the data and fails to display the attributes.

[woodGHub]

An attribute structure like the one shown in the figure above can be read by MATLAB, but HDFVIEW cannot display it and crashes.

[mattjala]

The current version of HDFView is known to have issue with many nested types, and work is in progress (#474) to fix this for the next release.