Segfault when compiling using very recent versions of MSVC

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Compiling hictkpy in Release mode with Microsoft Visual Studio 17.10 (MSVC 19.40.33816.0) and newer (tested until Microsoft Visual Studio Preview 17.12.0 (Preview 2.1); 19.42.34321.1), leads to broken wheels that segfault due to heap corruptions.

I believe this to be a compiler bug, but have been unable to trigger the bug with small reproducers (even changing -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE from Release to RelWithDebInfo is enough to make the heap corruption go away. Also not linking with nanobindmakes the problem go away).

PR #78 introduced a check to prevent users from building hictkpy with compiler versions affected by this issue.

This is a reminder to periodically check back to see if new compiler releases address the heap corruption (and to update the above check).

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