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-rw-r--r--src/util/ieee_merge.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/util/ieee_merge.c b/src/util/ieee_merge.c
index a83ed9b..69ae252 100644
--- a/src/util/ieee_merge.c
+++ b/src/util/ieee_merge.c
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
/* CCTK includes */
#include "cctk.h"
@@ -175,7 +177,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
#endif
}
- attrData = malloc (IOnBytes (attrType, 1, &attrLen));
+ /* for string attributes: allocate one more bytes for trailing NUL */
+ attrData = malloc (IOnBytes (attrType, 1, &attrLen) + 1);
if (IOreadAttribute (infile, j, attrData) < 0)
{
printf ("Cannot read value of attribute %d, skipping ...\n", j);