From 4baafb06b93c50c836bc178b2bd99a7edaff9163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tradke <tradke@ebee0441-1374-4afa-a3b5-247f3ba15b9a>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:53:22 +0000
Subject: Fixed memory allocation bug when reading string attributes.

git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusPUGHIO/IOFlexIO/trunk@319 ebee0441-1374-4afa-a3b5-247f3ba15b9a
---
 src/util/ieee_recombiner.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/ieee_recombiner.c b/src/util/ieee_recombiner.c
index 4b44ba9..76b7823 100644
--- a/src/util/ieee_recombiner.c
+++ b/src/util/ieee_recombiner.c
@@ -718,7 +718,9 @@ void copyAttributes (IOFile infile, IOFile outfile, int nprocs,
 #endif
       /* copy from Long to int */
       tmp_int = num_elems;
-      buffer = malloc (IOnBytes (datatype, 1, &tmp_int));
+
+      /* add one more byte for trailing '\0' characters in string attributes */
+      buffer = malloc (1 + IOnBytes (datatype, 1, &tmp_int));
       IOreadAttribute (infile, attr, buffer);
 
       /* reset 'GH$nprocs', 'GH$ioproc_every', and 'unchunked' attributes
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