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-rw-r--r--tools/h5dump/h5dump.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
index 0896c37..9f5cf0c 100644
--- a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
+++ b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
@@ -2776,10 +2776,11 @@ dump_comment(hid_t obj_id)
* H5Oget_comment again with the correct value.
* If the call to H5Oget_comment returned an error, skip this block */
if (cmt_bufsize > 0) {
- comment = (char *)HDmalloc((size_t)cmt_bufsize); /* new_size including null terminator */
+ comment = (char *)HDmalloc((size_t)(cmt_bufsize+1)); /* new_size including null terminator */
if(comment) {
cmt_bufsize = H5Oget_comment(obj_id, comment, cmt_bufsize);
if(cmt_bufsize > 0) {
+ comment[cmt_bufsize] = '\0'; /* necessary because null char is not returned */
indentation(indent);
printf("COMMENT \"%s\"\n", comment);
} /* end if */