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Diffstat (limited to 'c++/src/H5Location.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | c++/src/H5Location.cpp | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/c++/src/H5Location.cpp b/c++/src/H5Location.cpp index fdbfd61..3240f70 100644 --- a/c++/src/H5Location.cpp +++ b/c++/src/H5Location.cpp @@ -500,8 +500,12 @@ ssize_t H5Location::getComment(const char* name, const size_t buf_size, char* co { throw LocationException("H5Location::getComment", "H5Oget_comment_by_name failed"); } + // If the comment is longer than the provided buffer size, the C library + // will not null terminate it + if (comment_len >= buf_size) + comment[buf_size-1] = '\0'; - // Return the comment length, which might be different from buf_size + // Return the actual comment length, which might be different from buf_size return(comment_len); } @@ -544,7 +548,7 @@ H5std_string H5Location::getComment(const char* name, const size_t buf_size) con HDmemset(comment_C, 0, tmp_len+1); // clear buffer // Used overloaded function - ssize_t comment_len = getComment(name, tmp_len, comment_C); + ssize_t comment_len = getComment(name, tmp_len+1, comment_C); // Convert the C comment to return comment = comment_C; |