From 2efbc227cdf2b8e24efab6c180e429f442e95f2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:36:26 -0500
Subject: [svn-r23875] HDFFV-8322: free allocation before throwing exception.

Tested: local linux
---
 c++/src/H5CommonFG.cpp | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/c++/src/H5CommonFG.cpp b/c++/src/H5CommonFG.cpp
index b3889a0..0651c29 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5CommonFG.cpp
+++ b/c++/src/H5CommonFG.cpp
@@ -568,8 +568,10 @@ H5std_string CommonFG::getComment( const char* name, size_t bufsize ) const
 
    // if H5Oget_comment_by_name returns SUCCEED, return the string comment,
    // otherwise, throw an exception
-   if( ret_value < 0 )
-      throwException("getComment", "H5Oget_comment_by_name failed");
+   if( ret_value < 0 ) {
+       delete []comment_C;
+       throwException("getComment", "H5Oget_comment_by_name failed");
+   }
 
    H5std_string comment = H5std_string(comment_C);
    delete []comment_C;
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