$OpenBSD: patch-ieee-utils_read_c,v 1.1 2005/05/30 17:58:08 canacar Exp $
--- ieee-utils/read.c.orig	Sun May 29 18:27:52 2005
+++ ieee-utils/read.c	Sun May 29 18:29:21 2005
@@ -41,14 +41,12 @@ gsl_ieee_read_mode_string (const char * 
   int rounding_count = 0 ;
   int exception_count = 0 ;
 
-  start = (char *) malloc(strlen(description) + 1) ;
+  start = strdup(description) ;
 
   if (start == 0) 
     {
       GSL_ERROR ("no memory to parse mode string", GSL_ENOMEM) ;
     }
-
-  strcpy (start, description) ;
 
   p = start ;