Index: trunk/psLib/src/types/psMetadata.c
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--- trunk/psLib/src/types/psMetadata.c	(revision 12459)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/types/psMetadata.c	(revision 12460)
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@
  *  @author Ross Harman, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.154 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2007-03-07 02:50:15 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.155 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2007-03-16 01:46:56 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004-2005 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -216,4 +216,9 @@
     // Set deallocator
     psMemSetDeallocator(metadataItem, (psFreeFunc) metadataItemFree);
+
+    // XXX Does it make sense allocate a NULL string here?  It seems like this
+    // is just a waste of memory but something, somewhere, is probably
+    // dependant on this behavior so I'm leaving it in place for the time
+    // being. -JH
 
     // Allocate and set metadata item comment