Index: trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFitsHeader.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFitsHeader.c	(revision 5511)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/fits/psFitsHeader.c	(revision 6354)
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
  *  @author Robert DeSonia, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.1 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2005-11-14 22:18:30 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.2 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2006-02-08 01:03:34 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004-2005 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -167,22 +167,13 @@
 }
 
-psMetadata* psFitsReadHeaderSet(psMetadata* out,
-                                const psFits* fits)
+psMetadata* psFitsReadHeaderSet(const psFits* fits)
 {
     if (fits == NULL) {
         psError(PS_ERR_BAD_PARAMETER_NULL, true,
                 PS_ERRORTEXT_psFits_NULL);
-        psFree(out);
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (out == NULL) {
-        out = psMetadataAlloc();
-        if (out == NULL) {
-            psError(PS_ERR_UNKNOWN, false,
-                    "Failed to allocate a new psMetadata container.");
-            return NULL;
-        }
-    }
+    psMetadata* out = psMetadataAlloc();
 
     int size = psFitsGetSize(fits);