From 565c8d6589dbb070610d2803aab325b770aaa0d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nw13slx <nw13mifaso@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:02:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use fseek to skip bufs

---
 src/reader_native_bin.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/reader_native_bin.cpp b/src/reader_native_bin.cpp
index 5708ab2bd9..5afcbcf11f 100644
--- a/src/reader_native_bin.cpp
+++ b/src/reader_native_bin.cpp
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ void ReaderNativeBin::read_double_chunk(size_t count)
 
 void ReaderNativeBin::skip_buf(size_t size)
 {
-      char tmp[size];
-      read_buf(tmp, 1, size);
+  fseek(fp, size, SEEK_CUR);
+  // detect end-of-file
+  if (feof(fp)) error->one(FLERR,"Unexpected end of dump file");
 }
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