Valgrind report prior to this fix:
==20829== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==20829== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==20829== Using Valgrind-3.10.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==20829== Command: ./c_simple_example
==20829==
==20829== Invalid read of size 1
==20829== at 0x4C2F1C8: strcmp (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==20829== by 0x422522: main (in /home/user/rocksgit/transfer/rocksdb-git/examples/c_simple_example)
==20829== Address 0x5f60df5 is 0 bytes after a block of size 5 alloc'd
==20829== at 0x4C2AB80: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==20829== by 0x4226D5: CopyString (c.cc:498)
==20829== by 0x423032: rocksdb_get (c.cc:730)
==20829== by 0x4224EB: main (in /home/user/rocksgit/transfer/rocksdb-git/examples/c_simple_example)
==20829==
==20829==
==20829== HEAP SUMMARY:
==20829== in use at exit: 77 bytes in 5 blocks
==20829== total heap usage: 4,491 allocs, 4,486 frees, 839,216 bytes allocated
==20829==
==20829== LEAK SUMMARY:
==20829== definitely lost: 5 bytes in 1 blocks
==20829== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20829== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20829== still reachable: 72 bytes in 4 blocks
==20829== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20829== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==20829==
==20829== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==20829== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
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