From c17a8bfbd06d1a5f351db6a8a3efb439daa5b795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tenari <djz24@case.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:48:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] we need the null terminator to be present by default

---
 string_chunk.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/string_chunk.c b/string_chunk.c
index dae1a08..7ebd38c 100644
--- a/string_chunk.c
+++ b/string_chunk.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ fn String stringChunkToString(Arena* a, StringChunkList list) {
     .capacity = list.total_size + 1,
     .bytes = arenaAllocArray(a, u8, list.total_size+1),
   };
+  MemoryZero(result.bytes, result.capacity);
   // copy the string bytes out of the StringChunkList into the correctly-sized String
   StringChunk* chunk = list.first;
   for (u32 i = 0; i < list.total_size; i++) {