From 5966e5d6e4e7913e9740b8f79c12c065b084ddb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heng Li <lh3@me.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:29:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make reader_open() work even if idxopt is NULL

---
 index.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/index.c b/index.c
index 40d111a..f772ab8 100644
--- a/index.c
+++ b/index.c
@@ -454,7 +454,8 @@ mm_idx_reader_t *mm_idx_reader_open(const char *fn, const mm_idxopt_t *opt, cons
 	if (is_idx < 0) return 0; // failed to open the index
 	r = (mm_idx_reader_t*)calloc(1, sizeof(mm_idx_reader_t));
 	r->is_idx = is_idx;
-	r->opt = *opt;
+	if (opt) r->opt = *opt;
+	else mm_idxopt_init(&r->opt);
 	if (r->is_idx) r->fp.idx = fopen(fn, "rb");
 	else r->fp.seq = mm_bseq_open(fn);
 	if (fn_out) r->fp_out = fopen(fn_out, "wb");