Both of those definitions of discardBuff do the same thing. The form of value 
initializing in the example I showed was introduced in C++11. It was put in to 
zero out templated objects evidently. I just saw it on stackoverflow. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 7:24 PM
To: Ryan Long <ryan.l...@oarcorp.com>; devel@rtems.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rtems-tools v1 4/7] TraceReaderLogQEMU.cc: Fix formatting

On 23/9/21 12:35 am, Ryan Long wrote:
> I changed the definition of discardBuff to
> 
> char discardBuff[100]{};

char discardBuff[100] = {};

?

> So that every element will be initialized to \0. This function is only 
> used in TraceReaderLogQEMU.cc, and the values that are passed in are
> 
> #define QEMU_LOG_IN_KEY "IN: "
> #define QEMU_LOG_SECTION_END "----------------"
> 
> Neither are close to going over the size of discardBuff, but I can add a 
> check and return false if it does happen to go over that length.

Checking how the call is being used is cheating ... :)

Lets make the code robust and if someone makes a change and makes a mistake it 
is caught.

Chris
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