[syslinux:master] acpi: Removing memset of buffer

syslinux-bot for Erwan Velu erwan at enovance.com
Fri Jan 31 21:42:09 PST 2014


Commit-ID:  18d79b401ce15b29a5ee70cce928d231b1de032a
Gitweb:     http://www.syslinux.org/commit/18d79b401ce15b29a5ee70cce928d231b1de032a
Author:     Erwan Velu <erwan at enovance.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:28:08 +0100
Committer:  Erwan Velu <erwan at enovance.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:28:08 +0100

acpi: Removing memset of buffer

There is no need to memset the buffer since the strncat will end the
string with a \0. The memset was also almost wrong as doing a sizeof()
on a char * could return 1 if buff was malloc'ed.

We had chance as all the current calls are done with static buffers.

Removing this memset call will make things clearer but also will prevent
compilation warnings like :

com32/gpllib/acpi/acpi.c:38:29: warning: argument to ‘sizeof’ in ‘memset’ call is the same expression as the
destination; did you mean to provide an explicit length? [-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
     memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));

---
 com32/gpllib/acpi/acpi.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/com32/gpllib/acpi/acpi.c b/com32/gpllib/acpi/acpi.c
index d2bf29e..3013f19 100644
--- a/com32/gpllib/acpi/acpi.c
+++ b/com32/gpllib/acpi/acpi.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 /* M1PS flags have to be interpreted as strings */
 char *flags_to_string(char *buffer, uint16_t flags)
 {
-    memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
     strcpy(buffer, "default");
     if ((flags & POLARITY_ACTIVE_HIGH) == POLARITY_ACTIVE_HIGH)
 	strcpy(buffer, "high");


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