zero out additionally allocated struct Param storage

2020-07-09 00:31:08 -04:00
parent 8359a4384a
commit e42342ff51
24 changed files with 119 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/src/USER-MISC/pair_edip.cpp
+++ b/src/USER-MISC/pair_edip.cpp
@ -957,6 +957,11 @@ void PairEDIP::read_file(char *file)
      maxparam += DELTA;
      params = (Param *) memory->srealloc(params,maxparam*sizeof(Param),
                                          "pair:params");
+
+      // make certain all addional allocated storage is initialized
+      // to avoid false positives when checking with valgrind
+
+      memset(params + nparams, 0, DELTA*sizeof(Param));
    }

    params[nparams].ielement = ielement;