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_tersoff_table.cpp
+++ b/src/USER-MISC/pair_tersoff_table.cpp
@ -890,6 +890,11 @@ void PairTersoffTable::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));
        }

        // some parameters are not used since only Tersoff_2 is implemented