We have to initialize the elements of the fdata->col_text array to null

pointers, as there's code that assumes that if they're not set to null
pointers, they're set correctly, and doesn't bother setting them to the
right value.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=36252

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 2bb43bd71e..37d177aa42 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -1160,19 +1160,12 @@ add_packet_to_packet_list(frame_data *fdata, capture_file *cf,
 
 /*
  * Initialize the col_text and col_text_len arrays.
- * We allocate them, and initialize them to point to a bunch of null
- * strings, so that if the columns don't all get set to valid values,
- * they are empty.
  */
 static void
 init_col_text(frame_data *fdata, gint num_cols)
 {
-  gint i;
-
   fdata->col_text_len = se_alloc0(sizeof(fdata->col_text_len) * num_cols);
-  fdata->col_text = se_alloc(sizeof(fdata->col_text) * num_cols);
-  for (i = 0; i < num_cols; i++)
-    fdata->col_text[i] = "";
+  fdata->col_text = se_alloc0(sizeof(fdata->col_text) * num_cols);
 }
 
 /* read in a new packet */