Add initialization to examples/simple

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/examples/cmake_simple/simple.c b/examples/cmake_simple/simple.c
index 31272301..1f6b1373 100644
--- a/examples/cmake_simple/simple.c
+++ b/examples/cmake_simple/simple.c
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@ int main()
         /* Allocate space on the stack to store the message data.
          *
          * Nanopb generates simple struct definitions for all the messages.
-         * - check out the contents of simple.pb.h! */
-        SimpleMessage message;
+         * - check out the contents of simple.pb.h!
+         * It is a good idea to always initialize your structures
+         * so that you do not have garbage data from RAM in there.
+         */
+        SimpleMessage message = SimpleMessage_init_zero;
         
         /* Create a stream that will write to our buffer. */
         pb_ostream_t stream = pb_ostream_from_buffer(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ int main()
     
     {
         /* Allocate space for the decoded message. */
-        SimpleMessage message;
+        SimpleMessage message = SimpleMessage_init_zero;
         
         /* Create a stream that reads from the buffer. */
         pb_istream_t stream = pb_istream_from_buffer(buffer, message_length);