From 29c3aff5e2d8d321d098090ee7925351d651ff9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Jumper <mike.jumper@guac-dev.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 12:37:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] GUAC-847: Embrace the pointless initialization.

---
 src/guacd/conf-file.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/guacd/conf-file.c b/src/guacd/conf-file.c
index 29fd679d..e21552e1 100644
--- a/src/guacd/conf-file.c
+++ b/src/guacd/conf-file.c
@@ -105,14 +105,15 @@ static int guacd_conf_callback(const char* section, const char* param, const cha
 
 int guacd_conf_parse_file(guacd_config* conf, int fd) {
 
-    int line = 1;
-    char* line_start = NULL; /* Pointless initialization, but this is not obvious enough for some compilers */
-    int parsed = 0;
+    int chars_read;
 
     char buffer[8192];
-    int chars_read;
     int length = 0;
 
+    int line = 1;
+    char* line_start = buffer;
+    int parsed = 0;
+
     /* Attempt to fill remaining space in buffer */
     while ((chars_read = read(fd, buffer + length, sizeof(buffer) -  length)) > 0) {