The memset() was resetting only 30 bytes in the array (size of the array), but it is array of pointers. Since it is a static array, let's just reset it by its size. Found by gcc-7.1: testutils.c: In function 'virTestRun': testutils.c:243:13: error: 'memset' used with length equal to number of elements without multiplication by element size [-Werror=memset-elt-size] memset(testAllocStack, 0, ARRAY_CARDINALITY(testAllocStack)); ^~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Pushed as trivial an also under the build-breaker rule. I'm still getting one more error in config.h that probably needs fixing in autoconf: ../config.h:2994:48: warning: this use of "defined" may not be portable [-Wexpansion-to-defined] || (defined _FORTIFY_SOURCE && 0 < _FORTIFY_SOURCE \ Let me know if you know how I could help with that. tests/testutils.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tests/testutils.c b/tests/testutils.c index 4fb2338bb1de..4b8cf79ef939 100644 --- a/tests/testutils.c +++ b/tests/testutils.c @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ virTestRun(const char *title, for (i = start; i < end; i++) { bool missingFail = false; # ifdef TEST_OOM_TRACE - memset(testAllocStack, 0, ARRAY_CARDINALITY(testAllocStack)); + memset(testAllocStack, 0, sizeof(testAllocStack)); ntestAllocStack = 0; # endif virAllocTestOOM(i + 1, 1); -- 2.13.0