GCC missing braces around initializer

Question

I have this struct in C below that I want to initialize to all zero. How do I get rid of the missing braces warning?

typedef struct {
    uint32_t incoming[FRAME_TYPE_MAX];
    uint32_t outgoing[FRAME_TYPE_MAX];
    uint32_t timeouts;
    uint32_t crc_errors;
} pkt_t;

static pkt_t stats = {0};

Answer 1

If you still have the joy being on a gcc version which omits this false warning, with a struct like this in the question you can avoid this problem with some simple restructuring like this:

typedef struct {
    uint32_t timeouts;
    uint32_t crc_errors;
    uint32_t incoming[FRAME_TYPE_MAX];
    uint32_t outgoing[FRAME_TYPE_MAX];
} pkt_t;

static pkt_t stats = {0};

Answer 2

Since your first member in the structure is an array you need:

static pkt_t stats = {{0}};

Outer braces are for the struct, inner braces are for the array. However, there are many other ways to skin this cat. (for instance, statics are already init'ed to zero)