Merge #9949: [bench] Avoid function call arguments which are pointers to uninitialized values

218d915 [bench] Avoid function call arguments which are pointers to uninitialized values (practicalswift)

Tree-SHA512: 68d62e9442094f171433291b7f13dba20fc7ead5fd7f2292e1eb97ae51aa2345d40224c4a65c2e5d3552802b3cd0f675a82b6181cf5b77e964355650b25089f0

src/bench/checkblock.cpp

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static void DeserializeBlockTest(benchmark::State& state)
     CDataStream stream((const char*)block_bench::block413567,
             (const char*)&block_bench::block413567[sizeof(block_bench::block413567)],
             SER_NETWORK, PROTOCOL_VERSION);
-    char a;
+    char a = '\0';
     stream.write(&a, 1); // Prevent compaction
 
     while (state.KeepRunning()) {
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static void DeserializeAndCheckBlockTest(benchmark::State& state)
     CDataStream stream((const char*)block_bench::block413567,
             (const char*)&block_bench::block413567[sizeof(block_bench::block413567)],
             SER_NETWORK, PROTOCOL_VERSION);
-    char a;
+    char a = '\0';
     stream.write(&a, 1); // Prevent compaction
 
     Consensus::Params params = Params(CBaseChainParams::MAIN).GetConsensus();