From b5654e31889289ea6b33fc454827971a1376da02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 09:02:29 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Reduce late assignments

---
 src/nnn.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/nnn.c b/src/nnn.c
index b7bdadb1..f45777ff 100644
--- a/src/nnn.c
+++ b/src/nnn.c
@@ -3670,17 +3670,25 @@ static char get_detail_ind(const mode_t mode)
 	return '?';
 }
 
+/* Note: attribute and indicator values must be initialized to 0 */
 static uchar_t get_color_pair_name_ind(const struct entry *ent, char *pind, int *pattr)
 {
 	switch (ent->mode & S_IFMT) {
 	case S_IFREG:
-		*pind = (ent->mode & 0100) ? '*' : '\0';
-		if (!ent->size)
+		if (!ent->size) {
+			if (ent->mode & 0100)
+				*pind = '*';
 			return C_UND;
-		if (ent->flags & HARD_LINK)
+		}
+		if (ent->flags & HARD_LINK) {
+			if (ent->mode & 0100)
+				*pind = '*';
 			return C_HRD;
-		if (ent->mode & 0100)
+		}
+		if (ent->mode & 0100) {
+			*pind = '*';
 			return C_EXE;
+		}
 		return C_FIL;
 	case S_IFDIR:
 		*pind = '/';
@@ -3707,10 +3715,8 @@ static uchar_t get_color_pair_name_ind(const struct entry *ent, char *pind, int
 		*pind = '|';
 		return C_PIP;
 	case S_IFBLK:
-		*pind = '\0';
 		return C_BLK;
 	case S_IFCHR:
-		*pind = '\0';
 		return C_CHR;
 	}
 
@@ -3720,7 +3726,7 @@ static uchar_t get_color_pair_name_ind(const struct entry *ent, char *pind, int
 
 static void printent(const struct entry *ent, uint_t namecols, bool sel)
 {
-	char ind;
+	char ind = '\0';
 	int attrs = 0;
 	uchar_t color_pair = get_color_pair_name_ind(ent, &ind, &attrs);