Consistantly create empty bytes.Buffers.

account.go

@@ -414,17 +414,17 @@ func (a *Account) ExportWatchingWallet() (*Account, error) {
 // exportBase64 exports an account's serialized wallet, tx, and utxo
 // stores as base64-encoded values in a map.
 func (a *Account) exportBase64() (map[string]string, error) {
-	buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
+	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
 	m := make(map[string]string)
 
-	_, err := a.Wallet.WriteTo(buf)
+	_, err := a.Wallet.WriteTo(&buf)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	m["wallet"] = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(buf.Bytes())
 	buf.Reset()
 
-	if _, err = a.TxStore.WriteTo(buf); err != nil {
+	if _, err = a.TxStore.WriteTo(&buf); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	m["tx"] = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(buf.Bytes())
@@ -493,14 +493,14 @@ func (a *Account) RescanActiveJob() (*RescanJob, error) {
 // to send each to the chain server for relay.
 func (a *Account) ResendUnminedTxs() {
 	txs := a.TxStore.UnminedDebitTxs()
-	txbuf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+	txBuf := bytes.Buffer{}
 	for _, tx := range txs {
-		if err := tx.MsgTx().Serialize(txbuf); err != nil {
+		if err := tx.MsgTx().Serialize(&txBuf); err != nil {
 			// Writing to a bytes.Buffer panics for OOM, and should
 			// not return any other errors.
 			panic(err)
 		}
-		hextx := hex.EncodeToString(txbuf.Bytes())
+		hextx := hex.EncodeToString(txBuf.Bytes())
 		txsha, err := SendRawTransaction(CurrentServerConn(), hextx)
 		if err != nil {
 			// TODO(jrick): Check error for if this tx is a double spend,
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ func (a *Account) ResendUnminedTxs() {
 		} else {
 			log.Debugf("Resent unmined transaction %v", txsha)
 		}
-		txbuf.Reset()
+		txBuf.Reset()
 	}
 }
 

createtx.go

@@ -296,9 +296,9 @@ func (a *Account) txToPairs(pairs map[string]btcutil.Amount,
 		}
 	}
 
-	buf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
+	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
 	buf.Grow(msgtx.SerializeSize())
-	if err := msgtx.BtcEncode(buf, btcwire.ProtocolVersion); err != nil {
+	if err := msgtx.BtcEncode(&buf, btcwire.ProtocolVersion); err != nil {
 		// Hitting OOM by growing or writing to a bytes.Buffer already
 		// panics, and all returned errors are unexpected.
 		panic(err)

rpcserver.go

@@ -1170,9 +1170,9 @@ func sendPairs(icmd btcjson.Cmd, account string, amounts map[string]btcutil.Amou
 		a.ReqNewTxsForAddress(createdTx.changeAddr)
 	}
 
-	serializedTx := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
+	serializedTx := bytes.Buffer{}
 	serializedTx.Grow(createdTx.tx.MsgTx().SerializeSize())
-	if err := createdTx.tx.MsgTx().Serialize(serializedTx); err != nil {
+	if err := createdTx.tx.MsgTx().Serialize(&serializedTx); err != nil {
 		// Hitting OOM writing to a bytes.Buffer already panics, and
 		// all other errors are unexpected.
 		panic(err)

txstore/serialization.go

@@ -745,8 +745,8 @@ type msgTx btcwire.MsgTx
 
 func (tx *msgTx) ReadFrom(r io.Reader) (int64, error) {
 	// Read from a TeeReader to return the number of read bytes.
-	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
-	tr := io.TeeReader(r, buf)
+	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
+	tr := io.TeeReader(r, &buf)
 	if err := (*btcwire.MsgTx)(tx).Deserialize(tr); err != nil {
 		if buf.Len() != 0 && err == io.EOF {
 			err = io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
@@ -762,11 +762,11 @@ func (tx *msgTx) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (int64, error) {
 	// written can be returned to the caller.  Writing to a to a
 	// bytes.Buffer never fails except for OOM panics, so check and panic
 	// on any unexpected non-nil returned errors.
-	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
-	if err := (*btcwire.MsgTx)(tx).Serialize(buf); err != nil {
+	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
+	if err := (*btcwire.MsgTx)(tx).Serialize(&buf); err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
-	return io.Copy(w, buf)
+	return io.Copy(w, &buf)
 }
 
 // ReadFrom reads a mined transaction output lookup key from r.  The total

version.go

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func version() string {
 // version and build metadata strings.  In particular they MUST only contain
 // characters in semanticAlphabet.
 func normalizeVerString(str string) string {
-	var result bytes.Buffer
+	result := bytes.Buffer{}
 	for _, r := range str {
 		if strings.ContainsRune(semanticAlphabet, r) {
 			_, err := result.WriteRune(r)

wallet/wallet.go

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func binaryRead(r io.Reader, order binary.ByteOrder, data interface{}) (n int64,
 
 // See comment for binaryRead().
 func binaryWrite(w io.Writer, order binary.ByteOrder, data interface{}) (n int64, err error) {
-	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
 	if err = binary.Write(&buf, order, data); err != nil {
 		return 0, err
 	}