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Zero-length array allocation

Reports allocations of arrays with known lengths of zero.

Since array lengths in Java are non-modifiable, it is almost always possible to share zero-length arrays, rather than repeatedly allocate new ones. Such sharing may provide useful optimizations in the program runtime or footprint.

Note that the inspection does not report zero-length arrays allocated as static final fields, since those arrays are assumed to be used for implementing array sharing.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ZeroLengthArrayAllocation
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Memory

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ZeroLengthArrayAllocation

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025