Eclipse displays red values for a Java byte array when debugging

Question

I am currently working on a software that makes a serial communication with a hand-made simulator using the RXTX library. To test the limits of my software, I set distinct COM parameters between my 2 programs ; the main software send messages with a baud rate of 9600 and the simulator receives with a baud rate of 19200.

When I try to send the following array: "GET IN_NUM_TRAIN".getBytes() (16 bytes), my simulator receives a byte array containing 27 elements and throws:

INFOS: Traitement du message : ~�``�8���f���f�

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 26

When I try debugging my code, the received byte array looks like this:

I don't understand why the 8 first values are displayed in red.

Answer 1

The first 8 values are displayed in red to indicate that they have changed.

See Eclipse Help - Java development user guide > Reference > Preferences > Debug Preferences:

Changed value color

This option allows you to change the color of a changed value in the variables view, expressions view, memory view, anywhere running program variables are rendered

Default: Red