--- a/src/stdlib/SDL_iconv.c	Wed May 17 07:38:34 2006 +0000
+++ b/src/stdlib/SDL_iconv.c	Wed May 17 15:08:46 2006 +0000
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 	/* For simplicity, we'll convert everything to and from UCS-4 */
 	char *src, *dst;
 	size_t srclen, dstlen;
-	Uint32 ch;
+	Uint32 ch = 0;
 	size_t total;
 
 	if ( !inbuf || !*inbuf ) {