From b4a1dca74d83f357d020ac74e1a4edd20a0cd754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:22:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid uninitialized value warning

Initialize UV uv to 0, per recommendation by Karl Williamson in
GH #22859.
---
 utf8.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index de2149fc70ad..9857f9ef74d7 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ Perl_utf8_to_uv_msgs_helper_(const U8 * const s0,
     SSize_t curlen = send - s0;
     U32 possible_problems;  /* A bit is set here for each potential problem
                                found as we go along */
-    UV uv;
+    UV uv = 0;
     SSize_t expectlen;    /* How long should this sequence be? */
     SSize_t avail_len;    /* When input is too short, gives what that is */