diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 00af395027..fe3aa3627f 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2016-02-25  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>
+
+	* remote-m32r-sdi.c (recv_char_data): Initialize val to avoid
+	compiler warning.
+	(recv_long_data): Ditto.
+
 2016-02-25  Simon Marchi  <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
 
 	* i386-linux-tdep.c (i386_linux_handle_segmentation_fault):
diff --git a/gdb/remote-m32r-sdi.c b/gdb/remote-m32r-sdi.c
index c1bd858737..2d3a1ad2bc 100644
--- a/gdb/remote-m32r-sdi.c
+++ b/gdb/remote-m32r-sdi.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ send_three_arg_cmd (unsigned char cmd, unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2,
 static unsigned char
 recv_char_data (void)
 {
-  unsigned char val;
+  unsigned char val = 0; /* -Wall */
 
   recv_data (&val, 1);
   return val;
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ recv_char_data (void)
 static unsigned long
 recv_long_data (void)
 {
-  unsigned long val;
+  unsigned long val = 0; /* -Wall */
 
   recv_data (&val, 4);
   return ntohl (val);