From 50a82bb345d367f16b482657e4969ab3ed4f89b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:49:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] address uninitialized variable issues pointed out by
 valgrind/coverity

---
 src/fix_controller.cpp | 2 +-
 src/variable.cpp       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/fix_controller.cpp b/src/fix_controller.cpp
index 28f2873910..d931686515 100644
--- a/src/fix_controller.cpp
+++ b/src/fix_controller.cpp
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ void FixController::end_of_step()
 
   // invoke compute if not previously invoked
 
-  double current;
+  double current = 0.0;
 
   if (pvwhich == COMPUTE) {
     if (pvindex == 0) {
diff --git a/src/variable.cpp b/src/variable.cpp
index f27de2777c..05c55ec7c6 100644
--- a/src/variable.cpp
+++ b/src/variable.cpp
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ double Variable::compute_equal(int ivar)
     error->all(FLERR,"Variable has circular dependency");
   eval_in_progress[ivar] = 1;
 
-  double value;
+  double value = 0.0;
   if (style[ivar] == EQUAL) value = evaluate(data[ivar][0],NULL);
   else if (style[ivar] == INTERNAL) value = dvalue[ivar];
   else if (style[ivar] == PYTHON) {