work around gcc's false warning

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/diff.c b/coreutils/diff.c
index 2ce681aff..872b78830 100644
--- a/coreutils/diff.c
+++ b/coreutils/diff.c
@@ -898,8 +898,8 @@ static int diffreg(char *ofile1, char *ofile2, int flags)
 {
         char *file1 = ofile1;
         char *file2 = ofile2;
-        FILE *f1;
-        FILE *f2;
+        FILE *f1 = stdin;
+        FILE *f2 = stdin;
         int rval = D_SAME;
         int i;
 
@@ -911,7 +911,6 @@ static int diffreg(char *ofile1, char *ofile2, int flags)
         if (LONE_DASH(file1) && LONE_DASH(file2))
                 goto closem;
 
-        f1 = f2 = stdin;
         if (flags & D_EMPTY1)
                 f1 = xfopen(bb_dev_null, "r");
         else if (NOT_LONE_DASH(file1))