--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/library_call.cpp	Fri Nov 06 11:34:03 2015 +0100
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/library_call.cpp	Fri Nov 06 16:42:01 2015 +0100
@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@
   Node* dst_start = array_element_address(dst, dst_offset, dst_elem);
   // 'src_start' points to src array + scaled offset
   // 'dst_start' points to dst array + scaled offset
-  Node* count;
+  Node* count = NULL;
   if (compress) {
     count = compress_string(src_start, dst_start, length);
   } else {