diff --git a/xmpsdk/src/XMPCore_Impl.cpp b/xmpsdk/src/XMPCore_Impl.cpp
index 24ff2250..89e65540 100644
--- a/xmpsdk/src/XMPCore_Impl.cpp
+++ b/xmpsdk/src/XMPCore_Impl.cpp
@@ -845,7 +845,8 @@ FindSchemaNode	( XMP_Node *		xmpTree,
 		schemaNode = new XMP_Node ( xmpTree, nsURI, (kXMP_SchemaNode | kXMP_NewImplicitNode) );
 		XMP_StringPtr prefixPtr;
 		XMP_StringLen prefixLen;
-		bool found = XMPMeta::GetNamespacePrefix ( nsURI, &prefixPtr, &prefixLen );	// *** Use map directly?
+        bool found = false;
+        found = XMPMeta::GetNamespacePrefix ( nsURI, &prefixPtr, &prefixLen );	// *** Use map directly?
 		XMP_Assert ( found );
 
 		schemaNode->value.assign ( prefixPtr, prefixLen );
diff --git a/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta.cpp b/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta.cpp
index b2555636..965d7633 100644
--- a/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta.cpp
+++ b/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta.cpp
@@ -743,7 +743,8 @@ XMPMeta::Initialize()
 	XMP_Assert ( sizeof(XMP_Uns64) == 8 );
 	
 	XMP_Assert ( sizeof(XMP_OptionBits) == 4 );	// Check that option masking work on all 32 bits.
-	XMP_OptionBits flag = ~0UL;
+	XMP_OptionBits flag;
+    flag = ~0UL;
 	XMP_Assert ( flag == (XMP_OptionBits)(-1L) );
 	XMP_Assert ( (flag ^ kXMP_PropHasLang) == 0xFFFFFFBFUL );
 	XMP_Assert ( (flag & ~kXMP_PropHasLang) == 0xFFFFFFBFUL );
diff --git a/xmpsdk/src/XMPUtils.cpp b/xmpsdk/src/XMPUtils.cpp
index a0f4f024..e5a8b250 100644
--- a/xmpsdk/src/XMPUtils.cpp
+++ b/xmpsdk/src/XMPUtils.cpp
@@ -602,7 +602,8 @@ static size_t MoveLargestProperty ( XMPMeta & stdXMP, XMPMeta * extXMP, PropSize
 		printf ( "  Move %s, %d bytes\n", propName, propSize );
 	#endif
 
-	bool moved = MoveOneProperty ( stdXMP, extXMP, schemaURI, propName );
+    bool moved = false;
+	moved = MoveOneProperty ( stdXMP, extXMP, schemaURI, propName );
 	XMP_Assert ( moved );
 
 	propSizes.erase ( lastPos );
@@ -1841,7 +1842,8 @@ XMPUtils::PackageForJPEG ( const XMPMeta & origXMP,
 	// Adjust the standard XMP padding to be up to 2KB.
 
 	XMP_Assert ( (sStandardXMP->size() > kTrailerLen) && (sStandardXMP->size() <= kStdXMPLimit) );
-	const char * packetEnd = sStandardXMP->c_str() + sStandardXMP->size() - kTrailerLen;
+	const char * packetEnd = 0;
+    packetEnd = sStandardXMP->c_str() + sStandardXMP->size() - kTrailerLen;
 	XMP_Assert ( XMP_LitMatch ( packetEnd, kPacketTrailer ) );
 
 	size_t extraPadding = kStdXMPLimit - sStandardXMP->size();	// ! Do this before erasing the trailer.