diff --git a/src/google/protobuf/io/tokenizer.cc b/src/google/protobuf/io/tokenizer.cc
index d14c5a19268d..d7f100dbbd71 100644
--- a/src/google/protobuf/io/tokenizer.cc
+++ b/src/google/protobuf/io/tokenizer.cc
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ bool Tokenizer::ParseInteger(const std::string& text, uint64_t max_value,
 }
 
 double Tokenizer::ParseFloat(const std::string& text) {
-  double result;
+  double result = 0;
   if (!TryParseFloat(text, &result)) {
     LOG(DFATAL)
         << " Tokenizer::ParseFloat() passed text that could not have been"