Initializing retval prevents the naive warning.
@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ static PyObject *_Py_strhex_impl(const char* argbuf, const Py_ssize_t arglen,
retbuf = (Py_UCS1*) PyMem_Malloc(arglen*2);
if (!retbuf)
return PyErr_NoMemory();
retval = NULL; /* silence a compiler warning, assigned later. */
} else {
retval = PyUnicode_New(arglen*2, 127);
if (!retval)