diff --git a/libavcodec/lpc.h b/libavcodec/lpc.h
index 6b3f80e2bc..642854c59a 100644
--- a/libavcodec/lpc.h
+++ b/libavcodec/lpc.h
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static inline int compute_lpc_coefs(const LPC_TYPE *autoc, int max_order,
                                     int normalize)
 {
     int i, j;
-    LPC_TYPE err = { 0 };
+    LPC_TYPE err = 0;
     LPC_TYPE *lpc_last = lpc;
 
     if (normalize)