diff --git a/src/tbbmalloc/frontend.cpp b/src/tbbmalloc/frontend.cpp
index 1a507505364..d43e1f4be2b 100644
--- a/src/tbbmalloc/frontend.cpp
+++ b/src/tbbmalloc/frontend.cpp
@@ -1941,7 +1941,7 @@ void StartupBlock::free(void *ptr)
  * In theory, we only need values 0 and 2. But value 1 is nonetheless
  * useful for detecting errors in the double-check pattern.
  */
-static std::atomic<intptr_t> mallocInitialized{0};   // implicitly initialized to 0
+static std::atomic<intptr_t> mallocInitialized;   // implicitly initialized to 0
 static MallocMutex initMutex;
 
 /** The leading "\0" is here so that applying "strings" to the binary