diff --git a/indra/llcommon/llfasttimer.h b/indra/llcommon/llfasttimer.h
index 237025307843de532441cb8416c41f13dd190414..f56e5596f5496fd862ff3b39bf9ad21123ca5494 100644
--- a/indra/llcommon/llfasttimer.h
+++ b/indra/llcommon/llfasttimer.h
@@ -296,7 +296,16 @@ LL_FORCE_INLINE BlockTimer::BlockTimer(BlockTimerStatHandle& timer)
 {
 #if LL_FAST_TIMER_ON
 	BlockTimerStackRecord* cur_timer_data = LLThreadLocalSingletonPointer<BlockTimerStackRecord>::getInstance();
-	if (!cur_timer_data) return;
+	if (!cur_timer_data)
+	{
+		// How likely is it that
+		// LLThreadLocalSingletonPointer<T>::getInstance() will return NULL?
+		// Even without researching, what we can say is that if we exit
+		// without setting mStartTime at all, gcc 4.7 produces (fatal)
+		// warnings about a possibly-uninitialized data member.
+		mStartTime = 0;
+		return;
+	}
 	TimeBlockAccumulator& accumulator = timer.getCurrentAccumulator();
 	accumulator.mActiveCount++;
 	// keep current parent as long as it is active when we are
diff --git a/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp b/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp
index 01c1d8182344e2b92c91430d06e29090d6a78441..ebed4542712a03625b12d2862252e75305a19993 100644
--- a/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp
+++ b/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp
@@ -240,15 +240,6 @@ S32 LLImageGL::dataFormatComponents(S32 dataformat)
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#if LL_LINUX
-// gcc 4.7.2 produces this error for the following function, which nat has
-// been unable to diagnose as an actual problem:
-// llimagegl.cpp:247:2: error: '<anonymous>.LLTrace::BlockTimer::mStartTime'
-// may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
-#pragma GCC diagnostic push
-#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wuninitialized"
-#endif
-
 static LLTrace::BlockTimerStatHandle FTM_IMAGE_UPDATE_STATS("Image Stats");
 // static
 void LLImageGL::updateStats(F32 current_time)
@@ -259,11 +250,6 @@ void LLImageGL::updateStats(F32 current_time)
 	sCurBoundTextureMemory = S32Bytes(0);
 }
 
-#if LL_LINUX
-// In general we do want to know about uninitialized variables!
-#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
-#endif
-
 //static
 S32 LLImageGL::updateBoundTexMem(const S32Bytes mem, const S32 ncomponents, S32 category)
 {