diff --git a/src/address_parser_train.c b/src/address_parser_train.c
index 5b0b8893..2252f2cd 100644
--- a/src/address_parser_train.c
+++ b/src/address_parser_train.c
@@ -783,7 +783,9 @@ address_parser_t *address_parser_init(char *filename) {
         }
 
         if (most_common > -1) {
-            address_parser_types_t types = {.components = stats.components, .most_common = (uint16_t)most_common};
+            address_parser_types_t types;
+            types.components = stats.components;
+            types.most_common = (uint16_t)most_common;
 
             kh_value(phrase_counts, pk) = (uint32_t)phrase_types_array->n;
             address_parser_types_array_push(phrase_types_array, types);
diff --git a/src/crf_trainer_averaged_perceptron.c b/src/crf_trainer_averaged_perceptron.c
index ee3801a2..e411e416 100644
--- a/src/crf_trainer_averaged_perceptron.c
+++ b/src/crf_trainer_averaged_perceptron.c
@@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ static inline bool crf_averaged_perceptron_trainer_update_weight(khash_t(class_w
 static inline bool crf_averaged_perceptron_trainer_update_prev_tag_weight(khash_t(prev_tag_class_weights) *weights, uint64_t iter, uint32_t prev_class_id, uint32_t class_id, double value) {
     class_weight_t weight = NULL_WEIGHT;
 
-    tag_bigram_t tag_bigram = {.prev_class_id = prev_class_id, .class_id = class_id};
+    tag_bigram_t tag_bigram;
+    tag_bigram.prev_class_id = prev_class_id;
+    tag_bigram.class_id = class_id;
 
     uint64_t key = tag_bigram.value;