diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/products/Parallelizer.h b/Eigen/src/Core/products/Parallelizer.h
index c2f084c82..3123dc94a 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/products/Parallelizer.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/products/Parallelizer.h
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ namespace internal {
 /** \internal */
 inline void manage_multi_threading(Action action, int* v)
 {
-  static EIGEN_UNUSED int m_maxThreads = -1;
+  static int m_maxThreads = -1;
+  EIGEN_UNUSED_VARIABLE(m_maxThreads);
 
   if(action==SetAction)
   {