From: "Abodunrin, Akeem G" <redacted>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:56:19 +0000

This is done because other codes have to use it before the loop...

Hope you understand the reason for this - and that is how it supposed to be originally, we have to increase the scope of the variables so that other code that are not in the loop can use it.

What codes?  I looked at the patches after this one and none of them use
the variables.

If anything you should make this change in the patch that needs it, not
beforehand.