diff --git a/modules/core/src/persistence.cpp b/modules/core/src/persistence.cpp
index 82430b5a21c08d1d2e476f5e4c0235f5f70cc184..101c1bbf9476aaba99902062f91814fcdbf5377f 100644
--- a/modules/core/src/persistence.cpp
+++ b/modules/core/src/persistence.cpp
@@ -114,9 +114,11 @@ char* floatToString( char* buf, float value, bool halfprecision, bool explicitZe
         }
         else
         {
-            static const char* fmt = halfprecision ? "%.4e" : "%.8e";
             char* ptr = buf;
-            sprintf( buf, fmt, value );
+            if (halfprecision)
+                sprintf(buf, "%.4e", value);
+            else
+                sprintf(buf, "%.8e", value);
             if( *ptr == '+' || *ptr == '-' )
                 ptr++;
             for( ; cv_isdigit(*ptr); ptr++ )
@@ -350,6 +352,7 @@ public:
 
     void init()
     {
+        flags = 0;
         buffer.clear();
         bufofs = 0;
         state = UNDEFINED;
@@ -358,6 +361,7 @@ public:
         write_mode = false;
         mem_mode = false;
         space = 0;
+        wrap_margin = 71;
         fmt = 0;
         file = 0;
         gzfile = 0;
@@ -615,7 +619,8 @@ public:
                     for(;;)
                     {
                         int line_offset = (int)ftell( file );
-                        char* ptr0 = gets( &xml_buf_[0], xml_buf_size ), *ptr;
+                        const char* ptr0 = this->gets(&xml_buf_[0], xml_buf_size );
+                        const char* ptr = NULL;
                         if( !ptr0 )
                             break;
                         ptr = ptr0;
@@ -708,7 +713,7 @@ public:
             const char* json_signature = "{";
             const char* xml_signature  = "<?xml";
             char buf[16];
-            gets( buf, sizeof(buf)-2 );
+            this->gets( buf, sizeof(buf)-2 );
             char* bufPtr = cv_skip_BOM(buf);
             size_t bufOffset = bufPtr - buf;
 
@@ -861,7 +866,7 @@ public:
 
     char* gets()
     {
-        char* ptr = gets(bufferStart(), (int)(bufferEnd() - bufferStart()));
+        char* ptr = this->gets(bufferStart(), (int)(bufferEnd() - bufferStart()));
         if( !ptr )
         {
             ptr = bufferStart();  // FIXIT Why do we need this hack? What is about other parsers JSON/YAML?
@@ -1766,11 +1771,13 @@ public:
 };
 
 FileStorage::FileStorage()
+    : state(0)
 {
     p = makePtr<FileStorage::Impl>(this);
 }
 
 FileStorage::FileStorage(const String& filename, int flags, const String& encoding)
+    : state(0)
 {
     p = makePtr<FileStorage::Impl>(this);
     bool ok = p->open(filename.c_str(), flags, encoding.c_str());
diff --git a/modules/core/src/persistence.hpp b/modules/core/src/persistence.hpp
index 38ad08b4ac321cf606ce54f67e1634656bc38c84..05c7adc17ce3210d1798fc85d165cc45d07a6747 100644
--- a/modules/core/src/persistence.hpp
+++ b/modules/core/src/persistence.hpp
@@ -96,11 +96,20 @@ int decodeFormat( const char* dt, int* fmt_pairs, int max_len );
 int decodeSimpleFormat( const char* dt );
 }
 
+
+#ifdef CV_STATIC_ANALYSIS
+#define CV_PARSE_ERROR_CPP(errmsg) do { (void)fs; abort(); } while (0)
+#else
 #define CV_PARSE_ERROR_CPP( errmsg ) \
     fs->parseError( CV_Func, (errmsg), __FILE__, __LINE__ )
+#endif
+
+
+#define CV_PERSISTENCE_CHECK_END_OF_BUFFER_BUG_CPP() do { \
+    CV_DbgAssert(ptr); \
+    if((ptr)[0] == 0 && (ptr) == fs->bufferEnd() - 1) CV_PARSE_ERROR_CPP("OpenCV persistence doesn't support very long lines"); \
+} while (0)
 
-#define CV_PERSISTENCE_CHECK_END_OF_BUFFER_BUG_CPP() \
-    if((ptr)[0] == 0 && (ptr) == fs->bufferEnd() - 1) CV_PARSE_ERROR_CPP("OpenCV persistence doesn't support very long lines")
 
 class FileStorageParser;
 class FileStorageEmitter;
@@ -151,6 +160,7 @@ public:
     virtual double strtod(char* ptr, char** endptr) = 0;
 
     virtual char* parseBase64(char* ptr, int indent, FileNode& collection) = 0;
+    CV_NORETURN
     virtual void parseError(const char* funcname, const std::string& msg,
                             const char* filename, int lineno) = 0;
 };