diff --git a/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_compress_superblock.c b/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_compress_superblock.c
index ee03e0aedb0304aa7f968a918b7e53cc80e1eef1..b0610b255653f7c1b4d8072fb8b76648d3161daf 100644
--- a/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_compress_superblock.c
+++ b/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_compress_superblock.c
@@ -411,6 +411,8 @@ static size_t ZSTD_seqDecompressedSize(seqStore_t const* seqStore, const seqDef*
     const seqDef* sp = sstart;
     size_t matchLengthSum = 0;
     size_t litLengthSum = 0;
+    /* Only used by assert(), suppress unused variable warnings in production. */
+    (void)litLengthSum;
     while (send-sp > 0) {
         ZSTD_sequenceLength const seqLen = ZSTD_getSequenceLength(seqStore, sp);
         litLengthSum += seqLen.litLength;