diff --git a/Eigen/src/LeastSquares/LeastSquares.h b/Eigen/src/LeastSquares/LeastSquares.h
index b2595ede1..842889ad1 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/LeastSquares/LeastSquares.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/LeastSquares/LeastSquares.h
@@ -160,7 +160,6 @@ void fitHyperplane(int numPoints,
 
   // compute the covariance matrix
   CovMatrixType covMat = CovMatrixType::Zero(size, size);
-  VectorType remean = VectorType::Zero(size);
   for(int i = 0; i < numPoints; ++i)
   {
     VectorType diff = (*(points[i]) - mean).conjugate();