diff --git a/run.c b/run.c
index 6152919..43af271 100644
--- a/run.c
+++ b/run.c
@@ -117,9 +117,8 @@ void free_run_state(RunState* s) {
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // initialization: read from checkpoint
 
-void checkpoint_init_weights(TransformerWeights *w, Config* p, float* f, int shared_weights) {
+void checkpoint_init_weights(TransformerWeights *w, Config* p, float* ptr, int shared_weights) {
     int head_size = p->dim / p->n_heads;
-    float* ptr = f;
     w->token_embedding_table = ptr;
     ptr += p->vocab_size * p->dim;
     w->rms_att_weight = ptr;