diff --git a/form_urlencoded/src/lib.rs b/form_urlencoded/src/lib.rs
index b0916e42b..477594bf7 100644
--- a/form_urlencoded/src/lib.rs
+++ b/form_urlencoded/src/lib.rs
@@ -399,8 +399,7 @@ pub(crate) fn decode_utf8_lossy(input: Cow<'_, [u8]>) -> Cow<'_, str> {
                     // replace invalid bytes with a placeholder.
 
                     // First we do a debug_assert to confirm our description above.
-                    let raw_utf8: *const [u8];
-                    raw_utf8 = utf8.as_bytes();
+                    let raw_utf8: *const [u8] = utf8.as_bytes();
                     debug_assert!(raw_utf8 == &*bytes as *const [u8]);
 
                     // Given we know the original input bytes are valid UTF-8,
diff --git a/percent_encoding/src/lib.rs b/percent_encoding/src/lib.rs
index 2517ae820..46a5d747c 100644
--- a/percent_encoding/src/lib.rs
+++ b/percent_encoding/src/lib.rs
@@ -453,8 +453,7 @@ fn decode_utf8_lossy(input: Cow<'_, [u8]>) -> Cow<'_, str> {
                     // replace invalid bytes with a placeholder.
 
                     // First we do a debug_assert to confirm our description above.
-                    let raw_utf8: *const [u8];
-                    raw_utf8 = utf8.as_bytes();
+                    let raw_utf8: *const [u8] = utf8.as_bytes();
                     debug_assert!(raw_utf8 == &*bytes as *const [u8]);
 
                     // Given we know the original input bytes are valid UTF-8,