PVS-Studio warning V570 for Virtualdub

void VDVideoCompressorVCM::Start(const void *inputFormat,
                                 uint32 inputFormatSize,
                                 const void *outputFormat,
                                 uint32 outputFormatSize,
                                 const VDFraction& frameRate,
                                 VDPosition frameCount)
{
  this->hic    = hic;
  ....
}

This suspicious code was found in Virtualdub project by PVS-Studio static code analyzer.
Warning message is:
V570 The 'this->hic' variable is assigned to itself. Riza w32videocodecpack.cpp 253

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