diff --git a/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h b/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h
index f108535c46..04c811a21d 100644
--- a/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h
+++ b/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h
@@ -816,41 +816,41 @@ class OIIO_UTIL_API ustringhash {
 
     /// Construct a ustringhash from a null-terminated C string (char *).
     OIIO_DEVICE_CONSTEXPR explicit ustringhash(const char* str)
-    {
 #ifdef __CUDA_ARCH__
         // GPU: just compute the hash. This can be constexpr!
-        m_hash = Strutil::strhash(str);
+        : m_hash(Strutil::strhash(str))
 #else
         // CPU: make ustring, get its hash. Note that ustring ctr can't be
         // constexpr because it has to modify the internal ustring table.
-        m_hash = ustring(str).hash();
+        : m_hash(ustring(str).hash())
 #endif
+    {
     }
 
     OIIO_DEVICE_CONSTEXPR explicit ustringhash(const char* str, size_t len)
-    {
 #ifdef __CUDA_ARCH__
         // GPU: just compute the hash. This can be constexpr!
-        m_hash = Strutil::strhash(len, str);
+        : m_hash(Strutil::strhash(len, str))
 #else
         // CPU: make ustring, get its hash. Note that ustring ctr can't be
         // constexpr because it has to modify the internal ustring table.
-        m_hash = ustring(str, len).hash();
+        : m_hash(ustring(str, len).hash())
 #endif
+    {
     }
 
     /// Construct a ustringhash from a string_view, which can be
     /// auto-converted from either a std::string.
     OIIO_DEVICE_CONSTEXPR explicit ustringhash(string_view str)
-    {
 #ifdef __CUDA_ARCH__
         // GPU: just compute the hash. This can be constexpr!
-        m_hash = Strutil::strhash(str);
+        : m_hash(Strutil::strhash(str))
 #else
         // CPU: make ustring, get its hash. Note that ustring ctr can't be
         // constexpr because it has to modify the internal ustring table.
-        m_hash = ustring(str).hash();
+        : m_hash(ustring(str).hash())
 #endif
+    {
     }
 
     /// Construct from a raw hash value. Beware: results are undefined if it's