diff --git a/lib_com/options.h b/lib_com/options.h
index 031644459c07f1783ddb1d261f2d4a60a398696d..9730f271a66ebc87bfa1b1d5afffe2965995a320 100644
--- a/lib_com/options.h
+++ b/lib_com/options.h
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@
 #define FIX_1917_DIRAC_RENDER_PTR_INCR                       /* FhG: fix wrong pointer increment in ivas_dirac_dec_render_sf_fx() for object rendering */
 #define FIX_CDLFB_BUFFER_SCALING                             /* FhG: fix wrong buffer scaling in ivas_dirac_dec_render_sf_fx() for object rendering */
 #define FIX_ISSUE_1817_REPLACE_CARRY_OVERFLOW                /* FhG: bit-exact, replace carry and overflow operations by 64-bit operations, MR 1931 */
-#define	NONBE_SVD_OPTIMIZATION                               /* FhG: reduce WMOPS of HouseHolderReduction() in ivas_svd_dec.c() by removing redundant mathematics and using 64 bit additions */
 #define FIX_1766_TCX2ACELP_BWE_ISSUE                         /* VA : Fix rare BWE issue when switching from TCX to ACELP */
 #define FIX_1781_SPECTRAL_GAPS                               /* FhG: Change internal calculation of tcx_noise_factor_ivas_fx() to 32-bit*/
 #define FIX_ISSUE_1811_EXCEEDING_W_SHIFTS                    /* FhG: limit exceeding 64bit shifts */
@@ -131,7 +130,7 @@
 #define NONBE_FIX_1141_OSBA_ROOM_RENDERING              /* FhG: Fix for issue 1141: render objects in OSBA decoder with room effect  */
 #define NONBE_1360_LFE_DELAY                            /* Dlb: LFE delay alignment when rendering in CLDFB domain*/
 #define NONBE_1229_FIX_ISM1_DPID                        /* Eri: issue 1229: fix bug causing ISM 1 to use default -dpid instead of the specified one */
-#define NONBE_SVD_OPTIMIZATION 
+#define NONBE_SVD_OPTIMIZATION                          /* FhG: issue 1367 */
 #define FIX_1209_SID_SIGNALING                          /* VA: issue 1209: remove dead code in IVAS SID signaling */
 #define NONBE_FIX_1176_OSBA_REVERB_JBM_ASAN_ERROR       /* Ericsson: Issue 1176, fix in TDREND_firfilt for subframes shorter than the filter length */
 #define NONBE_1131_ACELP_OOB                            /* VA: issue 1131: fix division-by-zero in acelp gain decoding caused by wrong length of buffer update when switching from HQ core to ACELP core */
diff --git a/lib_dec/ivas_svd_dec_fx.c b/lib_dec/ivas_svd_dec_fx.c
index 4a8b067b38e51eaf53a61ce4c2ea43eab8c8d5b4..f625cbfe98a2e26fb716f249a0e3218c558bda31 100755
--- a/lib_dec/ivas_svd_dec_fx.c
+++ b/lib_dec/ivas_svd_dec_fx.c
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ static void biDiagonalReductionLeft_fx(
                 {
                     temp = W_add( temp, L_shr( Mpy_32_32( singularVectors[jCh][currChannel], singularVectors[jCh][iCh] ), sub( max_e, add( singularVectors_e[jCh][currChannel], singularVectors_e[jCh][iCh] ) ) ) );
                 }
-                Word16 nrm = W_norm( temp );
+                nrm = W_norm( temp );
                 nrm = sub( nrm, 32 );
                 norm_x = W_shl_sat_l( temp, nrm );
                 norm_x_e = sub( max_e, nrm );