diff --git a/src/io/page_fmatrix-inl.hpp b/src/io/page_fmatrix-inl.hpp
index 0527da827..44cb9abdc 100644
--- a/src/io/page_fmatrix-inl.hpp
+++ b/src/io/page_fmatrix-inl.hpp
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ class FMatrixPage : public IFMatrix {
           }
           if (ktop % 100000 == 0) {
             utils::Printf("\r                         \r");
-            utils::Printf("InitCol: %lu rows ", static_cast<unsigned long>(ktop));            
+            utils::Printf("InitCol: %lu rows ", static_cast<unsigned long>(ktop));    
           }
         }
       }
diff --git a/src/learner/learner-inl.hpp b/src/learner/learner-inl.hpp
index 630f8fa20..616cf03e9 100644
--- a/src/learner/learner-inl.hpp
+++ b/src/learner/learner-inl.hpp
@@ -227,14 +227,19 @@ class BoostLearner : public rabit::ISerializable {
    */
   inline void SaveModel(const char *fname) const {
     FILE *fp;
+    bool use_stdout = false;;
+#ifndef XGBOOST_STRICT_CXX98_
     if (!strcmp(fname, "stdout")) {
       fp = stdout;
-    } else {
+      use_stdout = true;
+    } else
+#endif
+    {
       fp = utils::FopenCheck(fname, "wb");      
     }
     utils::FileStream fo(fp);
     std::string header;
-    if (save_base64 != 0|| fp == stdout) {
+    if (save_base64 != 0|| use_stdout) {
       fo.Write("bs64\t", 5);
       utils::Base64OutStream bout(fp);
       this->SaveModel(bout);
@@ -243,7 +248,9 @@ class BoostLearner : public rabit::ISerializable {
       fo.Write("binf", 4);
       this->SaveModel(fo);      
     }
-    if (fp != stdout) fclose(fp);
+    if (!use_stdout) {
+      fclose(fp);
+    }
   }
   /*!
    * \brief check if data matrix is ready to be used by training,
diff --git a/src/learner/objective-inl.hpp b/src/learner/objective-inl.hpp
index 7702774f9..9887e7a05 100644
--- a/src/learner/objective-inl.hpp
+++ b/src/learner/objective-inl.hpp
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@ class SoftmaxMultiClassObj : public IObjFunction {
         Softmax(&rec);
         const unsigned j = i % nstep;
         int label = static_cast<int>(info.labels[j]);
-        utils::Check(label < nclass, "SoftmaxMultiClassObj: label exceed num_class");
+        utils::Check(label >= 0 && label < nclass,
+                     "SoftmaxMultiClassObj: label must be in [0, num_class)");
         const float wt = info.GetWeight(j);
         for (int k = 0; k < nclass; ++k) {
           float p = rec[k];
diff --git a/src/utils/matrix_csr.h b/src/utils/matrix_csr.h
index bc9479cc3..14e0667ee 100644
--- a/src/utils/matrix_csr.h
+++ b/src/utils/matrix_csr.h
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ struct SparseCSRFileBuilder {
         fo->Write(BeginPtr(buffer_data), (rptr[end] - rptr[begin]) * sizeof(IndexType));
       }
     }
-    printf("CSV::begin_dat=%lu\n", begin_data);
   }
  protected:
   inline void WriteBuffer(void) {