This was detected while running the tests with the -Wconditional-uninitialized flag

./autogen.sh
CC=clang CFLAGS="-Wconditional-uninitialized" ./configure
make check

The resulting warning is a false positive, but setting the value to -1
ensures that the CHECK below will fail if recid is never written to.

This is a backport of secp256k1#889

It should allow us to finally land D9110

To check that this diff does not break existing tests:
ninja && ninja check-secp256k1

To check that this removes the compilation warning: rebased D9110 on top of this