diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index e6c402560a..83cfc220da 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-01-29  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+	* amd64-tdep.c (amd64_classify): Add handling of TYPE_CODE_CHAR.
+
 2008-01-29  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
 
 	* nto-tdep.h: Remove #include "defs.h".
diff --git a/gdb/amd64-tdep.c b/gdb/amd64-tdep.c
index 86423f7cbc..fae24a482a 100644
--- a/gdb/amd64-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/amd64-tdep.c
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ amd64_classify (struct type *type, enum amd64_reg_class class[2])
      class.  */
   if ((code == TYPE_CODE_INT || code == TYPE_CODE_ENUM
        || code == TYPE_CODE_BOOL || code == TYPE_CODE_RANGE
+       || code == TYPE_CODE_CHAR
        || code == TYPE_CODE_PTR || code == TYPE_CODE_REF)
       && (len == 1 || len == 2 || len == 4 || len == 8))
     class[0] = AMD64_INTEGER;