diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index eaa6b93575..91055ded7a 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2014-01-15  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+	* emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_before_allocation):
+	Silence uninitialized warning on ehdr_start_save with older
+	GCC.
+
 2014-01-15  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_before_allocation): Define
diff --git a/ld/emultempl/elf32.em b/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
index 13f86f084e..569c7f7a81 100644
--- a/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
+++ b/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_before_allocation (void)
   asection *sinterp;
   bfd *abfd;
   struct elf_link_hash_entry *ehdr_start = NULL;
-  struct bfd_link_hash_entry ehdr_start_save;
+  struct bfd_link_hash_entry ehdr_start_save = ehdr_start_save;
 
   if (is_elf_hash_table (link_info.hash))
     {