diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 1fe1b439e31..8ea4cd76853 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-06-27  Andrew Pinski  <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
+
+	PR c/14963
+	* c-decl.c (start_decl): Check for null types.
+
 2004-06-27  David Edelsohn  <edelsohn@gnu.org>
 
 	* config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_legitimate_offset_address_p):
diff --git a/gcc/c-decl.c b/gcc/c-decl.c
index 4591ec95d7a..7a68adbd0ed 100644
--- a/gcc/c-decl.c
+++ b/gcc/c-decl.c
@@ -2715,7 +2715,7 @@ start_decl (tree declarator, tree declspecs, int initialized, tree attributes)
 	  for (; args; args = TREE_CHAIN (args))
 	    {
 	      tree type = TREE_TYPE (args);
-	      if (INTEGRAL_TYPE_P (type)
+	      if (type && INTEGRAL_TYPE_P (type)
 		  && TYPE_PRECISION (type) < TYPE_PRECISION (integer_type_node))
 		DECL_ARG_TYPE (args) = integer_type_node;
 	    }