diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index df58352d177..ff7bf20500b 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-04-07  Loren James Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+	* cpppch.c (cpp_valid_state): Unconditionally initialize nl.
+
 2003-04-17  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@cs.umass.edu>
 
 	* reload1.c (move2add_last_cc0): New.
diff --git a/gcc/cpppch.c b/gcc/cpppch.c
index 637160cd1a8..388a7532c11 100644
--- a/gcc/cpppch.c
+++ b/gcc/cpppch.c
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ cpp_valid_state (r, name, fd)
   size_t namebufsz = 256;
   unsigned char *namebuf = xmalloc (namebufsz);
   unsigned char *undeftab = NULL;
-  struct ht_node_list nl;
+  struct ht_node_list nl = { 0, 0, 0 };
   unsigned char *first, *last;
   unsigned int i;