diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 36a5838d20b1..a25e94c7de2a 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Mar  7 23:50:31 2000  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
+
+	* cccp.c (handle_directive): Initialize backslash_newlines_p.
+
 2000-03-07  Philipp Thomas  <pthomas@suse.de>
 
 	* po/POTFILES.in: Remove cppalloc.c from file list.
diff --git a/gcc/cccp.c b/gcc/cccp.c
index 901474bbdea6..e91d8cf1b4c2 100644
--- a/gcc/cccp.c
+++ b/gcc/cccp.c
@@ -4047,7 +4047,7 @@ handle_directive (ip, op)
 	  case '\'':
 	  case '\"':
 	    {
-	      int backslash_newlines_p;
+	      int backslash_newlines_p = 0;
 
 	      register const U_CHAR *bp1
 		= skip_quoted_string (xp - 1, bp, ip->lineno,