diff --git a/libobjc/ChangeLog b/libobjc/ChangeLog
index b7226be1c69e..b3a26b252090 100644
--- a/libobjc/ChangeLog
+++ b/libobjc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-10-20  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
+
+	* objc/hash.h (hash_string): Don't use a cast as an lvalue.
+
 2003-10-17  Rainer Orth  <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
 
 	* Makefile.in (runtime-info.h): Use MULTIFLAGS.
diff --git a/libobjc/objc/hash.h b/libobjc/objc/hash.h
index acb6c9979d42..02aca6e8765a 100644
--- a/libobjc/objc/hash.h
+++ b/libobjc/objc/hash.h
@@ -172,10 +172,10 @@ hash_string (cache_ptr cache, const void *key)
 {
   unsigned int ret = 0;
   unsigned int ctr = 0;
+  const char *ckey = key;
         
-        
-  while (*(const char *) key) {
-    ret ^= *((const char *) key)++ << ctr;
+  while (*ckey) {
+    ret ^= *ckey++ << ctr;
     ctr = (ctr + 1) % sizeof (void *);
   }