diff --git a/libio/ChangeLog b/libio/ChangeLog
index cf2e3dfae3c4..3c07e25d95da 100644
--- a/libio/ChangeLog
+++ b/libio/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Apr 19 22:13:36 1998  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)
+
+	* isgetline.cc (istream::get): Fix a typo.
+
 Thu Mar  5 09:23:28 1998  Manfred Hollstein  <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
 
 	* configure.in: Make locating frag files failsafe even for the
diff --git a/libio/isgetline.cc b/libio/isgetline.cc
index 2a2cd0f58a77..02b34927eb8f 100644
--- a/libio/isgetline.cc
+++ b/libio/isgetline.cc
@@ -69,11 +69,9 @@ istream& istream::get(char* buf, int len, char delim)
     {
       streambuf *sbuf = rdbuf();
       int ch;
-      long count = _IO_getline_info(sbuf, buf, len - 1, delim, -1, &ch);
+      _gcount = _IO_getline_info(sbuf, buf, len - 1, delim, -1, &ch);
       if (_gcount == 0 && ch == EOF)
 	set(ios::failbit|ios::eofbit);
-      else
-	_gcount = count;
     }
   buf[_gcount] = '\0';
   return *this;