diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d533e4a98..413391c11 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-01-22  Garrick Meeker  <garrick@digitalanarchy.com>
+
+	* src/cff/cffload.c (cff_subfont_load): Initialize `dict'.
+
 2004-01-22  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
 	Add support for the hexadicimal representation of binary data
diff --git a/src/cff/cffload.c b/src/cff/cffload.c
index d4f2a35af..bbec294ed 100644
--- a/src/cff/cffload.c
+++ b/src/cff/cffload.c
@@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@
   {
     FT_Error         error;
     CFF_ParserRec    parser;
-    FT_Byte*         dict;
+    FT_Byte*         dict = NULL;
     FT_ULong         dict_len;
     CFF_FontRecDict  top  = &font->font_dict;
     CFF_Private      priv = &font->private_dict;