diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index daff65239..19fe6bd79 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-07-06  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
+
+	Pacify compiler.
+
+	* src/cff/cffload.c (cff_index_get_pointers): Initialize
+	`new_bytes'.
+
 2010-07-05  Eugene A. Shatokhin  <spectre@ispras.ru>
 
 	Fix Savannah bug #27648.
diff --git a/src/cff/cffload.c b/src/cff/cffload.c
index e69bb8632..42e77309a 100644
--- a/src/cff/cffload.c
+++ b/src/cff/cffload.c
@@ -385,10 +385,10 @@
                           FT_Byte***  table,
                           FT_Byte**   pool )
   {
-    FT_Error   error  = CFF_Err_Ok;
-    FT_Memory  memory = idx->stream->memory;
+    FT_Error   error     = CFF_Err_Ok;
+    FT_Memory  memory    = idx->stream->memory;
     FT_Byte**  t;
-    FT_Byte*   new_bytes;
+    FT_Byte*   new_bytes = NULL;
 
 
     *table = NULL;