diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 0705bb33a5d..65395237df8 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-11-23  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+
+	* coding.c (decode_coding_emacs_mule): Fix the case of
+	CODING_EOL_LF, which used uninitialized value of c.
+
 2000-11-23  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
 
 	* xdisp.c (syms_of_xdisp): Make fontification-functions buffer-local.
diff --git a/src/coding.c b/src/coding.c
index f44efa9415e..fa79b0b4fdd 100644
--- a/src/coding.c
+++ b/src/coding.c
@@ -616,9 +616,8 @@ decode_coding_emacs_mule (coding, source, destination, src_bytes, dst_bytes)
 
       if (*src == '\r')
 	{
-	  int c;
+	  int c = *src++;
 
-	  src++;
 	  if (coding->eol_type == CODING_EOL_CR)
 	    c = '\n';
 	  else if (coding->eol_type == CODING_EOL_CRLF)