diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 0fe18bda777..46987d0072d 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-08-04 Herman A.J. ten Brugge <Haj.Ten.Brugge@net.HCC.nl>
+
+	* gencodes.c (main): Define CODE_FOR_nothing as the last possible
+	insn_code_number + 1.
+
 2000-08-04  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@hxi.com>
 
 	* cse.c: Fix a comment typo. Fix formatting.
diff --git a/gcc/gencodes.c b/gcc/gencodes.c
index eac688367c0..3c9bf9cc20c 100644
--- a/gcc/gencodes.c
+++ b/gcc/gencodes.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ from the machine description file `md'.  */\n\n");
 	gen_insn (desc);
     }
 
-  printf ("  CODE_FOR_nothing };\n");
+  printf ("  CODE_FOR_nothing = %d };\n", insn_code_number + 1);
 
   printf ("\n#define MAX_INSN_CODE ((int) CODE_FOR_nothing)\n");