diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index db51fc63dd5..18cbc6437cc 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-01-22  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
+
+	* c-semantics.c (genrtl_compound_stmt): Only check nesting
+	consistency if this COMPOUND_STMT is scoped.
+
 2002-01-22  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@hxi.com>
 
 	* predict.c: Fix formatting.
diff --git a/gcc/c-semantics.c b/gcc/c-semantics.c
index 682943f17c2..eb5af2a76ae 100644
--- a/gcc/c-semantics.c
+++ b/gcc/c-semantics.c
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ genrtl_compound_stmt (t)
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_CHECKING
   /* Make sure that we've pushed and popped the same number of levels.  */
-  if (n != current_nesting_level ())
+  if (!COMPOUND_STMT_NO_SCOPE (t) && n != current_nesting_level ())
     abort ();
 #endif
 }