diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index 0848e64d020..b64a1547aee 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-06-03  Benjamin Kosnik  <bkoz@redhat.com>
+
+	* include/bits/fstream.tcc (pbackfail): Make a rarely taken
+	'if' branch less obscure.
+
 2003-06-02  Andrew Pinski  <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
 
 	PR libstdc++/9815
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/fstream.tcc b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/fstream.tcc
index e84eee04efd..e4119bfcff2 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/fstream.tcc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/fstream.tcc
@@ -284,9 +284,13 @@ namespace std
 	  // But the seek may fail (f.i., at the beginning of
 	  // a file, see libstdc++/9439) and in that case
 	  // we return traits_type::eof().
-	  else if (this->seekoff(-1, ios_base::cur) < 0
-		   || traits_type::eq_int_type(__tmp = this->underflow(),
-					       traits_type::eof()))
+	  else if (this->seekoff(-1, ios_base::cur) >= 0)
+	    {
+	      __tmp = this->underflow();
+	      if (traits_type::eq_int_type(__tmp, __ret))
+		return __ret;
+	    }
+	  else
 	    return __ret;
 
 	  // Try to put back __i into input sequence in one of three ways.