diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c59b84edab..aea52692a7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Oct 14 16:39:39 2008  Martin Duerst  <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
+
+	* transcode.c: in transcode_search_path, elimintated a warning
+	  on cygwin about pathlen potentially not being initialized
+
 Sat Oct 18 13:40:27 2008  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* lib/test/unit.rb (assert_nothing_thrown): implemented.
diff --git a/transcode.c b/transcode.c
index 6d02875051..cfb11bf34d 100644
--- a/transcode.c
+++ b/transcode.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ transcode_search_path(const char *sname, const char *dname,
     st_data_t val;
     st_table *table2;
     int found;
-    int pathlen;
+    int pathlen = -1;
 
     if (encoding_equal(sname, dname))
         return -1;
@@ -349,10 +349,7 @@ transcode_search_path(const char *sname, const char *dname,
 
     st_free_table(bfs.visited);
 
-    if (found)
-        return pathlen;
-    else
-        return -1;
+    return pathlen; /* is -1 if !found */
 }
 
 static const rb_transcoder *