diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2e3172da38..fda7b230ab 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Mar 27 14:33:42 MET 1998 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* plugins/dbbrowser/dbbrowser_utils.c
+	* plugins/sparkle/sparkle.c: small changes to make it compile
+	on irix-6.4 with the native compiler.
+
 Fri Mar 27 00:19:38 PST 1998 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
 
 	* Made 0.99.23 release
diff --git a/plug-ins/common/sparkle.c b/plug-ins/common/sparkle.c
index 21dec3440e..788746a5f0 100644
--- a/plug-ins/common/sparkle.c
+++ b/plug-ins/common/sparkle.c
@@ -713,7 +713,11 @@ rpnt (GDrawable *drawable,
   guchar *pixel;
   guchar *guc_tmp;
   gdouble *gd_tmp;
-  gint oldrow = row - 1, oldcol = col - 1;
+  gint *oldrow;
+  gint *oldcol;
+
+  oldrow = row - 1;
+  oldcol = col - 1;
 
   x = (int) (xr);	/* integer coord. to upper left of real point */
   y = (int) (yr);
diff --git a/plug-ins/sparkle/sparkle.c b/plug-ins/sparkle/sparkle.c
index 21dec3440e..788746a5f0 100644
--- a/plug-ins/sparkle/sparkle.c
+++ b/plug-ins/sparkle/sparkle.c
@@ -713,7 +713,11 @@ rpnt (GDrawable *drawable,
   guchar *pixel;
   guchar *guc_tmp;
   gdouble *gd_tmp;
-  gint oldrow = row - 1, oldcol = col - 1;
+  gint *oldrow;
+  gint *oldcol;
+
+  oldrow = row - 1;
+  oldcol = col - 1;
 
   x = (int) (xr);	/* integer coord. to upper left of real point */
   y = (int) (yr);