diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 641178f..41995fd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-12-27  Nicola Pero <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>
+
+	* NSAttributeDescription.m ([-initWithCoder:],
+	[-encodeWithCoder:]): Explicitly encode and decode NSAttributeType
+	as 'int' to work across compiler versions.
+
 2007-12-13	Nikolaus Schaller <hns@computer.org>
 
         * made compile on MacOS X and mySTEP
diff --git a/NSAttributeDescription.m b/NSAttributeDescription.m
index 8e5b661..46a7743 100644
--- a/NSAttributeDescription.m
+++ b/NSAttributeDescription.m
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@
         }
       else
         {
-          [coder decodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(NSAttributeType)
-                                    at: &_attributeType];
+          [coder decodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(int) at: &_attributeType];
   //        ASSIGN(_attributeValueClassName, [coder decodeObject]);
           ASSIGN(_defaultValue, [coder decodeObject]);
         }
@@ -108,8 +107,7 @@
     }
   else
     {
-      [coder encodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(NSAttributeType)
-                                at: &_attributeType];
+      [coder encodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(int) at: &_attributeType];
   //    [coder encodeObject: _attributeValueClassName];
       [coder encodeObject: _defaultValue];
     }