diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b7efc55b7..9f531aad3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-12-26 Riccardo Mottola <rmottola@users.sf.net>
+
+	* Source/NSCell.m: Corrected c99-ism
+
 2009-12-23  Wolfgang Lux  <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com>
 
 	* Source/NSTextView.m (-dealloc, -breakUndoCoalescing,
diff --git a/Source/NSCell.m b/Source/NSCell.m
index 9b83c8c08..084d32175 100644
--- a/Source/NSCell.m
+++ b/Source/NSCell.m
@@ -2069,6 +2069,8 @@ static NSColor *dtxtCol;
 
 - (NSText*) setUpFieldEditorAttributes: (NSText*)textObject
 {
+  NSDictionary *attr;
+
   // Reset the string to have a well defined state. The real string gets set later on.
   [textObject setString: @""];
 
@@ -2091,7 +2093,7 @@ static NSColor *dtxtCol;
   [textObject setRichText: [self allowsEditingTextAttributes]];
   [textObject setImportsGraphics: [self importsGraphics]];
   [(NSTextView*)textObject setAllowsUndo: [self allowsUndo]];
-  NSDictionary *attr = [self _nonAutoreleasedTypingAttributes];
+  attr = [self _nonAutoreleasedTypingAttributes];
   [(NSTextView*)textObject setTypingAttributes: attr];
   RELEASE(attr);