diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 98509fc35d..d9ab9bb9bb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Aug 15 16:49:04 2007  Koichi Sasada  <ko1@atdot.net>
+
+	* inits.c (rb_call_inits): change initializing order.
+	  [ruby-dev:31420]
+
 Wed Aug 15 16:44:15 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* io.c (ARGF_FORWARD): wrongly compares with current_file with
diff --git a/inits.c b/inits.c
index 4b9da0943d..f63ea7de0e 100644
--- a/inits.c
+++ b/inits.c
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ rb_call_inits()
     Init_Comparable();
     Init_Enumerable();
     Init_Precision();
+    Init_String();
     Init_Exception();
     Init_eval();
     Init_jump();
-    Init_String();
     Init_Numeric();
     Init_Bignum();
     Init_syserr();