diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48343fc32b..78cb791fb5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
+Thu Nov  8 12:12:10 2007  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (parser_read_escape): remove C99/gcc-ism.
+
 Thu Nov  8 07:54:22 UTC 2007 David Flanagan <davidflanagan@ruby-lang.org>
-        * parse.y: patch, based on Nobu's, work to support \u escapes
+
+	* parse.y: patch, based on Nobu's, work to support \u escapes
 	           also modifications for better coderange detection
 	* test/ruby/test_unicode_escapes.rb: test cases
 	* test/ruby/test_mixed_unicode_escapes.rb: mixed encoding test cases
 	
 Thu Nov  8 07:14:37 UTC 2007 David Flanagan <davidflanagan@ruby-lang.org>
-        * parse.y (rb_intern3): commented out broken code that prevented
+
+	* parse.y (rb_intern3): commented out broken code that prevented
 	  correct interning of multi-byte symbols.  Without this patch
 	  :x==:x is false when x is a multi-byte character. 
 	
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index dc20c59191..e4577ca15a 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -5162,8 +5162,8 @@ parser_read_escape(struct parser_params *parser, int flags,
 	    goto eof;
 	}
 	if ((c = nextc()) == '\\') {
-	    *has8bit = 1;
 	    int tmp;
+	    *has8bit = 1;
 	    return read_escape(flags|ESCAPE_META, &tmp, &tmp, encp) | 0x80;
 	}
 	else if (c == -1) goto eof;
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index d8db5dabb2..1e506718a2 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.9.0"
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2007-11-07"
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2007-11-08"
 #define RUBY_VERSION_CODE 190
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20071107
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20071108
 #define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 0
 
 #define RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR 1
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION_TEENY 0
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2007
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 11
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DAY 7
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DAY 8
 
 #ifdef RUBY_EXTERN
 RUBY_EXTERN const char ruby_version[];