diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4c600aa94d..da5e42df5d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Feb 13 18:28:51 2014  Eric Wong  <e@80x24.org>
+
+	* re.c (rb_reg_regcomp): remove volatile
+	  Unnecessary since r13261
+
 Thu Feb 13 16:54:32 2014  Zachary Scott  <e@zzak.io>
 
 	* test/ruby/test_array.rb: Ensure flatten! is used for test_flatten
diff --git a/re.c b/re.c
index 49b1a5a9d4..036d320770 100644
--- a/re.c
+++ b/re.c
@@ -2569,13 +2569,12 @@ static VALUE reg_cache;
 VALUE
 rb_reg_regcomp(VALUE str)
 {
-    volatile VALUE save_str = str;
     if (reg_cache && RREGEXP_SRC_LEN(reg_cache) == RSTRING_LEN(str)
 	&& ENCODING_GET(reg_cache) == ENCODING_GET(str)
 	&& memcmp(RREGEXP_SRC_PTR(reg_cache), RSTRING_PTR(str), RSTRING_LEN(str)) == 0)
 	return reg_cache;
 
-    return reg_cache = rb_reg_new_str(save_str, 0);
+    return reg_cache = rb_reg_new_str(str, 0);
 }
 
 static st_index_t reg_hash(VALUE re);