diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 74bb677100..421f4f3fb5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-Sun Jan 13 13:50:46 2008  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+Sun Jan 13 13:53:00 2008  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ruby.c (load_file): local variable was not initialized when -x flag
+	  is given.
 
 	* ruby.c (load_file): script files should not be affected by locale.
 	  [ruby-dev:33054]
diff --git a/ruby.c b/ruby.c
index e3b700bdc1..7feef787ff 100644
--- a/ruby.c
+++ b/ruby.c
@@ -1064,6 +1064,7 @@ load_file(VALUE parser, const char *fname, int script, struct cmdline_options *o
 	VALUE c = 1;		/* something not nil */
 	VALUE line;
 	char *p;
+	int no_enc = !opt->enc_name;
 
 	if (opt->xflag) {
 	    forbid_setid("-x");
@@ -1083,8 +1084,6 @@ load_file(VALUE parser, const char *fname, int script, struct cmdline_options *o
 
 	c = rb_io_getbyte(f);
 	if (c == INT2FIX('#')) {
-	    int no_enc = !opt->enc_name;
-
 	    c = rb_io_getbyte(f);
 	    if (c == INT2FIX('!')) {
 		line = rb_io_gets(f);