diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d4bb12a98e..53a240117f 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Apr  4 19:04:18 1996  Stan Shebs  <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
+
+	* symfile.c (generic_load): Initialize data_count properly.
+
 Thu Apr  4 17:17:53 1996  Fred Fish  <fnf@cygnus.com>
 
 	* symmisc.c (print_objfile_statistics): Print memory used by
diff --git a/gdb/symfile.c b/gdb/symfile.c
index f5d4e15524..e95d1db000 100644
--- a/gdb/symfile.c
+++ b/gdb/symfile.c
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ generic_load (filename, from_tty)
   asection *s;
   bfd *loadfile_bfd;
   time_t start_time, end_time;	/* Start and end times of download */
-  unsigned long data_count;	/* Number of bytes transferred to memory */
+  unsigned long data_count = 0;	/* Number of bytes transferred to memory */
 
   loadfile_bfd = bfd_openr (filename, gnutarget);
   if (loadfile_bfd == NULL)