diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 442efb3f96..891e9decb7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Mar 25 10:04:59 2002  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nakada@nifty.ne.jp>
+
+	* regex.c (mbc_startpos_func): shoud be static.
+
 Sun Mar 24 00:46:05 2002  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* util.c (push_element): avoid warning for djgpp.
diff --git a/regex.c b/regex.c
index 3f38757656..cef0a855e2 100644
--- a/regex.c
+++ b/regex.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ re_set_syntax(syntax)
  ((current_mbctype != MBCTYPE_UTF8) ? ((c<0x100) ? (c) : (((c)>>8)&0xff)) : utf8_firstbyte(c))
 
 typedef unsigned int (*mbc_startpos_func_t) _((const char *string, unsigned int pos));
-const mbc_startpos_func_t mbc_startpos_func[];
+static const mbc_startpos_func_t mbc_startpos_func[];
 #define mbc_startpos(start, pos) (*mbc_startpos_func[current_mbctype])((start), (pos))
 
 static unsigned int
@@ -4573,7 +4573,7 @@ utf8_startpos(string, pos)
   return i + w;
 }
 
-const mbc_startpos_func_t mbc_startpos_func[4] = {
+static const mbc_startpos_func_t mbc_startpos_func[4] = {
   asc_startpos, euc_startpos, sjis_startpos, utf8_startpos
 };