diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3e473a48a2..4ef3540fd7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Dec 20 10:51:58 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (special_local_set): prevent the parser object from GC.
+	  fixed: [ruby-dev:25252]
+
 Mon Dec 20 03:30:40 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/cgi/session.rb (CGI::Session#initialize): empty session id was
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 2006610b90..91815b3216 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -4468,7 +4468,7 @@ rb_compile_file(f, file, start)
     int start;
 {
     struct parser_params *parser = parser_new();
-    volatile VALUE p = parser->value;		  
+    volatile VALUE p = parser->value;
 
     lex_gets = lex_io_gets;
     lex_input = file;
@@ -8098,6 +8098,7 @@ special_local_set(c, val)
 {
     int cnt;
     struct parser_params *parser = parser_new();
+    volatile VALUE p = parser->value;
 
     top_local_init();
     cnt = local_cnt(c);