diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ff81c415d3..47e04290b2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+Fri Jul 31 10:54:08 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (literal_concat_gen): reduced unnecessary node at string
+	  literal concatenation with empty head dstr.  [ruby-dev:38968]
+
+Fri Jul 31 02:57:39 2009  Yusuke Endoh  <mame@tsg.ne.jp>
+
+	* parse.y (literal_concat_gen): NODE_DSTR was incorrectly handled as
+	  NODE_STR.  [ruby-dev:38968]
+
+	* bootstraptest/test_syntax.rb: add a test for above.
+
 Thu Jul 30 23:04:32 2009  Yuki Sonoda (Yugui)  <yugui@yugui.jp>
 
 	* gem_prelude.rb (Gem.path): uses Gem.default_path as a default value
diff --git a/bootstraptest/test_syntax.rb b/bootstraptest/test_syntax.rb
index a9005a4292..131625ea6b 100644
--- a/bootstraptest/test_syntax.rb
+++ b/bootstraptest/test_syntax.rb
@@ -828,3 +828,6 @@ assert_normal_exit %q{
   p a.compact!
 }
 
+assert_equal 'ok', %q{
+  "#{}""#{}ok"
+}, '[ruby-dev:38968]'
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 84314c816c..3961733cd2 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -7880,6 +7880,10 @@ literal_concat_gen(struct parser_params *parser, NODE *head, NODE *tail)
 	    rb_gc_force_recycle((VALUE)head);
 	    head = tail;
 	}
+	else if (NIL_P(tail->nd_lit)) {
+	    list_concat(head, tail->nd_next);
+	    rb_gc_force_recycle((VALUE)tail);
+	}
 	else {
 	    nd_set_type(tail, NODE_ARRAY);
 	    tail->nd_head = NEW_STR(tail->nd_lit);
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 02ddd40be6..372cc4d3f2 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.9.1"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 258
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 259
 #define RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR 1
 #define RUBY_VERSION_MINOR 9
 #define RUBY_VERSION_TEENY 1