diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f2ee984fa5..e43e9500d0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Oct 30 10:24:35 2010  Marc-Andre Lafortune  <ruby-core@marc-andre.ca>
+
+	* object.c: Make BasicObject.new accept no parameter.
+	  Revert of r26135 [ruby-core:27080], as per [ruby-core:32952].
+
 Sat Oct 30 09:40:54 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* enum.c: use constants in id.h.
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 252af17681..75192c1504 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -673,9 +673,9 @@ rb_obj_tap(VALUE obj)
  * Document-method: initialize
  *
  * call-seq:
- *    BasicObject.new( *args )
+ *    BasicObject.new
  *
- * Returns a new BasicObject. Arguments are ignored.
+ * Returns a new BasicObject.
  */
 
 /*
@@ -2515,7 +2515,7 @@ Init_Object(void)
 #undef rb_intern
 #define rb_intern(str) rb_intern_const(str)
 
-    rb_define_private_method(rb_cBasicObject, "initialize", rb_obj_dummy, -1);
+    rb_define_private_method(rb_cBasicObject, "initialize", rb_obj_dummy, 0);
     rb_define_alloc_func(rb_cBasicObject, rb_class_allocate_instance);
     rb_define_method(rb_cBasicObject, "==", rb_obj_equal, 1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cBasicObject, "equal?", rb_obj_equal, 1);