diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fce5156655..d3ecfbc9e0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Oct 25 10:19:09 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/dl/handle.c (rb_dlhandle_close): fixed an invalid local
+	  variable declaration.
+
 Sun Oct 25 05:44:34 2009  Marc-Andre Lafortune  <ruby-core@marc-andre.ca>
 
 	* lib/matrix.rb (**): Optimization (up to 45% faster)
diff --git a/ext/dl/handle.c b/ext/dl/handle.c
index f5e7a33f7e..522d1a1dc6 100644
--- a/ext/dl/handle.c
+++ b/ext/dl/handle.c
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ rb_dlhandle_close(VALUE self)
 
     TypedData_Get_Struct(self, struct dl_handle, &dlhandle_data_type, dlhandle);
     if(dlhandle->open) {
-	dlhandle->open = 0;
 	int ret = dlclose(dlhandle->ptr);
+	dlhandle->open = 0;
 
 	/* Check dlclose for successful return value */
 	if(ret) {