diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog-gdbtk b/gdb/ChangeLog-gdbtk
index 42b7b0df7fa..2b7e46a8f15 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog-gdbtk
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog-gdbtk
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Aug 13 15:09:59 1998  Drew Moseley  <dmoseley@cygnus.com>
+
+	* gdbtk.c (gdbtk_cleanup): added a scope-level around the contents
+	of the #ifdef so that the variable declarations in there would not
+	be illegal in a C compilation.
+
 Mon Jul 27 13:07:16 1998  Martin M. Hunt  <hunt@cygnus.com>
 
 	* gdbtk.c (gdbtk_call_command): Removed because it is now
diff --git a/gdb/gdbtk.c b/gdb/gdbtk.c
index 01cf3ddd60e..e8d31ad5658 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbtk.c
+++ b/gdb/gdbtk.c
@@ -298,8 +298,10 @@ gdbtk_cleanup (dummy)
 {
   Tcl_Eval (gdbtk_interp, "gdbtk_cleanup");
 #ifdef IDE
-  struct ide_event_handle *h = (struct ide_event_handle *) dummy;
-  ide_interface_deregister_all (h);
+  {
+    struct ide_event_handle *h = (struct ide_event_handle *) dummy;
+    ide_interface_deregister_all (h);
+  }
 #endif
   Tcl_Finalize ();
 }