diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5a3fdc515f1..311d143e03b 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-02-19  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
+
+	From: innadadadavida@yahoo.com:
+	* partial-stab.h (switch): Check that pst is not null
+ 	before dereferencing it.
+
 2001-02-19  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
 
         From Andrew Cagney  <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>:
diff --git a/gdb/partial-stab.h b/gdb/partial-stab.h
index 6691b75a0c5..ff8ef7cf14b 100644
--- a/gdb/partial-stab.h
+++ b/gdb/partial-stab.h
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ switch (CUR_SYMBOL_TYPE)
 	   use the address of this function as the low bound for
 	   the partial symbol table.  */
 	if (textlow_not_set
-	    || (CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE < pst->textlow
+	    || (pst && CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE < pst->textlow
 		&& CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE
 		!= ANOFFSET (objfile->section_offsets, SECT_OFF_TEXT (objfile))))
 	  {