diff --git a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
index 15e954b52..75d7879ec 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-10-06  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* strace.cc (_impure_ptr): Remove.
+
 2004-10-06  Bas van Gompel  <cygwin-patch.buzz@bavag.tmfweb.nl>
 
 	* cygcheck.cc (dump_sysinfo): Warn about empty path-components.
diff --git a/winsup/utils/strace.cc b/winsup/utils/strace.cc
index 2d16b69c7..40300a4a6 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/strace.cc
+++ b/winsup/utils/strace.cc
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ details. */
 #include "path.h"
 #undef cygwin_internal
 
-/*  GCC runtime library's C++ EH code unfortunately pulls in stdio, and we
-   get undefine references to __impure_ptr, and hence the following
-   hack. It should be reasonably safe however as long as this file
-   is built using -mno-cygwin as is intended.  */
-int _impure_ptr;
-
 /* we *know* we're being built with GCC */
 #define alloca __builtin_alloca