diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3ac8a7abf..15b81f7ed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2004-06-22 Stefan Jones <stefan.jones@multigig.com>
 
+	* src/frontend/com_dl.c:
+	Moved variable declaration to beginning of function
+
 	* configure.in:
 	Change to version 17
 
diff --git a/src/frontend/com_dl.c b/src/frontend/com_dl.c
index c3fb3515d..95df6b9cf 100755
--- a/src/frontend/com_dl.c
+++ b/src/frontend/com_dl.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ void com_xaltermod(wordlist *wl){
   bool found;
   char *dev, *p;
   char *param;
+  int id;
+  int numParams =0;
 
   if (!ft_curckt) {
         fprintf(cp_err, "Error: no circuit loaded\n");
@@ -104,9 +106,6 @@ void com_xaltermod(wordlist *wl){
   device = ft_sim->devices[typecode];
   found = FALSE;
 
-  int id;
-  int numParams =0;
-
   for(ww = words;ww;ww = ww->wl_next)
     numParams ++;