diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
index fd6924645a..2bc718af24 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-11-04  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* io-bmp.c (DecodeHeader): removed redundant code that did nothing,
+	caused a compiler warning and is also not in the HEAD branch.
+
 2002-10-23  Matthias Clasen  <maclas@gmx.de>
 
 	* io-gif.c (lzw_read_byte): Check for stack overflow throughout.
diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/io-bmp.c b/gdk-pixbuf/io-bmp.c
index 953de1d274..36cc056bfb 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/io-bmp.c
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/io-bmp.c
@@ -392,8 +392,6 @@ static gboolean DecodeHeader(unsigned char *BFH, unsigned char *BIH,
 
 	State->BufferDone = 0;
 	if (State->Type <= 8) {
-		int biClrUsed = lsb_32 (&BIH[32]);
-		int n_colors = (biClrUsed ? biClrUsed : (1 << State->Header.depth)); 
 		State->read_state = READ_STATE_PALETTE;
 		State->BufferSize = lsb_32 (&BFH[10]) - 14 - State->Header.size;
 	} else if (State->Compressed == BI_RGB) {