diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog
index b046290830f..446802cefbf 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-12-08 Vladimir Hirsl
+	Removed some dead code in ReaderThread class.
+	* src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/ProcessClosure.java
+	
 2004-12-02 Alain Magloire
 	Fix for PR 40081.
 	For Cygwin use NM to get the global variables.
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/ProcessClosure.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/ProcessClosure.java
index 6acaa4f0526..7ddf2d2dd9c 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/ProcessClosure.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/ProcessClosure.java
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ public class ProcessClosure {
 		}
 
 		public void run() {
-			byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
-			int len;
 			try {
 				try {
 					BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fInputStream));