diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 08224861b..fbce5e289 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-05-17  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* external.cc (cygwin_internal): Avoid compiler warning.
+
 2005-05-16  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* dcrt0.cc (dll_crt0_0): Don't do fixup_after_exec if dynamically
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/external.cc b/winsup/cygwin/external.cc
index 6d618c961..04604b365 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/external.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/external.cc
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ cygwin_internal (cygwin_getinfo_types t, ...)
 	try_to_debug ();
 	break;
       default:
-	return (DWORD) -1;
+        break;
     }
+  return (unsigned long) -1;
 }