diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 5231de031..75e461930 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-09-27  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc: Revert patch from 2004-09-16.  Brakes
+	newly built DLLs.
+
 2004-09-24  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 	    Sergey Ivanov  <seriv@parkheights.dyndns.org>
 
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc b/winsup/cygwin/lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc
index 51be98003..935b84f31 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ details. */
 #include <reent.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
+/* Avoid an info message from linker when linking applications. */
+extern __declspec(dllimport) struct _reent *_impure_ptr;
+
 #undef environ
 
 extern "C"
@@ -60,6 +63,10 @@ _cygwin_crt0_common (MainFunc f, per_process *u)
   u->ctors = &__CTOR_LIST__;
   u->dtors = &__DTOR_LIST__;
   u->envptr = &environ;
+  if (uwasnull)
+    _impure_ptr = u->impure_ptr;	/* Use field initialized in newer DLLs. */
+  else
+    u->impure_ptr_ptr = &_impure_ptr;	/* Older DLLs need this. */
 
   u->forkee = 0;			/* This should only be set in dcrt0.cc
 					   when the process is actually forked */