diff --git a/harbour/ChangeLog b/harbour/ChangeLog
index f02e6651f1..69a8abd515 100644
--- a/harbour/ChangeLog
+++ b/harbour/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
    2009-12-31 13:59 UTC+0100 Foo Bar (foo.bar foobar.org)
 */
 
+2009-03-18 00:50 UTC+0100 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl)
+  * harbour/include/hbatomic.h
+    % removed unnecessary in such version xor
+    
 2009-03-18 00:49 UTC+0100 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl)
   * harbour/include/hbatomic.h
     + added atomic inc/dec inline assembler code for 32bit MSVC builds
diff --git a/harbour/include/hbatomic.h b/harbour/include/hbatomic.h
index 42a488b6bd..3bfefcae51 100644
--- a/harbour/include/hbatomic.h
+++ b/harbour/include/hbatomic.h
@@ -274,7 +274,6 @@ HB_EXTERN_BEGIN
          {
             unsigned char c;
 
-            __asm xor eax, eax
             __asm lock dec p
             __asm setne c