diff --git a/harbour/ChangeLog b/harbour/ChangeLog
index 3bc3cd866a..82d8c805f9 100644
--- a/harbour/ChangeLog
+++ b/harbour/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
    2008-12-31 13:59 UTC+0100 Foo Bar (foo.bar foobar.org)
 */
 
+2008-11-01 13:41 UTC+0100 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl)
+  * harbour/source/common/hbgete.c
+    ! fixed OS2 casting for non GCC compilers
+
 2008-11-01 12:02 UTC+0200 Viktor Szakats (harbour.01 syenar hu)
   * include/hbextern.ch
   * source/rtl/memofile.c
diff --git a/harbour/source/common/hbgete.c b/harbour/source/common/hbgete.c
index 2ec8626ac6..b01a091432 100644
--- a/harbour/source/common/hbgete.c
+++ b/harbour/source/common/hbgete.c
@@ -84,11 +84,7 @@ char * hb_getenv( const char * szName )
 #elif defined(HB_OS_OS2)
 
    {
-   #ifdef __GNUC__
       PSZ EnvValue = ( PSZ ) "";
-   #else
-      PCSZ EnvValue = "";
-   #endif
 
       if( DosScanEnv( ( PCSZ ) szName, &EnvValue ) == NO_ERROR )
          pszBuffer = hb_strdup( ( char * ) EnvValue );
@@ -119,11 +115,7 @@ BOOL hb_getenv_buffer( const char * szName, char * szBuffer, int nSize )
 
 #elif defined(HB_OS_OS2)
    {
-      #ifdef __GNUC__
-         PSZ EnvValue = ( PSZ ) "";
-      #else
-         PCSZ EnvValue = "";
-      #endif
+      PSZ EnvValue = ( PSZ ) "";
 
       if( DosScanEnv( ( PCSZ ) szName, &EnvValue ) == NO_ERROR )
       {