diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
index c9987aca55..dd5090adbc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
      * Change, ! Fix, % Optimization, + Addition, - Removal, ; Comment
  */
 
+2014-06-27 14:53 UTC+0200 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/poczta.onet.pl)
+  * contrib/hbwin/olecore.c
+    * added workaround for missing DISP_E_BUFFERTOOSMALL declaration
+      in some older C compilers i.e. BCC 5.5
+
 2014-06-27 12:45 UTC+0200 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/poczta.onet.pl)
   * src/common/hbfopen.c
     * use _wfopen() instead of fopen() in MS-Windows UNICODE builds of
diff --git a/contrib/hbwin/olecore.c b/contrib/hbwin/olecore.c
index 415ff3dfa4..38547c626e 100644
--- a/contrib/hbwin/olecore.c
+++ b/contrib/hbwin/olecore.c
@@ -1659,6 +1659,9 @@ HB_FUNC( WIN_OLEERROR )
 }
 
 
+#ifndef DISP_E_BUFFERTOOSMALL
+   #define DISP_E_BUFFERTOOSMALL    0x80020013L
+#endif
 HB_FUNC( WIN_OLEERRORTEXT )
 {
    HRESULT lOleError;