diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 8e742faa5..2667ad1ff 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-09-28  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
+
+	* hookapi.cc (hook_or_detect_cygwin): Correct inverted test for whether
+	to allocate a buffer by always allocating a buffer.
+
 2005-09-28  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* fhandler.h (class fhandler_dev_raw): Delete current_position and
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/hookapi.cc b/winsup/cygwin/hookapi.cc
index 8539d2a7a..29a988912 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/hookapi.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/hookapi.cc
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ hook_or_detect_cygwin (const char *name, const void *fn)
   function_hook fh;
   fh.origfn = NULL;
   fh.hookfn = fn;
-  char *buf = fn ? NULL : (char *) alloca (strlen (name) + sizeof ("_64"));
+  char *buf = (char *) alloca (strlen (name) + sizeof ("_64"));
   int i;
   // Iterate through each import descriptor, and redirect if appropriate
   for (PIMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR pd = pdfirst; pd->FirstThunk; pd++)