diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36d37d89..9557f5cd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Sep 21 20:11:13 EDT 1998 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
+
+	* parser.c: corrected a loop for files of size 0
+
 1998-08-20  Raja R Harinath  <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
 
 	* error.h: New file.  Contains prototyes from `error.c'.
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index c7fb47f4..1b3b384e 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -3059,7 +3059,7 @@ retry_bigger:
     }
 #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB_H
     gzclose(input);
-    if (res >= 20 * buf.st_size) {
+    if (res >= 20 * buf.st_size + 20) {
         free(buffer);
 	buf.st_size *= 2;
 	goto retry_bigger;