diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 32fdf0b085..47460a86fe 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -10338,3 +10338,9 @@ David  22 Dec 2008
         coproc.cpp,h
     sched/
         sched_plan.cpp
+
+David  22 Dec 2008
+    - XML_PARSER: in parse_int(), set errno to zero before calling strtol().
+
+    lib/
+        parse.cpp
diff --git a/lib/parse.cpp b/lib/parse.cpp
index 7cb558699b..721109b56d 100644
--- a/lib/parse.cpp
+++ b/lib/parse.cpp
@@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ bool XML_PARSER::parse_int(char* parsed_tag, const char* start_tag, int& i) {
             return false;
         }
     }
+    errno = 0;
     int val = strtol(buf, &end, 0);
     if (errno == ERANGE) return false;
     if (end != buf+strlen(buf)) return false;