diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 1217c382007..9c3dca78049 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Thu Jul 15 11:51:03 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)
 	need md_pcrel_from for a PC relative relocation within the same
 	file).
 	* config/tc-m88k.c (md_pcrel_from): Corrected return value.
+	(omagic): Removed unused variable.
 
 	* Preliminary support for m88k-coff.
 	* configure.in (m88k-*-coff*): New target.  Use coffbfd and
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-m88k.c b/gas/config/tc-m88k.c
index 5c8d602aba7..109225055f3 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-m88k.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-m88k.c
@@ -135,9 +135,6 @@ static struct hash_control *op_hash = NULL;
 /* These bits should be turned off in the first address of every segment */
 int md_seg_align = 7;
 
-/* This is the number to put at the beginning of the a.out file */
-long omagic = OMAGIC;
-
 /* These chars start a comment anywhere in a source file (except inside
    another comment */
 const char comment_chars[] = ";";