diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 57638de2e4..a04ae9961f 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-Fri Sep 30 06:42:42 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+Fri Sep 30 06:42:42 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@cygnus.com)
+
+	* lynx-nat.c (child_wait): Use status.w_status, not status, in
+	arithmetic.  status is a `union wait'.
 
 	* config/nm-lynx.h (PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE): Define to int, not char *.
 
diff --git a/gdb/lynx-nat.c b/gdb/lynx-nat.c
index b7bc824599..ea224f07e5 100644
--- a/gdb/lynx-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/lynx-nat.c
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ child_wait (pid, ourstatus)
       pid = wait (&status);
 #ifdef SPARC
 /* Swap halves of status so that the rest of GDB can understand it */
-      status = (status << 16) | ((unsigned)status >> 16);
+      status.w_status = ((unsigned)status.w_status << 16) | ((unsigned)status.w_status >> 16);
 #endif
 
       save_errno = errno;