diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a62611023bfa85593fa6ca4110dbdb2bb7e76d63..39617ca0be9cfcee1d8fa30c3c45db5fb12219dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 2014-04-02  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
 	* doc/man/{,fr}/Makefile.am: Simplify the man rules still further.
 	* .gitignore: Add 'config.cache', created by './configure -C'.
+	* src/nano.c (die_save_file): Newer gcc warns about set-but-unused
+	variables, so add a dummy if() check to kill that off.
 
 2014-03-31 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
 	* doc/syntax/go.nanorc: basic go syntax highlighting
diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
index 22305bb7834debd09578777d62840a94ddaae2ec..083779a8758f803a3f8f689b80e3d9f74fadb941 100644
--- a/src/nano.c
+++ b/src/nano.c
@@ -723,6 +723,8 @@ void die_save_file(const char *die_filename
 	int shush;
 	shush = chmod(retval, die_stat->st_mode);
 	shush = chown(retval, die_stat->st_uid, die_stat->st_gid);
+	if (shush)
+	    ;
     }
 #endif