diff --git a/gobject/ChangeLog b/gobject/ChangeLog
index ad579b622..84dd1b512 100644
--- a/gobject/ChangeLog
+++ b/gobject/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2001-04-19  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
+
+	* gobject.c (g_object_get_valist): We were returning junk memory
+	here, because we didn't copy the value (G_VALUE_NOCOPY_CONTENTS
+	passed to G_VALUE_LCOPY) and then we freed the GValue immediately
+	after. Removed G_VALUE_NOCOPY_CONTENTS from here; need a
+	G_VALUE_STEAL_CONTENTS or the like if we want this optimization.
+
 Wed Apr 18 09:46:56 2001  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
 
 	* gobject.c gsignal.c: Change C++ comments for FIXME's to
diff --git a/gobject/gobject.c b/gobject/gobject.c
index 7590c4cae..0ee30a6fe 100644
--- a/gobject/gobject.c
+++ b/gobject/gobject.c
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ g_object_get_valist (GObject	 *object,
       
       object_get_property (object, pspec, &value);
       
-      G_VALUE_LCOPY (&value, var_args, G_VALUE_NOCOPY_CONTENTS, &error);
+      G_VALUE_LCOPY (&value, var_args, 0, &error);
       if (error)
 	{
 	  g_warning ("%s: %s", G_STRLOC, error);