diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d44e322d..8534dc995 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-05-29  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
+
+	* glib/gnulib/printf-args.c (printf_fetchargs): wint_t is short on
+	Windows, and gcc warns: "wint_t is promoted to int when passed
+	through ... (so you should pass int not wint_t to va_arg)." So do
+	that then.
+
 2008-05-28  Michael Natterer  <mitch@imendio.com>
 
 	* configure.in: add G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES to CPPFLAGS
diff --git a/glib/gnulib/printf-args.c b/glib/gnulib/printf-args.c
index 91ca6d832..75a2a5497 100644
--- a/glib/gnulib/printf-args.c
+++ b/glib/gnulib/printf-args.c
@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ printf_fetchargs (va_list args, arguments *a)
 	break;
 #ifdef HAVE_WINT_T
       case TYPE_WIDE_CHAR:
+#ifdef _WIN32
+	ap->a.a_wide_char = va_arg (args, int);
+#else
 	ap->a.a_wide_char = va_arg (args, wint_t);
+#endif
 	break;
 #endif
       case TYPE_STRING: