diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 243929ba8..785cc3190 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-03-04  Øyvind Kolås  <pippin@o-hand.com>
+
+	* clutter/pango/pangoclutter-render.c: (draw_glyph): use g_slice_new0
+	instead of g_slice_new when allocating the glyph_info, avoiding a
+	branch based on uninitialized memory.
+
 2008-03-03  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@openedhand.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am: Do not recurse into doc if we did not explicitly
diff --git a/clutter/pango/pangoclutter-render.c b/clutter/pango/pangoclutter-render.c
index 4b9fba18c..11ac0829f 100644
--- a/clutter/pango/pangoclutter-render.c
+++ b/clutter/pango/pangoclutter-render.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ draw_glyph (PangoRenderer *renderer_,
         g->generation = tc_generation;
       else
         {
-          g = g_slice_new (glyph_info);
+          g = g_slice_new0 (glyph_info);
 
           _pango_clutter_font_set_glyph_cache_destroy
 	                        (font, (GDestroyNotify)free_glyph_info);