diff --git a/glib/ChangeLog b/glib/ChangeLog
index e19a24669c..4d8c9927b2 100644
--- a/glib/ChangeLog
+++ b/glib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Jan 27 09:46:57 PST 1998 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
+
+	* gstring.c: g_string_prepend and g_string_prepend_c had
+	interchanged src and dest parameters for g_memmove. Fixed.
+
 Tue Jan 27 01:38:52 PST 1998 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
 
 	* gslist.c: fixed a really, really lame error. g_slist_insert
diff --git a/glib/gstring.c b/glib/gstring.c
index 28dc2c1f4f..a26eaa96d8 100644
--- a/glib/gstring.c
+++ b/glib/gstring.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ g_string_prepend (GString *fstring, gchar *val)
 
   g_string_maybe_expand (string, len);
 
-  g_memmove (string->str, string->str + len, string->len);
+  g_memmove (string->str + len, string->str, string->len);
 
   strncpy (string->str, val, len);
 
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ g_string_prepend_c (GString *fstring, char c)
 
   g_string_maybe_expand (string, 1);
 
-  g_memmove (string->str, string->str + 1, string->len);
+  g_memmove (string->str + 1, string->str, string->len);
 
   string->str[0] = c;