diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index 21cbc61d01314a2c5b478360bedf0970d50a6c7b..47a781f59765c8d5e0077f62dd800703854ac1c6 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-10-03  Gary Benson  <gbenson@redhat.com>
+
+	* java/net/InetAddress.java
+	(<clinit>): Reorder the static initializers.
+
 2006-10-02  Gary Benson  <gbenson@redhat.com>
 
 	* java/net/InetAddress.java
diff --git a/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java b/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java
index 06e9658fbf6b89ce4b4057a8d0fddd51d11a5b67..640750d63b16a962a2a702a97dc098ed8a61bf62 100644
--- a/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java
+++ b/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java
@@ -65,6 +65,24 @@ public class InetAddress implements Serializable
 {
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 3286316764910316507L;
 
+  /**
+   * Stores static localhost address object.
+   */
+  static InetAddress LOCALHOST;
+  static
+  {
+    try
+      {
+	LOCALHOST = getByAddress("localhost", new byte[] {127, 0, 0, 1});
+	// Some soon-to-be-removed native code synchronizes on this.
+	loopbackAddress = LOCALHOST;
+      }
+    catch (UnknownHostException e)
+      {
+	throw new RuntimeException("should never happen", e);
+      }
+  }    
+
   /**
    * Dummy InetAddress, used to bind socket to any (all) network interfaces.
    */
@@ -92,24 +110,6 @@ public class InetAddress implements Serializable
     ANY_IF.hostName = ANY_IF.getHostName();
   }
   
-  /**
-   * Stores static localhost address object.
-   */
-  static InetAddress LOCALHOST;
-  static
-  {
-    try
-      {
-	LOCALHOST = getByAddress("localhost", new byte[] {127, 0, 0, 1});
-	// Some soon-to-be-removed native code synchronizes on this.
-	loopbackAddress = LOCALHOST;
-      }
-    catch (UnknownHostException e)
-      {
-	throw new RuntimeException("should never happen", e);
-      }
-  }    
-
   /**
    * The Serialized Form specifies that an int 'address' is saved/restored.
    * This class uses a byte array internally so we'll just do the conversion