diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2db09d2f18..182aa13353 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2019-08-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+	Remove dead regex code
+	* posix/regex_internal.c (re_node_set_insert):
+	Remove unnecessary assignment.  Reported by Tim Rühsen in:
+	https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2019-08/msg00026.html
+
 	Fix bad pointer / leak in regex code
 	This was found by Coverity (CID 1484201).  [BZ#24844]
 	* posix/regex_internal.c (create_cd_newstate): Fix use of bad
diff --git a/posix/regex_internal.c b/posix/regex_internal.c
index f53ded93a8..99fbb26ecb 100644
--- a/posix/regex_internal.c
+++ b/posix/regex_internal.c
@@ -1311,7 +1311,6 @@ re_node_set_insert (re_node_set *set, Idx elem)
      first element separately to skip a check in the inner loop.  */
   if (elem < set->elems[0])
     {
-      idx = 0;
       for (idx = set->nelem; idx > 0; idx--)
 	set->elems[idx] = set->elems[idx - 1];
     }