diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 7c35f1c98f7..989ad1fdbb7 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -732,6 +732,7 @@ PyObject *PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(const char *s,
         }
         s += n;
 nextChar:
+	/* empty */;
     }
 
     /* Adjust length */