diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
index 1d0a4aa3f23..73ff92a1993 100644
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ tok_get(register struct tok_state *tok, char **p_start, char **p_end)
 	register int c;
 	int blankline;
 
-	*p_start = *p_end = NULL;
+	tok->line_start = *p_start = *p_end = NULL;
   nextline:
 	tok->start = NULL;
 	blankline = 0;