diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7651d042de..9fcb344afb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-0?
     - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
       preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
       Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
+    - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on
+      64-bit platforms.  Bug spotted by aakova.
 
 
 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
diff --git a/src/or/dirvote.c b/src/or/dirvote.c
index fbbd82ee28..e4afacc61d 100644
--- a/src/or/dirvote.c
+++ b/src/or/dirvote.c
@@ -641,8 +641,8 @@ networkstatus_compute_consensus(smartlist_t *votes,
     n_voter_flags = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int) * smartlist_len(votes));
     n_flag_voters = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int) * smartlist_len(flags));
     flag_map = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int*) * smartlist_len(votes));
-    named_flag = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int*) * smartlist_len(votes));
-    unnamed_flag = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int*) * smartlist_len(votes));
+    named_flag = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int) * smartlist_len(votes));
+    unnamed_flag = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(int) * smartlist_len(votes));
     for (i = 0; i < smartlist_len(votes); ++i)
       unnamed_flag[i] = named_flag[i] = -1;
     chosen_named_idx = smartlist_string_pos(flags, "Named");