diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cc-guess.el b/lisp/progmodes/cc-guess.el
index 153b3a31e56..c8cd6fbe40b 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cc-guess.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cc-guess.el
@@ -494,8 +494,7 @@ is called with one argument, the guessed style."
   ;; If an entry in `c-offsets-alist' holds a guessed value, move it to
   ;; front in the field. In addition alphabetical sort by entry name is done.
   (setq style (copy-tree style))
-  (let ((offsets-alist-cell (assq 'c-offsets-alist style))
-	(guessed-syntactic-symbols (c-guess-guessed-syntactic-symbols)))
+  (let ((offsets-alist-cell (assq 'c-offsets-alist style)))
     (setcdr offsets-alist-cell
 	    (sort (cdr offsets-alist-cell)
 		  (lambda (a b)