diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 58940eeb..41db8d25 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
 - gif loader
 
-  there's an 88-byte leak? seems to be inside giflib
-
-==19236== 7,974,856 (88 direct, 7,974,768 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 5,195 of 5,195
-==19236==    at 0x4C2BBCF: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
-==19236==    by 0x8114136: DGifOpenFileHandle (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.4.1.6)
-
-
   need tests, need to update APIs
 
 
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/gifload.c b/libvips/foreign/gifload.c
index 000b8e97..3abad720 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/gifload.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/gifload.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ vips_foreign_load_gif_dispose( GObject *gobject )
 {
 	VipsForeignLoadGif *gif = (VipsForeignLoadGif *) gobject;
 
-	VIPS_FREEF( EGifCloseFile, gif->file );
+	VIPS_FREEF( DGifCloseFile, gif->file );
 
 	G_OBJECT_CLASS( vips_foreign_load_gif_parent_class )->
 		dispose( gobject );
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ vips_foreign_load_gif_load( VipsForeignLoad *load )
 	/* We've rendered to a memory image ... we can free the GIF image 
 	 * struct now.
 	 */
-	VIPS_FREEF( EGifCloseFile, gif->file );
+	VIPS_FREEF( DGifCloseFile, gif->file );
 
 	return( 0 );
 }