diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index e06d393b9..e3abe56bb 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 <action issue="LOGCXX-283">Suspicious, but harmless, reuse of LOCAL1 in SyslogAppender</action>
 <action issue="LOGCXX-284">Unit tests fail to compile with xlc_r on AIX</action>
 <action issue="LOGCXX-285">LevelRangeFilter has default value for acceptOnMatch that is different from log4j</action>
+<action issue="LOGCXX-286">gcc 4.3 requires #include &lt;cstring&gt; when using memcpy and related.</action> 
 </release>
 <release version="0.10.0" date="2008-04-03" description="First Apache release">
 <action issue="LOGCXX-2">logger.h includes config.h</action>
diff --git a/src/examples/cpp/console.cpp b/src/examples/cpp/console.cpp
index 6a01d8a86..a673a10a8 100755
--- a/src/examples/cpp/console.cpp
+++ b/src/examples/cpp/console.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <log4cxx/logmanager.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <locale.h>
+#include <cstring>
 
 using namespace log4cxx;
 using namespace log4cxx::helpers;
diff --git a/src/main/cpp/inputstreamreader.cpp b/src/main/cpp/inputstreamreader.cpp
index 52b1c0a52..cb4518194 100644
--- a/src/main/cpp/inputstreamreader.cpp
+++ b/src/main/cpp/inputstreamreader.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <log4cxx/helpers/exception.h>
 #include <log4cxx/helpers/pool.h>
 #include <log4cxx/helpers/bytebuffer.h>
+#include <cstring>
 
 using namespace log4cxx;
 using namespace log4cxx::helpers;
diff --git a/src/main/cpp/socketoutputstream.cpp b/src/main/cpp/socketoutputstream.cpp
index 185f83570..c61eb113b 100644
--- a/src/main/cpp/socketoutputstream.cpp
+++ b/src/main/cpp/socketoutputstream.cpp
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <log4cxx/helpers/socketoutputstream.h>
 #include <log4cxx/helpers/socket.h>
 #include <log4cxx/helpers/bytebuffer.h>
+#include <cstring>
 
 using namespace log4cxx;
 using namespace log4cxx::helpers;