diff --git a/graf2d/fitsio/src/TFITS.cxx b/graf2d/fitsio/src/TFITS.cxx
index 7455e5852d86728e34a7e2f2873c7094d88d1b48..02e0a91c16e7aae598cab47025481f75f34c02c6 100644
--- a/graf2d/fitsio/src/TFITS.cxx
+++ b/graf2d/fitsio/src/TFITS.cxx
@@ -537,10 +537,10 @@ Bool_t TFITSHDU::LoadHDU(TString& filepath_filter)
             fColumnsInfo[colnum].fRowStart[0] = 0;
 
             for (long row = 0; row < table_rows; row++) {
-               long offset = 0;
+               long offset_descript = 0;
                long repeat = 0;
                
-               fits_read_descript(fp, colnum+1, row+1, &repeat, &offset, &status);
+               fits_read_descript(fp, colnum+1, row+1, &repeat, &offset_descript, &status);
                // store the starting of each row and the number of elements it contains 
                fColumnsInfo[colnum].fRowStart[row+1] = fColumnsInfo[colnum].fRowStart[row] + repeat;
                fColumnsInfo[colnum].fVarLengths[row] = repeat;
diff --git a/tutorials/fitsio/FITS_tutorial8.C b/tutorials/fitsio/FITS_tutorial8.C
index 8388597cb72b3f7209c9eac484e13b438a6a1786..a05423b765a6730f4050631697542695d55d72ca 100644
--- a/tutorials/fitsio/FITS_tutorial8.C
+++ b/tutorials/fitsio/FITS_tutorial8.C
@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ void FITS_tutorial8()
    TArrayD *arr3 = hdu->GetTabVarLengthVectorCell(rownum, colname3);
    printf("(%f, %f) \n", arr3->At(0), arr3->At(1)); 
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}