diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index f804c927..50470824 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -7312,3 +7312,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   start up to twice as fast as before.
 - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan).
 - Fixed handling the very last entry in a recording index.
+- The return type of cMarks::Add() has been changed to void, since due to the sorting
+  of the list of marks the returned pointer might have pointed to a totally different
+  mark. Besides, the return value was never actually used.
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 2955cb34..79db1c74 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 2.71 2012/11/12 14:48:12 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 2.72 2012/11/12 14:51:09 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -1423,14 +1423,10 @@ void cMarks::Sort(void)
       }
 }
 
-cMark *cMarks::Add(int Position)
+void cMarks::Add(int Position)
 {
-  cMark *m = Get(Position);
-  if (!m) {
-     cConfig<cMark>::Add(m = new cMark(Position, NULL, framesPerSecond));
-     Sort();
-     }
-  return m;
+  cConfig<cMark>::Add(new cMark(Position, NULL, framesPerSecond));
+  Sort();
 }
 
 cMark *cMarks::Get(int Position)
diff --git a/recording.h b/recording.h
index 22c5d3a7..7118e783 100644
--- a/recording.h
+++ b/recording.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.h 2.38 2012/10/15 10:22:27 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.h 2.39 2012/11/12 14:51:09 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __RECORDING_H
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ public:
   bool Update(void);
   void Align(void);
   void Sort(void);
-  cMark *Add(int Position);
+  void Add(int Position);
   cMark *Get(int Position);
   cMark *GetPrev(int Position);
   cMark *GetNext(int Position);
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ public:
        ///< If there is no actual index data available, 0 is returned.
   int Get(uint16_t FileNumber, off_t FileOffset);
   int Last(void) { CatchUp(); return last; }
+       ///< Returns the index of the last entry in this file, or -1 if the file is empty.
   int GetResume(void) { return resumeFile.Read(); }
   bool StoreResume(int Index) { return resumeFile.Save(Index); }
   bool IsStillRecording(void);