1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/httprpc.cpp b/src/httprpc.cpp
index 97b152b11b..38f6e79643 100644
--- a/src/httprpc.cpp
+++ b/src/httprpc.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2015-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) 2015-2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
 // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static void JSONErrorReply(HTTPRequest* req, const UniValue& objError, const Uni
 //This function checks username and password against -rpcauth
 //entries from config file.
 static bool multiUserAuthorized(std::string strUserPass)
-{    
+{
     if (strUserPass.find(':') == std::string::npos) {
         return false;
     }
@@ -244,8 +244,9 @@ bool StartHTTPRPC()
     // ifdef can be removed once we switch to better endpoint support and API versioning
     RegisterHTTPHandler("/wallet/", false, HTTPReq_JSONRPC);
 #endif
-    assert(EventBase());
-    httpRPCTimerInterface = MakeUnique<HTTPRPCTimerInterface>(EventBase());
+    struct event_base* eventBase = EventBase();
+    assert(eventBase);
+    httpRPCTimerInterface = MakeUnique<HTTPRPCTimerInterface>(eventBase);
     RPCSetTimerInterface(httpRPCTimerInterface.get());
     return true;
 }