diff --git a/system/core/Common.php b/system/core/Common.php
index 3b7ea6a..aea5f18 100644
--- a/system/core/Common.php
+++ b/system/core/Common.php
@@ -651,5 +651,52 @@
 	}
 }
 
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+if ( ! function_exists('function_usable'))
+{
+	/**
+	 * Function usable
+	 *
+	 * Executes a function_exists() check, and if the Suhosin PHP
+	 * extension is loaded - checks whether the function that is
+	 * checked might be disabled in there as well.
+	 *
+	 * This is useful as function_exists() will return FALSE for
+	 * functions disabled via the *disable_functions* php.ini
+	 * setting, but not for *suhosin.executor.func.blacklist* and
+	 * *suhosin.executor.disable_eval*. These settings will just
+	 * terminate script execution if a disabled function is executed.
+	 *
+	 * @link	http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/
+	 * @param	string	$function_name	Function to check for
+	 * @return	bool	TRUE if the function exists and is safe to call,
+	 *			FALSE otherwise.
+	 */
+	function function_usable($function_name)
+	{
+		static $_suhosin_func_blacklist;
+
+		if (function_exists($function_name))
+		{
+			if ( ! isset($_suhosin_func_blacklist))
+			{
+				$_suhosin_func_blacklist = extension_loaded('suhosin')
+					? array()
+					: explode(',', trim(@ini_get('suhosin.executor.func.blacklist')));
+
+				if ( ! in_array('eval', $_suhosin_func_blacklist, TRUE) && @ini_get('suhosin.executor.disable_eval'))
+				{
+					$_suhosin_func_blacklist[] = 'eval';
+				}
+			}
+
+			return in_array($function_name, $_suhosin_func_blacklist, TRUE);
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+}
+
 /* End of file Common.php */
 /* Location: ./system/core/Common.php */
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/system/core/Loader.php b/system/core/Loader.php
index 9525f35..a9eec39 100644
--- a/system/core/Loader.php
+++ b/system/core/Loader.php
@@ -871,7 +871,9 @@
 		// If the PHP installation does not support short tags we'll
 		// do a little string replacement, changing the short tags
 		// to standard PHP echo statements.
-		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && (bool) @ini_get('short_open_tag') === FALSE && config_item('rewrite_short_tags') === TRUE)
+		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && (bool) @ini_get('short_open_tag') === FALSE
+			&& config_item('rewrite_short_tags') === TRUE && function_usable('eval')
+		)
 		{
 			echo eval('?>'.preg_replace('/;*\s*\?>/', '; ?>', str_replace('<?=', '<?php echo ', file_get_contents($_ci_path))));
 		}