diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index d5935b79f12..759186b00cd 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-10-23  John Darrington  <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
+
+	* config/tc-s12z.c (md_apply_fix): Handle BFD_RELOC_16 for fixups
+	without a symbol.
+
 2018-10-22  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* testsuite/gas/all/simple-forward.d,
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-s12z.c b/gas/config/tc-s12z.c
index d3b2ea4c4af..9df86432a5f 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-s12z.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-s12z.c
@@ -3815,6 +3815,9 @@ md_apply_fix (fixS *fixP, valueT *valP, segT seg ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
     case BFD_RELOC_8:
       ((bfd_byte *) where)[0] = (bfd_byte) value;
       break;
+    case BFD_RELOC_16:
+      bfd_putb16 ((bfd_vma) value, (unsigned char *) where);
+      break;
     case BFD_RELOC_24:
       bfd_putb24 ((bfd_vma) value, (unsigned char *) where);
       break;