diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index ecf1114df32..b88e4922931 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-02-11  Tom Rix  <trix@redhat.com>
+
+	* config/tc-ppc.c (md_apply_fix3): Check for insert fop invalid for 
+	xcoff64.
+
 Mon Feb 11 11:23:38 2002  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
 
 	* config/tc-sparc.c (U0x80000000, U0xffffffff): New constants.
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-ppc.c b/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
index 8bf09db71ad..3d58a929ad7 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
@@ -5165,7 +5165,7 @@ md_apply_fix3 (fixP, valP, seg)
       if ((operand->flags & PPC_OPERAND_PARENS) != 0
 	  && operand->bits == 16
 	  && operand->shift == 0
-	  && operand->insert == NULL
+	  && (operand->insert == NULL || ppc_xcoff64)
 	  && fixP->fx_addsy != NULL
 	  && symbol_get_tc (fixP->fx_addsy)->subseg != 0
 	  && symbol_get_tc (fixP->fx_addsy)->class != XMC_TC