diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 537f7025d96..f12ee840600 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-02-10  Timothy Wall  <twall@redhat.com>
+
+	* read.c (read_a_source_file): If TC_START_LABEL_WITHOUT_COLON is
+	defined, use it to verify the symbol just read should be a label.
+
 2000-02-10  Timothy Wall  <twall@redhat.com>
 
 	* app.c (do_scrub_chars): Handle "||" for parallel instructions
diff --git a/gas/read.c b/gas/read.c
index c5108933c8f..c6d42e9a099 100644
--- a/gas/read.c
+++ b/gas/read.c
@@ -599,7 +599,12 @@ read_a_source_file (name)
 		      /* In MRI mode, we need to handle the MACRO
                          pseudo-op specially: we don't want to put the
                          symbol in the symbol table.  */
-		      if (! mri_line_macro)
+		      if (! mri_line_macro 
+#ifdef TC_START_LABEL_WITHOUT_COLON
+                          && TC_START_LABEL_WITHOUT_COLON(c, 
+                                                          input_line_pointer)
+#endif
+                          )
 			line_label = colon (line_start);
 		      else
 			line_label = symbol_create (line_start,