diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index ee63e9fb4b8..57ca750dd7b 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1998-08-20  Vladimir N. Makarov  <vmakarov@cygnus.com>
+
+	* expr.c (operand): Check more correctly that there is no advance
+	in operand after atof_generic in order to decide "is it label 0f
+	or floating point number?".
+
 1998-08-20  Vladimir N. Makarov  <vmakarov@cygnus.com>
 
 	* expr.c (operand): Check correctly that there is no advance in
diff --git a/gas/expr.c b/gas/expr.c
index dfa7393e2dd..3408f71d9f6 100644
--- a/gas/expr.c
+++ b/gas/expr.c
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ operand (expressionP)
 		  {
 		  case 0:
 		  case ERROR_EXPONENT_OVERFLOW:
-		    if (cp[-1] == 'f' || cp[-1] == 'b')
+		    if (cp == input_line_pointer + 1)
 		      /* looks like a difference expression */
 		      goto is_0f_label;
 		    else