diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d2e48d63..17436b1c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool
     (e.g. the ability to parse `var+=append') as $CONFIG_SHELL, libtool
     will now correctly fallback to using only vanilla shell features
     instead of failing with a parse at startup.
+  - Fix a bug in the wrapper for using Microsoft dumpbin as name lister
+    which could lead to broken symbol listings in some corner cases.
 
 ** Important incompatible changes:
 
diff --git a/m4/libtool.m4 b/m4/libtool.m4
index 2dac8a13..d02bd252 100644
--- a/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -3686,10 +3686,10 @@ for ac_symprfx in "" "_"; do
 "     \$ 0!~/External *\|/{next};"\
 "     / 0+ UNDEF /{next}; / UNDEF \([^|]\)*()/{next};"\
 "     {if(hide[section]) next};"\
-"     {f=0}; \$ 0~/\(\).*\|/{f=1}; {printf f ? \"T \" : \"D \"};"\
-"     {split(\$ 0, a, /\||\r/); split(a[2], s)};"\
-"     s[1]~/^[@?]/{print s[1], s[1]; next};"\
-"     s[1]~prfx {split(s[1],t,\"@\"); print t[1], substr(t[1],length(prfx))}"\
+"     {f=\"D\"}; \$ 0~/\(\).*\|/{f=\"T\"};"\
+"     {split(\$ 0,a,/\||\r/); split(a[2],s)};"\
+"     s[1]~/^[@?]/{print f,s[1],s[1]; next};"\
+"     s[1]~prfx {split(s[1],t,\"@\"); print f,t[1],substr(t[1],length(prfx))}"\
 "     ' prfx=^$ac_symprfx]"
   else
     lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[[	 ]]\($symcode$symcode*\)[[	 ]][[	 ]]*$ac_symprfx$sympat$opt_cr$/$symxfrm/p'"