diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 72a0f02afc..6bb2f3d149 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Sep 11 00:09:35 1996  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
+
+	* ecoff.c (ecoff_new_file): Don't do anything if we are still in
+	the same file.
+
 Tue Sep 10 11:45:37 1996  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
 
 	* config/tc-mips.c (append_insn): Fill in the value for a constant
diff --git a/gas/ecoff.c b/gas/ecoff.c
index cabfc17ccc..960032ea0d 100644
--- a/gas/ecoff.c
+++ b/gas/ecoff.c
@@ -2351,6 +2351,8 @@ void
 ecoff_new_file (name)
      const char *name;
 {
+  if (cur_file_ptr != NULL && strcmp (cur_file_ptr->name, name) == 0)
+    return;
   add_file (name, 0, 0);
   generate_asm_lineno = 1;
 }