diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 46f9b357b8..8afc9fe772 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Oct 17 17:15:58 1999  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
+
+	* config/tc-hppa.c (md_apply_fix): Make "fmt" an int.
+
 1999-10-12  Alan Modra  <alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au>
 
 	* config/tc-i386.c (i386_index_check): Correct #endif location.
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-hppa.c b/gas/config/tc-hppa.c
index 2f3f2d9926..d733577df9 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-hppa.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-hppa.c
@@ -4217,7 +4217,7 @@ md_apply_fix (fixP, valp)
   if (hppa_fixP)
     {
       unsigned long buf_wd = bfd_get_32 (stdoutput, buf);
-      unsigned char fmt = bfd_hppa_insn2fmt (buf_wd);
+      int fmt = bfd_hppa_insn2fmt (buf_wd);
 
       /* If there is a symbol associated with this fixup, then it's something
 	 which will need a SOM relocation (except for some PC-relative relocs).