diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 3aa0b9caec..313e3f3e79 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-05-15  Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
+
+	* config/tc-mips.c (append_insn): Fix too small range of variable.
+
 2002-05-14  Nick Clifton  <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
 
 	* config/tc-arm.c (arm_cleanup): Remove redundant call to
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-mips.c b/gas/config/tc-mips.c
index d92f321909..150b47ed3c 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-mips.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-mips.c
@@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ append_insn (place, ip, address_expr, reloc_type, unmatched_hi)
     {
       if (address_expr->X_op == O_constant)
 	{
-	  unsigned long tmp;
+	  valueT tmp;
 
 	  switch (*reloc_type)
 	    {