diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 06df1e6da9..0b5829fdb5 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-09-26  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>
+
+	* config/tc-ia64.c (dot_pred_rel): Replace specialized handling
+	with simple call to parse_operand.
+
 2007-09-26  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>
 
 	* config/tc-i386.c (NUM_FLAG_CODE): Remove.
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-ia64.c b/gas/config/tc-ia64.c
index d6fcb2cc7a..04995cc86d 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-ia64.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-ia64.c
@@ -5282,14 +5282,13 @@ dot_pred_rel (type)
       SKIP_WHITESPACE ();
     }
 
-  SKIP_WHITESPACE ();
   while (1)
     {
       valueT bits = 1;
-      int regno;
+      int sep, regno;
       expressionS pr, *pr1, *pr2;
 
-      expression_and_evaluate (&pr);
+      sep = parse_operand (&pr, ',');
       if (pr.X_op == O_register
 	  && pr.X_add_number >= REG_P
 	  && pr.X_add_number <= REG_P + 63)
@@ -5336,10 +5335,8 @@ dot_pred_rel (type)
       if (mask & bits)
 	as_warn (_("Duplicate predicate register ignored"));
       mask |= bits;
-      if (*input_line_pointer != ',')
+      if (sep != ',')
 	break;
-      ++input_line_pointer;
-      SKIP_WHITESPACE ();
     }
 
   switch (type)