diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index f38ccaa577..1aed409983 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Nov 22 12:02:09 1995  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
+
+	* sunos.c (sunos_scan_dynamic_symbol): Only set written if the
+	DEF_DYNAMIC flag is set.
+
 Tue Nov 21 13:25:29 1995  Ken Raeburn  <raeburn@cygnus.com>
 
 	* host-aout.c: If TRAD_HEADER is defined, include it.
diff --git a/bfd/sunos.c b/bfd/sunos.c
index 74ab1eb0dd..af95a24aa3 100644
--- a/bfd/sunos.c
+++ b/bfd/sunos.c
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ bfd_sunos_get_needed_list (abfd, info)
      bfd *abfd;
      struct bfd_link_info *info;
 {
-  if (info->hash->creator != &MY(xvec))
+  if (info->hash->creator != &MY(vec))
     return NULL;
   return sunos_hash_table (info)->needed;
 }
@@ -1926,8 +1926,13 @@ sunos_scan_dynamic_symbol (h, data)
      part of the regular symbol table.  This is all symbols which are
      not defined in a regular object file.  For some reason symbols
      which are referenced by a regular object and defined by a dynamic
-     object do not seem to show up in the regular symbol table.  */
+     object do not seem to show up in the regular symbol table.  It is
+     possible for a symbol to have only SUNOS_REF_REGULAR set here, it
+     is an undefined symbol which was turned into a common symbol
+     because it was found in an archive object which was not included
+     in the link.  */
   if ((h->flags & SUNOS_DEF_REGULAR) == 0
+      && (h->flags & SUNOS_DEF_DYNAMIC) != 0
       && strcmp (h->root.root.root.string, "__DYNAMIC") != 0)
     h->root.written = true;