diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index aa2f4bede00..21af33b4a6a 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ Tue Jun 11 21:53:37 CEST 2002  Jan Hubicka  <jh@suse.cz>
 
 2002-06-11  Jeffrey Law <law@redhat.com>
 
+	* mips.c (mips_expand_prologue): Use emit_jump_insn for trivial
+	RETURN insns.
+
 	* loop.c (loop_regs_scan): Avoid useless generation of REG objects.
 
 	* mips.c (function_arg_advance): gen_ashldi3 returns an INSN now,
diff --git a/gcc/config/mips/mips.c b/gcc/config/mips/mips.c
index 27e1f09868d..26f899a5605 100644
--- a/gcc/config/mips/mips.c
+++ b/gcc/config/mips/mips.c
@@ -7608,7 +7608,7 @@ mips_expand_epilogue ()
 
   if (mips_can_use_return_insn ())
     {
-      emit_insn (gen_return ());
+      emit_jump_insn (gen_return ());
       return;
     }