diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 154b72cbd3b..cd494ad778e 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-10-24  Chao-ying Fu  <fu@mips.com>
+
+	* dwarf2out.c (base_type_die): Use DW_ATE_unsigned_fixed or
+	DW_ATE_signed_fixed to describe FIXED_POINT_TYPE.
+
 2007-10-24  Samuel Tardieu  <sam@rfc1149.net>
             Olga Golovanevsky <olga@il.ibm.com>
 	
diff --git a/gcc/dwarf2out.c b/gcc/dwarf2out.c
index 8a398e4d465..46e2b59dff1 100644
--- a/gcc/dwarf2out.c
+++ b/gcc/dwarf2out.c
@@ -8434,9 +8434,9 @@ base_type_die (tree type)
 
     case FIXED_POINT_TYPE:
       if (TYPE_UNSIGNED (type))
-	encoding = DW_ATE_signed_fixed;
-      else
 	encoding = DW_ATE_unsigned_fixed;
+      else
+	encoding = DW_ATE_signed_fixed;
       break;
 
       /* Dwarf2 doesn't know anything about complex ints, so use