Thu May 7 13:20:56 1998 Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>

	* gasp.c (grab_label): Permit a label to be a preprocessor
	variable by permitting a label to start with a backslash.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 4688c0d..5b41588 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu May  7 13:20:56 1998  Anders Blomdell  <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>
+
+	* gasp.c (grab_label): Permit a label to be a preprocessor
+	variable by permitting a label to start with a backslash.
+
 start-sanitize-d30v
 Thu May  7 11:13:00 1998  Frank Ch. Eigler  <fche@cygnus.com>
 
diff --git a/gas/gasp.c b/gas/gasp.c
index f8e4353..aae4cbe 100644
--- a/gas/gasp.c
+++ b/gas/gasp.c
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ grab_label (in, out)
 {
   int i = 0;
   sb_reset (out);
-  if (ISFIRSTCHAR (in->ptr[i]))
+  if (ISFIRSTCHAR (in->ptr[i]) || in->ptr[i] == '\\')
     {
       sb_add_char (out, in->ptr[i]);
       i++;