diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index cd321d55ed4..0e00d3582c9 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Feb 12 15:41:21 1996  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
+
+	* app.c (do_scrub_chars): In MRI mode, don't treat '#' as a
+	comment character.
+
 Mon Feb 12 15:16:29 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
 
 	Support for OBJ_ELF on m68k, mostly inside #ifdef OBJ_ELF:
diff --git a/gas/app.c b/gas/app.c
index 97c5a72718c..c338653fa46 100644
--- a/gas/app.c
+++ b/gas/app.c
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ do_scrub_chars (get, tostart, tolen)
 		  || (ch != '!' && ch != '*')))
 	    goto de_fault;
 	  if (flag_m68k_mri
-	      && (ch == '!' || ch == '*')
+	      && (ch == '!' || ch == '*' || ch == '#')
 	      && state != 1
 	      && state != 10)
 	    goto de_fault;