diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 4b734571d7..d8a9dcd17f 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon May  1 08:54:23 2000  Catherine Moore  <clm@cygnus.com>
+
+	* macro.c (macro_expand_body): Don't prepend macro number with zeroes.
+
 Mon May  1 14:19:39 2000  Denis Chertykov  <denisc@overta.ru>
 
 	* config/tc-avr.c: ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED added to the necessary places.
diff --git a/gas/macro.c b/gas/macro.c
index 12a757e223..df01bc5ca0 100644
--- a/gas/macro.c
+++ b/gas/macro.c
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ macro_expand_body (in, out, formals, formal_hash, comment_char, locals)
 
 	      char buffer[10];
 	      src++;
-	      sprintf (buffer, "%05d", macro_number);
+	      sprintf (buffer, "%d", macro_number);
 	      sb_add_string (out, buffer);
 	    }
 	  else if (in->ptr[src] == '&')