diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index f9eec49a120..3417eb236eb 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-04-29  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_symver): Skip whitespace before the
+	start of a version name.
+
 2003-04-28  Chris Demetriou  <cgd@broadcom.com>
 
 	* configure.in (mips-*-*n*bsd*): Replace with...
diff --git a/gas/config/obj-elf.c b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
index 6c15704fe5d..7c2423c11bd 100644
--- a/gas/config/obj-elf.c
+++ b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
@@ -1269,6 +1269,7 @@ obj_elf_symver (ignore)
     }
 
   ++input_line_pointer;
+  SKIP_WHITESPACE ();
   name = input_line_pointer;
 
   /* Temporarily include '@' in symbol names.  */
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog
index e619931f285..381233ce737 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2003-04-29  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* gas/elf/elf.exp: Invoke symver test.
+        * gas/elf/symver.s: New test case.
+        * gas/elf/symver.d: Expected output.
+
 2003-04-24  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	* gas/ppc/astest2.s: Add tests for conditional branches with
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp
index a967cb7d43c..c9aa34d5f18 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp
@@ -53,4 +53,5 @@ if { ([istarget "*-*-elf*"]
     run_dump_test "section0" 
     run_dump_test "section1" 
     run_list_test "section2" "$target_machine" "-al"
+    run_dump_test "symver" 
 }
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/symver.d b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/symver.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..67b8a4cf13b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/symver.d
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#objdump: --syms
+#name: ELF symbol versioning
+#
+# The #... and #pass are there to match extra symbols inserted by
+# some toolchains, eg the mips-elf port will add .reginfo and .ptrd
+
+dump.o:     file format .*
+
+SYMBOL TABLE:
+
+0+000 l.*d.*\.text.*0+000.*
+0+000 l.*d.*\.data.*0+000.*
+0+000 l.*d.*\.bss.*0+000.*
+#...
+0+000 l.*O.*\.data.*0+004 x
+0+000 l.*O.*\.data.*0+004 x@VERS\.0
+#pass
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/symver.s b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/symver.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dd2315bfb3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/symver.s
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+        .data
+        .type   x,@object
+        .size   x,4
+x:
+        .word 12
+        .symver x, x@VERS.0