diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index d94f590327..9635195808 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-08-26  DJ Delorie  <dj@redhat.com>
+
+	* elf32-rl78.c (rl78_elf_relax_section): Disambiguate test for
+	relaxation type.
+
 2014-08-26  Jiong Wang  <jiong.wang@arm.com>
 
 	* elfnn-aarch64.c (elfNN_aarch64_check_relocs): Initialize non_got_ref
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-rl78.c b/bfd/elf32-rl78.c
index 9124e0a2c5..2a5ec99bed 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-rl78.c
+++ b/bfd/elf32-rl78.c
@@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ rl78_elf_relax_section
 	 61 F3 EF ad	SKNH ; BR $rel8
        */
 
-      if (irel->r_addend & RL78_RELAXA_BRA)
+      if ((irel->r_addend & RL78_RELAXA_MASK) == RL78_RELAXA_BRA)
 	{
 	  /* SKIP opcodes that skip non-branches will have a relax tag
 	     but no corresponding symbol to relax against; we just
@@ -2334,7 +2334,7 @@ rl78_elf_relax_section
 
 	}
 
-      if (irel->r_addend & RL78_RELAXA_ADDR16)
+      if ((irel->r_addend &  RL78_RELAXA_MASK) == RL78_RELAXA_ADDR16)
 	{
 	  /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 	  /* Some insns have both a 16-bit address operand and an 8-bit