diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 175edd483a3ac576f5e9cbda3a342420b888b8bf..00f5518815af35d5067a8eea676b4621b0db4c19 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-06-09  Bud Davis  <bdavis9659@comcast.net>
+                                                                                    
+        PR gfortran/15755
+	* gfortran.fortran-torture/execute/backspace.c : New test.
+
 2004-06-09  Paul Brook  <paul@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* gfortran.fortran-torture/execure/intrinsic_associated.f90
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.fortran-torture/execute/backspace.f90 b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.fortran-torture/execute/backspace.f90
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16f5523e35371c483456b8cc74e8000304741cb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.fortran-torture/execute/backspace.f90
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+! pr 15755
+        implicit none
+        character*1 C
+        open(10)
+        write(10,*)'a'
+        write(10,*)'b'
+        write(10,*)'c'
+        rewind(10)
+        read(10,*)C
+        backspace(10) 
+        read(10,*) C
+        if (C.ne.'b') call abort
+        close(10,STATUS='DELETE')
+        end
diff --git a/libgfortran/ChangeLog b/libgfortran/ChangeLog
index d67ee65e0b34ffb3f218ca2e091943ad21c92c45..ab7d37633db876d8427bd7db0a2fffd7392c716d 100644
--- a/libgfortran/ChangeLog
+++ b/libgfortran/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-06-09  Bud Davis  <bdavis9659@comcast.net>
+
+	PR gfortran/15755
+	* io/backspace.c(st_backspace): call correct routine for
+	formatted and un-formatted units.
+
 2004-05-30  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de>
 
 	PR gfortran/11800
diff --git a/libgfortran/io/backspace.c b/libgfortran/io/backspace.c
index aff4c5e29e3439031bd7c7ecd318d021e92d9f42..c40e506c876476694e4574ff58079e52792aa678 100644
--- a/libgfortran/io/backspace.c
+++ b/libgfortran/io/backspace.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ st_backspace (void)
       if (file_position (u->s) == 0)
 	goto done;		/* Common special case */
 
-      if (u->flags.form == FORM_UNFORMATTED)
+      if (u->flags.form == FORM_FORMATTED)
 	formatted_backspace ();
       else
 	unformatted_backspace ();