diff --git a/gcc/common/config/riscv/riscv-common.cc b/gcc/common/config/riscv/riscv-common.cc
index b3c6ec97e7a10b5b75436de7c75c1e6a07b547bd..2fc0f8bffc15643ebd2ba7aead1e84485ee5f118 100644
--- a/gcc/common/config/riscv/riscv-common.cc
+++ b/gcc/common/config/riscv/riscv-common.cc
@@ -1153,10 +1153,9 @@ riscv_subset_list::parse (const char *arch, location_t loc)
 
   subset_list->handle_combine_ext ();
 
-  if (subset_list->lookup("zfinx") && subset_list->lookup("f"))
-	error_at (loc,
-	"%<-march=%s%>: z*inx is conflict with float extensions",
-	arch);
+  if (subset_list->lookup ("zfinx") && subset_list->lookup ("f"))
+    error_at (loc, "%<-march=%s%>: z*inx conflicts with floating-point "
+		   "extensions", arch);
 
   return subset_list;
 
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/riscv/arch-19.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/riscv/arch-19.c
index 83c6e00a7552b4f36181729c656a54b8acc06f3b..b042e1a49fe6f6150fd5f167d1b3b05b61c44b8e 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/riscv/arch-19.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/riscv/arch-19.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 /* { dg-do compile } */
 /* { dg-options "-march=rv64if_zfinx -mabi=lp64" } */
 int foo() {}
-/* { dg-error "'-march=rv64if_zfinx': z\\*inx is conflict with float extensions" "" { target *-*-* } 0 } */
+/* { dg-error "'-march=rv64if_zfinx': z\\*inx conflicts with floating-point extensions" "" { target *-*-* } 0 } */