diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 4ebb882cc77e413799f406a3adf09fd166efae1b..20a8abcfc97e52ae7bf1d8f06e89f2e6b8fb485d 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-10-20  Falk Hueffner  <falk@debian.org>
+
+	PR target/12654
+	* config/alpha/alpha.c (alpha_emit_conditional_branch): Don't do
+	comparison against constant by adjusting the argument except for
+	EQ and NE.
+
 2003-10-19  Mark Mitchell  <mark@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* config.gcc: Add support for arm926ejs, arm1026ejs, arm1136js,
diff --git a/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.c b/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.c
index c79a0b5799eded60fe23482070e2496213d5f271..69d996a17cb06efa523148c69a50c393c998b3ba 100644
--- a/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.c
+++ b/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.c
@@ -3160,10 +3160,10 @@ alpha_emit_conditional_branch (enum rtx_code code)
 	  if (op1 == const0_rtx)
 	    cmp_code = NIL, branch_code = code;
 
-	  /* We want to use cmpcc/bcc when we can, since there is a zero delay
-	     bypass between logicals and br/cmov on EV5.  But we don't want to
-	     force valid immediate constants into registers needlessly.  */
-	  else if (GET_CODE (op1) == CONST_INT)
+	  /* If the constants doesn't fit into an immediate, but can
+ 	     be generated by lda/ldah, we adjust the argument and
+ 	     compare against zero, so we can use beq/bne directly.  */
+	  else if (GET_CODE (op1) == CONST_INT && (code == EQ || code == NE))
 	    {
 	      HOST_WIDE_INT v = INTVAL (op1), n = -v;
 
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/20031020-1.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/20031020-1.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..526ca0402f91117b3fd54cd09f507c2898f7e78b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/20031020-1.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* PR target/12654
+   The Alpha backend tried to do a >= 1024 as (a - 1024) >= 0, which fails
+   for very large negative values.  */
+/* Origin: tg@swox.com  */
+
+#include <limits.h>
+
+extern void abort (void);
+
+void __attribute__((noinline))
+foo (long x)
+{
+  if (x >= 1024)
+    abort ();
+}
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+  foo (LONG_MIN);
+  foo (LONG_MIN + 10000);
+  return 0;
+}