diff --git a/gcc/fortran/ChangeLog b/gcc/fortran/ChangeLog
index 34ea1e5e17a5a22ea2d8cd3dc4c122e2d6cfe69a..95ce73f337581d9ed8dc05af9f7d4bad7c6c7d12 100644
--- a/gcc/fortran/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/fortran/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-12-06  Tobias Burnus  <burnus@net-b.de>
+
+	PR fortran/29711
+	* error.c (error_print): Fix handling of printf-style position specifiers
+	  of the form "%3$d"
+
 2006-12-05  Paul Thomas  <pault@gcc.gnu.org>
 
 	PR fortran/30003
diff --git a/gcc/fortran/error.c b/gcc/fortran/error.c
index d92fd82004b1b702cc38494e9871dbb00545f946..fd8f0bb3bc06915de5920bf2243e2b18a219d183 100644
--- a/gcc/fortran/error.c
+++ b/gcc/fortran/error.c
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ error_print (const char *type, const char *format0, va_list argp)
 	{
 	  /* This is a position specifier.  See comment above.  */
 	  while (ISDIGIT(*format))
+	    format++;
 	    
 	  /* Skip over the dollar sign.  */
 	  format++;