diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index ce3428bf7dc081ead97a9e72c472094f1624d9e9..87200bca3c0067998a78b07e05af67b741e98bd3 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-30  Devang Patel  <dpatel@apple.com>
+
+	* objc/objc-act.c (finish_file): Avoid finish_objc() if
+	-fsyntax-only.
+
 Fri Jun 28 17:22:37 2002  Denis Chertykov  <denisc@overta.ru>
 			  Frank Ch. Eigler  <fche@redhat.com>
 	                  Matthew Green  <mrg@redhat.com>
diff --git a/gcc/objc/objc-act.c b/gcc/objc/objc-act.c
index c6b9d5ff4ef670585cca8cd37f7afa93d23ebbca..73e30d71881c199beb74c52cbe12ce22b26dd638 100644
--- a/gcc/objc/objc-act.c
+++ b/gcc/objc/objc-act.c
@@ -522,7 +522,10 @@ finish_file ()
 {
   c_objc_common_finish_file ();
 
-  finish_objc ();		/* Objective-C finalization */
+  /* Finalize Objective-C runtime data.  No need to generate tables
+     and code if only checking syntax.  */
+  if (!flag_syntax_only)
+    finish_objc ();
 
   if (gen_declaration_file)
     fclose (gen_declaration_file);
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index ed51574129872db95d92dd6ae2975ae529adfe27..0dcf1ca48533140b29c9d1098b989f61ca05bf00 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-06-30  Devang Patel  <dpatel@apple.com>
+
+	* objc.dg/fsyntax-only.m: New test.
+
 2002-06-27  Mark Mitchell  <mark@codesourcery.com>
 
 	PR c++/6695
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/objc.dg/fsyntax-only.m b/gcc/testsuite/objc.dg/fsyntax-only.m
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54a879e22c5b54bf4bf2985f4bd3176f5398c32b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/objc.dg/fsyntax-only.m
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/* Test -fsyntax-only compiler option  */
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-options "-fsyntax-only" } */
+
+@interface foo
+-(void) my_method:(int) i with:(int) j;
+@end
+
+@implementation foo
+-(void) my_method:(int) i with:(int) j { }
+@end