diff --git a/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp b/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp
index cbd181052f4..38b7b276c10 100644
--- a/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp
+++ b/lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp
@@ -947,10 +947,16 @@ bool AsmParser::ParseStatement() {
       return ParseDirectiveValue(2);
     if (IDVal == ".value")
       return ParseDirectiveValue(2);
+    if (IDVal == ".2byte")
+      return ParseDirectiveValue(2);
     if (IDVal == ".long")
       return ParseDirectiveValue(4);
+    if (IDVal == ".4byte")
+      return ParseDirectiveValue(4);
     if (IDVal == ".quad")
       return ParseDirectiveValue(8);
+    if (IDVal == ".8byte")
+      return ParseDirectiveValue(8);
     if (IDVal == ".single")
       return ParseDirectiveRealValue(APFloat::IEEEsingle);
     if (IDVal == ".double")
diff --git a/test/MC/ELF/n_bytes.s b/test/MC/ELF/n_bytes.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3a8df99edab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/MC/ELF/n_bytes.s
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple x86_64-pc-linux-gnu %s -o - | elf-dump  --dump-section-data | FileCheck  %s
+
+        .2byte 42, 1, 2, 3
+        .4byte 42, 1, 2, 3
+        .8byte 42, 1, 2, 3
+
+
+// CHECK:      # Section 0x00000001
+// CHECK-NEXT: (('sh_name', 0x00000001) # '.text'
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_type', 0x00000001)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_flags', 0x00000006)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_addr', 0x00000000)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_offset', 0x00000040)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_size', 0x00000038)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_link', 0x00000000)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_info', 0x00000000)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_addralign', 0x00000004)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('sh_entsize', 0x00000000)
+// CHECK-NEXT:  ('_section_data', '2a000100 02000300 2a000000 01000000 02000000 03000000 2a000000 00000000 01000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 03000000 00000000')
+// CHECK-NEXT: ),