diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog b/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 37e6fc2dc0..d909938371 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-17  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* ld-elf/sec-to-seg1.s: Shorten test data to align the section to
+	a 4-byte boundary.
+
 2008-08-08  Richard Sandiford  <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
 	    Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
 
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec-to-seg1.s b/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec-to-seg1.s
index 7c9f47926f..1e8e2bbda0 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec-to-seg1.s
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec-to-seg1.s
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 	.section	.rodata
 	.align	2
-	.ascii	"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\000"
+	.ascii	"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\000"
 	.align	2
-	.ascii	"00000000000000000000000000000000\000"
+	.ascii	"0000000000000000000000000000000\000"