diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 19bcad2d1e3..14fba7c3163 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-05-29  Jason Thorpe  <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
+
+	* config/mips/mips.h (READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP): Define
+	only if not already defined.
+
 2002-05-29  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@cs.umass.edu>
 
 	* config/h8300/h8300-protos.h: Remove prototypes for
diff --git a/gcc/config/mips/mips.h b/gcc/config/mips/mips.h
index 0e65a98ba04..2a740684af2 100644
--- a/gcc/config/mips/mips.h
+++ b/gcc/config/mips/mips.h
@@ -4500,7 +4500,9 @@ do {									\
 #define TEXT_SECTION_ASM_OP	"\t.text"	/* instructions */
 #define DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP	"\t.data"	/* large data */
 #define SDATA_SECTION_ASM_OP	"\t.sdata"	/* small data */
+#ifndef READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP
 #define READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP	"\t.rdata"	/* read-only data */
+#endif
 #define SMALL_DATA_SECTION	sdata_section
 
 /* What other sections we support other than the normal .data/.text.  */