diff --git a/gold/ChangeLog b/gold/ChangeLog
index 9056d6b0309..15b0b0b273f 100644
--- a/gold/ChangeLog
+++ b/gold/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-06-08  Cary Coutant  <ccoutant@google.com>
+
+	PR gold/12804
+	* testsuite/two_file_test_2_v1.cc: Change initialization of
+	v2 to keep it in .data.
+
 2011-06-07  Cary Coutant  <ccoutant@google.com>
 
 	* common.cc (Symbol_table::do_allocate_commons_list): Call
diff --git a/gold/testsuite/two_file_test_2_v1.cc b/gold/testsuite/two_file_test_2_v1.cc
index b97a677db55..ea26c66f1d5 100644
--- a/gold/testsuite/two_file_test_2_v1.cc
+++ b/gold/testsuite/two_file_test_2_v1.cc
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ t1a()
 
 // 2  Code in file 1 refers to global data in file 2.
 
-int v2 = 0;
+int v2 = 1;
 
 // 3 Code in file 1 referes to common symbol in file 2.  This is
 // initialized at runtime to 789.