diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index e417b189bd7f..9f31bf45539b 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-04-17  Richard Henderson  <rth@redhat.com>
+
+	* config/ia64/ia64.c (ia64_in_small_data_p): Disallow strings.
+
 2003-04-17  Simon Law  <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
 
         * doc/include/gpl.texi: Fix double-spacing after "MA" to match
diff --git a/gcc/config/ia64/ia64.c b/gcc/config/ia64/ia64.c
index d7aadb3283fa..ff290bdd78d1 100644
--- a/gcc/config/ia64/ia64.c
+++ b/gcc/config/ia64/ia64.c
@@ -7389,6 +7389,10 @@ ia64_in_small_data_p (exp)
   if (TARGET_NO_SDATA)
     return false;
 
+  /* We want to merge strings, so we never consider them small data.  */
+  if (TREE_CODE (exp) == STRING_CST)
+    return false;
+
   if (TREE_CODE (exp) == VAR_DECL && DECL_SECTION_NAME (exp))
     {
       const char *section = TREE_STRING_POINTER (DECL_SECTION_NAME (exp));