diff --git a/libjava/testsuite/ChangeLog b/libjava/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 6fb54e8ac1f..9cabc13c34d 100644
--- a/libjava/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-07-07  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
+
+	* libjava.lang/stringconst2.out: New file.
+	* libjava.lang/stringconst2.java: New file.
+
 2000-06-23  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
 	For PR gcj/260:
diff --git a/libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/stringconst2.java b/libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/stringconst2.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f33ee9c5b3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/stringconst2.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// Test to make sure a string constant is correctly initialized.
+
+import java.lang.reflect.*;
+
+public class stringconst2
+{
+  public static final String q = "zardoz";
+
+  public static void main (String[] args)
+  {
+    try
+      {
+	Class k = Class.forName ("stringconst2");
+	Field f = k.getField ("q");
+	System.out.println (f.get (null));
+      }
+    catch (Throwable _)
+      {
+      }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/stringconst2.out b/libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/stringconst2.out
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f0ac89bf77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/stringconst2.out
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+zardoz