diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 17f2be97218..2f470b8ddbe 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2003-09-12  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
 
+	* dbxread.c (read_dbx_symtab): If we have no .data section and no
+	.bss section, presume that any variables we find live in the
+	.rodata section.
+
 	* dbxread.c (read_dbx_symtab): Add FIXME about finding section
 	offsets for global and static variables.
 
diff --git a/gdb/dbxread.c b/gdb/dbxread.c
index 57201307066..8bfaf1c8e91 100644
--- a/gdb/dbxread.c
+++ b/gdb/dbxread.c
@@ -1380,6 +1380,8 @@ read_dbx_symtab (struct objfile *objfile)
   data_sect_index = objfile->sect_index_data;
   if (data_sect_index == -1)
     data_sect_index = SECT_OFF_BSS (objfile);
+  if (data_sect_index == -1)
+    data_sect_index = SECT_OFF_RODATA (objfile);
   gdb_assert (data_sect_index != -1);
 
   for (symnum = 0; symnum < DBX_SYMCOUNT (objfile); symnum++)