diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.d b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.d
index d51bd4e36e5..4ab3e8e56e9 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.d
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.d
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
 [ 	]*\[.*6000000\]: OS \(.*6000000\)
 [ 	]*\[.*\][ 	]+sec2
 [ 	]*PROGBITS.*
-[ 	]*\[0+00806\]: ALLOC, EXEC, COMPRESSED
-[ 	]*\[<unknown>: 0x[0-9]+\], .*
+[ 	]*\[0+00026\]: ALLOC, EXEC, STRINGS
 #...
 [ 	]*\[.*\][ 	]+sec3
 [ 	]*PROGBITS.*
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.s b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.s
index d52b3458fb1..8b140715fb0 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.s
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section10.s
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	.word 1
 
 	# Make sure that a numeric value can be mixed with alpha values.
-	.section sec2, "a2048x"
-	.word 2
+	.section sec2, "a32x"
+	.word 0
 
 	# Make sure that specifying further arguments to .sections is still supported
 	.section sec3, "0xfedff000MS", %progbits, 32