/* Generic.  */
       /* 18 */ { STRING_COMMA_LEN ("EXCLUDE") },
       /* SPARC specific.  */
-      /* 19 */ { STRING_COMMA_LEN ("ORDERED") }
+      /* 19 */ { STRING_COMMA_LEN ("ORDERED") },
+      /* 20 */ { STRING_COMMA_LEN ("COMPRESSED") }
     };
 
   if (do_section_details)
            case SHF_GROUP:             sindex = 8; break;
            case SHF_TLS:               sindex = 9; break;
            case SHF_EXCLUDE:           sindex = 18; break;
+           case SHF_COMPRESSED:        sindex = 20; break;
 
            default:
              sindex = -1;
            case SHF_GROUP:             *p = 'G'; break;
            case SHF_TLS:               *p = 'T'; break;
            case SHF_EXCLUDE:           *p = 'E'; break;
+           case SHF_COMPRESSED:        *p = 'C'; break;
 
            default:
              if ((elf_header.e_machine == EM_X86_64
   return buff;
 }
 
+static unsigned int
+get_compression_header (Elf_Internal_Chdr *chdr, unsigned char *buf)
+{
+  if (is_32bit_elf)
+    {
+      Elf32_External_Chdr *echdr = (Elf32_External_Chdr *) buf;
+      chdr->ch_type = BYTE_GET (echdr->ch_type);
+      chdr->ch_size = BYTE_GET (echdr->ch_size);
+      chdr->ch_addralign = BYTE_GET (echdr->ch_addralign);
+      return sizeof (*echdr);
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      Elf64_External_Chdr *echdr = (Elf64_External_Chdr *) buf;
+      chdr->ch_type = BYTE_GET (echdr->ch_type);
+      chdr->ch_size = BYTE_GET (echdr->ch_size);
+      chdr->ch_addralign = BYTE_GET (echdr->ch_addralign);
+      return sizeof (*echdr);
+    }
+}
+
 static int
 process_section_headers (FILE * file)
 {
        }
 
       if (do_section_details)
-       printf ("       %s\n", get_elf_section_flags (section->sh_flags));
+       {
+         printf ("       %s\n", get_elf_section_flags (section->sh_flags));
+         if ((section->sh_flags & SHF_COMPRESSED) != 0)
+           {
+             /* Minimum section size is 12 bytes for 32-bit compression
+                header + 12 bytes for compressed data header.  */
+             unsigned char buf[24];
+             assert (sizeof (buf) >= sizeof (Elf64_External_Chdr));
+             if (get_data (&buf, (FILE *) file, section->sh_offset, 1,
+                           sizeof (buf), _("compression header")))
+               {
+                 Elf_Internal_Chdr chdr;
+                 get_compression_header (&chdr, buf);
+                 if (chdr.ch_type == ELFCOMPRESS_ZLIB)
+                   printf ("       ZLIB, ");
+                 else
+                   printf (_("       [<unknown>: 0x%x], "),
+                           chdr.ch_type);
+                 print_vma (chdr.ch_size, LONG_HEX);
+                 printf (", %lu\n", (unsigned long) chdr.ch_addralign);
+               }
+           }
+       }
     }
 
   if (!do_section_details)
       || strm.avail_out != 0)
     goto fail;
 
-  free (compressed_buffer);
   *buffer = uncompressed_buffer;
   *size = uncompressed_size;
   return 1;
     section->size = 0;
   else
     {
-      section->size = sec->sh_size;
-      if (uncompress_section_contents (§ion->start, §ion->size))
-       sec->sh_size = section->size;
+      unsigned char *start = section->start;
+      dwarf_size_type size = sec->sh_size;
+
+      if ((sec->sh_flags & SHF_COMPRESSED) != 0)
+       {
+         Elf_Internal_Chdr chdr;
+         unsigned int compression_header_size
+           = get_compression_header (&chdr, start);
+         if (chdr.ch_type != ELFCOMPRESS_ZLIB
+             || chdr.ch_addralign != sec->sh_addralign)
+           return 0;
+         start += compression_header_size;
+         size -= compression_header_size;
+       }
+
+      if (uncompress_section_contents (&start, &size))
+       {
+         /* Free the compressed buffer, update the section buffer
+            and the section size if uncompress is successful.  */
+         free (section->start);
+         section->start = start;
+         sec->sh_size = size;
+       }
+      section->size = size;
     }
 
   if (section->start == NULL)