2007-07-29  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

	* bfd/elf.c (_bfd_elf_new_section_hook): New comment for ET_CORE files
	with p_filesz shorter than p_memsz.  Behave for such split sections in
	a backward compatible way for both its parts.

--- bfd/elf.c	26 Jul 2007 18:15:46 -0000	1.401
+++ bfd/elf.c	29 Jul 2007 13:46:21 -0000
@@ -2225,6 +2225,9 @@ _bfd_elf_new_section_hook (bfd *abfd, as
    by the difference between the two sizes.  In effect, the segment is split
    into it's initialized and uninitialized parts.
 
+   This notion does not apply in ET_CORE files, where a shorter p_filesz means
+   that the data is not available in the dump.
+
  */
 
 bfd_boolean
@@ -2286,10 +2289,20 @@ _bfd_elf_make_section_from_phdr (bfd *ab
 	return FALSE;
       newsect->vma = hdr->p_vaddr + hdr->p_filesz;
       newsect->lma = hdr->p_paddr + hdr->p_filesz;
-      newsect->size = hdr->p_memsz - hdr->p_filesz;
+      if (abfd->format != bfd_core)
+	newsect->size = hdr->p_memsz - hdr->p_filesz;
+      else
+        {
+	  newsect->size = 0;
+	  newsect->filepos = hdr->p_offset;
+	  newsect->flags |= SEC_HAS_CONTENTS;
+	  newsect->alignment_power = bfd_log2 (hdr->p_align);
+	}
       if (hdr->p_type == PT_LOAD)
 	{
 	  newsect->flags |= SEC_ALLOC;
+	  if (abfd->format == bfd_core)
+	    newsect->flags |= SEC_LOAD;
 	  if (hdr->p_flags & PF_X)
 	    newsect->flags |= SEC_CODE;
 	}