diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 383c5ba312..25a8c4cabb 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1999-09-16  Nick Clifton  <nickc@cygnus.com>
+
+	* elf32-arm.h (bfd_elf32_arm_get_bfd_for_interworking): Mark
+	interworking sections as linker created so that they will not
+	be removed by garbage collection.
+
 Wed Sep 15 02:31:57 1999  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
 
 	* elf-hppa.h (elf_hppa_final_link): Revamp __gp handling.
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-arm.h b/bfd/elf32-arm.h
index 2ebfa862f7..191995fb1c 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-arm.h
+++ b/bfd/elf32-arm.h
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ bfd_elf32_arm_get_bfd_for_interworking (abfd, info)
 
   if (sec == NULL)
     {
-      flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_IN_MEMORY;
+      flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_IN_MEMORY | SEC_LINKER_CREATED;
 
       sec = bfd_make_section (abfd, ARM2THUMB_GLUE_SECTION_NAME);
 
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ bfd_elf32_arm_get_bfd_for_interworking (abfd, info)
 
   if (sec == NULL)
     {
-      flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_IN_MEMORY;
+      flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_IN_MEMORY | SEC_LINKER_CREATED;
 
       sec = bfd_make_section (abfd, THUMB2ARM_GLUE_SECTION_NAME);