diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/ELF/PowerPC/section-headers-debug.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/ELF/PowerPC/section-headers-debug.test
--- a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/ELF/PowerPC/section-headers-debug.test
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/ELF/PowerPC/section-headers-debug.test
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+## Check the `--section-headers` option can print the DEBUG type.
+# RUN: yaml2obj %s -o %t
+# RUN: llvm-objdump --section-headers %t | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK:      Sections:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Idx Name          Size     VMA              Type
+# CHECK-NEXT:   0               00000000 0000000000000000 
+# CHECK-NEXT:   1 .text         00000000 0000000000000000 TEXT
+# CHECK-NEXT:   2 .data         00000010 0000000000000000 DATA
+# CHECK-NEXT:   3 .bss          00000000 0000000000000010 BSS
+# CHECK-NEXT:   4 .debug_abbrev 0000000a 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK-NEXT:   5 .debug_info   0000000a 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK-NEXT:   6 .debug_line   0000000a 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK-NEXT:   7 .strtab       00000001 0000000000000000 
+# CHECK-NEXT:   8 .shstrtab     0000004a 0000000000000000 
+
+--- !ELF
+FileHeader:
+  Class:           ELFCLASS64
+  Data:            ELFDATA2LSB
+  Type:            ET_EXEC
+  Machine:         EM_PPC64
+Sections:
+  - Name:            .text
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Flags:           [ SHF_ALLOC, SHF_EXECINSTR ]
+  - Name:            .data
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Flags:           [ SHF_WRITE, SHF_ALLOC ]
+    Content:         '00000000000000000000000000000000'
+  - Name:            .bss
+    Type:            SHT_NOBITS
+    Flags:           [ SHF_WRITE, SHF_ALLOC ]
+  - Name:            .debug_abbrev
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Content:         011B033B100000000100
+  - Name:            .debug_info
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Content:         1000D40101002C000000
+  - Name:            .debug_line
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Content:         3600000004001B000000
+
diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/Inputs/xcoff-debug-32.o b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/Inputs/xcoff-debug-32.o
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diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/Inputs/xcoff-debug-64.o b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/Inputs/xcoff-debug-64.o
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diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/xcoff-section-headers-debug.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/xcoff-section-headers-debug.test
--- a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/xcoff-section-headers-debug.test
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/XCOFF/xcoff-section-headers-debug.test
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+## Check the `--section-headers` option can print the DEBUG type.
+## TODO: Replace the binary input with a YAML input and then use yaml2obj.
+
+# RUN: llvm-objdump --section-headers %p/Inputs/xcoff-debug-32.o | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK32
+# RUN: llvm-objdump --section-headers %p/Inputs/xcoff-debug-64.o | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK64
+
+## xcoff-debug-32.o Compiled with IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V16.1.1.0
+## Compiler command: xlc basic.c -c -qdbgfmt=dwarf -g -q32 -o xcoff-debug-32.o
+##
+## xcoff-debug-64.o Compiled with IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V16.1.1.0
+## Compiler command: xlc basic.c -c -qdbgfmt=dwarf -g -q64 -o xcoff-debug-64.o
+##
+## basic.c:
+## int main(void)
+## {
+##   return 0;
+## }
+
+# CHECK32:      Sections:
+# CHECK32-NEXT: Idx Name          Size     VMA      Type
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   0 .text         00000080 00000000 TEXT
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   1 .data         0000001c 00000080 DATA
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   2 .bss          00000000 0000009c BSS
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   3 .dwline       00000046 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   4 .dwinfo       00000098 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   5 .dwabrev      00000060 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   6 .dwarnge      00000000 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   7 .dwpbnms      0000001b 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   8 .dwpbtyp      00000023 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:   9 .dwstr        00000000 00000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK32-NEXT:  10 .dwrnges      00000000 00000000 DEBUG
+
+# CHECK64:      Sections:
+# CHECK64-NEXT: Idx Name          Size     VMA              Type
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   0 .text         00000080 0000000000000000 TEXT
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   1 .data         00000030 0000000000000080 DATA
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   2 .bss          00000000 00000000000000b0 BSS
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   3 .dwline       00000056 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   4 .dwinfo       000000d0 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   5 .dwabrev      00000060 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   6 .dwarnge      00000000 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   7 .dwpbnms      00000033 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   8 .dwpbtyp      0000003f 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:   9 .dwstr        00000000 0000000000000000 DEBUG
+# CHECK64-NEXT:  10 .dwrnges      00000000 0000000000000000 DEBUG
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
@@ -1713,6 +1713,8 @@
       Type += Type.empty() ? "DATA" : " DATA";
     if (Section.isBSS())
       Type += Type.empty() ? "BSS" : " BSS";
+    if (Section.isDebugSection())
+      Type += Type.empty() ? "DEBUG" : "DEBUG";
 
     if (HasLMAColumn)
       outs() << format("%3" PRIu64 " %-*s %08" PRIx64 " ", Idx, NameWidth,