RUN: lld-link -lldmingw %S/Inputs/inline-weak.o %S/Inputs/inline-weak2.o -out:%t.exe When compiling certain forms of templated inline functions, some versions of GCC (tested with 5.4) produces a weak symbol for the function. Newer versions of GCC don't do this though. The bundled object files are an example of that, they can be produced with test code like this: $ cat inline-weak.h class MyClass { public: template int get(_Args&&... args) { return a; } private: int a; }; $ cat inline-weak.cpp #include "inline-weak.h" int get(MyClass& a); int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { MyClass a; int ret = a.get(); ret += get(a); return ret; } extern "C" void mainCRTStartup(void) { main(0, (char**)0); } extern "C" void __main(void) { } $ cat inline-weak2.cpp #include "inline-weak.h" int get(MyClass& a) { return a.get(); } $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -std=c++11 -c inline-weak.cpp $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -std=c++11 -c inline-weak2.cpp $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-nm inline-weak.o | grep MyClass3get 0000000000000000 p .pdata$_ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ 0000000000000000 t .text$_ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ 0000000000000000 T .weak._ZN7MyClass3getIIEEEiDpOT_.main 0000000000000000 r .xdata$_ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ w _ZN7MyClass3getIIEEEiDpOT_ 0000000000000000 T _ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-nm inline-weak2.o | grep MyClass3get 0000000000000000 p .pdata$_ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ 0000000000000000 t .text$_ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ 0000000000000000 T .weak._ZN7MyClass3getIIEEEiDpOT_._Z3getR7MyClass 0000000000000000 r .xdata$_ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ w _ZN7MyClass3getIIEEEiDpOT_ 0000000000000000 T _ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_ This can't be reproduced by assembling .s files with llvm-mc, since that always produces a symbol named .weak..default, therefore the test uses prebuilt object files instead. In these cases, the undefined weak symbol points to the regular symbol .weak._ZN7MyClass3getIIEEEiDpOT_., where varies among the object files that emit the same function. This regular symbol points to the same location as the comdat function _ZN7MyClass3getIJEEEiDpOT_. When linking, the comdat section from the second object file gets discarded, as it matches the one that already exists. This means that the uniquely named symbol .weak.. points to a discarded section chunk. Previously, this would have triggered adding an Undefined symbol for this case, which would later break linking. However, also previously, if the second object file is linked in via a static library, this leftover symbol is retained as a Lazy symbol, which would make the link succeed.