Index: lld/MachO/ConcatOutputSection.cpp
===================================================================
--- lld/MachO/ConcatOutputSection.cpp
+++ lld/MachO/ConcatOutputSection.cpp
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 //   thus, we place thunks at monotonically increasing addresses. Once a thunk
 //   is placed, it and all previous input-section addresses are final.
 //
-// * MergedInputSection::finalize() and MergedInputSection::writeTo() merge
+// * ConcatInputSection::finalize() and ConcatInputSection::writeTo() merge
 //   the inputs and thunks vectors (both ordered by ascending address), which
 //   is simple and cheap.
 
@@ -295,6 +295,12 @@
       thunkInfo.isec =
           make<ConcatInputSection>(isec->getSegName(), isec->getName());
       thunkInfo.isec->parent = this;
+
+      // This code runs after dead code removal. Need to set the `live` bit
+      // on the thunk isec so that asserts that check that only live sections
+      // get written are happy.
+      thunkInfo.isec->live = true;
+
       StringRef thunkName = saver.save(funcSym->getName() + ".thunk." +
                                        std::to_string(thunkInfo.sequence++));
       r.referent = thunkInfo.sym = symtab->addDefined(
Index: lld/test/MachO/arm64-thunks.s
===================================================================
--- lld/test/MachO/arm64-thunks.s
+++ lld/test/MachO/arm64-thunks.s
@@ -2,15 +2,17 @@
 
 ## Check for the following:
 ## (1) address match between thunk definitions and call destinations
-## (2) address match between thunk page+offset computations and function definitions
+## (2) address match between thunk page+offset computations and function
+##     definitions
 ## (3) a second thunk is created when the first one goes out of range
-## (4) early calls to a dylib stub use a thunk, and later calls the stub directly
+## (4) early calls to a dylib stub use a thunk, and later calls the stub
+##     directly
 ## Notes:
 ## 0x4000000 = 64 Mi = half the magnitude of the forward-branch range
 
 # RUN: rm -rf %t; mkdir %t
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=arm64-apple-darwin %s -o %t/input.o
-# RUN: %lld -arch arm64 -lSystem -o %t/thunk %t/input.o
+# RUN: %lld -arch arm64 -dead_strip -lSystem -o %t/thunk %t/input.o
 # RUN: llvm-objdump -d --no-show-raw-insn %t/thunk | FileCheck %s
 
 # CHECK: Disassembly of section __TEXT,__text: