Index: lld/Common/ErrorHandler.cpp
===================================================================
--- lld/Common/ErrorHandler.cpp
+++ lld/Common/ErrorHandler.cpp
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@
   if (hasContext())
     lld::errorHandler().flushStreams();
 
+  if (::getenv("LLD_FORCE_CRASH"))
+    __builtin_trap();
   // When running inside safeLldMain(), restore the control flow back to the
   // CrashRecoveryContext. Otherwise simply use _exit(), meanning no cleanup,
   // since we want to avoid further crashes on shutdown.
Index: lld/test/ELF/force-crash.s
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ lld/test/ELF/force-crash.s
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+RUN: not ld.lld 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+CHECK: error: no input files
+CHECK-NOT: PLEASE submit a bug report to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/ and include the crash backtrace.
+
+RUN: LLD_FORCE_CRASH=1 not --crash ld.lld 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CRASH
+CRASH: error: no input files
+CRASH: PLEASE submit a bug report to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/ and include the crash backtrace.
Index: lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp
===================================================================
--- lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp
+++ lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp
@@ -214,29 +214,34 @@
   InitLLVM x(argc, argv);
   sys::Process::UseANSIEscapeCodes(true);
 
-  // Not running in lit tests, just take the shortest codepath with global
-  // exception handling and no memory cleanup on exit.
-  if (!inTestVerbosity())
-    return lldMain(argc, argv, llvm::outs(), llvm::errs());
-
-  Optional<int> mainRet;
-  CrashRecoveryContext::Enable();
-
-  for (unsigned i = inTestVerbosity(); i > 0; --i) {
-    // Disable stdout/stderr for all iterations but the last one.
-    inTestOutputDisabled = (i != 1);
-
-    // Execute one iteration.
-    auto r = safeLldMain(argc, argv, llvm::outs(), llvm::errs());
-    if (!r.canRunAgain)
-      exitLld(r.ret); // Exit now, can't re-execute again.
-
-    if (!mainRet) {
-      mainRet = r.ret;
-    } else if (r.ret != *mainRet) {
-      // Exit now, to fail the tests if the result is different between runs.
-      return r.ret;
+  int ret = [argc, argv] {
+    // Not running in lit tests, just take the shortest codepath with global
+    // exception handling and no memory cleanup on exit.
+    if (!inTestVerbosity())
+      return lldMain(argc, argv, llvm::outs(), llvm::errs());
+
+    Optional<int> mainRet;
+    CrashRecoveryContext::Enable();
+
+    for (unsigned i = inTestVerbosity(); i > 0; --i) {
+      // Disable stdout/stderr for all iterations but the last one.
+      inTestOutputDisabled = (i != 1);
+
+      // Execute one iteration.
+      auto r = safeLldMain(argc, argv, llvm::outs(), llvm::errs());
+      if (!r.canRunAgain)
+        exitLld(r.ret); // Exit now, can't re-execute again.
+
+      if (!mainRet) {
+        mainRet = r.ret;
+      } else if (r.ret != *mainRet) {
+        // Exit now, to fail the tests if the result is different between runs.
+        return r.ret;
+      }
     }
-  }
-  return *mainRet;
+    return *mainRet;
+  }();
+  if (::getenv("LLD_FORCE_CRASH"))
+    __builtin_trap();
+  return ret;
 }