diff --git a/lld/ELF/Symbols.h b/lld/ELF/Symbols.h
--- a/lld/ELF/Symbols.h
+++ b/lld/ELF/Symbols.h
@@ -479,6 +479,10 @@
 // A buffer class that is large enough to hold any Symbol-derived
 // object. We allocate memory using this class and instantiate a symbol
 // using the placement new.
+
+// It is important to keep the size of SymbolUnion small for performance and
+// memory usage reasons. 64 bytes is a soft limit based on the size of Defined
+// on a 64-bit system. This is enforced by a static_assert in Symbols.cpp.
 union SymbolUnion {
   alignas(Defined) char a[sizeof(Defined)];
   alignas(CommonSymbol) char b[sizeof(CommonSymbol)];
@@ -487,27 +491,6 @@
   alignas(LazyObject) char e[sizeof(LazyObject)];
 };
 
-// It is important to keep the size of SymbolUnion small for performance and
-// memory usage reasons. 64 bytes is a soft limit based on the size of Defined
-// on a 64-bit system.
-static_assert(sizeof(SymbolUnion) <= 64, "SymbolUnion too large");
-
-template <typename T> struct AssertSymbol {
-  static_assert(std::is_trivially_destructible<T>(),
-                "Symbol types must be trivially destructible");
-  static_assert(sizeof(T) <= sizeof(SymbolUnion), "SymbolUnion too small");
-  static_assert(alignof(T) <= alignof(SymbolUnion),
-                "SymbolUnion not aligned enough");
-};
-
-static inline void assertSymbols() {
-  AssertSymbol<Defined>();
-  AssertSymbol<CommonSymbol>();
-  AssertSymbol<Undefined>();
-  AssertSymbol<SharedSymbol>();
-  AssertSymbol<LazyObject>();
-}
-
 void printTraceSymbol(const Symbol &sym, StringRef name);
 
 size_t Symbol::getSymbolSize() const {
diff --git a/lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp b/lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
--- a/lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "Writer.h"
 #include "lld/Common/ErrorHandler.h"
 #include "lld/Common/Strings.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
 #include <cstring>
 
 using namespace llvm;
@@ -24,6 +25,24 @@
 using namespace lld;
 using namespace lld::elf;
 
+static_assert(sizeof(SymbolUnion) <= 64, "SymbolUnion too large");
+
+template <typename T> struct AssertSymbol {
+  static_assert(std::is_trivially_destructible<T>(),
+                "Symbol types must be trivially destructible");
+  static_assert(sizeof(T) <= sizeof(SymbolUnion), "SymbolUnion too small");
+  static_assert(alignof(T) <= alignof(SymbolUnion),
+                "SymbolUnion not aligned enough");
+};
+
+LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED static inline void assertSymbols() {
+  AssertSymbol<Defined>();
+  AssertSymbol<CommonSymbol>();
+  AssertSymbol<Undefined>();
+  AssertSymbol<SharedSymbol>();
+  AssertSymbol<LazyObject>();
+}
+
 std::string lld::toString(const elf::Symbol &sym) {
   StringRef name = sym.getName();
   std::string ret = demangle(name, config->demangle);