diff --git a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp
@@ -508,6 +508,14 @@
     CmdArgs.push_back(Args.MakeArgString(Plugin));
   }
 
+  // Note, this solution is far from perfect, better to encode it into IR
+  // metadata, but this may not be worth it, since it looks like aranges is on
+  // the way out.
+  if (Args.hasArg(options::OPT_gdwarf_aranges)) {
+    CmdArgs.push_back(
+        Args.MakeArgString("--plugin-opt=-generate-arange-section"));
+  }
+
   // Try to pass driver level flags relevant to LTO code generation down to
   // the plugin.
 
diff --git a/clang/test/Driver/debug-options-aranges.c b/clang/test/Driver/debug-options-aranges.c
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang/test/Driver/debug-options-aranges.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+// REQUIRES: lld
+
+/// Check that the linker plugin will get -generate-arange-section.
+// RUN: %clang -### -g --target=x86_64-linux -flto      -gdwarf-aranges %s 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+// RUN: %clang -### -g --target=x86_64-linux -flto=thin -gdwarf-aranges %s 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+// CHECK: --plugin-opt=-generate-arange-section