diff --git a/clang/lib/Tooling/Inclusions/Stdlib/StdSpecialSymbolMap.inc b/clang/lib/Tooling/Inclusions/Stdlib/StdSpecialSymbolMap.inc
--- a/clang/lib/Tooling/Inclusions/Stdlib/StdSpecialSymbolMap.inc
+++ b/clang/lib/Tooling/Inclusions/Stdlib/StdSpecialSymbolMap.inc
@@ -254,6 +254,21 @@
 SYMBOL(make_index_sequence, std::, <utility>)
 SYMBOL(make_integer_sequence, std::, <utility>)
 
+// The std::placeholder symbols (_1, ..., _N) are listed in the cppreference
+// placeholder.html, but the index only contains a single entry with "_1, _2, ..., _N"
+// text, which are not handled by the script.
+// N is an implementation-defined number, 10 should be enough in practice.
+SYMBOL(_1, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_2, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_3, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_4, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_5, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_6, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_7, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_8, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_9, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+SYMBOL(_10, std::placeholders::, <functional>)
+
 // Macros
 SYMBOL(NULL, None, <cstddef>)
 SYMBOL(NULL, None, <stddef.h>)
diff --git a/clang/tools/include-mapping/gen_std.py b/clang/tools/include-mapping/gen_std.py
--- a/clang/tools/include-mapping/gen_std.py
+++ b/clang/tools/include-mapping/gen_std.py
@@ -245,9 +245,8 @@
       # We don't index std literal operators (e.g.
       # std::literals::chrono_literals::operator""d), these symbols can't be
       # accessed by std::<symbol_name>.
-      # FIXME: index std::placeholders symbols, placeholders.html page is
-      # different (which contains one entry for _1, _2, ..., _N), we need special
-      # handling.
+      #
+      # std::placeholders symbols are handled manually in StdSpecialSymbolMap.inc
       (symbol_index_root, "chrono.html", "std::chrono::"),
       (symbol_index_root, "filesystem.html", "std::filesystem::"),
       (symbol_index_root, "pmr.html", "std::pmr::"),