This is relative to "Bug 36166 - tools/gold/X86/comdat.ll is failing only on Debian Unstable" (PR36166).
Something changed in newer versions of gold and now together with gold-plugin
there is an issue shown in PR, symbol may get wrong visibility.
LLD works fine, but we have no testcase for the same use case, and I
suggest to add it just in case to explicitly document the behavior.