Index: ELF/InputFiles.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/InputFiles.cpp
+++ ELF/InputFiles.cpp
@@ -312,9 +312,19 @@
 }
 
 template <class ELFT> bool ObjFile<ELFT>::shouldMerge(const Elf_Shdr &Sec) {
-  // We don't merge sections if -O0 (default is -O1). This makes sometimes
-  // the linker significantly faster, although the output will be bigger.
-  if (Config->Optimize == 0)
+  // On a regular link we don't merge sections if -O0 (default is -O1). This
+  // sometimes makes the linker significantly faster, although the output will
+  // be bigger.
+  //
+  // Doing the same for -r would create a problem as it would combine sections
+  // with different sh_entsize. One option would be to just copy every SHF_MERGE
+  // section as is to the output. While this would produce a valid ELF file with
+  // usable SHF_MERGE sections, tools like (llvm-)?dwarfdump get confused when
+  // they see two .debug_str. We could have separate logic for combining
+  // SHF_MERGE sections based both on their name and sh_entsize, but that seems
+  // to be more trouble than it is worth. Instead, we just use the regular (-O1)
+  // logic for -r.
+  if (Config->Optimize == 0 && !Config->Relocatable)
     return false;
 
   // A mergeable section with size 0 is useless because they don't have
Index: test/ELF/merge-reloc-O0.s
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ test/ELF/merge-reloc-O0.s
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: ld.lld %t.o -r -o %t2.o -O0
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -s -section-data %t2.o | FileCheck %s
+
+# We combine just the sections with the same name and sh_entsize.
+
+# CHECK:      Name: .foo
+# CHECK-NEXT: Type: SHT_PROGBITS
+# CHECK-NEXT: Flags [
+# CHECK-NEXT:   SHF_ALLOC
+# CHECK-NEXT:   SHF_MERGE
+# CHECK-NEXT: ]
+# CHECK-NEXT: Address:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Offset:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Size: 16
+# CHECK-NEXT: Link:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Info:
+# CHECK-NEXT: AddressAlignment: 8
+# CHECK-NEXT: EntrySize: 8
+# CHECK-NEXT: SectionData (
+# CHECK-NEXT:   0000: 41000000 00000000 42000000 00000000
+# CHECK-NEXT: )
+
+# CHECK:      Name: .foo
+# CHECK-NEXT: Type: SHT_PROGBITS
+# CHECK-NEXT: Flags [
+# CHECK-NEXT:   SHF_ALLOC
+# CHECK-NEXT:   SHF_MERGE
+# CHECK-NEXT: ]
+# CHECK-NEXT: Address:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Offset:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Size: 8
+# CHECK-NEXT: Link:
+# CHECK-NEXT: Info:
+# CHECK-NEXT: AddressAlignment: 4
+# CHECK-NEXT: EntrySize: 4
+# CHECK-NEXT: SectionData (
+# CHECK-NEXT:   0000: 41000000 42000000
+# CHECK-NEXT: )
+
+        .section .foo, "aM",@progbits,8,unique,0
+        .quad 0x41
+        .section .foo, "aM",@progbits,8,unique,1
+        .quad 0x42
+        .section .foo, "aM",@progbits,4,unique,2
+        .long 0x41
+        .long 0x42