Index: lld/ELF/LTO.cpp
===================================================================
--- lld/ELF/LTO.cpp
+++ lld/ELF/LTO.cpp
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@
 // Merge all the bitcode files we have seen, codegen the result
 // and return the resulting ObjectFile(s).
 std::vector<InputFile *> BitcodeCompiler::compile() {
-  std::vector<InputFile *> Ret;
   unsigned MaxTasks = LTOObj->getMaxTasks();
   Buff.resize(MaxTasks);
   Files.resize(MaxTasks);
@@ -253,19 +252,6 @@
   if (!Config->ThinLTOCacheDir.empty())
     pruneCache(Config->ThinLTOCacheDir, Config->ThinLTOCachePolicy);
 
-  for (unsigned I = 0; I != MaxTasks; ++I) {
-    if (Buff[I].empty())
-      continue;
-    if (Config->SaveTemps) {
-      if (I == 0)
-        saveBuffer(Buff[I], Config->OutputFile + ".lto.o");
-      else
-        saveBuffer(Buff[I], Config->OutputFile + Twine(I) + ".lto.o");
-    }
-    InputFile *Obj = createObjectFile(MemoryBufferRef(Buff[I], "lto.tmp"));
-    Ret.push_back(Obj);
-  }
-
   // If LazyObjFile has not been added to link, emit empty index files.
   // This is needed because this is what GNU gold plugin does and we have a
   // distributed build system that depends on that behavior.
@@ -286,7 +272,6 @@
       if (Config->ThinLTOEmitImportsFiles)
         openFile(Path + ".imports");
     }
-
     // ThinLTO with index only option is required to generate only the index
     // files. After that, we exit from linker and ThinLTO backend runs in a
     // distributed environment.
@@ -295,6 +280,21 @@
     return {};
   }
 
+  std::vector<InputFile *> Ret;
+
+  for (unsigned I = 0; I != MaxTasks; ++I) {
+    if (Buff[I].empty())
+      continue;
+    if (Config->SaveTemps) {
+      if (I == 0)
+        saveBuffer(Buff[I], Config->OutputFile + ".lto.o");
+      else
+        saveBuffer(Buff[I], Config->OutputFile + Twine(I) + ".lto.o");
+    }
+    InputFile *Obj = createObjectFile(MemoryBufferRef(Buff[I], "lto.tmp"));
+    Ret.push_back(Obj);
+  }
+
   for (std::unique_ptr<MemoryBuffer> &File : Files)
     if (File)
       Ret.push_back(createObjectFile(*File));