diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/many-sections-gc.s b/lld/test/ELF/many-sections-gc.s
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+# REQUIRES: x86
+
+## Show that --gc-sections works when there are many sections, and that
+## referenced common and absolute symbols in such cases are not removed, nor are
+## they incorrectly attributed to the sections with index 0xFFF1 or 0xFFF2.
+
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple x86_64-pc-linux-gnu %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: ld.lld %t.o -o %t --gc-sections
+# RUN: llvm-readobj --symbols --sections %t | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK:      Sections [
+# CHECK-NEXT:   Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 0
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name:  (0)
+# CHECK:        Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 1
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: .text
+# CHECK:        Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 2
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: .bss
+# CHECK:        Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 3
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: .comment
+# CHECK:        Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 4
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: .symtab
+# CHECK:        Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 5
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: .shstrtab
+# CHECK:        Section {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Index: 6
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: .strtab
+# CHECK-NOT:    Section {
+
+# CHECK:      Symbols [
+# CHECK-NEXT:   Symbol {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name:  (0)
+# CHECK:        Symbol {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: _start
+# CHECK:        Symbol {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: abs
+# CHECK:        Symbol {
+# CHECK-NEXT:     Name: common
+# CHECK-NOT:    Symbol {
+
+.macro gen_sections4 x
+        .section a\x,"a"
+        .global sa\x
+        sa\x:
+          .byte 0
+        .section b\x,"a"
+        .global sa\x
+        sb\x:
+          .byte 0
+        .section c\x,"a"
+        .global sa\x
+        sc\x:
+          .byte 0
+        .section d\x,"a"
+        .global sa\x
+        sd\x:
+          .byte 0
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections8 x
+        gen_sections4 a\x
+        gen_sections4 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections16 x
+        gen_sections8 a\x
+        gen_sections8 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections32 x
+        gen_sections16 a\x
+        gen_sections16 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections64 x
+        gen_sections32 a\x
+        gen_sections32 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections128 x
+        gen_sections64 a\x
+        gen_sections64 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections256 x
+        gen_sections128 a\x
+        gen_sections128 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections512 x
+        gen_sections256 a\x
+        gen_sections256 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections1024 x
+        gen_sections512 a\x
+        gen_sections512 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections2048 x
+        gen_sections1024 a\x
+        gen_sections1024 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections4096 x
+        gen_sections2048 a\x
+        gen_sections2048 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections8192 x
+        gen_sections4096 a\x
+        gen_sections4096 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections16384 x
+        gen_sections8192 a\x
+        gen_sections8192 b\x
+.endm
+
+.macro gen_sections32768 x
+        gen_sections16384 a\x
+        gen_sections16384 b\x
+.endm
+
+gen_sections32768 a
+gen_sections16384 b
+gen_sections8192 c
+gen_sections4096 d
+gen_sections2048 e
+gen_sections1024 f
+gen_sections512 g
+gen_sections128 h
+gen_sections64 i
+gen_sections32 j
+gen_sections16 k
+gen_sections8 l
+gen_sections4 m
+
+.text
+
+.global abs
+abs = 0x12345678
+
+.comm common,4,4
+
+.global _start
+_start:
+  .quad abs
+  .quad common