diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/ByteStreamer.h b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/ByteStreamer.h
index 05767206e6c..0cc829fffc5 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/ByteStreamer.h
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/ByteStreamer.h
@@ -72,26 +72,34 @@ class HashingByteStreamer : public ByteStreamer {
 class BufferByteStreamer : public ByteStreamer {
 private:
   SmallVectorImpl<char> &Buffer;
-  // FIXME: This is actually only needed for textual asm output.
   SmallVectorImpl<std::string> &Comments;
 
+  /// \brief Only verbose textual output needs comments.  This will be set to
+  /// true for that case, and false otherwise.  If false, comments passed in to
+  /// the emit methods will be ignored.
+  bool GenerateComments;
+
 public:
   BufferByteStreamer(SmallVectorImpl<char> &Buffer,
-                     SmallVectorImpl<std::string> &Comments)
-  : Buffer(Buffer), Comments(Comments) {}
+                     SmallVectorImpl<std::string> &Comments,
+                     bool GenerateComments)
+  : Buffer(Buffer), Comments(Comments), GenerateComments(GenerateComments) {}
   void EmitInt8(uint8_t Byte, const Twine &Comment) override {
     Buffer.push_back(Byte);
-    Comments.push_back(Comment.str());
+    if (GenerateComments)
+      Comments.push_back(Comment.str());
   }
   void EmitSLEB128(uint64_t DWord, const Twine &Comment) override {
     raw_svector_ostream OSE(Buffer);
     encodeSLEB128(DWord, OSE);
-    Comments.push_back(Comment.str());
+    if (GenerateComments)
+      Comments.push_back(Comment.str());
   }
   void EmitULEB128(uint64_t DWord, const Twine &Comment) override {
     raw_svector_ostream OSE(Buffer);
     encodeULEB128(DWord, OSE);
-    Comments.push_back(Comment.str());
+    if (GenerateComments)
+      Comments.push_back(Comment.str());
   }
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DebugLocStream.h b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DebugLocStream.h
index 818ea626bb2..3001da21b90 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DebugLocStream.h
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DebugLocStream.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ class MCSymbol;
 /// Stores a unified stream of .debug_loc entries.  There's \a List for each
 /// variable/inlined-at pair, and an \a Entry for each \a DebugLocEntry.
 ///
-/// FIXME: Why do we have comments even when it's an object stream?
 /// FIXME: Do we need all these temp symbols?
 /// FIXME: Why not output directly to the output stream?
 class DebugLocStream {
@@ -52,7 +51,12 @@ private:
   SmallString<256> DWARFBytes;
   SmallVector<std::string, 32> Comments;
 
+  /// \brief Only verbose textual output needs comments.  This will be set to
+  /// true for that case, and false otherwise.
+  bool GenerateComments;
+
 public:
+  DebugLocStream(bool GenerateComments) : GenerateComments(GenerateComments) { }
   size_t getNumLists() const { return Lists.size(); }
   const List &getList(size_t LI) const { return Lists[LI]; }
   ArrayRef<List> getLists() const { return Lists; }
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ public:
   }
 
   BufferByteStreamer getStreamer() {
-    return BufferByteStreamer(DWARFBytes, Comments);
+    return BufferByteStreamer(DWARFBytes, Comments, GenerateComments);
   }
 
   ArrayRef<Entry> getEntries(const List &L) const {
diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DwarfDebug.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DwarfDebug.cpp
index 8c792ed53a6..7b7c8be372a 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DwarfDebug.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/DwarfDebug.cpp
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ static LLVM_CONSTEXPR DwarfAccelTable::Atom TypeAtoms[] = {
     DwarfAccelTable::Atom(dwarf::DW_ATOM_type_flags, dwarf::DW_FORM_data1)};
 
 DwarfDebug::DwarfDebug(AsmPrinter *A, Module *M)
-    : Asm(A), MMI(Asm->MMI), PrevLabel(nullptr),
-      InfoHolder(A, "info_string", DIEValueAllocator),
+    : Asm(A), MMI(Asm->MMI), DebugLocs(A->OutStreamer->isVerboseAsm()),
+      PrevLabel(nullptr), InfoHolder(A, "info_string", DIEValueAllocator),
       UsedNonDefaultText(false),
       SkeletonHolder(A, "skel_string", DIEValueAllocator),
       IsDarwin(Triple(A->getTargetTriple()).isOSDarwin()),