diff --git a/lib/MC/MachObjectWriter.cpp b/lib/MC/MachObjectWriter.cpp
index a3445219f1e..57f90d95527 100644
--- a/lib/MC/MachObjectWriter.cpp
+++ b/lib/MC/MachObjectWriter.cpp
@@ -592,7 +592,8 @@ IsSymbolRefDifferenceFullyResolvedImpl(const MCAssembler &Asm,
     if (!Asm.getBackend().hasReliableSymbolDifference()) {
       if (!SA.isInSection() || &SecA != &SecB ||
           (!SA.isTemporary() &&
-           FB.getAtom() != Asm.getSymbolData(SA).getFragment()->getAtom()))
+           FB.getAtom() != Asm.getSymbolData(SA).getFragment()->getAtom() &&
+           Asm.getSubsectionsViaSymbols()))
         return false;
       return true;
     }
diff --git a/test/MC/MachO/ARM/no-subsections-reloc.s b/test/MC/MachO/ARM/no-subsections-reloc.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7701c59c680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/MC/MachO/ARM/no-subsections-reloc.s
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+@ RUN: llvm-mc -n -triple thumbv7-apple-darwin10 %s -filetype=obj -o %t.obj
+@ RUN: macho-dump --dump-section-data < %t.obj > %t.dump
+@ RUN: FileCheck < %t.dump %s
+
+@ When not using subsections-via-symbols, references to non-local symbols
+@ in the same section can be resolved at assembly time w/o relocations.
+
+ .syntax unified
+ .text
+ .thumb
+ .thumb_func _foo
+_foo:
+    ldr r3, bar
+bar:
+    .long 0
+
+@ CHECK: 'num_reloc', 0
+@ CHECK: '_section_data', 'dff80030 00000000'