diff --git a/gcc/dwarf2out.cc b/gcc/dwarf2out.cc
index 0b8a3002292..2b723210f34 100644
--- a/gcc/dwarf2out.cc
+++ b/gcc/dwarf2out.cc
@@ -6061,10 +6061,17 @@ dwarf2out_die_ref_for_decl (tree decl, const char **sym,
     die = die->die_parent;
   /* For the containing CU DIE we compute a die_symbol in
      compute_comp_unit_symbol.  */
-  gcc_assert (die->die_tag == DW_TAG_compile_unit
-	      && die->die_id.die_symbol != NULL);
-  *sym = die->die_id.die_symbol;
-  return true;
+  if (die->die_tag == DW_TAG_compile_unit)
+    {
+      gcc_assert (die->die_id.die_symbol != NULL);
+      *sym = die->die_id.die_symbol;
+      return true;
+    }
+  /* While we can gracefully handle running into say a type unit
+     we don't really want and consider this a bug.  */
+  if (flag_checking)
+    gcc_unreachable ();
+  return false;
 }
 
 /* Add a reference of kind ATTR_KIND to a DIE at SYMBOL + OFFSET to DIE.  */
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/c-c++-common/pr107058.c b/gcc/testsuite/c-c++-common/pr107058.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5e625d6a6af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/c-c++-common/pr107058.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-require-effective-target lto } */
+/* { dg-options "-g -fdebug-types-section -flto -fno-checking" } */
+
+/* We should handle the C++ FE issue gracefully with -fno-checking.  */
+
+#include "pr50459.c"