Previously, `makeSyntheticInputSection` would create a new `ConcatInputSection` without setting `live` explicitly for it. Without `-dead_strip` this would be OK since `live` would default to `true`. However, with `-dead_strip`, `live` would default to false, and it would remain set to `false`. This hasn't resulted in any issues so far since no code paths that exposed this issue were present. However a recent change - ObjC relative method lists (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/86231) exposes this issue by creating relocations to the `SyntheticInputSection`. When these relocations are attempted to be written, this ends up with a crash(assert), since the `SyntheticInputSection` they refer to is marked as dead (`live` = `false`). With this change, we set the correct behavior - `live` will always be `true`. We add a test case that before this change would trigger an assert in the linker.
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