diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 97cad024271f..ef8dffbbf1ef 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2020-03-27  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
+
+	PR debug/94273
+	* dwarf2out.c (should_emit_struct_debug): Return false for
+	DINFO_LEVEL_TERSE.
+
 2020-03-27  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
 
 	PR tree-optimization/94352
diff --git a/gcc/dwarf2out.c b/gcc/dwarf2out.c
index b1fa6f5ff7c1..378a27394e8b 100644
--- a/gcc/dwarf2out.c
+++ b/gcc/dwarf2out.c
@@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ get_full_len (const wide_int &op)
 static bool
 should_emit_struct_debug (tree type, enum debug_info_usage usage)
 {
+  if (debug_info_level <= DINFO_LEVEL_TERSE)
+    return false;
+
   enum debug_struct_file criterion;
   tree type_decl;
   bool generic = lang_hooks.types.generic_p (type);
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index d5a1c8e1a8e7..156eee12cdda 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-03-27  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
+
+	PR debug/94273
+	* g++.dg/debug/pr94273.C: New testcase.
+
 2020-03-27  Tobias Burnus  <tobias@codesourcery.com>
 
 	PR fortran/93957
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/debug/pr94273.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/debug/pr94273.C
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4e5c66d8e26a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/debug/pr94273.C
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+class a {
+    virtual void c() {}
+} extern b;
+a b;