diff --git a/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp b/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
index 33e373b760de..c2e838bd5e2f 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
@@ -2240,8 +2240,8 @@ void MergeNoTailSection::finalizeContents() {
   // operations in the following tight loop.
   size_t Concurrency = 1;
   if (Config->Threads)
-    if (int N = std::thread::hardware_concurrency())
-      Concurrency = std::min<size_t>(PowerOf2Floor(N), NumShards);
+    Concurrency =
+        std::min<size_t>(PowerOf2Floor(hardware_concurrency()), NumShards);
 
   // Add section pieces to the builders.
   parallelForEachN(0, Concurrency, [&](size_t ThreadId) {