diff --git a/tslang/docs/jit-native-dll-debugging-design.md b/tslang/docs/jit-native-dll-debugging-design.md
index d422c8df3..aae64962c 100644
--- a/tslang/docs/jit-native-dll-debugging-design.md
+++ b/tslang/docs/jit-native-dll-debugging-design.md
@@ -149,8 +149,11 @@ quality for TS code, which AOT shares, not something this mode adds.
   With the import library the link fails as soon as the program reads data the default library
   defines. A `Map` reads `PrimeHelpers.hashCollisionThreshold` by its own name, and only an
   `__imp_` reference resolves a DLL's data export. The in-memory JIT binds it from the export
-  table. `--emit=dll` has the same failure today (a separate bug). So in this mode tslang loads
-  neither the default library's DLL nor `TypeScriptRuntime.dll`.
+  table. `--emit=dll` had the same failure, and #630 fixed it by marking that data dllimport.
+  That fix does not carry over here. The DLL links the JIT cache's objects, which are compiled for
+  the JIT's static large code model, and x86 codegen emits no `__imp_` reference under that model
+  even for a dllimport global (`X86Subtarget::classifyGlobalReference`). So in this mode tslang
+  loads neither the default library's DLL nor `TypeScriptRuntime.dll`.
 - **The DLL and its PDB** are `__jit/<file>.<hash>.dll` and `.pdb`, linked under a temporary name,
   `/PDB:` the final name with `/PDBALTPATH:%_PDB%`, then renamed. `.lib` and `.exp` are removed.
   The DLLs of earlier runs of the same program are removed, and so are temporary files more than an
diff --git a/tslang/tslang/jitnative.cpp b/tslang/tslang/jitnative.cpp
index e1614b02f..bb4aef58c 100644
--- a/tslang/tslang/jitnative.cpp
+++ b/tslang/tslang/jitnative.cpp
@@ -301,6 +301,9 @@ int linkJitUnits(const char *argv0, llvm::ArrayRef<JitUnit> units, CompileOption
     // but not for its data: a static field the program reads (a generic's instantiation reading
     // PrimeHelpers.hashCollisionThreshold, say) is referenced by its own name, which only an
     // `__imp_` reference resolves to an import. The in-memory JIT binds it from the export table.
+    // Marking the data dllimport, as --emit=dll does, does not help here: these are the JIT's
+    // objects, compiled for the static large code model, and x86 codegen gives a dllimport global
+    // no `__imp_` reference under that model (X86Subtarget::classifyGlobalReference).
     request.staticDefaultLib = true;
     request.quiet = true;
     request.extraArgs.push_back("-Wl,/INCREMENTAL:NO");