> On 7. Apr 2023, at 13:02, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> IIRC DLINK2_FLAGS is mainly being used (in the GCC case) for passing
> options that need to come after previous occurrences of the same
> option with a different value, in order for the DLINK2 one to take
> precedence.

Thanks for the quick response! By that rationale, it should probably apply to the 16-bit ASM linker step as well and the rest can remain as-is (modulo that weird CLANGDWARF optimization situation)?