+printf "checking whether compiler needs attribute((may_alias)) suppression... "
+cat > "$tmpc" <<EOF
+typedef int
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+__attribute__((__may_alias__))
+#endif
+x;
+EOF
+if $CC $CFLAGS_C99FSE -I./arch/$ARCH -I./include $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS \
+ -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+printf "no\n"
+else
+printf "yes\n"
+CFLAGS_C99FSE="$CFLAGS_C99FSE -D__may_alias__="
+fi
+
+#
+# Check for options to disable stack protector, which needs to be
+# disabled for a few early-bootstrap translation units. If not found,
+# this is not an error; we assume the toolchain does not do ssp.
+#
+tryflag CFLAGS_NOSSP -fno-stack-protector
+
+#
+# Check for options that may be needed to prevent the compiler from
+# generating self-referential versions of memcpy,, memmove, memcmp,
+# and memset. Really, we should add a check to determine if this
+# option is sufficient, and if not, add a macro to cripple these
+# functions with volatile...
+#
+tryflag CFLAGS_MEMOPS -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns
+
+#
+# Enable debugging if requessted.
+#
+test "$debug" = yes && CFLAGS_AUTO=-g
+
+#
+# Preprocess asm files to add extra debugging information if debug is
+# enabled, our assembler supports the needed directives, and the
+# preprocessing script has been written for our architecture.
+#
+printf "checking whether we should preprocess assembly to add debugging information... "
+if fnmatch '-g*|*\ -g*' "$CFLAGS_AUTO $CFLAGS" &&
+ test -f "tools/add-cfi.$ARCH.awk" &&
+ printf ".file 1 \"srcfile.s\"\n.line 1\n.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_endproc" | $CC -g -x assembler -c -o /dev/null 2>/dev/null -
+then
+ ADD_CFI=yes