diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index df20f94..3586697 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ NOSSP_SRCS = $(wildcard crt/*.c) \
 	src/ldso/dlstart.c src/ldso/dynlink.c
 $(NOSSP_SRCS:%.c=%.o) $(NOSSP_SRCS:%.c=%.lo): CFLAGS_ALL += $(CFLAGS_NOSSP)
 
+# TODO: update the list when aliasing violations are fixed
+NOLTO_SRCS = $(wildcard crt/*.c) \
+	src/ldso/dlstart.c \
+	src/string/stpcpy.c src/string/strlen.c \
+	src/string/strchrnul.c src/string/memchr.c \
+	src/string/memccpy.c str/string/strlcpy.c \
+	src/string/strncpy.c
+$(NOLTO_SRCS:%.c=%.o) $(NOLTO_SRCS:%.c=%.lo): CFLAGS_ALL += $(CFLAGS_NOLTO)
+
 $(CRT_LIBS:lib/%=crt/%): CFLAGS_ALL += -DCRT
 
 # This incantation ensures that changes to any subarch asm files will
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ee21771..4672ebb 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ CFLAGS_C99FSE=
 CFLAGS_AUTO=
 CFLAGS_MEMOPS=
 CFLAGS_NOSSP=
+CFLAGS_NOLTO=
 CFLAGS_TRY=
 LDFLAGS_AUTO=
 LDFLAGS_TRY=
@@ -344,6 +345,13 @@ tryflag CFLAGS_C99FSE -Wa,--noexecstack
 tryflag CFLAGS_NOSSP -fno-stack-protector
 
 #
+# Check for options to disable LTO, which is needed for executable
+# entry points and functions with aliasing violations.  If not found,
+# this is not an error; we assume the toolchain does not do LTO.
+#
+tryflag CFLAGS_NOLTO -fno-lto
+
+#
 # 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
@@ -660,6 +668,7 @@ CFLAGS_AUTO = $CFLAGS_AUTO
 CFLAGS_C99FSE = $CFLAGS_C99FSE
 CFLAGS_MEMOPS = $CFLAGS_MEMOPS
 CFLAGS_NOSSP = $CFLAGS_NOSSP
+CFLAGS_NOLTO = $CFLAGS_NOLTO
 CPPFLAGS = $CPPFLAGS
 LDFLAGS = $LDFLAGS
 LDFLAGS_AUTO = $LDFLAGS_AUTO