the clang internal assembler does not accept assembler options passed via the usual -Wa mechanism, but it does accept -mimplicit-it directly as an option to the compiler driver.
@@ -579,6 +579,7 @@ fi
if test "$ARCH" = "arm" ; then
if trycppif __thumb2__ "$t" ; then
+tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -mimplicit-it=always
tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -Wa,-mimplicit-it=always
tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -Wa,-mthumb
fi