diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c6b8aafef9..f11f2b2059 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -785,6 +785,7 @@ if test x$use_hardening != xno; then
   AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([[-Wl,--high-entropy-va]], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,--high-entropy-va"],, [[$LDFLAG_WERROR]])
   AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([[-Wl,-z,relro]], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,relro"],, [[$LDFLAG_WERROR]])
   AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([[-Wl,-z,now]], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,now"],, [[$LDFLAG_WERROR]])
+  AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([[-Wl,-z,separate-code]], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,separate-code"],, [[$LDFLAG_WERROR]])
   AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([[-fPIE -pie]], [PIE_FLAGS="-fPIE"; HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -pie"],, [[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
 
   case $host in