diff --git a/package/dmalloc/Config.in b/package/dmalloc/Config.in
index e5be109332..0c01970b04 100644
--- a/package/dmalloc/Config.in
+++ b/package/dmalloc/Config.in
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_DMALLOC
 	bool "dmalloc"
-	# On some packages, Microblaze gcc has issues when debugging
-	# symbols are enabled: "Error: operation combines symbols in
-	# different segments".
-	depends on !(BR2_microblaze && BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG)
 	help
 	  A debug memory allocation library which is a drop in
 	  replacement for the system's malloc, realloc, calloc, free and
diff --git a/package/dmalloc/dmalloc.mk b/package/dmalloc/dmalloc.mk
index 6ebb44c5c0..38b2c02027 100644
--- a/package/dmalloc/dmalloc.mk
+++ b/package/dmalloc/dmalloc.mk
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB),y)
 DMALLOC_CFLAGS += -marm
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_GCC_BUG_63261),y)
+DMALLOC_CFLAGS += -O0
+endif
+
 DMALLOC_CONF_ENV = CFLAGS="$(DMALLOC_CFLAGS)"
 
 define DMALLOC_POST_PATCH