From cb5ddfa16c6b8d362573f5a3b9b675ae22f21197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Geiger <lukas.geiger94@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 15:26:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gh-148501: Disable AArch64 Mach-O LOH for JIT stencils

---
 Tools/jit/_targets.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Tools/jit/_targets.py b/Tools/jit/_targets.py
index ceee383ea680d74..30a9469d0f0d371 100644
--- a/Tools/jit/_targets.py
+++ b/Tools/jit/_targets.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class _Target(typing.Generic[_S, _R]):
     condition: str
     _: dataclasses.KW_ONLY
     args: typing.Sequence[str] = ()
+    stencil_args: typing.Sequence[str] = ()
     optimizer: type[_optimizers.Optimizer] = _optimizers.Optimizer
     label_prefix: typing.ClassVar[str]
     symbol_prefix: typing.ClassVar[str]
@@ -250,6 +251,7 @@ async def _build_stencil_group(
         if self.frame_pointers:
             args_s += ["-Xclang", "-mframe-pointer=reserved"]
         args_s += self._compile_args()
+        args_s += self.stencil_args
         # Allow user-provided CFLAGS to override any defaults
         args_s += shlex.split(self.cflags)
         await _llvm.run(
@@ -720,7 +722,12 @@ def get_target(host: str) -> _COFF32 | _COFF64 | _ELF | _MachO:
         host = "aarch64-apple-darwin"
         condition = "defined(__aarch64__) && defined(__APPLE__)"
         optimizer = _optimizers.OptimizerAArch64
-        target = _MachO(host, condition, optimizer=optimizer)
+        target = _MachO(
+            host,
+            condition,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            stencil_args=["-mllvm", "-aarch64-enable-collect-loh=false"],
+        )
     elif re.fullmatch(r"aarch64-pc-windows-msvc", host):
         host = "aarch64-pc-windows-msvc"
         condition = "defined(_M_ARM64)"

From df47b129ce60f5a7d75159a9171e0de22b0aae77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Geiger <lukas.geiger94@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 16:13:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add NEWS entry

---
 .../2026-09-06-16-13-12.gh-issue-148501.a5odxo.rst              | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-09-06-16-13-12.gh-issue-148501.a5odxo.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-09-06-16-13-12.gh-issue-148501.a5odxo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-09-06-16-13-12.gh-issue-148501.a5odxo.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..7039045d9eabc3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-09-06-16-13-12.gh-issue-148501.a5odxo.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Improve JIT stencils on macOS AArch64 by disabling unused linker
+optimization hints.