diff --git a/libc/Android.bp b/libc/Android.bp
index 018b7c0..8dcc017 100644
--- a/libc/Android.bp
+++ b/libc/Android.bp
@@ -1585,14 +1585,6 @@
     // Do not pack libc.so relocations; see http://b/20645321 for details.
     pack_relocations: false,
 
-    // WARNING: The only libraries libc.so should depend on are libdl.so and ld-android.so!
-    // If you add other libraries, make sure to add -Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc.a to the
-    // LOCAL_LDFLAGS for those libraries.  This ensures that symbols that are pulled into
-    // those new libraries from libgcc.a are not declared external; if that were the case,
-    // then libc would not pull those symbols from libgcc.a as it should, instead relying
-    // on the external symbols from the dependent libraries.  That would create a "cloaked"
-    // dependency on libgcc.a in libc though the libraries, which is not what you wanted!
-
     shared_libs: [
         "ld-android",
         "libdl",
diff --git a/libdl/Android.bp b/libdl/Android.bp
index f53d2d1..1bbd902 100644
--- a/libdl/Android.bp
+++ b/libdl/Android.bp
@@ -65,24 +65,6 @@
         "bug_24465209_workaround",
     ],
 
-    // NOTE: --exclude-libs=libgcc.a makes sure that any symbols libdl.so pulls from
-    // libgcc.a are made static to libdl.so.  This in turn ensures that libraries that
-    // a) pull symbols from libgcc.a and b) depend on libdl.so will not rely on libdl.so
-    // to provide those symbols, but will instead pull them from libgcc.a.  Specifically,
-    // we use this property to make sure libc.so has its own copy of the code from
-    // libgcc.a it uses.
-    //
-    // DO NOT REMOVE --exclude-libs!
-    ldflags: [
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_stripped.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-arm-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-aarch64-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-i686-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-riscv64-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-x86_64-android.a",
-    ],
-
     arch: {
         arm: {
             version_script: ":libdl.arm.map",
@@ -94,13 +76,9 @@
             version_script: ":libdl.riscv64.map",
         },
         x86: {
-            // Exclude libgcc_eh.a for the same reasons as above
-            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
             version_script: ":libdl.x86.map",
         },
         x86_64: {
-            // Exclude libgcc_eh.a for the same reasons as above
-            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
             version_script: ":libdl.x86_64.map",
         },
     },
@@ -159,37 +137,6 @@
     recovery_available: true,
     native_bridge_supported: true,
 
-    // NOTE: --exclude-libs=libgcc.a makes sure that any symbols libdl.so pulls from
-    // libgcc.a are made static to libdl.so.  This in turn ensures that libraries that
-    // a) pull symbols from libgcc.a and b) depend on libdl.so will not rely on libdl.so
-    // to provide those symbols, but will instead pull them from libgcc.a.  Specifically,
-    // we use this property to make sure libc.so has its own copy of the code from
-    // libgcc.a it uses.
-    //
-    // DO NOT REMOVE --exclude-libs!
-
-    ldflags: [
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_stripped.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-arm-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-aarch64-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-i686-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-riscv64-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-x86_64-android.a",
-    ],
-
-    // for x86, exclude libgcc_eh.a for the same reasons as above
-    arch: {
-        x86: {
-            ldflags: [
-                "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a",
-            ],
-        },
-        x86_64: {
-            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
-        },
-    },
-
     srcs: ["libdl_android.cpp"],
     version_script: "libdl_android.map.txt",
 
diff --git a/linker/Android.bp b/linker/Android.bp
index ce5eff9..143dbd5 100644
--- a/linker/Android.bp
+++ b/linker/Android.bp
@@ -1,14 +1,3 @@
-// ========================================================
-// linker_wrapper - Linux Bionic (on the host)
-// ========================================================
-
-// This is used for bionic on (host) Linux to bootstrap our linker embedded into
-// a binary.
-//
-// Host bionic binaries do not have a PT_INTERP section, instead this gets
-// embedded as the entry point, and the linker is embedded as ELF sections in
-// each binary. There's a linker script that sets all of that up (generated by
-// extract_linker), and defines the extern symbols used in this file.
 package {
     default_team: "trendy_team_native_tools_libraries",
     default_applicable_licenses: ["bionic_linker_license"],
@@ -25,6 +14,17 @@
     ],
 }
 
+// ========================================================
+// linker_wrapper - Linux Bionic (on the host)
+// ========================================================
+
+// This is used for bionic on (host) Linux to bootstrap our linker embedded into
+// a binary.
+//
+// Host bionic binaries do not have a PT_INTERP section, instead this gets
+// embedded as the entry point, and the linker is embedded as ELF sections in
+// each binary. There's a linker script that sets all of that up (generated by
+// extract_linker), and defines the extern symbols used in this file.
 cc_object {
     name: "linker_wrapper",
     host_supported: true,
@@ -327,8 +327,10 @@
         },
     },
 
+    static_executable: true,
+
     // -shared is used to overwrite the -Bstatic and -static flags triggered by enabling
-    // static_executable. This dynamic linker is actually a shared object linked with static
+    // static_executable. The dynamic linker is actually a shared object linked with static
     // libraries.
     ldflags: [
         "-shared",
@@ -344,18 +346,14 @@
         "-Wl,--pack-dyn-relocs=relr",
     ],
 
-    // we are going to link libc++_static manually because
-    // when stl is not set to "none" build system adds libdl
-    // to the list of static libraries which needs to be
-    // avoided in the case of building loader.
+    // We link libc++_static manually because otherwise the build system will
+    // automatically add libdl to the list of static libraries.
     stl: "none",
 
-    // we don't want crtbegin.o (because we have begin.o), so unset it
-    // just for this module
+    // We don't want crtbegin.o (because we have our own arch/*/begin.o),
+    // so unset it just for this module.
     nocrt: true,
 
-    static_executable: true,
-
     // Insert an extra objcopy step to add prefix to symbols. This is needed to prevent gdb
     // looking up symbols in the linker by mistake.
     prefix_symbols: "__dl_",
@@ -369,26 +367,17 @@
         "liblinker_main",
         "liblinker_malloc",
 
-        // Use a version of libc++ built without exceptions, because accessing EH globals uses
-        // ELF TLS, which is not supported in the loader.
+        // We use a version of libc++ built without exceptions,
+        // because accessing EH globals uses ELF TLS,
+        // which is not supported in the loader.
         "libc++_static_noexcept",
+
         "libc_nomalloc",
         "libc_dynamic_dispatch",
         "libm",
         "libunwind",
     ],
 
-    // Ensure that if the linker needs __gnu_Unwind_Find_exidx, then the linker will have a
-    // definition of the symbol. The linker links against libgcc.a, whose arm32 unwinder has a weak
-    // reference to __gnu_Unwind_Find_exidx, which isn't sufficient to pull in the strong definition
-    // of __gnu_Unwind_Find_exidx from libc. An unresolved weak reference would create a
-    // non-relative dynamic relocation in the linker binary, which complicates linker startup.
-    //
-    // This line should be unnecessary because the linker's dependency on libunwind_llvm.a should
-    // override libgcc.a, but this line provides a simpler guarantee. It can be removed once the
-    // linker stops linking against libgcc.a's arm32 unwinder.
-    whole_static_libs: ["libc_unwind_static"],
-
     system_shared_libs: [],
 
     // Opt out of native_coverage when opting out of system_shared_libs
@@ -475,35 +464,6 @@
 }
 
 cc_library {
-    // NOTE: --exclude-libs=libgcc.a makes sure that any symbols ld-android.so pulls from
-    // libgcc.a are made static to ld-android.so.  This in turn ensures that libraries that
-    // a) pull symbols from libgcc.a and b) depend on ld-android.so will not rely on ld-android.so
-    // to provide those symbols, but will instead pull them from libgcc.a.  Specifically,
-    // we use this property to make sure libc.so has its own copy of the code from
-    // libgcc.a it uses.
-    //
-    // DO NOT REMOVE --exclude-libs!
-
-    ldflags: [
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_stripped.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-arm-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-aarch64-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-riscv64-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-i686-android.a",
-        "-Wl,--exclude-libs=libclang_rt.builtins-x86_64-android.a",
-    ],
-
-    // for x86, exclude libgcc_eh.a for the same reasons as above
-    arch: {
-        x86: {
-            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
-        },
-        x86_64: {
-            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
-        },
-    },
-
     srcs: ["ld_android.cpp"],
     cflags: [
         "-Wall",