diff --git a/core/binary.mk b/core/binary.mk
index 936b429..ae01860 100644
--- a/core/binary.mk
+++ b/core/binary.mk
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
 my_cxx := $(LOCAL_CXX)
 my_c_includes := $(LOCAL_C_INCLUDES)
 my_generated_sources := $(LOCAL_GENERATED_SOURCES)
+my_native_coverage := $(LOCAL_NATIVE_COVERAGE)
 
 # MinGW spits out warnings about -fPIC even for -fpie?!) being ignored because
 # all code is position independent, and then those warnings get promoted to
@@ -321,6 +322,31 @@
 my_target_global_ldflags := $($(LOCAL_2ND_ARCH_VAR_PREFIX)TARGET_GLOBAL_LDFLAGS)
 endif # my_clang
 
+# If the global flag NATIVE_COVERAGE is set, my_native_coverage will be true
+# unless the module explicitly sets my_native_coverage := false.
+ifeq ($(NATIVE_COVERAGE),true)
+    ifeq ($(my_native_coverage),true)
+        # We can't currently generate coverage for clang binaries for two
+        # reasons:
+        #
+        # 1) b/17574078 We currently don't have a prebuilt
+        #    libclang_rt.profile-<ARCH>.a, which clang is hardcoded to link if
+        #    --coverage is passed in the link stage. For now we manually link
+        #    libprofile_rt (which is the name it is built as from
+        #    external/compiler-rt).
+        #
+        # 2) b/17583330 Clang doesn't generate .gcno files when using
+        #    -no-integrated-as. Since most of the assembly in our tree is
+        #    incompatible with clang's assembler, we can't turn off this flag.
+        ifneq ($(my_clang),true)
+            my_target_global_cflags += --coverage
+            my_target_global_ldflags += --coverage
+        endif
+    endif
+else
+    my_native_coverage := false
+endif
+
 $(LOCAL_INTERMEDIATE_TARGETS): PRIVATE_TARGET_PROJECT_INCLUDES := $(my_target_project_includes)
 $(LOCAL_INTERMEDIATE_TARGETS): PRIVATE_TARGET_C_INCLUDES := $(my_target_c_includes)
 $(LOCAL_INTERMEDIATE_TARGETS): PRIVATE_TARGET_GLOBAL_CFLAGS := $(my_target_global_cflags)