diff --git a/cc/lto.go b/cc/lto.go
index df9ca0a..281b527 100644
--- a/cc/lto.go
+++ b/cc/lto.go
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
 // optimized at link time and may not be compatible with features that require
 // LTO, such as CFI.
 //
-// This file adds support to soong to automatically propogate LTO options to a
+// This file adds support to soong to automatically propagate LTO options to a
 // new variant of all static dependencies for each module with LTO enabled.
 
 type LTOProperties struct {
-	// Lto must violate capitialization style for acronyms so that it can be
+	// Lto must violate capitalization style for acronyms so that it can be
 	// referred to in blueprint files as "lto"
 	Lto struct {
 		Never *bool `android:"arch_variant"`
@@ -67,10 +67,12 @@
 }
 
 func (lto *lto) begin(ctx BaseModuleContext) {
-	// First, determine the module indepedent default LTO mode.
+	// First, determine the module independent default LTO mode.
 	ltoDefault := GlobalThinLTO(ctx)
 	if ctx.Config().IsEnvTrue("DISABLE_LTO") {
 		ltoDefault = false
+	} else if lto.Never() {
+		ltoDefault = false
 	} else if ctx.Host() {
 		// Performance and binary size are less important for host binaries.
 		ltoDefault = false