diff --git a/cc/cc_test.go b/cc/cc_test.go
index 38f6383..6c08ac4 100644
--- a/cc/cc_test.go
+++ b/cc/cc_test.go
@@ -4076,7 +4076,7 @@
 		{
 			name:     "assemble",
 			src:      "foo.s",
-			expected: combineSlices(baseExpectedFlags, []string{"-D__ASSEMBLY__", "-fdebug-default-version=4"}, expectedIncludes, lastIncludes),
+			expected: combineSlices(baseExpectedFlags, []string{"${config.CommonGlobalAsflags}"}, expectedIncludes, lastIncludes),
 		},
 	}
 
diff --git a/cc/compiler.go b/cc/compiler.go
index cd1d92c..5c061b1 100644
--- a/cc/compiler.go
+++ b/cc/compiler.go
@@ -493,11 +493,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	flags.Global.AsFlags = append(flags.Global.AsFlags, "-D__ASSEMBLY__")
-
-	// TODO(b/235105792): override global -fdebug-default-version=5, it is causing $TMPDIR to
-	// end up in the dwarf data for crtend_so.S.
-	flags.Global.AsFlags = append(flags.Global.AsFlags, "-fdebug-default-version=4")
+	flags.Global.AsFlags = append(flags.Global.AsFlags, "${config.CommonGlobalAsflags}")
 
 	flags.Global.CppFlags = append(flags.Global.CppFlags, tc.Cppflags())
 
diff --git a/cc/config/global.go b/cc/config/global.go
index b09598a..c5fde55 100644
--- a/cc/config/global.go
+++ b/cc/config/global.go
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@
 
 	commonGlobalConlyflags = []string{}
 
+	commonGlobalAsflags = []string{
+		"-D__ASSEMBLY__",
+		// TODO(b/235105792): override global -fdebug-default-version=5, it is causing $TMPDIR to
+		// end up in the dwarf data for crtend_so.S.
+		"-fdebug-default-version=4",
+	}
+
 	deviceGlobalCflags = []string{
 		"-ffunction-sections",
 		"-fdata-sections",
@@ -313,6 +320,7 @@
 	}
 
 	exportedVars.ExportStringListStaticVariable("CommonGlobalConlyflags", commonGlobalConlyflags)
+	exportedVars.ExportStringListStaticVariable("CommonGlobalAsflags", commonGlobalAsflags)
 	exportedVars.ExportStringListStaticVariable("DeviceGlobalCppflags", deviceGlobalCppflags)
 	exportedVars.ExportStringListStaticVariable("DeviceGlobalLdflags", deviceGlobalLdflags)
 	exportedVars.ExportStringListStaticVariable("DeviceGlobalLldflags", deviceGlobalLldflags)