diff --git a/config/libc/newlib.in.2 b/config/libc/newlib.in.2
index 48e5503f..927cce89 100644
--- a/config/libc/newlib.in.2
+++ b/config/libc/newlib.in.2
@@ -26,6 +26,41 @@ config LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_LDBL
     help
       Enable support for IOs on long doubles.
 
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_POS_ARGS
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable printf-family positional arg support"
+    help
+        Enable printf-family positional arg support.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_FVWRITE_IN_STREAMIO
+    bool
+    prompt "Vector buffer mechanism to support stream IO buffering"
+    default y
+    help
+        NEWLIB implements the vector buffer mechanism to support stream IO
+        buffering required by C standard.  This feature is possibly
+        unnecessary for embedded systems which won't change file buffering
+        with functions like `setbuf' or `setvbuf'.  The buffering mechanism
+        still acts as default for STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR even if this option
+        is specified.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_UNBUF_STREAM_OPT
+    bool
+    prompt "Optimize fprintf to unbuffered unix file"
+    default y
+    help
+        NEWLIB does optimization when `fprintf to write only unbuffered unix
+        file'.  It creates a temorary buffer to do the optimization that
+        increases stack consumption by about `BUFSIZ' bytes. Disabling this option
+        disables the optimization and saves size of text and stack.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_FSEEK_OPTIMIZATION
+    bool
+    prompt "Fseek optimisation"
+    default y
+    help
+        Disabling fseek optimisation can decrease code size.
+
 config LIBC_NEWLIB_DISABLE_SUPPLIED_SYSCALLS
     bool
     prompt "Disable the syscalls supplied with newlib"
@@ -35,15 +70,82 @@ config LIBC_NEWLIB_DISABLE_SUPPLIED_SYSCALLS
       _write... If you plan to port newlib to a new
       platform/board, say Yes.
 
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_REGISTER_FINI
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable finalization function registration using atexit"
+    help
+        Enable finalization function registration using atexit.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_ATEXIT_DYNAMIC_ALLOC
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable dynamic allocation of atexit entries"
+    default y
+    help
+        Enable dynamic allocation of atexit entries.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_GLOBAL_ATEXIT
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable atexit data structure as global variable"
+    help
+        Enable atexit data structure as global variable.  By doing so it is
+        move out of _reent structure, and can be garbage collected if atexit
+        is not referenced.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_LITE_EXIT
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable lite exit"
+    help
+        Enable lite exit, a size-reduced implementation of exit that doesn't
+        invoke clean-up functions such as _fini or global destructors.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_REENT_SMALL
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable small reentrant struct support"
+    help
+        Enable small reentrant struct support.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_MULTITHREAD
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable support for multiple threads"
+    default y
+    help
+        Enable support for multiple threads.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_EXTRA_SECTIONS
+    bool
+    prompt "Place each function & data element in their own section"
+    help
+        Place each function & data symbol in their own section. This allows
+        the linker to garbage collect unused symbols at link time.
+
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_WIDE_ORIENT
+    bool
+    prompt "Allow wide C99 stream orientation"
+    default y
+    help
+        C99 states that each stream has an orientation, wide or byte.  This
+        feature is possibly unnecessary for embedded systems which only do
+        byte input/output operations on stream. Disabling this feature can
+        decrease code size.
+
 config LIBC_NEWLIB_ENABLE_TARGET_OPTSPACE
     bool
     prompt "Optimize newlib for size"
     default y
     help
       Pass --enable-target-optspace to newlib configure.
-      
+
       This will compile newlib with -Os.
 
+config LIBC_NEWLIB_LTO
+    bool
+    prompt "Enable Link Time Optimization"
+    help
+      Builds the libraries with -flto to enable more aggressive link time
+      optimization. You will need to add -flto-partition=one to your
+      application's link line to keep the RETURN assembler macro together
+      with it's consumers.
+
 config LIBC_NEWLIB_NANO_MALLOC
     bool
     prompt "Enable Nano Malloc"
diff --git a/samples/arm-nano-eabi/crosstool.config b/samples/arm-nano-eabi/crosstool.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..697eef15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/arm-nano-eabi/crosstool.config
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+CT_LOCAL_TARBALLS_DIR="${HOME}/src"
+CT_SAVE_TARBALLS=y
+CT_LOG_EXTRA=y
+CT_ARCH_FLOAT_SW=y
+CT_ARCH_arm=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_C99FMT=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_LL=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_FLOAT=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_DISABLE_SUPPLIED_SYSCALLS=y
+CT_CC_LANG_CXX=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_POS_ARGS=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_FVWRITE_IN_STREAMIO=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_UNBUF_STREAM_OPT=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_FSEEK_OPTIMIZATION=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_REGISTER_FINI=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_ATEXIT_DYNAMIC_ALLOC=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_GLOBAL_ATEXIT=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_LITE_EXIT=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_REENT_SMALL=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_MULTITHREAD=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_EXTRA_SECTIONS=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_WIDE_ORIENT=n
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_ENABLE_TARGET_OPTSPACE=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_NANO_MALLOC=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_NANO_FORMATTED_IO=y
+CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_LTO=y
+CT_MULTILIB=y
+
diff --git a/samples/arm-nano-eabi/reported.by b/samples/arm-nano-eabi/reported.by
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f6f49a98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/arm-nano-eabi/reported.by
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+reporter_name="Alastair D'Silva"
+reporter_url="http://alastair.d-silva.org/"
+reporter_comment="Based on arm-unknown-eabi"
diff --git a/scripts/build/libc/newlib.sh b/scripts/build/libc/newlib.sh
index 6ae579ba..0a87581e 100644
--- a/scripts/build/libc/newlib.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/libc/newlib.sh
@@ -66,16 +66,6 @@ do_libc() {
         extra_config+=("--disable-multilib")
     fi
 
-    if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_C99FMT}" = "y" ]; then
-        newlib_opts+=( "--enable-newlib-io-c99-formats" )
-    else
-        newlib_opts+=( "--disable-newlib-io-c99-formats" )
-    fi
-    if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_LL}" = "y" ]; then
-        newlib_opts+=( "--enable-newlib-io-long-long" )
-    else
-        newlib_opts+=( "--disable-newlib-io-long-long" )
-    fi
     if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_FLOAT}" = "y" ]; then
         newlib_opts+=( "--enable-newlib-io-float" )
         if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_IO_LDBL}" = "y" ]; then
@@ -87,17 +77,47 @@ do_libc() {
         newlib_opts+=( "--disable-newlib-io-float" )
         newlib_opts+=( "--disable-newlib-io-long-double" )
     fi
+
     if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_DISABLE_SUPPLIED_SYSCALLS}" = "y" ]; then
         newlib_opts+=( "--disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls" )
     else
         newlib_opts+=( "--enable-newlib-supplied-syscalls" )
     fi
-    if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_NANO_MALLOC}" = "y" ]; then
-        newlib_opts+=( "--enable-newlib-nano-malloc" )
-    fi
-    if [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_NANO_FORMATTED_IO}" = "y" ]; then
-        newlib_opts+=( "--enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io" )
-    fi
+
+    yn_args="IO_POS_ARGS:newlib-io-pos-args
+IO_C99FMT:newlib-io-c99-formats
+IO_LL:newlib-io-long-long
+NEWLIB_REGISTER_FINI:newlib-register-fini
+NANO_MALLOC:newlib-nano-malloc
+NANO_FORMATTED_IO:newlib-nano-formatted-io
+ATEXIT_DYNAMIC_ALLOC:atexit-dynamic-alloc
+GLOBAL_ATEXIT:newlib-global-atexit
+LITE_EXIT:lite-exit
+REENT_SMALL:reent-small
+MULTITHREAD:multithread
+WIDE_ORIENT:newlib-wide-orient
+UNBUF_STREAM_OPT:unbuf-stream-opt
+ENABLE_TARGET_OPTSPACE:target-optspace
+    "
+
+    for ynarg in $yn_args; do
+        var="CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_${ynarg%:*}"
+        eval var=\$${var}
+        argument=${ynarg#*:}
+
+
+        if [ "${var}" = "y" ]; then
+            newlib_opts+=( "--enable-$argument" )
+        else
+            newlib_opts+=( "--disable-$argument" )
+        fi
+    done
+
+    [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_EXTRA_SECTIONS}" = "y" ] && \
+        CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_TARGET_CFLAGS="${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_TARGET_CFLAGS} -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections"
+
+    [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_LTO}" = "y" ] && \
+        CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_TARGET_CFLAGS="${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_TARGET_CFLAGS} -flto"
 
     [ "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_ENABLE_TARGET_OPTSPACE}" = "y" ] && newlib_opts+=("--enable-target-optspace")
 
@@ -108,16 +128,16 @@ do_libc() {
     #   build  : not used
     #   host   : the machine building newlib
     #   target : the machine newlib runs on
-    CT_DoExecLog CFG                                    \
-    CC_FOR_BUILD="${CT_BUILD}-gcc"                      \
-    CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET="${cflags_for_target}"            \
-    AR=${CT_TARGET}-ar                                  \
-    RANLIB=${CT_TARGET}-ranlib                          \
-    "${CT_SRC_DIR}/newlib-${CT_LIBC_VERSION}/configure" \
-        --host=${CT_BUILD}                              \
-        --target=${CT_TARGET}                           \
-        --prefix=${CT_PREFIX_DIR}                       \
-        "${newlib_opts[@]}"                             \
+    CT_DoExecLog CFG                                               \
+    CC_FOR_BUILD="${CT_BUILD}-gcc"                                 \
+    CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET="${cflags_for_target}"                       \
+    AR_FOR_TARGET="`which ${CT_TARGET}-gcc-ar`"                    \
+    RANLIB_FOR_TARGET="`which ${CT_TARGET}-gcc-ranlib`"            \
+    "${CT_SRC_DIR}/newlib-${CT_LIBC_VERSION}/configure"            \
+        --host=${CT_BUILD}                                         \
+        --target=${CT_TARGET}                                      \
+        --prefix=${CT_PREFIX_DIR}                                  \
+        "${newlib_opts[@]}"                                        \
         "${CT_LIBC_NEWLIB_EXTRA_CONFIG_ARRAY[@]}"
 
     CT_DoLog EXTRA "Building C library"