diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e7db67a..0fe9274 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -301,7 +301,8 @@
 
 CFLAGS          := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
                    -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
-                   -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Os -pipe
+                   -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Os -pipe \
+                   -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
 AFLAGS          := -D__ASSEMBLY__
 
 LDFLAGS_barebox	:= -Map barebox.map