diff -ru a/runtime/cmake/platform/toolcfg/gnu.cmake b/runtime/cmake/platform/toolcfg/gnu.cmake
--- a/runtime/cmake/platform/toolcfg/gnu.cmake	2021-07-20 17:24:52.000000000 -0400
+++ b/runtime/cmake/platform/toolcfg/gnu.cmake	2021-08-07 09:46:15.685325927 -0400
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0 OR LicenseRef-GPL-2.0 WITH Assembly-exception
 ################################################################################
 
-list(APPEND OMR_PLATFORM_COMPILE_OPTIONS -O3 -g -fstack-protector)
 list(APPEND OMR_PLATFORM_C_COMPILE_OPTIONS -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type)
 list(APPEND OMR_PLATFORM_CXX_COMPILE_OPTIONS -fno-threadsafe-statics)