diff --git a/dev-util/cccc/cccc-3.1.6-r1.ebuild b/dev-util/cccc/cccc-3.1.6-r1.ebuild
index c856cbe32bd5c..bd20dbc7f7e87 100644
--- a/dev-util/cccc/cccc-3.1.6-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/cccc/cccc-3.1.6-r1.ebuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 	default
 
 	use mfc && eapply "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-c_dialect.patch
-	is-flagq -flto* && filter-flags -fuse-linker-plugin
+	tc-is-lto && filter-flags -fuse-linker-plugin
 	filter-lto
 }