diff --git a/clang/tools/clang-linker-wrapper/ClangLinkerWrapper.cpp b/clang/tools/clang-linker-wrapper/ClangLinkerWrapper.cpp
index 63ad6ce730418..9648635dc0d38 100644
--- a/clang/tools/clang-linker-wrapper/ClangLinkerWrapper.cpp
+++ b/clang/tools/clang-linker-wrapper/ClangLinkerWrapper.cpp
@@ -942,7 +942,29 @@ static void addBackendOptions(const ArgList &Args,
                               SmallVector<StringRef, 8> &CmdArgs, bool IsCPU) {
   StringRef OptC =
       Args.getLastArgValue(OPT_sycl_backend_compile_options_from_image_EQ);
-  OptC.split(CmdArgs, " ", /*MaxSplit=*/-1, /*KeepEmpty=*/false);
+  if (IsCPU) {
+    OptC.split(CmdArgs, " ", /*MaxSplit=*/-1, /*KeepEmpty=*/false);
+  } else {
+    // ocloc -options args need to be comma separated, e.g. `-options
+    // "-g,-cl-opt-disable"`. Otherwise, only the first arg is processed by
+    // ocloc as an arg for -options, and the rest are processed as standalone
+    // flags, possibly leading to errors.
+    // split function here returns a pair with everything before the separator
+    // ("-options") in the first member of the pair, and everything after the
+    // separator in the second part of the pair. The separator is not included
+    // in any of them.
+    auto [BeforeOptions, AfterOptions] = OptC.split("-options ");
+    // Only add if not empty, an empty arg can lead to ocloc errors.
+    if (!BeforeOptions.empty())
+      CmdArgs.push_back(BeforeOptions);
+    if (!AfterOptions.empty()) {
+      // Separator not included by the split function, so explicitly added here.
+      CmdArgs.push_back("-options");
+      std::string Replace = AfterOptions.str();
+      std::replace(Replace.begin(), Replace.end(), ' ', ',');
+      CmdArgs.push_back(Args.MakeArgString(Replace));
+    }
+  }
   StringRef OptL =
       Args.getLastArgValue(OPT_sycl_backend_link_options_from_image_EQ);
   OptL.split(CmdArgs, " ", /*MaxSplit=*/-1, /*KeepEmpty=*/false);