1 ; Options for the language- and target-independent parts of the compiler.
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21 ; See c.opt for a description of this file's format.
23 ; Please try to keep this file in ASCII collating order.
27 Display this information
31 --param <param>=<value> Set paramter <param> to value. See below for a complete list of parameters
40 Common Joined Separate UInteger
41 -G<number> Put global and static data smaller than <number> bytes into a special section (on some targets)
44 Common JoinedOrMissing
45 -O<number> Set optimization level to <number>
49 Optimize for space rather than speed
53 This switch is deprecated; use -Wextra instead
57 Warn about returning structures, unions or arrays
61 Warn about pointer casts which increase alignment
63 Wdeprecated-declarations
65 Warn about uses of __attribute__((deprecated)) declarations
67 Wdisabled-optimization
69 Warn when an optimization pass is disabled
73 Treat all warnings as errors
77 Print extra (possibly unwanted) warnings
81 Exit on the first error occurred
85 Warn when an inlined function cannot be inlined
88 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
89 -Wlarger-than-<number> Warn if an object is larger than <number> bytes
93 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((noreturn))
97 Warn when the packed attribute has no effect on struct layout
101 Warn when padding is required to align structure members
105 Warn when one local variable shadows another
109 Warn about code which might break strict aliasing rules
112 Common Joined UInteger
113 Warn about code which might break strict aliasing rules
117 Warn about enumerated switches, with no default, missing a case
121 Warn about enumerated switches missing a \"default:\" statement
125 Warn about all enumerated switches missing a specific case
129 Do not suppress warnings from system headers
133 Warn about uninitialized automatic variables
137 Warn about code that will never be executed
141 Enable all -Wunused- warnings
145 Warn when a function is unused
149 Warn when a label is unused
153 Warn when a function parameter is unused
157 Warn when an expression value is unused
161 Warn when a variable is unused
165 -aux-info <file> Emit declaration information into <file>
178 -d<letters> Enable dumps from specific passes of the compiler
182 -dumpbase <file> Set the file basename to be used for dumps
191 Common Joined UInteger
195 Align the start of functions
198 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
202 Align labels which are only reached by jumping
205 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
212 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
216 Align the start of loops
219 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
223 Specify that arguments may alias each other and globals
227 Assume arguments may alias globals but not each other
229 fargument-noalias-global
231 Assume arguments alias neither each other nor globals
233 fasynchronous-unwind-tables
235 Generate unwind tables that are exact at each instruction boundary
239 Generate code to check bounds before indexing arrays
243 Replace add, compare, branch with branch on count register
245 fbranch-probabilities
247 Use profiling information for branch probabilities
249 fbranch-target-load-optimize
251 Perform branch target load optimization before prologue / epilogue threading
253 fbranch-target-load-optimize2
255 Perform branch target load optimization after prologue / epilogue threading
259 Restrict target load migration not to re-use registers in any basic block
262 Common Joined RejectNegative
263 -fcall-saved-<register> Mark <register> as being preserved across functions
266 Common Joined RejectNegative
267 -fcall-used-<register> Mark <register> as being corrupted by function calls
271 Save registers around function calls
275 Do not put uninitialized globals in the common section
279 Perform a register copy-propagation optimization pass
283 Perform cross-jumping optimization
287 When running CSE, follow jumps to their targets
291 When running CSE, follow conditional jumps
295 Place data items into their own section
299 Defer popping functions args from stack until later
303 Attempt to fill delay slots of branch instructions
305 fdelete-null-pointer-checks
307 Delete useless null pointer checks
309 fdiagnostics-show-location=
310 Common Joined RejectNegative
311 -fdiagnostics-show-location=[once|every-line] How often to emit source location at the beginning of line-wrapped diagnostics
315 Suppress output of instruction numbers and line number notes in debugging dumps
317 feliminate-dwarf2-dups
319 Perform DWARF2 duplicate elimination
321 feliminate-unused-debug-symbols
323 Perform unused type elimination in debug info
325 feliminate-unused-debug-types
327 Perform unused type elimination in debug info
331 Enable exception handling
333 fexpensive-optimizations
335 Perform a number of minor, expensive optimizations
342 Assume no NaNs or infinities are generated
345 Common Joined RejectNegative
346 -ffixed-<register> Mark <register> as being unavailable to the compiler
350 Do not store floats in registers
354 Copy memory address constants into registers before use
358 Copy memory operands into registers before use
362 Allow function addresses to be held in registers
366 Place each function into its own section
370 Perform global common subexpression elimination
374 Perform enhanced load motion during global common subexpression elimination
378 Perform store motion after global common subexpression elimination
382 Perform redundant load after store elimination in global common subexpression
387 Perform global common subexpression elimination after register allocation
390 fguess-branch-probability
392 Enable guessing of branch probabilities
396 Process #ident directives
400 Perform conversion of conditional jumps to branchless equivalents
404 Perform conversion of conditional jumps to conditional execution
406 finhibit-size-directive
408 Do not generate .size directives
412 Pay attention to the \"inline\" keyword
416 Integrate simple functions into their callers
419 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
422 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
423 -finline-limit=<number> Limit the size of inlined functions to <number>
425 finstrument-functions
427 Instrument function entry and exit with profiling calls
429 fkeep-inline-functions
431 Generate code for functions even if they are fully inlined
435 Emit static const variables even if they are not used
439 Give external symbols a leading underscore
443 Perform loop optimizations
447 Set errno after built-in math functions
451 Report on permanent memory allocation
455 Attempt to merge identical constants and constant variables
459 Attempt to merge identical constants across compilation units
462 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
463 -fmessage-length=<number> Limit diagnostics to <number> characters per line. 0 suppresses line-wrapping
467 Force all loop invariant computations out of loops
471 Use graph-coloring register allocation
475 Support synchronous non-call exceptions
479 Perform loop unrolling when iteration count is known
481 fold-unroll-all-loops
483 Perform loop unrolling for all loops
487 When possible do not generate stack frames
489 foptimize-register-move
491 Do the full register move optimization pass
493 foptimize-sibling-calls
495 Optimize sibling and tail recursive calls
499 Pack structure members together without holes
503 Return small aggregates in memory, not registers
511 Enable machine specific peephole optimizations
515 Enable an RTL peephole pass before sched2
519 Generate position-independent code if possible
523 Generate position-independent code for executables if possible
525 fprefetch-loop-arrays
527 Generate prefetch instructions, if available, for arrays in loops
531 Enable basic program profiling code
535 Insert arc-based program profiling code
539 Enable common options for generating profile info for profile feedback directed optimizations
543 Enable common options for performing profile feedback directed optimizations
547 Insert code to profile values of expressions
553 Common Joined RejectNegative
554 -frandom-seed=<string> Make compile reproducible using <string>
558 Strength reduce all loop general induction variables
562 Return small aggregates in registers
566 Enables a register move optimization
570 Perform a register renaming optimization pass
574 Reorder basic blocks to improve code placement
576 freorder-blocks-and-partition
578 Reorder basic blocks and partition into hot and cold sections
582 Reorder functions to improve code placement
584 frerun-cse-after-loop
586 Add a common subexpression elimination pass after loop optimizations
590 Run the loop optimizer twice
594 Disable optimizations that assume default FP rounding behavior
598 Enable scheduling across basic blocks
602 Allow speculative motion of non-loads
606 Allow speculative motion of some loads
608 fsched-spec-load-dangerous
610 Allow speculative motion of more loads
613 Common RejectNegative Joined
614 -fsched-verbose=<number> Set the verbosity level of the scheduler
616 fsched2-use-superblocks
618 If scheduling post reload, do superblock scheduling
622 If scheduling post reload, do trace scheduling
626 Reschedule instructions before register allocation
630 Reschedule instructions after register allocation
634 Allow premature scheduling of queued insns
636 fsched-stalled-insns=
637 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
638 -fsched-stalled-insns=<number> Set number of queued insns that can be prematurely scheduled
640 fsched-stalled-insns-dep
642 Set dependence distance checking in premature scheduling of queued insns
644 fsched-stalled-insns-dep=
645 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
646 -fsched-stalled-insns-dep=<number> Set dependence distance checking in premature scheduling of queued insns
650 Mark data as shared rather than private
654 Disable optimizations observable by IEEE signaling NaNs
656 fsingle-precision-constant
658 Convert floating point constants to single precision constants
662 Insert stack checking code into the program
667 fstack-limit-register=
668 Common RejectNegative Joined
669 -fstack-limit-register=<register> Trap if the stack goes past <register>
672 Common RejectNegative Joined
673 -fstack-limit-symbol=<name> Trap if the stack goes past symbol <name>
677 Perform strength reduction optimizations
681 Assume strict aliasing rules apply
685 Check for syntax errors, then stop
689 Create data files needed by \"gcov\"
693 Perform jump threading optimizations
697 Report the time taken by each compiler pass
700 Common Joined RejectNegative
701 -ftls-model=[global-dynamic|local-dynamic|initial-exec|local-exec] Set the default thread-local storage code generation model
705 Perform superblock formation via tail duplication
709 Assume floating-point operations can trap
713 Trap for signed overflow in addition, subtraction and multiplication
717 Compile whole compilation unit at a time
721 Perform loop unrolling when iteration count is known
725 Perform loop unrolling for all loops
727 funsafe-math-optimizations
729 Allow math optimizations that may violate IEEE or ISO standards
733 Perform loop unswitching
737 Just generate unwind tables for exception handling
741 Perform variable tracking
745 Add extra commentary to assembler output
749 Use expression value profiles in optimizations
753 Construct webs and split unrelated uses of single variable
757 Assume signed arithmetic overflow wraps around
759 fzero-initialized-in-bss
761 Put zero initialized data in the bss section
764 Common JoinedOrMissing
765 Generate debug information in default format
768 Common JoinedOrMissing
769 Generate debug information in COFF format
772 Common JoinedOrMissing
773 Generate debug information in DWARF v2 format
776 Common JoinedOrMissing
777 Generate debug information in default extended format
780 Common JoinedOrMissing
781 Generate debug information in STABS format
784 Common JoinedOrMissing
785 Generate debug information in extended STABS format
788 Common JoinedOrMissing
789 Generate debug information in VMS format
792 Common JoinedOrMissing
793 Generate debug information in XCOFF format
796 Common JoinedOrMissing
797 Generate debug information in extended XCOFF format
803 Common Joined Separate
804 -o <file> Place output into <file>
808 Enable function profiling
812 Issue warnings needed for strict compliance to the standard
816 Like -pedantic but issue them as errors
820 Do not display functions compiled or elapsed time
824 Display the compiler's version
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