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 Warn when an inlined function cannot be inlined
84 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
85 -Wlarger-than-<number> Warn if an object is larger than <number> bytes
89 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((noreturn))
93 Warn when the packed attribute has no effect on struct layout
97 Warn when padding is required to align structure members
101 Warn when one local variable shadows another
105 Warn about code which might break strict aliasing rules
109 Warn about enumerated switches, with no default, missing a case
113 Warn about enumerated switches missing a \"default:\" statement
117 Warn about all enumerated switches missing a specific case
121 Do not suppress warnings from system headers
125 Warn about uninitialized automatic variables
129 Warn about code that will never be executed
133 Enable all -Wunused- warnings
137 Warn when a function is unused
141 Warn when a label is unused
145 Warn when a function parameter is unused
149 Warn when an expression value is unused
153 Warn when a variable is unused
157 -aux-info <file> Emit declaration information into <file>
170 -d<letters> Enable dumps from specific passes of the compiler
174 -dumpbase <file> Set the file basename to be used for dumps
183 Common Joined UInteger
187 Align the start of functions
190 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
194 Align labels which are only reached by jumping
197 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
204 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
208 Align the start of loops
211 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
215 Specify that arguments may alias each other and globals
219 Assume arguments may alias globals but not each other
221 fargument-noalias-global
223 Assume arguments alias neither each other nor globals
225 fasynchronous-unwind-tables
227 Generate unwind tables that are exact at each instruction boundary
231 Generate code to check bounds before indexing arrays
235 Replace add, compare, branch with branch on count register
237 fbranch-probabilities
239 Use profiling information for branch probabilities
241 fbranch-target-load-optimize
243 Perform branch target load optimization before prologue / epilogue threading
245 fbranch-target-load-optimize2
247 Perform branch target load optimization after prologue / epilogue threading
251 Restrict target load migration not to re-use registers in any basic block
254 Common Joined RejectNegative
255 -fcall-saved-<register> Mark <register> as being preserved across functions
258 Common Joined RejectNegative
259 -fcall-used-<register> Mark <register> as being corrupted by function calls
263 Save registers around function calls
267 Do not put uninitialized globals in the common section
271 Perform a register copy-propagation optimization pass
275 Perform cross-jumping optimization
279 When running CSE, follow jumps to their targets
283 When running CSE, follow conditional jumps
287 Place data items into their own section
291 Defer popping functions args from stack until later
295 Attempt to fill delay slots of branch instructions
297 fdelete-null-pointer-checks
299 Delete useless null pointer checks
301 fdiagnostics-show-location=
302 Common Joined RejectNegative
303 -fdiagnostics-show-location=[once|every-line] How often to emit source location at the beginning of line-wrapped diagnostics
307 Suppress output of instruction numbers and line number notes in debugging dumps
309 feliminate-dwarf2-dups
311 Perform DWARF2 duplicate elimination
313 feliminate-unused-debug-symbols
315 Perform unused type elimination in debug info
317 feliminate-unused-debug-types
319 Perform unused type elimination in debug info
323 Enable exception handling
325 fexpensive-optimizations
327 Perform a number of minor, expensive optimizations
334 Assume no NaNs or infinities are generated
337 Common Joined RejectNegative
338 -ffixed-<register> Mark <register> as being unavailable to the compiler
342 Do not store floats in registers
346 Copy memory address constants into registers before use
350 Copy memory operands into registers before use
354 Allow function addresses to be held in registers
358 Place each function into its own section
362 Perform global common subexpression elimination
366 Perform enhanced load motion during global common subexpression elimination
370 Perform store motion after global common subexpression elimination
374 Perform redundant load after store elimination in global common subexpression elimination
376 fguess-branch-probability
378 Enable guessing of branch probabilities
382 Process #ident directives
386 Perform conversion of conditional jumps to branchless equivalents
390 Perform conversion of conditional jumps to conditional execution
392 finhibit-size-directive
394 Do not generate .size directives
398 Pay attention to the \"inline\" keyword
402 Integrate simple functions into their callers
405 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
408 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
409 -finline-limit=<number> Limit the size of inlined functions to <number>
411 finstrument-functions
413 Instrument function entry and exit with profiling calls
415 fkeep-inline-functions
417 Generate code for functions even if they are fully inlined
421 Emit static const variables even if they are not used
425 Give external symbols a leading underscore
429 Perform loop optimizations
433 Set errno after built-in math functions
437 Report on permanent memory allocation
441 Attempt to merge identical constants and constant variables
445 Attempt to merge identical constants across compilation units
448 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
449 -fmessage-length=<number> Limit diagnostics to <number> characters per line. 0 suppresses line-wrapping
453 Force all loop invariant computations out of loops
457 Use graph-coloring register allocation
461 Support synchronous non-call exceptions
465 Perform loop unrolling when iteration count is known
467 fold-unroll-all-loops
469 Perform loop unrolling for all loops
473 When possible do not generate stack frames
475 foptimize-register-move
477 Do the full register move optimization pass
479 foptimize-sibling-calls
481 Optimize sibling and tail recursive calls
485 Pack structure members together without holes
489 Return small aggregates in memory, not registers
497 Enable machine specific peephole optimizations
501 Enable an RTL peephole pass before sched2
505 Generate position-independent code if possible
509 Generate position-independent code for executables if possible
511 fprefetch-loop-arrays
513 Generate prefetch instructions, if available, for arrays in loops
517 Enable basic program profiling code
521 Insert arc-based program profiling code
525 Enable common options for generating profile info for profile feedback directed optimizations
529 Enable common options for performing profile feedback directed optimizations
533 Insert code to profile values of expressions
539 Common Joined RejectNegative
540 -frandom-seed=<string> Make compile reproducible using <string>
544 Strength reduce all loop general induction variables
548 Return small aggregates in registers
552 Enables a register move optimization
556 Perform a register renaming optimization pass
560 Reorder basic blocks to improve code placement
564 Reorder functions to improve code placement
566 frerun-cse-after-loop
568 Add a common subexpression elimination pass after loop optimizations
572 Run the loop optimizer twice
576 Disable optimizations that assume default FP rounding behavior
580 Enable scheduling across basic blocks
584 Allow speculative motion of non-loads
588 Allow speculative motion of some loads
590 fsched-spec-load-dangerous
592 Allow speculative motion of more loads
595 Common RejectNegative Joined
596 -fsched-verbose=<number> Set the verbosity level of the scheduler
598 fsched2-use-superblocks
600 If scheduling post reload, do superblock scheduling
604 If scheduling post reload, do trace scheduling
608 Reschedule instructions before register allocation
612 Reschedule instructions after register allocation
616 Allow premature scheduling of queued insns
618 fsched-stalled-insns=
619 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
620 -fsched-stalled-insns=<number> Set number of queued insns that can be prematurely scheduled
622 fsched-stalled-insns-dep
624 Set dependence distance checking in premature scheduling of queued insns
626 fsched-stalled-insns-dep=
627 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
628 -fsched-stalled-insns-dep=<number> Set dependence distance checking in premature scheduling of queued insns
632 Mark data as shared rather than private
636 Disable optimizations observable by IEEE signaling NaNs
638 fsingle-precision-constant
640 Convert floating point constants to single precision constants
644 Insert stack checking code into the program
649 fstack-limit-register=
650 Common RejectNegative Joined
651 -fstack-limit-register=<register> Trap if the stack goes past <register>
654 Common RejectNegative Joined
655 -fstack-limit-symbol=<name> Trap if the stack goes past symbol <name>
659 Perform strength reduction optimizations
663 Assume strict aliasing rules apply
667 Check for syntax errors, then stop
671 Create data files needed by \"gcov\"
675 Perform jump threading optimizations
679 Report the time taken by each compiler pass
682 Common Joined RejectNegative
683 -ftls-model=[global-dynamic|local-dynamic|initial-exec|local-exec] Set the default thread-local storage code generation model
687 Perform superblock formation via tail duplication
691 Assume floating-point operations can trap
695 Trap for signed overflow in addition, subtraction and multiplication
699 Compile whole compilation unit at a time
703 Perform loop unrolling when iteration count is known
707 Perform loop unrolling for all loops
709 funsafe-math-optimizations
711 Allow math optimizations that may violate IEEE or ISO standards
715 Perform loop unswitching
719 Just generate unwind tables for exception handling
723 Perform variable tracking
727 Add extra commentary to assembler output
731 Use expression value profiles in optimizations
735 Construct webs and split unrelated uses of single variable
739 Assume signed arithmetic overflow wraps around
741 fzero-initialized-in-bss
743 Put zero initialized data in the bss section
746 Common JoinedOrMissing
747 Generate debug information in default format
750 Common JoinedOrMissing
751 Generate debug information in COFF format
754 Common JoinedOrMissing
755 Generate debug information in DWARF v2 format
758 Common JoinedOrMissing
759 Generate debug information in default extended format
762 Common JoinedOrMissing
763 Generate debug information in STABS format
766 Common JoinedOrMissing
767 Generate debug information in extended STABS format
770 Common JoinedOrMissing
771 Generate debug information in VMS format
774 Common JoinedOrMissing
775 Generate debug information in XCOFF format
778 Common JoinedOrMissing
779 Generate debug information in extended XCOFF format
785 Common Joined Separate
786 -o <file> Place output into <file>
790 Enable function profiling
794 Issue warnings needed for strict compliance to the standard
798 Like -pedantic but issue them as errors
802 Do not display functions compiled or elapsed time
806 Display the compiler's version
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