i386: Optimize pmovskb on zero_extend of subreg HI of pmovskb result [PR98461]
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1 ; Options for the language- and target-independent parts of the compiler.
3 ; Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ; This file is part of GCC.
7 ; GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
8 ; the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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15 ; for more details.
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18 ; along with GCC; see the file COPYING3.  If not see
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21 ; See the GCC internals manual (options.texi) for a description of this file's format.
23 ; Please try to keep this file in ASCII collating order.
25 Variable
26 int target_flags
28 Variable
29 int optimize
31 Variable
32 int optimize_size
34 Variable
35 int optimize_debug
37 ; Not used directly to control optimizations, only to save -Ofast
38 ; setting for "optimize" attributes.
39 Variable
40 int optimize_fast
42 ; True if this is the lto front end.  This is used to disable gimple
43 ; generation and lowering passes that are normally run on the output
44 ; of a front end.  These passes must be bypassed for lto since they
45 ; have already been done before the gimple was written.
46 Variable
47 bool in_lto_p = false
49 ; This variable is set to non-0 only by LTO front-end.  1 indicates that
50 ; the output produced will be used for incremental linking (thus weak symbols
51 ; can still be bound) and 2 indicates that the IL is going to be linked and
52 ; and output to LTO object file.
53 Variable
54 enum incremental_link flag_incremental_link = INCREMENTAL_LINK_NONE
56 ; 0 means straightforward implementation of complex divide acceptable.
57 ; 1 means wide ranges of inputs must work for complex divide.
58 ; 2 means C99-like requirements for complex multiply and divide.
59 Variable
60 int flag_complex_method = 1
62 ; Language specific warning pass for unused results.
63 Variable
64 bool flag_warn_unused_result = false
66 ; Nonzero if we should write GIMPLE bytecode for link-time optimization.
67 Variable
68 int flag_generate_lto
70 ; Nonzero if we should write GIMPLE bytecode for offload compilation.
71 Variable
72 int flag_generate_offload = 0
74 ; Nonzero means we should be saving declaration info into a .X file.
75 Variable
76 int flag_gen_aux_info = 0
78 ; Nonzero if we are compiling code for a shared library, zero for
79 ; executable.
80 Variable
81 int flag_shlib
83 ; These two are really VEC(char_p,heap) *.
85 Variable
86 void *flag_instrument_functions_exclude_functions
88 Variable
89 void *flag_instrument_functions_exclude_files
91 ; Generic structs (e.g. templates not explicitly specialized)
92 ; may not have a compilation unit associated with them, and so
93 ; may need to be treated differently from ordinary structs.
95 ; Structs only handled by reference (indirectly), will also usually
96 ; not need as much debugging information.
98 Variable
99 enum debug_struct_file debug_struct_ordinary[DINFO_USAGE_NUM_ENUMS] = { DINFO_STRUCT_FILE_ANY, DINFO_STRUCT_FILE_ANY, DINFO_STRUCT_FILE_ANY }
101 Variable
102 enum debug_struct_file debug_struct_generic[DINFO_USAGE_NUM_ENUMS] = { DINFO_STRUCT_FILE_ANY, DINFO_STRUCT_FILE_ANY, DINFO_STRUCT_FILE_ANY }
104 ; True if we should exit after parsing options.
105 Variable
106 bool exit_after_options
108 ; Type(s) of debugging information we are producing (if any).  See
109 ; flag-types.h for the definitions of the different possible types of
110 ; debugging information.
111 Variable
112 enum debug_info_type write_symbols = NO_DEBUG
114 ; Level of debugging information we are producing.  See flag-types.h
115 ; for the definitions of the different possible levels.
116 Variable
117 enum debug_info_levels debug_info_level = DINFO_LEVEL_NONE
119 ; Nonzero means use GNU-only extensions in the generated symbolic
120 ; debugging information.  Currently, this only has an effect when
121 ; write_symbols is set to DBX_DEBUG or XCOFF_DEBUG.
122 Variable
123 bool use_gnu_debug_info_extensions
125 ; Original value of maximum field alignment in bytes, specified via
126 ; -fpack-struct=<value>.
127 Variable
128 unsigned int initial_max_fld_align = TARGET_DEFAULT_PACK_STRUCT
130 ; Type of stack check.
131 Variable
132 enum stack_check_type flag_stack_check = NO_STACK_CHECK
134 ; True if stack usage information needs to be computed.
135 Variable
136 bool flag_stack_usage_info = false
138 ; -dA causes debug commentary information to be produced in
139 ; the generated assembly code (to make it more readable).  This option
140 ; is generally only of use to those who actually need to read the
141 ; generated assembly code (perhaps while debugging the compiler itself).
142 ; Currently, this switch is only used by dwarf2out.c; however, it is intended
143 ; to be a catchall for printing debug information in the assembler file.
144 Variable
145 int flag_debug_asm
147 ; How many NOP insns to place at each function entry by default
148 Variable
149 HOST_WIDE_INT function_entry_patch_area_size
151 ; And how far the real asm entry point is into this area
152 Variable
153 HOST_WIDE_INT function_entry_patch_area_start
155 ; Balance between GNAT encodings and standard DWARF to emit.
156 Variable
157 enum dwarf_gnat_encodings gnat_encodings = DWARF_GNAT_ENCODINGS_DEFAULT
159 ; -dP causes the rtl to be emitted as a comment in assembly.
160 Variable
161 int flag_dump_rtl_in_asm
163 ; Whether -da was passed (used only in handle_common_deferred_options).
164 Variable
165 bool flag_dump_all_passed
167 ; Other flags saying which kinds of debugging dump have been requested.
169 Variable
170 int rtl_dump_and_exit
172 Variable
173 int flag_print_asm_name
175 ; Name of top-level original source file (what was input to cpp).
176 ; This comes from the #-command at the beginning of the actual input.
177 ; If there isn't any there, then this is the cc1 input file name.
178 Variable
179 const char *main_input_filename
181 ; Pointer to base name in main_input_filename, with directories and a
182 ; single final extension removed, and the length of this base
183 ; name.
185 Variable
186 const char *main_input_basename
188 Variable
189 int main_input_baselength
191 ; The base name used for auxiliary output files.
192 ; dump_base_name minus dump_base_ext.
194 Variable
195 const char *aux_base_name
197 ; Which options have been printed by --help.
198 Variable
199 char *help_printed
201 ; Which enums have been printed by --help.  0 = not printed, no
202 ; relevant options seen, 1 = relevant option seen, not yet printed, 2
203 ; = printed.
204 Variable
205 char *help_enum_printed
207 ; The number of columns for --help output.
208 Variable
209 unsigned int help_columns
211 ; Whether this options structure has been through finish_options
212 Variable
213 bool flag_opts_finished
215 ; What the sanitizer should instrument
216 Variable
217 unsigned int flag_sanitize
219 ; What sanitizers should recover from errors
220 Variable
221 unsigned int flag_sanitize_recover = (SANITIZE_UNDEFINED | SANITIZE_UNDEFINED_NONDEFAULT | SANITIZE_KERNEL_ADDRESS | SANITIZE_KERNEL_HWADDRESS) & ~(SANITIZE_UNREACHABLE | SANITIZE_RETURN)
223 ; What the coverage sanitizers should instrument
224 Variable
225 unsigned int flag_sanitize_coverage
227 ; Flag whether a prefix has been added to dump_base_name
228 Variable
229 bool dump_base_name_prefixed = false
231 ; What subset of registers should be zeroed on function return
232 Variable
233 unsigned int flag_zero_call_used_regs
236 Driver
238 -assemble
239 Driver Alias(S)
241 -compile
242 Driver Alias(c)
244 -completion=
245 Common Driver Joined Undocumented
246 Provide bash completion for options starting with provided string.
248 -coverage
249 Driver Alias(coverage)
251 -debug
252 Common Alias(g)
254 -dump
255 Common Separate Alias(d)
257 -dump=
258 Common Joined Alias(d)
260 -dumpbase
261 Driver Common Separate Alias(dumpbase)
263 -dumpbase-ext
264 Driver Common Separate Alias(dumpbase-ext)
266 -dumpdir
267 Driver Common Separate Alias(dumpdir)
269 -entry
270 Driver Separate Alias(e)
272 -entry=
273 Driver Joined Alias(e)
275 -extra-warnings
276 Common Warning Alias(Wextra)
278 -for-assembler
279 Driver Separate Alias(Xassembler)
281 -for-assembler=
282 Driver JoinedOrMissing Alias(Xassembler)
284 -for-linker
285 Driver Separate Alias(Xlinker)
287 -for-linker=
288 Driver JoinedOrMissing Alias(Xlinker)
290 -force-link
291 Driver Separate Alias(u)
293 -force-link=
294 Driver Joined Alias(u)
296 -help
297 Common Driver Var(help_flag)
298 Display this information.
300 -help=
301 Common Driver Joined
302 --help=<class>  Display descriptions of a specific class of options.  <class> is one or more of optimizers, target, warnings, undocumented, params.
304 -language
305 Driver Separate Alias(x)
307 -language=
308 Driver Joined Alias(x)
310 -library-directory
311 Driver Separate Alias(L)
313 -library-directory=
314 Driver Joined Alias(L)
316 -no-canonical-prefixes
317 Driver Alias(no-canonical-prefixes)
319 -no-standard-libraries
320 Driver Alias(nostdlib)
322 -no-sysroot-suffix
323 Driver Var(no_sysroot_suffix)
325 -no-warnings
326 Common Alias(w)
328 -optimize
329 Common Alias(O)
331 -output
332 Common Driver Separate Alias(o) MissingArgError(missing filename after %qs)
334 -output=
335 Common Driver Joined Alias(o) MissingArgError(missing filename after %qs)
337 -pass-exit-codes
338 Driver Alias(pass-exit-codes)
340 -pedantic
341 Common Alias(Wpedantic)
343 -pedantic-errors
344 Common Alias(pedantic-errors)
346 -pie
347 Driver Alias(pie)
349 -static-pie
350 Driver Alias(static-pie)
352 -pipe
353 Driver Alias(pipe)
355 -prefix
356 Driver Separate Alias(B)
358 -prefix=
359 Driver JoinedOrMissing Alias(B)
361 -preprocess
362 Driver Alias(E)
364 -print-file-name
365 Driver Separate Alias(print-file-name=)
367 -print-file-name=
368 Driver JoinedOrMissing Alias(print-file-name=)
370 -print-libgcc-file-name
371 Driver Alias(print-libgcc-file-name)
373 -print-multi-directory
374 Driver Alias(print-multi-directory)
376 -print-multi-lib
377 Driver Alias(print-multi-lib)
379 -print-multi-os-directory
380 Driver Alias(print-multi-os-directory)
382 -print-multiarch
383 Driver Alias(print-multiarch)
385 -print-prog-name
386 Driver Separate Alias(print-prog-name=)
388 -print-prog-name=
389 Driver JoinedOrMissing Alias(print-prog-name=)
391 -print-search-dirs
392 Driver Alias(print-search-dirs)
394 -print-sysroot
395 Driver Alias(print-sysroot)
397 -print-sysroot-headers-suffix
398 Driver Alias(print-sysroot-headers-suffix)
400 -profile
401 Common Alias(p)
403 -save-temps
404 Driver Alias(save-temps)
406 -shared
407 Driver Alias(shared)
409 -specs
410 Driver Separate Alias(specs=)
412 -specs=
413 Driver Joined Alias(specs=)
415 -static
416 Driver Alias(static)
418 -symbolic
419 Driver Alias(symbolic)
421 -target-help
422 Common Driver
423 Alias for --help=target.
425 -time
426 Driver Alias(time)
428 -verbose
429 Driver Alias(v)
431 ;; The driver used to convert options such as --help into forms such
432 ;; as -fhelp; the following four entries are for compatibility with
433 ;; any direct uses of those (undocumented) -f forms
434 fhelp
435 Common Driver Alias(-help)
437 fhelp=
438 Common Driver Joined Alias(-help=)
440 ftarget-help
441 Common Driver Alias(-target-help)
443 fversion
444 Common Driver Alias(-version)
446 -sysroot
447 Driver Separate Alias(-sysroot=)
449 -sysroot=
450 Driver JoinedOrMissing
452 -version
453 Common Driver
456 Driver Joined Separate
459 Driver
462 Driver Joined Separate
465 Driver
468 Common JoinedOrMissing Optimization
469 -O<number>      Set optimization level to <number>.
472 Common Optimization
473 Optimize for space rather than speed.
475 Ofast
476 Common Optimization
477 Optimize for speed disregarding exact standards compliance.
480 Common Optimization
481 Optimize for debugging experience rather than speed or size.
484 Driver
487 Driver Negative(Qy)
490 Driver Negative(Qn)
493 Driver Joined Separate
496 Driver
499 Driver Joined Separate
501 Tbss
502 Driver Separate
504 Tbss=
505 Driver Joined
507 Tdata
508 Driver Separate
510 Tdata=
511 Driver Joined
513 Ttext
514 Driver Separate
516 Ttext=
517 Driver Joined
520 Common RejectNegative Warning Alias(Wextra)
521 This switch is deprecated; use -Wextra instead.
524 Driver JoinedOrMissing RejectNegative
527 Driver JoinedOrMissing RejectNegative
530 Driver JoinedOrMissing RejectNegative
532 Waggregate-return
533 Common Var(warn_aggregate_return) Warning
534 Warn about returning structures, unions or arrays.
536 Waggressive-loop-optimizations
537 Common Var(warn_aggressive_loop_optimizations) Init(1) Warning
538 Warn if a loop with constant number of iterations triggers undefined behavior.
540 Warray-bounds
541 Common Var(warn_array_bounds) Warning
542 Warn if an array is accessed out of bounds.
544 Warray-bounds=
545 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(warn_array_bounds) Warning IntegerRange(0, 2)
546 Warn if an array is accessed out of bounds.
548 Wattributes
549 Common Var(warn_attributes) Init(1) Warning
550 Warn about inappropriate attribute usage.
552 Wattribute-alias
553 Common Alias(Wattribute_alias=, 1, 0) Warning
554 Warn about type safety and similar errors and mismatches in declarations with alias attributes.
556 Wattribute-alias=
557 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(warn_attribute_alias) Init(1) Warning IntegerRange(0, 2)
558 Warn about type safety and similar errors and mismatches in declarations with alias attributes.
560 Wcannot-profile
561 Common Var(warn_cannot_profile) Init(1) Warning
562 Warn when profiling instrumentation was requested, but could not be applied to
563 a certain function.
565 Wcast-align
566 Common Var(warn_cast_align) Warning
567 Warn about pointer casts which increase alignment.
569 Wcast-align=strict
570 Common Var(warn_cast_align,2) Warning
571 Warn about pointer casts which increase alignment.
573 Wcpp
574 Common Var(warn_cpp) Init(1) Warning
575 Warn when a #warning directive is encountered.
577 Wattribute-warning
578 Common Var(warn_attribute_warning) Init(1) Warning
579 Warn about uses of __attribute__((warning)) declarations.
581 Wdeprecated
582 Common Var(warn_deprecated) Init(1) Warning
583 Warn if a deprecated compiler feature, class, method, or field is used.
585 Wdeprecated-declarations
586 Common Var(warn_deprecated_decl) Init(1) Warning
587 Warn about uses of __attribute__((deprecated)) declarations.
589 Wdisabled-optimization
590 Common Var(warn_disabled_optimization) Warning
591 Warn when an optimization pass is disabled.
593 Werror
594 Common Var(warnings_are_errors)
595 Treat all warnings as errors.
597 Werror=
598 Common Joined
599 Treat specified warning as error.
601 Wextra
602 Common Var(extra_warnings) Warning
603 Print extra (possibly unwanted) warnings.
605 Wfatal-errors
606 Common Var(flag_fatal_errors)
607 Exit on the first error occurred.
609 Wframe-larger-than=
610 Common RejectNegative Joined Host_Wide_Int ByteSize Warning Var(warn_frame_larger_than_size) Init(HOST_WIDE_INT_MAX)
611 -Wframe-larger-than=<byte-size> Warn if a function's stack frame requires in excess of <byte-size>.
613 Wno-frame-larger-than
614 Common Alias(Wframe-larger-than=,18446744073709551615EiB,none) Warning
615 Disable -Wframe-larger-than= warning.  Equivalent to -Wframe-larger-than=<SIZE_MAX> or larger.
617 Wfree-nonheap-object
618 Common Var(warn_free_nonheap_object) Init(1) Warning
619 Warn when attempting to free a non-heap object.
621 Whsa
622 Common Ignore Warning
623 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
625 Wimplicit-fallthrough
626 Common Alias(Wimplicit-fallthrough=,3,0) Warning
628 Wimplicit-fallthrough=
629 Common Var(warn_implicit_fallthrough) RejectNegative Joined UInteger Warning IntegerRange(0, 5)
630 Warn when a switch case falls through.
632 Winline
633 Common Var(warn_inline) Warning Optimization
634 Warn when an inlined function cannot be inlined.
636 Winvalid-memory-model
637 Common Var(warn_invalid_memory_model) Init(1) Warning
638 Warn when an atomic memory model parameter is known to be outside the valid range.
640 Wlarger-than-
641 Common RejectNegative Joined Warning Undocumented Alias(Wlarger-than=)
643 Wlarger-than=
644 Common RejectNegative Joined Host_Wide_Int ByteSize Warning Var(warn_larger_than_size) Init(HOST_WIDE_INT_MAX)
645 -Wlarger-than=<byte-size>       Warn if an object's size exceeds <byte-size>.
647 Wno-larger-than
648 Common Alias(Wlarger-than=,18446744073709551615EiB,none) Warning
649 Disable -Wlarger-than= warning.  Equivalent to -Wlarger-than=<SIZE_MAX> or larger.
651 Wnonnull-compare
652 Var(warn_nonnull_compare) Warning
653 Warn if comparing pointer parameter with nonnull attribute with NULL.
655 Wnull-dereference
656 Common Var(warn_null_dereference) Warning
657 Warn if dereferencing a NULL pointer may lead to erroneous or undefined behavior.
659 Wunsafe-loop-optimizations
660 Common Ignore Warning
661 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
663 Wmissing-noreturn
664 Common Warning Alias(Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn)
666 Wodr
667 Common Var(warn_odr_violations) Init(1) Warning
668 Warn about some C++ One Definition Rule violations during link time optimization.
670 Woverflow
671 Common Var(warn_overflow) Init(1) Warning
672 Warn about overflow in arithmetic expressions.
674 Wlto-type-mismatch
675 Common Var(warn_lto_type_mismatch) Init(1) Warning
676 During link time optimization warn about mismatched types of global declarations.
678 Wpacked
679 Common Var(warn_packed) Warning
680 Warn when the packed attribute has no effect on struct layout.
682 Wpadded
683 Common Var(warn_padded) Warning
684 Warn when padding is required to align structure members.
686 Wpedantic
687 Common Var(pedantic) Init(0) Warning
688 Issue warnings needed for strict compliance to the standard.
690 Wreturn-local-addr
691 Common Var(warn_return_local_addr) Init(1) Warning
692 Warn about returning a pointer/reference to a local or temporary variable.
694 Wshadow
695 Common Var(warn_shadow) Warning
696 Warn when one variable shadows another.  Same as -Wshadow=global.
698 Wshadow=global
699 Common Warning Alias(Wshadow)
700 Warn when one variable shadows another (globally).
702 Wshadow=local
703 Common Var(warn_shadow_local) Warning EnabledBy(Wshadow)
704 Warn when one local variable shadows another local variable or parameter.
706 Wshadow-local
707 Common Warning Undocumented Alias(Wshadow=local)
709 Wshadow=compatible-local
710 Common Var(warn_shadow_compatible_local) Warning EnabledBy(Wshadow=local)
711 Warn when one local variable shadows another local variable or parameter of compatible type.
713 Wshadow-compatible-local
714 Common Warning Undocumented Alias(Wshadow=compatible-local)
716 Wstack-protector
717 Common Var(warn_stack_protect) Warning
718 Warn when not issuing stack smashing protection for some reason.
720 Wstack-usage=
721 Common Joined RejectNegative Host_Wide_Int ByteSize Var(warn_stack_usage) Warning Init(HOST_WIDE_INT_MAX)
722 -Wstack-usage=<byte-size>       Warn if stack usage might exceed <byte-size>.
724 Wno-stack-usage
725 Common Alias(Wstack-usage=,18446744073709551615EiB,none) Warning
726 Disable Wstack-usage= warning.  Equivalent to Wstack-usage=<SIZE_MAX> or larger.
728 Wstrict-aliasing
729 Common Warning
730 Warn about code which might break strict aliasing rules.
732 Wstrict-aliasing=
733 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(warn_strict_aliasing) Warning
734 Warn about code which might break strict aliasing rules.
736 Wstrict-overflow
737 Common Warning
738 Warn about optimizations that assume that signed overflow is undefined.
740 Wstrict-overflow=
741 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(warn_strict_overflow) Warning
742 Warn about optimizations that assume that signed overflow is undefined.
744 Wsuggest-attribute=cold
745 Common Var(warn_suggest_attribute_cold) Warning
746 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((cold)).
748 Wsuggest-attribute=const
749 Common Var(warn_suggest_attribute_const) Warning
750 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((const)).
752 Wsuggest-attribute=pure
753 Common Var(warn_suggest_attribute_pure) Warning
754 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((pure)).
756 Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn
757 Common Var(warn_suggest_attribute_noreturn) Warning
758 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((noreturn)).
760 Wsuggest-attribute=malloc
761 Common Var(warn_suggest_attribute_malloc) Warning
762 Warn about functions which might be candidates for __attribute__((malloc)).
764 Wsuggest-final-types
765 Common Var(warn_suggest_final_types) Warning
766 Warn about C++ polymorphic types where adding final keyword would improve code quality.
768 Wsuggest-final-methods
769 Common Var(warn_suggest_final_methods) Warning
770 Warn about C++ virtual methods where adding final keyword would improve code quality.
772 Wswitch-unreachable
773 Common Var(warn_switch_unreachable) Warning Init(1)
774 Warn about statements between switch's controlling expression and the first
775 case.
777 Wsystem-headers
778 Common Var(warn_system_headers) Warning
779 Do not suppress warnings from system headers.
781 Wtrampolines
782 Common Var(warn_trampolines) Warning
783 Warn whenever a trampoline is generated.
785 Wtype-limits
786 Common Var(warn_type_limits) Warning EnabledBy(Wextra)
787 Warn if a comparison is always true or always false due to the limited range of the data type.
789 Wuninitialized
790 Common Var(warn_uninitialized) Warning EnabledBy(Wextra)
791 Warn about uninitialized automatic variables.
793 Wmaybe-uninitialized
794 Common Var(warn_maybe_uninitialized) Warning EnabledBy(Wuninitialized)
795 Warn about maybe uninitialized automatic variables.
797 Wunreachable-code
798 Common Ignore Warning
799 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
801 Wunused
802 Common Var(warn_unused) Init(0) Warning
803 Enable all -Wunused- warnings.
805 Wunused-but-set-parameter
806 Common Var(warn_unused_but_set_parameter) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused && Wextra)
807 Warn when a function parameter is only set, otherwise unused.
809 Wunused-but-set-variable
810 Common Var(warn_unused_but_set_variable) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused)
811 Warn when a variable is only set, otherwise unused.
813 Wunused-function
814 Common Var(warn_unused_function) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused)
815 Warn when a function is unused.
817 Wunused-label
818 Common Var(warn_unused_label) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused)
819 Warn when a label is unused.
821 Wunused-parameter
822 Common Var(warn_unused_parameter) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused && Wextra)
823 Warn when a function parameter is unused.
825 Wunused-value
826 Common Var(warn_unused_value) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused)
827 Warn when an expression value is unused.
829 Wunused-variable
830 Common Var(warn_unused_variable) Warning EnabledBy(Wunused)
831 Warn when a variable is unused.
833 Wcoverage-mismatch
834 Common Var(warn_coverage_mismatch) Init(1) Warning
835 Warn in case profiles in -fprofile-use do not match.
837 Wmissing-profile
838 Common Var(warn_missing_profile) Init(1) Warning
839 Warn in case profiles in -fprofile-use do not exist.
841 Wvector-operation-performance
842 Common Var(warn_vector_operation_performance) Warning
843 Warn when a vector operation is compiled outside the SIMD.
845 Wtsan
846 Common Var(warn_tsan) Init(1) Warning
847 Warn about unsupported features in ThreadSanitizer.
849 Xassembler
850 Driver Separate
852 Xlinker
853 Driver Separate
855 Xpreprocessor
856 Driver Separate
859 Driver
861 aux-info
862 Common Separate Var(aux_info_file_name)
863 -aux-info <file>        Emit declaration information into <file>.
865 aux-info=
866 Common Joined Alias(aux-info)
868 coverage
869 Driver
872 Driver
875 Common Joined
876 -d<letters>     Enable dumps from specific passes of the compiler.
878 dumpbase
879 Driver Common Separate Var(dump_base_name)
880 -dumpbase <file>        Set the file basename to be used for dumps.
882 dumpbase-ext
883 Driver Common Separate Var(dump_base_ext)
884 -dumpbase-ext .<ext>    Drop a trailing .<ext> from the dump basename to name auxiliary output files.
886 dumpdir
887 Driver Common Separate Var(dump_dir_name)
888 -dumpdir <dir>  Set the directory name to be used for dumps.
890 dumpmachine
891 Driver
893 dumpspecs
894 Driver
896 dumpversion
897 Driver
899 dumpfullversion
900 Driver
903 Driver Joined Separate
905 ; This option has historically been passed down to the linker by an
906 ; accident of a %{e*} spec, so ensure it continues to be passed down
907 ; as a single option.  The supported option for this purpose is
908 ; -rdynamic.  See PR 47390.
909 export-dynamic
910 Driver Undocumented
912 ; The version of the C++ ABI in use.  The following values are allowed:
914 ; 0: The version of the ABI believed most conformant with the C++ ABI
915 ;    specification.  This ABI may change as bugs are discovered and fixed.
916 ;    Therefore, 0 will not necessarily indicate the same ABI in different
917 ;    versions of G++.
919 ; 1: The version of the ABI first used in G++ 3.2.  No longer selectable.
921 ; 2: The version of the ABI first used in G++ 3.4, and the default
922 ;    until GCC 4.9.
924 ; 3: The version of the ABI that fixes the missing underscore
925 ;    in template non-type arguments of pointer type.
927 ; 4: The version of the ABI that introduces unambiguous mangling of
928 ;    vector types.  First selectable in G++ 4.5.
930 ; 5: The version of the ABI that ignores attribute const/noreturn
931 ;    in function pointer mangling, and corrects mangling of decltype and
932 ;    function parameters used in other parameters and the return type.
933 ;    First selectable in G++ 4.6.
935 ; 6: The version of the ABI that doesn't promote scoped enums to int and
936 ;    changes the mangling of template argument packs, const/static_cast,
937 ;    prefix ++ and --, and a class scope function used as a template
938 ;    argument.
939 ;    First selectable in G++ 4.7.
941 ; 7: The version of the ABI that treats nullptr_t as a builtin type and
942 ;    corrects the mangling of lambdas in default argument scope.
943 ;    First selectable in G++ 4.8.
945 ; 8: The version of the ABI that corrects the substitution behavior of
946 ;    function types with function-cv-qualifiers.
947 ;    First selectable in G++ 4.9 and default in G++ 5.
949 ; 9: The version of the ABI that corrects the alignment of nullptr_t.
950 ;    First selectable and default in G++ 5.2.
952 ; 10: The version of the ABI that mangles attributes that affect type
953 ;     identity, such as ia32 calling convention attributes (stdcall, etc.)
954 ;     Default in G++ 6 (set in c_common_post_options).
956 ; 11: The version of the ABI that corrects mangling of sizeof... expressions
957 ;     and introduces new inheriting constructor handling.
958 ;     Default in G++ 7.
960 ; 12: Corrects the calling convention for classes with only deleted copy/move
961 ;     constructors and changes passing/returning of empty records.
962 ;     Default in G++ 8.1.
964 ; 13: Fixes the accidental change in 12 to the calling convention for classes
965 ;     with deleted copy constructor and trivial move constructor.
966 ;     Default in G++ 8.2.
968 ; 14: Corrects the mangling of nullptr expression.
969 ;     Default in G++ 10.
971 ; 15: Changes the mangling of __alignof__ to be distinct from that of alignof.
972 ;     Default in G++ 11.
974 ; Additional positive integers will be assigned as new versions of
975 ; the ABI become the default version of the ABI.
976 fabi-version=
977 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(flag_abi_version) Init(0)
978 The version of the C++ ABI in use.
980 faggressive-loop-optimizations
981 Common Var(flag_aggressive_loop_optimizations) Optimization Init(1)
982 Aggressively optimize loops using language constraints.
984 falign-functions
985 Common Var(flag_align_functions) Optimization
986 Align the start of functions.
988 falign-functions=
989 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(str_align_functions) Optimization
991 flimit-function-alignment
992 Common Var(flag_limit_function_alignment) Optimization Init(0)
994 falign-jumps
995 Common Var(flag_align_jumps) Optimization
996 Align labels which are only reached by jumping.
998 falign-jumps=
999 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(str_align_jumps) Optimization
1001 falign-labels
1002 Common Var(flag_align_labels) Optimization
1003 Align all labels.
1005 falign-labels=
1006 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(str_align_labels) Optimization
1008 falign-loops
1009 Common Var(flag_align_loops) Optimization
1010 Align the start of loops.
1012 falign-loops=
1013 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(str_align_loops) Optimization
1015 fallow-store-data-races
1016 Common Var(flag_store_data_races) Optimization
1017 Allow the compiler to introduce new data races on stores.
1019 fanalyzer
1020 Common Var(flag_analyzer)
1021 Enable static analysis pass.
1023 fargument-alias
1024 Common Ignore
1025 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1027 fargument-noalias
1028 Common Ignore
1029 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1031 fargument-noalias-global
1032 Common Ignore
1033 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1035 fargument-noalias-anything
1036 Common Ignore
1037 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1039 fsanitize=
1040 Common Driver Joined
1041 Select what to sanitize.
1043 fsanitize-coverage=
1044 Common Joined
1045 Select type of coverage sanitization.
1047 fasan-shadow-offset=
1048 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1049 -fasan-shadow-offset=<number>   Use custom shadow memory offset.
1051 fsanitize-sections=
1052 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1053 -fsanitize-sections=<sec1,sec2,...>     Sanitize global variables
1054 in user-defined sections.
1056 fsanitize-recover=
1057 Common Joined
1058 After diagnosing undefined behavior attempt to continue execution.
1060 fsanitize-recover
1061 Common
1062 This switch is deprecated; use -fsanitize-recover= instead.
1064 fsanitize-address-use-after-scope
1065 Common Driver Var(flag_sanitize_address_use_after_scope) Init(0)
1067 fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error
1068 Common Driver Var(flag_sanitize_undefined_trap_on_error) Init(0)
1069 Use trap instead of a library function for undefined behavior sanitization.
1071 fasynchronous-unwind-tables
1072 Common Var(flag_asynchronous_unwind_tables) Optimization
1073 Generate unwind tables that are exact at each instruction boundary.
1075 fauto-inc-dec
1076 Common Var(flag_auto_inc_dec) Init(1) Optimization
1077 Generate auto-inc/dec instructions.
1079 fauto-profile
1080 Common Var(flag_auto_profile)
1081 Use sample profile information for call graph node weights. The default
1082 profile file is fbdata.afdo in 'pwd'.
1084 fauto-profile=
1085 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(auto_profile_file)
1086 Use sample profile information for call graph node weights. The profile
1087 file is specified in the argument.
1089 ; -fcheck-bounds causes gcc to generate array bounds checks.
1090 ; For C, C++ and ObjC: defaults off.
1091 ; For Java: defaults to on.
1092 ; For Fortran: defaults to off.
1093 fbounds-check
1094 Common Var(flag_bounds_check)
1095 Generate code to check bounds before indexing arrays.
1097 fbranch-count-reg
1098 Common Var(flag_branch_on_count_reg) Optimization
1099 Replace add, compare, branch with branch on count register.
1101 fbranch-probabilities
1102 Common Var(flag_branch_probabilities) Optimization
1103 Use profiling information for branch probabilities.
1105 fbranch-target-load-optimize
1106 Common Ignore
1107 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1109 fbranch-target-load-optimize2
1110 Common Ignore
1111 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1113 fbtr-bb-exclusive
1114 Common Ignore
1115 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1117 fcallgraph-info
1118 Common RejectNegative Var(flag_callgraph_info) Init(NO_CALLGRAPH_INFO);
1119 Output callgraph information on a per-file basis.
1121 fcallgraph-info=
1122 Common RejectNegative Joined
1123 Output callgraph information on a per-file basis with decorations.
1125 fcall-saved-
1126 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1127 -fcall-saved-<register> Mark <register> as being preserved across functions.
1129 fcall-used-
1130 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1131 -fcall-used-<register>  Mark <register> as being corrupted by function calls.
1133 ; Nonzero for -fcaller-saves: allocate values in regs that need to
1134 ; be saved across function calls, if that produces overall better code.
1135 ; Optional now, so people can test it.
1136 fcaller-saves
1137 Common Var(flag_caller_saves) Optimization
1138 Save registers around function calls.
1140 fcheck-data-deps
1141 Common Ignore
1142 This switch is deprecated; do not use.
1144 fcheck-new
1145 Common Var(flag_check_new)
1146 Check the return value of new in C++.
1148 fchecking
1149 Common Var(flag_checking) Init(CHECKING_P ? ENABLE_EXTRA_CHECKING ? 2 : 1 : 0)
1150 Perform internal consistency checkings.
1152 fchecking=
1153 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(flag_checking)
1154 Perform internal consistency checkings.
1156 fcode-hoisting
1157 Common Var(flag_code_hoisting) Optimization
1158 Enable code hoisting.
1160 fcombine-stack-adjustments
1161 Common Var(flag_combine_stack_adjustments) Optimization
1162 Looks for opportunities to reduce stack adjustments and stack references.
1164 fcommon
1165 Common Var(flag_no_common,0) Init(1)
1166 Put uninitialized globals in the common section.
1168 fcompare-debug
1169 Driver
1170 ; Converted by the driver to -fcompare-debug= options.
1172 fcompare-debug=
1173 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing RejectNegative Var(flag_compare_debug_opt)
1174 -fcompare-debug[=<opts>]        Compile with and without e.g. -gtoggle, and compare the final-insns dump.
1176 fcompare-debug-second
1177 Common Driver RejectNegative Var(flag_compare_debug)
1178 Run only the second compilation of -fcompare-debug.
1180 fcompare-elim
1181 Common Var(flag_compare_elim_after_reload) Optimization
1182 Perform comparison elimination after register allocation has finished.
1184 fconserve-stack
1185 Common Var(flag_conserve_stack) Optimization
1186 Do not perform optimizations increasing noticeably stack usage.
1188 fcprop-registers
1189 Common Var(flag_cprop_registers) Optimization
1190 Perform a register copy-propagation optimization pass.
1192 fcrossjumping
1193 Common Var(flag_crossjumping) Optimization
1194 Perform cross-jumping optimization.
1196 fcse-follow-jumps
1197 Common Var(flag_cse_follow_jumps) Optimization
1198 When running CSE, follow jumps to their targets.
1200 fcse-skip-blocks
1201 Common Ignore
1202 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1204 fcx-limited-range
1205 Common Var(flag_cx_limited_range) Optimization SetByCombined
1206 Omit range reduction step when performing complex division.
1208 fcx-fortran-rules
1209 Common Var(flag_cx_fortran_rules) Optimization
1210 Complex multiplication and division follow Fortran rules.
1212 fdata-sections
1213 Common Var(flag_data_sections)
1214 Place data items into their own section.
1216 fdbg-cnt-list
1217 Common Var(flag_dbg_cnt_list)
1218 List all available debugging counters with their limits and counts.
1220 fdbg-cnt=
1221 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1222 -fdbg-cnt=<counter>[:<lower_limit1>-]<upper_limit1>[:<lower_limit2>-<upper_limit2>:...][,<counter>:...] Set the debug counter limit.
1224 fdebug-prefix-map=
1225 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1226 -fdebug-prefix-map=<old>=<new>  Map one directory name to another in debug information.
1228 ffile-prefix-map=
1229 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1230 -ffile-prefix-map=<old>=<new>   Map one directory name to another in compilation result.
1232 fdebug-types-section
1233 Common Var(flag_debug_types_section) Init(0)
1234 Output .debug_types section when using DWARF v4 debuginfo.
1236 ; Nonzero for -fdefer-pop: don't pop args after each function call
1237 ; instead save them up to pop many calls' args with one insns.
1238 fdefer-pop
1239 Common Var(flag_defer_pop) Optimization
1240 Defer popping functions args from stack until later.
1242 fdelayed-branch
1243 Common Var(flag_delayed_branch) Optimization
1244 Attempt to fill delay slots of branch instructions.
1246 fdelete-dead-exceptions
1247 Common Var(flag_delete_dead_exceptions) Init(0) Optimization
1248 Delete dead instructions that may throw exceptions.
1250 fdelete-null-pointer-checks
1251 Common Var(flag_delete_null_pointer_checks) Init(-1) Optimization
1252 Delete useless null pointer checks.
1254 fdevirtualize-at-ltrans
1255 Common Var(flag_ltrans_devirtualize)
1256 Stream extra data to support more aggressive devirtualization in LTO local transformation mode.
1258 fdevirtualize-speculatively
1259 Common Var(flag_devirtualize_speculatively) Optimization
1260 Perform speculative devirtualization.
1262 fdevirtualize
1263 Common Var(flag_devirtualize) Optimization
1264 Try to convert virtual calls to direct ones.
1266 fdiagnostics-show-location=
1267 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(diagnostic_prefixing_rule)
1268 -fdiagnostics-show-location=[once|every-line]   How often to emit source location at the beginning of line-wrapped diagnostics.
1270 ; Required for these enum values.
1271 SourceInclude
1272 pretty-print.h
1274 Enum
1275 Name(diagnostic_prefixing_rule) Type(int)
1277 EnumValue
1278 Enum(diagnostic_prefixing_rule) String(once) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_SHOW_PREFIX_ONCE)
1280 EnumValue
1281 Enum(diagnostic_prefixing_rule) String(every-line) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_SHOW_PREFIX_EVERY_LINE)
1283 fdiagnostics-show-caret
1284 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_show_caret) Init(1)
1285 Show the source line with a caret indicating the column.
1287 fdiagnostics-show-labels
1288 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_show_labels) Init(1)
1289 Show labels annotating ranges of source code when showing source.
1291 fdiagnostics-show-line-numbers
1292 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_show_line_numbers) Init(1)
1293 Show line numbers in the left margin when showing source.
1295 fdiagnostics-color
1296 Common Alias(fdiagnostics-color=,always,never)
1299 fdiagnostics-color=
1300 Driver Common Joined RejectNegative Var(flag_diagnostics_show_color) Enum(diagnostic_color_rule) Init(DIAGNOSTICS_COLOR_NO)
1301 -fdiagnostics-color=[never|always|auto] Colorize diagnostics.
1303 ; Required for these enum values.
1304 SourceInclude
1305 diagnostic-color.h
1307 Enum
1308 Name(diagnostic_color_rule) Type(int)
1310 EnumValue
1311 Enum(diagnostic_color_rule) String(never) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_COLOR_NO)
1313 EnumValue
1314 Enum(diagnostic_color_rule) String(always) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_COLOR_YES)
1316 EnumValue
1317 Enum(diagnostic_color_rule) String(auto) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_COLOR_AUTO)
1319 fdiagnostics-urls=
1320 Driver Common Joined RejectNegative Var(flag_diagnostics_show_urls) Enum(diagnostic_url_rule) Init(DIAGNOSTICS_URL_AUTO)
1321 -fdiagnostics-urls=[never|always|auto]  Embed URLs in diagnostics.
1323 ; Required for these enum values.
1324 SourceInclude
1325 diagnostic-url.h
1327 Enum
1328 Name(diagnostic_url_rule) Type(int)
1330 EnumValue
1331 Enum(diagnostic_url_rule) String(never) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_URL_NO)
1333 EnumValue
1334 Enum(diagnostic_url_rule) String(always) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_URL_YES)
1336 EnumValue
1337 Enum(diagnostic_url_rule) String(auto) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_URL_AUTO)
1339 fdiagnostics-column-unit=
1340 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(diagnostics_column_unit)
1341 -fdiagnostics-column-unit=[display|byte]        Select whether column numbers are output as display columns (default) or raw bytes.
1343 fdiagnostics-column-origin=
1344 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger
1345 -fdiagnostics-column-origin=<number>    Set the number of the first column.  The default is 1-based as per GNU style, but some utilities may expect 0-based, for example.
1347 fdiagnostics-format=
1348 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(diagnostics_output_format)
1349 -fdiagnostics-format=[text|json]        Select output format.
1351 ; Required for these enum values.
1352 SourceInclude
1353 diagnostic.h
1355 Enum
1356 Name(diagnostics_column_unit) Type(int)
1358 EnumValue
1359 Enum(diagnostics_column_unit) String(display) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_COLUMN_UNIT_DISPLAY)
1361 EnumValue
1362 Enum(diagnostics_column_unit) String(byte) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_COLUMN_UNIT_BYTE)
1364 Enum
1365 Name(diagnostics_output_format) Type(int)
1367 EnumValue
1368 Enum(diagnostics_output_format) String(text) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_OUTPUT_FORMAT_TEXT)
1370 EnumValue
1371 Enum(diagnostics_output_format) String(json) Value(DIAGNOSTICS_OUTPUT_FORMAT_JSON)
1373 fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits
1374 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_parseable_fixits)
1375 Print fix-it hints in machine-readable form.
1377 fdiagnostics-generate-patch
1378 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_generate_patch)
1379 Print fix-it hints to stderr in unified diff format.
1381 fdiagnostics-show-option
1382 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_show_option) Init(1)
1383 Amend appropriate diagnostic messages with the command line option that controls them.
1385 fdiagnostics-show-cwe
1386 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_show_cwe) Init(1)
1387 Print CWE identifiers for diagnostic messages, where available.
1389 fdiagnostics-path-format=
1390 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(flag_diagnostics_path_format) Enum(diagnostic_path_format) Init(DPF_INLINE_EVENTS)
1391 Specify how to print any control-flow path associated with a diagnostic.
1393 fdiagnostics-plain-output
1394 Driver Common RejectNegative
1395 Turn off any diagnostics features that complicate the output, such as line numbers, color, and warning URLs.
1397 ftabstop=
1398 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger
1399 -ftabstop=<number>      Distance between tab stops for column reporting.
1401 Enum
1402 Name(diagnostic_path_format) Type(int)
1404 EnumValue
1405 Enum(diagnostic_path_format) String(none) Value(DPF_NONE)
1407 EnumValue
1408 Enum(diagnostic_path_format) String(separate-events) Value(DPF_SEPARATE_EVENTS)
1410 EnumValue
1411 Enum(diagnostic_path_format) String(inline-events) Value(DPF_INLINE_EVENTS)
1413 fdiagnostics-show-path-depths
1414 Common Var(flag_diagnostics_show_path_depths) Init(0)
1415 Show stack depths of events in paths.
1417 fdiagnostics-minimum-margin-width=
1418 Common Joined UInteger Var(diagnostics_minimum_margin_width) Init(6)
1419 Set minimum width of left margin of source code when showing source.
1421 fdisable-
1422 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1423 -fdisable-[tree|rtl|ipa]-<pass>=range1+range2   Disable an optimization pass.
1425 fenable-
1426 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1427 -fenable-[tree|rtl|ipa]-<pass>=range1+range2    Enable an optimization pass.
1429 fdump-
1430 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1431 -fdump-<type>   Dump various compiler internals to a file.
1433 fdump-final-insns
1434 Driver RejectNegative
1436 fdump-final-insns=
1437 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(flag_dump_final_insns)
1438 -fdump-final-insns=filename     Dump to filename the insns at the end of translation.
1440 fdump-go-spec=
1441 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(flag_dump_go_spec)
1442 -fdump-go-spec=filename Write all declarations to file as Go code.
1444 fdump-noaddr
1445 Common Var(flag_dump_noaddr)
1446 Suppress output of addresses in debugging dumps.
1448 freport-bug
1449 Common Driver Var(flag_report_bug)
1450 Collect and dump debug information into temporary file if ICE in C/C++
1451 compiler occurred.
1453 fdump-internal-locations
1454 Common Var(flag_dump_locations) Init(0)
1455 Dump detailed information on GCC's internal representation of source code locations.
1457 fdump-passes
1458 Common Var(flag_dump_passes) Init(0)
1459 Dump optimization passes.
1461 fdump-unnumbered
1462 Common Var(flag_dump_unnumbered)
1463 Suppress output of instruction numbers, line number notes and addresses in debugging dumps.
1465 fdump-unnumbered-links
1466 Common Var(flag_dump_unnumbered_links)
1467 Suppress output of previous and next insn numbers in debugging dumps.
1469 fdwarf2-cfi-asm
1470 Common Var(flag_dwarf2_cfi_asm) Init(HAVE_GAS_CFI_DIRECTIVE)
1471 Enable CFI tables via GAS assembler directives.
1473 fearly-inlining
1474 Common Var(flag_early_inlining) Init(1) Optimization
1475 Perform early inlining.
1477 feliminate-dwarf2-dups
1478 Common Ignore
1479 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1481 fipa-sra
1482 Common Var(flag_ipa_sra) Init(0) Optimization
1483 Perform interprocedural reduction of aggregates.
1485 feliminate-unused-debug-symbols
1486 Common Var(flag_debug_only_used_symbols) Init(1)
1487 Perform unused symbol elimination in debug info.
1489 feliminate-unused-debug-types
1490 Common Var(flag_eliminate_unused_debug_types) Init(1)
1491 Perform unused type elimination in debug info.
1493 femit-class-debug-always
1494 Common Var(flag_emit_class_debug_always) Init(0)
1495 Do not suppress C++ class debug information.
1497 fexceptions
1498 Common Var(flag_exceptions) Optimization
1499 Enable exception handling.
1501 fexpensive-optimizations
1502 Common Var(flag_expensive_optimizations) Optimization
1503 Perform a number of minor, expensive optimizations.
1505 fexcess-precision=
1506 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(excess_precision) Var(flag_excess_precision) Init(EXCESS_PRECISION_DEFAULT) Optimization SetByCombined
1507 -fexcess-precision=[fast|standard]      Specify handling of excess floating-point precision.
1509 Enum
1510 Name(excess_precision) Type(enum excess_precision) UnknownError(unknown excess precision style %qs)
1512 EnumValue
1513 Enum(excess_precision) String(fast) Value(EXCESS_PRECISION_FAST)
1515 EnumValue
1516 Enum(excess_precision) String(standard) Value(EXCESS_PRECISION_STANDARD)
1518 ; Whether we permit the extended set of values for FLT_EVAL_METHOD
1519 ; introduced in ISO/IEC TS 18661-3, or limit ourselves to those in C99/C11.
1520 fpermitted-flt-eval-methods=
1521 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(permitted_flt_eval_methods) Var(flag_permitted_flt_eval_methods) Init(PERMITTED_FLT_EVAL_METHODS_DEFAULT)
1522 -fpermitted-flt-eval-methods=[c11|ts-18661]     Specify which values of FLT_EVAL_METHOD are permitted.
1524 Enum
1525 Name(permitted_flt_eval_methods) Type(enum permitted_flt_eval_methods) UnknownError(unknown specification for the set of FLT_EVAL_METHOD values to permit %qs)
1527 EnumValue
1528 Enum(permitted_flt_eval_methods) String(c11) Value(PERMITTED_FLT_EVAL_METHODS_C11)
1530 EnumValue
1531 Enum(permitted_flt_eval_methods) String(ts-18661-3) Value(PERMITTED_FLT_EVAL_METHODS_TS_18661)
1533 ffast-math
1534 Common Optimization
1536 ffat-lto-objects
1537 Common Var(flag_fat_lto_objects)
1538 Output lto objects containing both the intermediate language and binary output.
1540 ffinite-math-only
1541 Common Var(flag_finite_math_only) Optimization SetByCombined
1542 Assume no NaNs or infinities are generated.
1544 ffinite-loops
1545 Common Var(flag_finite_loops) Optimization Init(0)
1546 Assume that loops with an exit will terminate and not loop indefinitely.
1548 ffixed-
1549 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
1550 -ffixed-<register>      Mark <register> as being unavailable to the compiler.
1552 ffloat-store
1553 Common Var(flag_float_store) Optimization
1554 Don't allocate floats and doubles in extended-precision registers.
1556 fforce-addr
1557 Common Ignore
1558 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1560 fforward-propagate
1561 Common Var(flag_forward_propagate) Optimization
1562 Perform a forward propagation pass on RTL.
1564 ffp-contract=
1565 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(fp_contract_mode) Var(flag_fp_contract_mode) Init(FP_CONTRACT_FAST) Optimization
1566 -ffp-contract=[off|on|fast]     Perform floating-point expression contraction.
1568 Enum
1569 Name(fp_contract_mode) Type(enum fp_contract_mode) UnknownError(unknown floating point contraction style %qs)
1571 EnumValue
1572 Enum(fp_contract_mode) String(off) Value(FP_CONTRACT_OFF)
1574 ; Not implemented, fall back to conservative FP_CONTRACT_OFF.
1575 EnumValue
1576 Enum(fp_contract_mode) String(on) Value(FP_CONTRACT_OFF)
1578 EnumValue
1579 Enum(fp_contract_mode) String(fast) Value(FP_CONTRACT_FAST)
1581 ffp-int-builtin-inexact
1582 Common Var(flag_fp_int_builtin_inexact) Init(1) Optimization
1583 Allow built-in functions ceil, floor, round, trunc to raise \"inexact\" exceptions.
1585 ; Nonzero means don't put addresses of constant functions in registers.
1586 ; Used for compiling the Unix kernel, where strange substitutions are
1587 ; done on the assembly output.
1588 ffunction-cse
1589 Common Var(flag_no_function_cse,0) Optimization
1590 Allow function addresses to be held in registers.
1592 ffunction-sections
1593 Common Var(flag_function_sections)
1594 Place each function into its own section.
1596 fgcse
1597 Common Var(flag_gcse) Optimization
1598 Perform global common subexpression elimination.
1600 fgcse-lm
1601 Common Var(flag_gcse_lm) Init(1) Optimization
1602 Perform enhanced load motion during global common subexpression elimination.
1604 fgcse-sm
1605 Common Var(flag_gcse_sm) Init(0) Optimization
1606 Perform store motion after global common subexpression elimination.
1608 fgcse-las
1609 Common Var(flag_gcse_las) Init(0) Optimization
1610 Perform redundant load after store elimination in global common subexpression
1611 elimination.
1613 fgcse-after-reload
1614 Common Var(flag_gcse_after_reload) Optimization
1615 Perform global common subexpression elimination after register allocation has
1616 finished.
1618 Enum
1619 Name(dwarf_gnat_encodings) Type(int)
1621 EnumValue
1622 Enum(dwarf_gnat_encodings) String(all) Value(DWARF_GNAT_ENCODINGS_ALL)
1624 EnumValue
1625 Enum(dwarf_gnat_encodings) String(gdb) Value(DWARF_GNAT_ENCODINGS_GDB)
1627 EnumValue
1628 Enum(dwarf_gnat_encodings) String(minimal) Value(DWARF_GNAT_ENCODINGS_MINIMAL)
1630 fgnat-encodings=
1631 Common Enum(dwarf_gnat_encodings) Joined RejectNegative Undocumented Var(gnat_encodings)
1632 -fgnat-encodings=[all|gdb|minimal]      Select the balance between GNAT encodings and standard DWARF emitted in the debug information.
1634 ; This option is not documented yet as its semantics will change.
1635 fgraphite
1636 Common Var(flag_graphite) Optimization
1637 Enable in and out of Graphite representation.
1639 fgraphite-identity
1640 Common Var(flag_graphite_identity) Optimization
1641 Enable Graphite Identity transformation.
1643 fhoist-adjacent-loads
1644 Common Var(flag_hoist_adjacent_loads) Optimization
1645 Enable hoisting adjacent loads to encourage generating conditional move
1646 instructions.
1648 fkeep-gc-roots-live
1649 Common Undocumented Var(flag_keep_gc_roots_live) Optimization
1650 ; Always keep a pointer to a live memory block
1652 flarge-source-files
1653 Common Var(flag_large_source_files) Init(0)
1654 Improve GCC's ability to track column numbers in large source files,
1655 at the expense of slower compilation.
1657 floop-parallelize-all
1658 Common Var(flag_loop_parallelize_all) Optimization
1659 Mark all loops as parallel.
1661 floop-strip-mine
1662 Common Alias(floop-nest-optimize)
1663 Enable loop nest transforms.  Same as -floop-nest-optimize.
1665 floop-interchange
1666 Common Var(flag_loop_interchange) Optimization
1667 Enable loop interchange on trees.
1669 floop-block
1670 Common Alias(floop-nest-optimize)
1671 Enable loop nest transforms.  Same as -floop-nest-optimize.
1673 floop-unroll-and-jam
1674 Common Var(flag_unroll_jam) Optimization
1675 Perform unroll-and-jam on loops.
1677 fgnu-tm
1678 Common Var(flag_tm)
1679 Enable support for GNU transactional memory.
1681 fgnu-unique
1682 Common Var(flag_gnu_unique) Init(1)
1683 Use STB_GNU_UNIQUE if supported by the assembler.
1685 floop-flatten
1686 Common Ignore
1687 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1689 floop-nest-optimize
1690 Common Var(flag_loop_nest_optimize) Optimization
1691 Enable the loop nest optimizer.
1693 fstrict-volatile-bitfields
1694 Common Var(flag_strict_volatile_bitfields) Init(-1) Optimization
1695 Force bitfield accesses to match their type width.
1697 fstore-merging
1698 Common Var(flag_store_merging) Optimization
1699 Merge adjacent stores.
1701 fguess-branch-probability
1702 Common Var(flag_guess_branch_prob) Optimization
1703 Enable guessing of branch probabilities.
1705 ; Nonzero means ignore `#ident' directives.  0 means handle them.
1706 ; Generate position-independent code for executables if possible
1707 ; On SVR4 targets, it also controls whether or not to emit a
1708 ; string identifying the compiler.
1709 fident
1710 Common Var(flag_no_ident,0)
1711 Process #ident directives.
1713 fif-conversion
1714 Common Var(flag_if_conversion) Optimization
1715 Perform conversion of conditional jumps to branchless equivalents.
1717 fif-conversion2
1718 Common Var(flag_if_conversion2) Optimization
1719 Perform conversion of conditional jumps to conditional execution.
1721 fstack-reuse=
1722 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(stack_reuse_level) Var(flag_stack_reuse) Init(SR_ALL) Optimization
1723 -fstack-reuse=[all|named_vars|none]     Set stack reuse level for local variables.
1725 Enum
1726 Name(stack_reuse_level) Type(enum stack_reuse_level) UnknownError(unknown Stack Reuse Level %qs)
1728 EnumValue
1729 Enum(stack_reuse_level) String(all) Value(SR_ALL)
1731 EnumValue
1732 Enum(stack_reuse_level) String(named_vars) Value(SR_NAMED_VARS)
1734 EnumValue
1735 Enum(stack_reuse_level) String(none) Value(SR_NONE)
1737 ftree-loop-if-convert
1738 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_if_convert) Init(-1) Optimization
1739 Convert conditional jumps in innermost loops to branchless equivalents.
1741 ftree-loop-if-convert-stores
1742 Common Ignore
1743 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1745 ; -finhibit-size-directive inhibits output of .size for ELF.
1746 ; This is used only for compiling crtstuff.c,
1747 ; and it may be extended to other effects
1748 ; needed for crtstuff.c on other systems.
1749 finhibit-size-directive
1750 Common Var(flag_inhibit_size_directive)
1751 Do not generate .size directives.
1753 findirect-inlining
1754 Common Var(flag_indirect_inlining) Optimization
1755 Perform indirect inlining.
1757 ; General flag to enable inlining.  Specifying -fno-inline will disable
1758 ; all inlining apart from always-inline functions.
1759 finline
1760 Common Var(flag_no_inline,0) Init(0) Optimization
1761 Enable inlining of function declared \"inline\", disabling disables all inlining.
1763 finline-small-functions
1764 Common Var(flag_inline_small_functions) Optimization
1765 Integrate functions into their callers when code size is known not to grow.
1767 finline-functions
1768 Common Var(flag_inline_functions) Optimization
1769 Integrate functions not declared \"inline\" into their callers when profitable.
1771 finline-functions-called-once
1772 Common Var(flag_inline_functions_called_once) Optimization
1773 Integrate functions only required by their single caller.
1775 finline-limit-
1776 Common RejectNegative Joined Alias(finline-limit=)
1778 finline-limit=
1779 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
1780 -finline-limit=<number> Limit the size of inlined functions to <number>.
1782 finline-atomics
1783 Common Var(flag_inline_atomics) Init(1) Optimization
1784 Inline __atomic operations when a lock free instruction sequence is available.
1786 fcf-protection
1787 Common RejectNegative Alias(fcf-protection=,full)
1789 fcf-protection=
1790 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(cf_protection_level) Var(flag_cf_protection) Init(CF_NONE)
1791 -fcf-protection=[full|branch|return|none|check] Instrument functions with checks to verify jump/call/return control-flow transfer
1792 instructions have valid targets.
1794 Enum
1795 Name(cf_protection_level) Type(enum cf_protection_level) UnknownError(unknown Control-Flow Protection Level %qs)
1797 EnumValue
1798 Enum(cf_protection_level) String(full) Value(CF_FULL)
1800 EnumValue
1801 Enum(cf_protection_level) String(branch) Value(CF_BRANCH)
1803 EnumValue
1804 Enum(cf_protection_level) String(return) Value(CF_RETURN)
1806 EnumValue
1807 Enum(cf_protection_level) String(check) Value(CF_CHECK)
1809 EnumValue
1810 Enum(cf_protection_level) String(none) Value(CF_NONE)
1812 finstrument-functions
1813 Common Var(flag_instrument_function_entry_exit)
1814 Instrument function entry and exit with profiling calls.
1816 finstrument-functions-exclude-function-list=
1817 Common RejectNegative Joined
1818 -finstrument-functions-exclude-function-list=name,...   Do not instrument listed functions.
1820 finstrument-functions-exclude-file-list=
1821 Common RejectNegative Joined
1822 -finstrument-functions-exclude-file-list=filename,...   Do not instrument functions listed in files.
1824 fipa-cp
1825 Common Var(flag_ipa_cp) Optimization
1826 Perform interprocedural constant propagation.
1828 fipa-cp-clone
1829 Common Var(flag_ipa_cp_clone) Optimization
1830 Perform cloning to make Interprocedural constant propagation stronger.
1832 fipa-cp-alignment
1833 Common Ignore
1834 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1836 fipa-bit-cp
1837 Common Var(flag_ipa_bit_cp) Optimization
1838 Perform interprocedural bitwise constant propagation.
1840 fipa-modref
1841 Common Var(flag_ipa_modref) Optimization
1842 Perform interprocedural modref analysis.
1844 fipa-profile
1845 Common Var(flag_ipa_profile) Init(0) Optimization
1846 Perform interprocedural profile propagation.
1848 fipa-pta
1849 Common Var(flag_ipa_pta) Init(0) Optimization
1850 Perform interprocedural points-to analysis.
1852 fipa-pure-const
1853 Common Var(flag_ipa_pure_const) Init(0) Optimization
1854 Discover pure and const functions.
1856 fipa-icf
1857 Common Var(flag_ipa_icf) Optimization
1858 Perform Identical Code Folding for functions and read-only variables.
1860 fipa-icf-functions
1861 Common Var(flag_ipa_icf_functions) Optimization
1862 Perform Identical Code Folding for functions.
1864 fipa-icf-variables
1865 Common Var(flag_ipa_icf_variables) Optimization
1866 Perform Identical Code Folding for variables.
1868 fipa-reference
1869 Common Var(flag_ipa_reference) Init(0) Optimization
1870 Discover read-only and non addressable static variables.
1872 fipa-reference-addressable
1873 Common Var(flag_ipa_reference_addressable) Init(0) Optimization
1874 Discover read-only, write-only and non-addressable static variables.
1876 fipa-stack-alignment
1877 Common Var(flag_ipa_stack_alignment) Init(1) Optimization
1878 Reduce stack alignment on call sites if possible.
1880 fipa-matrix-reorg
1881 Common Ignore
1882 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1884 fipa-struct-reorg
1885 Common Ignore
1886 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
1888 fipa-vrp
1889 Common Var(flag_ipa_vrp) Optimization
1890 Perform IPA Value Range Propagation.
1892 fira-algorithm=
1893 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(ira_algorithm) Var(flag_ira_algorithm) Init(IRA_ALGORITHM_CB) Optimization
1894 -fira-algorithm=[CB|priority]   Set the used IRA algorithm.
1896 Enum
1897 Name(ira_algorithm) Type(enum ira_algorithm) UnknownError(unknown IRA algorithm %qs)
1899 EnumValue
1900 Enum(ira_algorithm) String(CB) Value(IRA_ALGORITHM_CB)
1902 EnumValue
1903 Enum(ira_algorithm) String(priority) Value(IRA_ALGORITHM_PRIORITY)
1905 fira-region=
1906 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(ira_region) Var(flag_ira_region) Init(IRA_REGION_AUTODETECT) Optimization
1907 -fira-region=[one|all|mixed]    Set regions for IRA.
1909 Enum
1910 Name(ira_region) Type(enum ira_region) UnknownError(unknown IRA region %qs)
1912 EnumValue
1913 Enum(ira_region) String(one) Value(IRA_REGION_ONE)
1915 EnumValue
1916 Enum(ira_region) String(all) Value(IRA_REGION_ALL)
1918 EnumValue
1919 Enum(ira_region) String(mixed) Value(IRA_REGION_MIXED)
1921 fira-hoist-pressure
1922 Common Var(flag_ira_hoist_pressure) Init(1) Optimization
1923 Use IRA based register pressure calculation
1924 in RTL hoist optimizations.
1926 fira-loop-pressure
1927 Common Var(flag_ira_loop_pressure) Optimization
1928 Use IRA based register pressure calculation
1929 in RTL loop optimizations.
1931 fira-share-save-slots
1932 Common Var(flag_ira_share_save_slots) Init(1) Optimization
1933 Share slots for saving different hard registers.
1935 fira-share-spill-slots
1936 Common Var(flag_ira_share_spill_slots) Init(1) Optimization
1937 Share stack slots for spilled pseudo-registers.
1939 fira-verbose=
1940 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger Var(flag_ira_verbose) Init(5)
1941 -fira-verbose=<number>  Control IRA's level of diagnostic messages.
1943 fivopts
1944 Common Var(flag_ivopts) Init(1) Optimization
1945 Optimize induction variables on trees.
1947 fjump-tables
1948 Common Var(flag_jump_tables) Init(1) Optimization
1949 Use jump tables for sufficiently large switch statements.
1951 fbit-tests
1952 Common Var(flag_bit_tests) Init(1) Optimization
1953 Use bit tests for sufficiently large switch statements.
1955 fkeep-inline-functions
1956 Common Var(flag_keep_inline_functions)
1957 Generate code for functions even if they are fully inlined.
1959 fkeep-static-functions
1960 Common Var(flag_keep_static_functions)
1961 Generate code for static functions even if they are never called.
1963 fkeep-static-consts
1964 Common Var(flag_keep_static_consts) Init(1)
1965 Emit static const variables even if they are not used.
1967 fleading-underscore
1968 Common Var(flag_leading_underscore) Init(-1)
1969 Give external symbols a leading underscore.
1971 floop-optimize
1972 Common Ignore
1973 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
1975 flra-remat
1976 Common Var(flag_lra_remat) Optimization
1977 Do CFG-sensitive rematerialization in LRA.
1979 flto
1980 Common
1981 Enable link-time optimization.
1983 flto=
1984 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(flag_lto)
1985 Link-time optimization with number of parallel jobs or jobserver.
1987 Enum
1988 Name(lto_partition_model) Type(enum lto_partition_model) UnknownError(unknown LTO partitioning model %qs)
1990 EnumValue
1991 Enum(lto_partition_model) String(none) Value(LTO_PARTITION_NONE)
1993 EnumValue
1994 Enum(lto_partition_model) String(one) Value(LTO_PARTITION_ONE)
1996 EnumValue
1997 Enum(lto_partition_model) String(balanced) Value(LTO_PARTITION_BALANCED)
1999 EnumValue
2000 Enum(lto_partition_model) String(1to1) Value(LTO_PARTITION_1TO1)
2002 EnumValue
2003 Enum(lto_partition_model) String(max) Value(LTO_PARTITION_MAX)
2005 flto-partition=
2006 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(lto_partition_model) Var(flag_lto_partition) Init(LTO_PARTITION_BALANCED)
2007 Specify the algorithm to partition symbols and vars at linktime.
2009 ; The initial value of -1 comes from Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION in zlib.h.
2010 flto-compression-level=
2011 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(flag_lto_compression_level) Init(-1) IntegerRange(0, 19)
2012 -flto-compression-level=<number>        Use zlib/zstd compression level <number> for IL.
2014 flto-odr-type-merging
2015 Common Ignore
2016 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2018 flto-report
2019 Common Var(flag_lto_report) Init(0)
2020 Report various link-time optimization statistics.
2022 flto-report-wpa
2023 Common Var(flag_lto_report_wpa) Init(0)
2024 Report various link-time optimization statistics for WPA only.
2026 fmath-errno
2027 Common Var(flag_errno_math) Init(1) Optimization SetByCombined
2028 Set errno after built-in math functions.
2030 fmax-errors=
2031 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(flag_max_errors)
2032 -fmax-errors=<number>   Maximum number of errors to report.
2034 fmem-report
2035 Common Var(mem_report)
2036 Report on permanent memory allocation.
2038 fmem-report-wpa
2039 Common Var(mem_report_wpa)
2040 Report on permanent memory allocation in WPA only.
2042 ; This will attempt to merge constant section constants, if 1 only
2043 ; string constants and constants from constant pool, if 2 also constant
2044 ; variables.
2045 fmerge-all-constants
2046 Common Var(flag_merge_constants,2) Init(1)
2047 Attempt to merge identical constants and constant variables.
2049 fmerge-constants
2050 Common Var(flag_merge_constants,1)
2051 Attempt to merge identical constants across compilation units.
2053 fmerge-debug-strings
2054 Common Var(flag_merge_debug_strings) Init(1)
2055 Attempt to merge identical debug strings across compilation units.
2057 fmessage-length=
2058 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger
2059 -fmessage-length=<number>       Limit diagnostics to <number> characters per line.  0 suppresses line-wrapping.
2061 fmodulo-sched
2062 Common Var(flag_modulo_sched) Optimization
2063 Perform SMS based modulo scheduling before the first scheduling pass.
2065 fmodulo-sched-allow-regmoves
2066 Common Var(flag_modulo_sched_allow_regmoves) Optimization
2067 Perform SMS based modulo scheduling with register moves allowed.
2069 fmove-loop-invariants
2070 Common Var(flag_move_loop_invariants) Optimization
2071 Move loop invariant computations out of loops.
2073 fdce
2074 Common Var(flag_dce) Init(1) Optimization
2075 Use the RTL dead code elimination pass.
2077 fdse
2078 Common Var(flag_dse) Init(0) Optimization
2079 Use the RTL dead store elimination pass.
2081 freschedule-modulo-scheduled-loops
2082 Common Var(flag_resched_modulo_sched) Optimization
2083 Enable/Disable the traditional scheduling in loops that already passed modulo scheduling.
2085 fnon-call-exceptions
2086 Common Var(flag_non_call_exceptions) Optimization
2087 Support synchronous non-call exceptions.
2089 foffload=
2090 Common Driver Joined MissingArgError(options or targets missing after %qs)
2091 -foffload=<targets>=<options>   Specify offloading targets and options for them.
2093 foffload-abi=
2094 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(offload_abi) Var(flag_offload_abi) Init(OFFLOAD_ABI_UNSET)
2095 -foffload-abi=[lp64|ilp32]      Set the ABI to use in an offload compiler.
2097 Enum
2098 Name(offload_abi) Type(enum offload_abi) UnknownError(unknown offload ABI %qs)
2100 EnumValue
2101 Enum(offload_abi) String(ilp32) Value(OFFLOAD_ABI_ILP32)
2103 EnumValue
2104 Enum(offload_abi) String(lp64) Value(OFFLOAD_ABI_LP64)
2106 fomit-frame-pointer
2107 Common Var(flag_omit_frame_pointer) Optimization
2108 When possible do not generate stack frames.
2110 fopt-info
2111 Common Var(flag_opt_info) Optimization
2112 Enable all optimization info dumps on stderr.
2114 fopt-info-
2115 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2116 -fopt-info[-<type>=filename]    Dump compiler optimization details.
2118 fsave-optimization-record
2119 Common Var(flag_save_optimization_record) Optimization
2120 Write a SRCFILE.opt-record.json file detailing what optimizations were performed.
2122 foptimize-register-move
2123 Common Ignore
2124 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
2126 foptimize-sibling-calls
2127 Common Var(flag_optimize_sibling_calls) Optimization
2128 Optimize sibling and tail recursive calls.
2130 fpartial-inlining
2131 Common Var(flag_partial_inlining) Optimization
2132 Perform partial inlining.
2134 fpre-ipa-mem-report
2135 Common Var(pre_ipa_mem_report)
2136 Report on memory allocation before interprocedural optimization.
2138 fpost-ipa-mem-report
2139 Common Var(post_ipa_mem_report)
2140 Report on memory allocation before interprocedural optimization.
2142 fpack-struct
2143 Common Var(flag_pack_struct) Optimization
2144 Pack structure members together without holes.
2146 fpack-struct=
2147 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger Optimization
2148 -fpack-struct=<number>  Set initial maximum structure member alignment.
2150 fpcc-struct-return
2151 Common Var(flag_pcc_struct_return,1) Init(DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN)
2152 Return small aggregates in memory, not registers.
2154 fpeel-loops
2155 Common Var(flag_peel_loops) Optimization
2156 Perform loop peeling.
2158 fpeephole
2159 Common Var(flag_no_peephole,0) Optimization
2160 Enable machine specific peephole optimizations.
2162 fpeephole2
2163 Common Var(flag_peephole2) Optimization
2164 Enable an RTL peephole pass before sched2.
2166 fPIC
2167 Common Var(flag_pic,2) Negative(fPIE) Init(-1)
2168 Generate position-independent code if possible (large mode).
2170 fPIE
2171 Common Var(flag_pie,2) Negative(fpic) Init(-1)
2172 Generate position-independent code for executables if possible (large mode).
2174 fpic
2175 Common Var(flag_pic,1) Negative(fpie) Init(-1)
2176 Generate position-independent code if possible (small mode).
2178 fpie
2179 Common Var(flag_pie,1) Negative(fPIC) Init(-1)
2180 Generate position-independent code for executables if possible (small mode).
2182 fplt
2183 Common Var(flag_plt) Init(1) Optimization
2184 Use PLT for PIC calls (-fno-plt: load the address from GOT at call site).
2186 fplugin=
2187 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2188 Specify a plugin to load.
2190 fplugin-arg-
2191 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2192 -fplugin-arg-<name>-<key>[=<value>]     Specify argument <key>=<value> for plugin <name>.
2194 fpredictive-commoning
2195 Common Var(flag_predictive_commoning) Optimization
2196 Run predictive commoning optimization.
2198 fprefetch-loop-arrays
2199 Common Var(flag_prefetch_loop_arrays) Init(-1) Optimization
2200 Generate prefetch instructions, if available, for arrays in loops.
2202 fprofile
2203 Common Var(profile_flag)
2204 Enable basic program profiling code.
2206 fprofile-abs-path
2207 Common Var(profile_abs_path_flag)
2208 Generate absolute source path names for gcov.
2210 fprofile-arcs
2211 Common Var(profile_arc_flag)
2212 Insert arc-based program profiling code.
2214 fprofile-dir=
2215 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(profile_data_prefix)
2216 Set the top-level directory for storing the profile data.
2217 The default is 'pwd'.
2219 fprofile-note=
2220 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(profile_note_location)
2221 Select the name for storing the profile note file.
2223 fprofile-correction
2224 Common Var(flag_profile_correction)
2225 Enable correction of flow inconsistent profile data input.
2227 fprofile-update=
2228 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(profile_update) Var(flag_profile_update) Init(PROFILE_UPDATE_SINGLE)
2229 -fprofile-update=[single|atomic|prefer-atomic]  Set the profile update method.
2231 fprofile-filter-files=
2232 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(flag_profile_filter_files)
2233 Instrument only functions from files whose name matches any of the regular expressions (separated by semi-colons).
2235 fprofile-exclude-files=
2236 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(flag_profile_exclude_files)
2237 Instrument only functions from files whose name does not match any of the regular expressions (separated by semi-colons).
2239 Enum
2240 Name(profile_reproducibility) Type(enum profile_reproducibility) UnknownError(unknown profile reproducibility method %qs)
2242 EnumValue
2243 Enum(profile_reproducibility) String(serial) Value(PROFILE_REPRODUCIBILITY_SERIAL)
2245 EnumValue
2246 Enum(profile_reproducibility) String(parallel-runs) Value(PROFILE_REPRODUCIBILITY_PARALLEL_RUNS)
2248 EnumValue
2249 Enum(profile_reproducibility) String(multithreaded) Value(PROFILE_REPRODUCIBILITY_MULTITHREADED)
2251 fprofile-reproducible
2252 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(flag_profile_reproducible) Enum(profile_reproducibility) Init(PROFILE_REPRODUCIBILITY_SERIAL)
2253 -fprofile-reproducible=[serial|parallel-runs|multithreaded]     Control level of reproducibility of profile gathered by -fprofile-generate.
2255 Enum
2256 Name(profile_update) Type(enum profile_update) UnknownError(unknown profile update method %qs)
2258 EnumValue
2259 Enum(profile_update) String(single) Value(PROFILE_UPDATE_SINGLE)
2261 EnumValue
2262 Enum(profile_update) String(atomic) Value(PROFILE_UPDATE_ATOMIC)
2264 EnumValue
2265 Enum(profile_update) String(prefer-atomic) Value(PROFILE_UPDATE_PREFER_ATOMIC)
2267 fprofile-prefix-path=
2268 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(profile_prefix_path)
2269 Remove prefix from absolute path before mangling name for -fprofile-generate= and -fprofile-use=.
2271 fprofile-generate
2272 Common
2273 Enable common options for generating profile info for profile feedback directed optimizations.
2275 fprofile-generate=
2276 Common Joined RejectNegative
2277 Enable common options for generating profile info for profile feedback directed optimizations, and set -fprofile-dir=.
2279 fprofile-info-section
2280 Common RejectNegative
2281 Register the profile information in the .gcov_info section instead of using a constructor/destructor.
2283 fprofile-info-section=
2284 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(profile_info_section)
2285 Register the profile information in the specified section instead of using a constructor/destructor.
2287 fprofile-partial-training
2288 Common Var(flag_profile_partial_training) Optimization
2289 Do not assume that functions never executed during the train run are cold.
2291 fprofile-use
2292 Common Var(flag_profile_use)
2293 Enable common options for performing profile feedback directed optimizations.
2295 fprofile-use=
2296 Common Joined RejectNegative
2297 Enable common options for performing profile feedback directed optimizations, and set -fprofile-dir=.
2299 fprofile-values
2300 Common Var(flag_profile_values)
2301 Insert code to profile values of expressions.
2303 fprofile-report
2304 Common Var(profile_report)
2305 Report on consistency of profile.
2307 fprofile-reorder-functions
2308 Common Var(flag_profile_reorder_functions) Optimization
2309 Enable function reordering that improves code placement.
2311 fpatchable-function-entry=
2312 Common Joined Optimization
2313 Insert NOP instructions at each function entry.
2315 frandom-seed
2316 Common Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2318 frandom-seed=
2319 Common Joined RejectNegative Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2320 -frandom-seed=<string>  Make compile reproducible using <string>.
2322 ; This switch causes the command line that was used to create an
2323 ; object file to be recorded into the object file.  The exact format
2324 ; of this recording is target and binary file format dependent.
2325 ; It is related to the -fverbose-asm switch, but that switch only
2326 ; records information in the assembler output file as comments, so
2327 ; they never reach the object file.
2328 frecord-gcc-switches
2329 Common Var(flag_record_gcc_switches)
2330 Record gcc command line switches in the object file.
2332 freg-struct-return
2333 Common Var(flag_pcc_struct_return,0) Optimization
2334 Return small aggregates in registers.
2336 fregmove
2337 Common Ignore
2338 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
2340 flifetime-dse
2341 Common Var(flag_lifetime_dse,2) Init(2) Optimization
2342 Tell DSE that the storage for a C++ object is dead when the constructor
2343 starts and when the destructor finishes.
2345 flifetime-dse=
2346 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(flag_lifetime_dse) Optimization IntegerRange(0, 2)
2348 flive-patching
2349 Common RejectNegative Alias(flive-patching=,inline-clone) Optimization
2351 flive-patching=
2352 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(live_patching_level) Var(flag_live_patching) Init(LIVE_PATCHING_NONE) Optimization
2353 -flive-patching=[inline-only-static|inline-clone]       Control IPA
2354 optimizations to provide a safe compilation for live-patching.  At the same
2355 time, provides multiple-level control on the enabled IPA optimizations.
2357 Enum
2358 Name(live_patching_level) Type(enum live_patching_level) UnknownError(unknown Live-Patching Level %qs)
2360 EnumValue
2361 Enum(live_patching_level) String(inline-only-static) Value(LIVE_PATCHING_INLINE_ONLY_STATIC)
2363 EnumValue
2364 Enum(live_patching_level) String(inline-clone) Value(LIVE_PATCHING_INLINE_CLONE)
2366 fallocation-dce
2367 Common Var(flag_allocation_dce) Init(1) Optimization
2368 Tell DCE to remove unused C++ allocations.
2370 flive-range-shrinkage
2371 Common Var(flag_live_range_shrinkage) Init(0) Optimization
2372 Relief of register pressure through live range shrinkage.
2374 frename-registers
2375 Common Var(flag_rename_registers) Init(2) Optimization
2376 Perform a register renaming optimization pass.
2378 fschedule-fusion
2379 Common Var(flag_schedule_fusion) Init(2) Optimization
2380 Perform a target dependent instruction fusion optimization pass.
2382 freorder-blocks
2383 Common Var(flag_reorder_blocks) Optimization
2384 Reorder basic blocks to improve code placement.
2386 freorder-blocks-algorithm=
2387 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(reorder_blocks_algorithm) Var(flag_reorder_blocks_algorithm) Init(REORDER_BLOCKS_ALGORITHM_SIMPLE) Optimization
2388 -freorder-blocks-algorithm=[simple|stc] Set the used basic block reordering algorithm.
2390 Enum
2391 Name(reorder_blocks_algorithm) Type(enum reorder_blocks_algorithm) UnknownError(unknown basic block reordering algorithm %qs)
2393 EnumValue
2394 Enum(reorder_blocks_algorithm) String(simple) Value(REORDER_BLOCKS_ALGORITHM_SIMPLE)
2396 EnumValue
2397 Enum(reorder_blocks_algorithm) String(stc) Value(REORDER_BLOCKS_ALGORITHM_STC)
2399 freorder-blocks-and-partition
2400 Common Var(flag_reorder_blocks_and_partition) Optimization
2401 Reorder basic blocks and partition into hot and cold sections.
2403 freorder-functions
2404 Common Var(flag_reorder_functions) Optimization
2405 Reorder functions to improve code placement.
2407 frerun-cse-after-loop
2408 Common Var(flag_rerun_cse_after_loop) Optimization
2409 Add a common subexpression elimination pass after loop optimizations.
2411 frerun-loop-opt
2412 Common Ignore
2413 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2415 frounding-math
2416 Common Var(flag_rounding_math) Optimization SetByCombined
2417 Disable optimizations that assume default FP rounding behavior.
2419 fsched-interblock
2420 Common Var(flag_schedule_interblock) Init(1) Optimization
2421 Enable scheduling across basic blocks.
2423 fsched-pressure
2424 Common Var(flag_sched_pressure) Init(0) Optimization
2425 Enable register pressure sensitive insn scheduling.
2427 fsched-spec
2428 Common Var(flag_schedule_speculative) Init(1) Optimization
2429 Allow speculative motion of non-loads.
2431 fsched-spec-load
2432 Common Var(flag_schedule_speculative_load) Optimization
2433 Allow speculative motion of some loads.
2435 fsched-spec-load-dangerous
2436 Common Var(flag_schedule_speculative_load_dangerous) Optimization
2437 Allow speculative motion of more loads.
2439 fsched-verbose=
2440 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger Var(sched_verbose_param) Init(1)
2441 -fsched-verbose=<number>        Set the verbosity level of the scheduler.
2443 fsched2-use-superblocks
2444 Common Var(flag_sched2_use_superblocks) Optimization
2445 If scheduling post reload, do superblock scheduling.
2447 fsched2-use-traces
2448 Common Ignore
2449 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2451 fschedule-insns
2452 Common Var(flag_schedule_insns) Optimization
2453 Reschedule instructions before register allocation.
2455 fschedule-insns2
2456 Common Var(flag_schedule_insns_after_reload) Optimization
2457 Reschedule instructions after register allocation.
2459 ; This flag should be on when a target implements non-trivial
2460 ; scheduling hooks, maybe saving some information for its own sake.
2461 ; On IA64, for example, this is used for correct bundling.
2462 fselective-scheduling
2463 Common Var(flag_selective_scheduling) Optimization
2464 Schedule instructions using selective scheduling algorithm.
2466 fselective-scheduling2
2467 Common Var(flag_selective_scheduling2) Optimization
2468 Run selective scheduling after reload.
2470 fself-test=
2471 Common Undocumented Joined Var(flag_self_test)
2472 Run self-tests, using the given path to locate test files.
2474 fsel-sched-pipelining
2475 Common Var(flag_sel_sched_pipelining) Init(0) Optimization
2476 Perform software pipelining of inner loops during selective scheduling.
2478 fsel-sched-pipelining-outer-loops
2479 Common Var(flag_sel_sched_pipelining_outer_loops) Init(0) Optimization
2480 Perform software pipelining of outer loops during selective scheduling.
2482 fsel-sched-reschedule-pipelined
2483 Common Var(flag_sel_sched_reschedule_pipelined) Init(0) Optimization
2484 Reschedule pipelined regions without pipelining.
2486 fsemantic-interposition
2487 Common Var(flag_semantic_interposition) Init(1)
2488 Allow interposing function (or variables) by ones with different semantics (or initializer) respectively by dynamic linker.
2490 ; sched_stalled_insns means that insns can be moved prematurely from the queue
2491 ; of stalled insns into the ready list.
2492 fsched-stalled-insns
2493 Common Var(flag_sched_stalled_insns) Optimization UInteger
2494 Allow premature scheduling of queued insns.
2496 fsched-stalled-insns=
2497 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger Optimization
2498 -fsched-stalled-insns=<number>  Set number of queued insns that can be prematurely scheduled.
2500 ; sched_stalled_insns_dep controls how many recently scheduled cycles will
2501 ; be examined for a dependency on a stalled insn that is candidate for
2502 ; premature removal from the queue of stalled insns into the ready list (has
2503 ; an effect only if the flag 'sched_stalled_insns' is set).
2504 fsched-stalled-insns-dep
2505 Common Var(flag_sched_stalled_insns_dep,1) Init(1) Optimization UInteger
2506 Set dependence distance checking in premature scheduling of queued insns.
2508 fsched-stalled-insns-dep=
2509 Common RejectNegative Joined UInteger Optimization
2510 -fsched-stalled-insns-dep=<number>      Set dependence distance checking in premature scheduling of queued insns.
2512 fsched-group-heuristic
2513 Common Var(flag_sched_group_heuristic) Init(1) Optimization
2514 Enable the group heuristic in the scheduler.
2516 fsched-critical-path-heuristic
2517 Common Var(flag_sched_critical_path_heuristic) Init(1) Optimization
2518 Enable the critical path heuristic in the scheduler.
2520 fsched-spec-insn-heuristic
2521 Common Var(flag_sched_spec_insn_heuristic) Init(1) Optimization
2522 Enable the speculative instruction heuristic in the scheduler.
2524 fsched-rank-heuristic
2525 Common Var(flag_sched_rank_heuristic) Init(1) Optimization
2526 Enable the rank heuristic in the scheduler.
2528 fsched-last-insn-heuristic
2529 Common Var(flag_sched_last_insn_heuristic) Init(1) Optimization
2530 Enable the last instruction heuristic in the scheduler.
2532 fsched-dep-count-heuristic
2533 Common Var(flag_sched_dep_count_heuristic) Init(1) Optimization
2534 Enable the dependent count heuristic in the scheduler.
2536 fsection-anchors
2537 Common Var(flag_section_anchors) Optimization
2538 Access data in the same section from shared anchor points.
2540 fsee
2541 Common Ignore
2542 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2544 fzee
2545 Common Ignore
2546 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2548 free
2549 Common Var(flag_ree) Init(0) Optimization
2550 Turn on Redundant Extensions Elimination pass.
2552 fshow-column
2553 Common Var(flag_show_column) Init(1)
2554 Show column numbers in diagnostics, when available.  Default on.
2556 fshrink-wrap
2557 Common Var(flag_shrink_wrap) Optimization
2558 Emit function prologues only before parts of the function that need it,
2559 rather than at the top of the function.
2561 fshrink-wrap-separate
2562 Common Var(flag_shrink_wrap_separate) Init(1) Optimization
2563 Shrink-wrap parts of the prologue and epilogue separately.
2565 fsignaling-nans
2566 Common Var(flag_signaling_nans) Optimization SetByCombined
2567 Disable optimizations observable by IEEE signaling NaNs.
2569 fsigned-zeros
2570 Common Var(flag_signed_zeros) Init(1) Optimization SetByCombined
2571 Disable floating point optimizations that ignore the IEEE signedness of zero.
2573 fsingle-precision-constant
2574 Common Var(flag_single_precision_constant) Optimization
2575 Convert floating point constants to single precision constants.
2577 fsplit-ivs-in-unroller
2578 Common Var(flag_split_ivs_in_unroller) Init(1) Optimization
2579 Split lifetimes of induction variables when loops are unrolled.
2581 fsplit-stack
2582 Common Var(flag_split_stack) Init(-1)
2583 Generate discontiguous stack frames.
2585 fsplit-wide-types
2586 Common Var(flag_split_wide_types) Optimization
2587 Split wide types into independent registers.
2589 fsplit-wide-types-early
2590 Common Var(flag_split_wide_types_early) Optimization
2591 Split wide types into independent registers earlier.
2593 fssa-backprop
2594 Common Var(flag_ssa_backprop) Init(1) Optimization
2595 Enable backward propagation of use properties at the SSA level.
2597 fssa-phiopt
2598 Common Var(flag_ssa_phiopt) Optimization
2599 Optimize conditional patterns using SSA PHI nodes.
2601 fstdarg-opt
2602 Common Var(flag_stdarg_opt) Init(1) Optimization
2603 Optimize amount of stdarg registers saved to stack at start of function.
2605 fvariable-expansion-in-unroller
2606 Common Var(flag_variable_expansion_in_unroller) Optimization
2607 Apply variable expansion when loops are unrolled.
2609 fstack-check=
2610 Common RejectNegative Joined Optimization
2611 -fstack-check=[no|generic|specific]     Insert stack checking code into the program.
2613 fstack-check
2614 Common Alias(fstack-check=, specific, no)
2615 Insert stack checking code into the program.  Same as -fstack-check=specific.
2617 fstack-clash-protection
2618 Common Var(flag_stack_clash_protection) Optimization
2619 Insert code to probe each page of stack space as it is allocated to protect
2620 from stack-clash style attacks.
2622 fstack-limit
2623 Common Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2625 fstack-limit-register=
2626 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2627 -fstack-limit-register=<register>       Trap if the stack goes past <register>.
2629 fstack-limit-symbol=
2630 Common RejectNegative Joined Var(common_deferred_options) Defer
2631 -fstack-limit-symbol=<name>     Trap if the stack goes past symbol <name>.
2633 fstack-protector
2634 Common Var(flag_stack_protect, 1) Init(-1) Optimization
2635 Use propolice as a stack protection method.
2637 fstack-protector-all
2638 Common RejectNegative Var(flag_stack_protect, 2) Init(-1) Optimization
2639 Use a stack protection method for every function.
2641 fstack-protector-strong
2642 Common RejectNegative Var(flag_stack_protect, 3) Init(-1) Optimization
2643 Use a smart stack protection method for certain functions.
2645 fstack-protector-explicit
2646 Common RejectNegative Var(flag_stack_protect, 4) Optimization
2647 Use stack protection method only for functions with the stack_protect attribute.
2649 fstack-usage
2650 Common RejectNegative Var(flag_stack_usage)
2651 Output stack usage information on a per-function basis.
2653 fstrength-reduce
2654 Common Ignore
2655 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2657 ; Nonzero if we should do (language-dependent) alias analysis.
2658 ; Typically, this analysis will assume that expressions of certain
2659 ; types do not alias expressions of certain other types.  Only used
2660 ; if alias analysis (in general) is enabled.
2661 fstrict-aliasing
2662 Common Var(flag_strict_aliasing) Optimization
2663 Assume strict aliasing rules apply.
2665 fstrict-overflow
2666 Common
2667 Treat signed overflow as undefined.  Negated as -fwrapv -fwrapv-pointer.
2669 fsync-libcalls
2670 Common Var(flag_sync_libcalls) Init(1)
2671 Implement __atomic operations via libcalls to legacy __sync functions.
2673 fsyntax-only
2674 Common Var(flag_syntax_only)
2675 Check for syntax errors, then stop.
2677 ftest-coverage
2678 Common Var(flag_test_coverage)
2679 Create data files needed by \"gcov\".
2681 fthread-jumps
2682 Common Var(flag_thread_jumps) Optimization
2683 Perform jump threading optimizations.
2685 ftime-report
2686 Common Var(time_report)
2687 Report the time taken by each compiler pass.
2689 ftime-report-details
2690 Common Var(time_report_details)
2691 Record times taken by sub-phases separately.
2693 ftls-model=
2694 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(tls_model) Var(flag_tls_default) Init(TLS_MODEL_GLOBAL_DYNAMIC)
2695 -ftls-model=[global-dynamic|local-dynamic|initial-exec|local-exec]      Set the default thread-local storage code generation model.
2697 Enum
2698 Name(tls_model) Type(enum tls_model) UnknownError(unknown TLS model %qs)
2700 EnumValue
2701 Enum(tls_model) String(global-dynamic) Value(TLS_MODEL_GLOBAL_DYNAMIC)
2703 EnumValue
2704 Enum(tls_model) String(local-dynamic) Value(TLS_MODEL_LOCAL_DYNAMIC)
2706 EnumValue
2707 Enum(tls_model) String(initial-exec) Value(TLS_MODEL_INITIAL_EXEC)
2709 EnumValue
2710 Enum(tls_model) String(local-exec) Value(TLS_MODEL_LOCAL_EXEC)
2712 ftoplevel-reorder
2713 Common Var(flag_toplevel_reorder) Init(2) Optimization
2714 Reorder top level functions, variables, and asms.
2716 ftracer
2717 Common Var(flag_tracer) Optimization
2718 Perform superblock formation via tail duplication.
2720 ftrampolines
2721 Common Var(flag_trampolines) Init(0)
2722 For targets that normally need trampolines for nested functions, always
2723 generate them instead of using descriptors.
2725 ; Zero means that floating-point math operations cannot generate a
2726 ; (user-visible) trap.  This is the case, for example, in nonstop
2727 ; IEEE 754 arithmetic.
2728 ftrapping-math
2729 Common Var(flag_trapping_math) Init(1) Optimization SetByCombined
2730 Assume floating-point operations can trap.
2732 ftrapv
2733 Common Var(flag_trapv) Optimization
2734 Trap for signed overflow in addition, subtraction and multiplication.
2736 ftree-ccp
2737 Common Var(flag_tree_ccp) Optimization
2738 Enable SSA-CCP optimization on trees.
2740 ftree-bit-ccp
2741 Common Var(flag_tree_bit_ccp) Optimization
2742 Enable SSA-BIT-CCP optimization on trees.
2744 ftree-store-ccp
2745 Common Ignore
2746 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2748 ftree-ch
2749 Common Var(flag_tree_ch) Optimization
2750 Enable loop header copying on trees.
2752 ftree-coalesce-inlined-vars
2753 Common Ignore RejectNegative
2754 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2756 ftree-coalesce-vars
2757 Common Var(flag_tree_coalesce_vars) Optimization
2758 Enable SSA coalescing of user variables.
2760 ftree-copyrename
2761 Common Ignore
2762 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2764 ftree-copy-prop
2765 Common Var(flag_tree_copy_prop) Optimization
2766 Enable copy propagation on trees.
2768 ftree-store-copy-prop
2769 Common Ignore
2770 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2772 ftree-cselim
2773 Common Var(flag_tree_cselim) Init(2) Optimization
2774 Transform condition stores into unconditional ones.
2776 ftree-switch-conversion
2777 Common Var(flag_tree_switch_conversion) Optimization
2778 Perform conversions of switch initializations.
2780 ftree-dce
2781 Common Var(flag_tree_dce) Optimization
2782 Enable SSA dead code elimination optimization on trees.
2784 ftree-dominator-opts
2785 Common Var(flag_tree_dom) Optimization
2786 Enable dominator optimizations.
2788 ftree-tail-merge
2789 Common Var(flag_tree_tail_merge) Optimization
2790 Enable tail merging on trees.
2792 ftree-dse
2793 Common Var(flag_tree_dse) Optimization
2794 Enable dead store elimination.
2796 ftree-forwprop
2797 Common Var(flag_tree_forwprop) Init(1) Optimization
2798 Enable forward propagation on trees.
2800 ftree-fre
2801 Common Var(flag_tree_fre) Optimization
2802 Enable Full Redundancy Elimination (FRE) on trees.
2804 foptimize-strlen
2805 Common Var(flag_optimize_strlen) Optimization
2806 Enable string length optimizations on trees.
2808 fisolate-erroneous-paths-dereference
2809 Common Var(flag_isolate_erroneous_paths_dereference) Optimization
2810 Detect paths that trigger erroneous or undefined behavior due to
2811 dereferencing a null pointer.  Isolate those paths from the main control
2812 flow and turn the statement with erroneous or undefined behavior into a trap.
2814 fisolate-erroneous-paths-attribute
2815 Common Var(flag_isolate_erroneous_paths_attribute) Optimization
2816 Detect paths that trigger erroneous or undefined behavior due to a null value
2817 being used in a way forbidden by a returns_nonnull or nonnull
2818 attribute.  Isolate those paths from the main control flow and turn the
2819 statement with erroneous or undefined behavior into a trap.
2821 ftree-loop-distribution
2822 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_distribution) Optimization
2823 Enable loop distribution on trees.
2825 ftree-loop-distribute-patterns
2826 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_distribute_patterns) Optimization
2827 Enable loop distribution for patterns transformed into a library call.
2829 ftree-loop-im
2830 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_im) Init(1) Optimization
2831 Enable loop invariant motion on trees.
2833 ftree-loop-linear
2834 Common Alias(floop-nest-optimize)
2835 Enable loop nest transforms.  Same as -floop-nest-optimize.
2837 ftree-loop-ivcanon
2838 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_ivcanon) Init(1) Optimization
2839 Create canonical induction variables in loops.
2841 ftree-loop-optimize
2842 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_optimize) Init(1) Optimization
2843 Enable loop optimizations on tree level.
2845 ftree-parallelize-loops=
2846 Common Joined RejectNegative UInteger Var(flag_tree_parallelize_loops) Init(1) Optimization
2847 -ftree-parallelize-loops=<number>       Enable automatic parallelization of loops.
2849 ftree-phiprop
2850 Common Var(flag_tree_phiprop) Init(1) Optimization
2851 Enable hoisting loads from conditional pointers.
2853 ftree-pre
2854 Common Var(flag_tree_pre) Optimization
2855 Enable SSA-PRE optimization on trees.
2857 ftree-partial-pre
2858 Common Var(flag_tree_partial_pre) Optimization
2859 In SSA-PRE optimization on trees, enable partial-partial redundancy elimination.
2861 ftree-pta
2862 Common Var(flag_tree_pta) Optimization
2863 Perform function-local points-to analysis on trees.
2865 ftree-reassoc
2866 Common Var(flag_tree_reassoc) Init(1) Optimization
2867 Enable reassociation on tree level.
2869 ftree-salias
2870 Common Ignore
2871 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2873 ftree-sink
2874 Common Var(flag_tree_sink) Optimization
2875 Enable SSA code sinking on trees.
2877 ftree-slsr
2878 Common Var(flag_tree_slsr) Optimization
2879 Perform straight-line strength reduction.
2881 ftree-sra
2882 Common Var(flag_tree_sra) Optimization
2883 Perform scalar replacement of aggregates.
2885 ftree-ter
2886 Common Var(flag_tree_ter) Optimization
2887 Replace temporary expressions in the SSA->normal pass.
2889 ftree-lrs
2890 Common Var(flag_tree_live_range_split) Optimization
2891 Perform live range splitting during the SSA->normal pass.
2893 ftree-vrp
2894 Common Var(flag_tree_vrp) Init(0) Optimization
2895 Perform Value Range Propagation on trees.
2897 fsplit-paths
2898 Common Var(flag_split_paths) Init(0) Optimization
2899 Split paths leading to loop backedges.
2901 funconstrained-commons
2902 Common Var(flag_unconstrained_commons) Optimization
2903 Assume common declarations may be overridden with ones with a larger
2904 trailing array.
2906 funit-at-a-time
2907 Common Var(flag_unit_at_a_time) Init(1)
2908 Compile whole compilation unit at a time.
2910 funroll-loops
2911 Common Var(flag_unroll_loops) Optimization
2912 Perform loop unrolling when iteration count is known.
2914 funroll-all-loops
2915 Common Var(flag_unroll_all_loops) Optimization
2916 Perform loop unrolling for all loops.
2918 funroll-completely-grow-size
2919 Undocumented Var(flag_cunroll_grow_size) Optimization
2920 ; Internal undocumented flag, allow size growth during complete unrolling
2922 ; Nonzero means that loop optimizer may assume that the induction variables
2923 ; that control loops do not overflow and that the loops with nontrivial
2924 ; exit condition are not infinite
2925 funsafe-loop-optimizations
2926 Common Ignore
2927 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
2929 fassociative-math
2930 Common Var(flag_associative_math) SetByCombined Optimization
2931 Allow optimization for floating-point arithmetic which may change the
2932 result of the operation due to rounding.
2934 freciprocal-math
2935 Common Var(flag_reciprocal_math) SetByCombined Optimization
2936 Same as -fassociative-math for expressions which include division.
2938 ; Nonzero means that unsafe floating-point math optimizations are allowed
2939 ; for the sake of speed.  IEEE compliance is not guaranteed, and operations
2940 ; are allowed to assume that their arguments and results are "normal"
2941 ; (e.g., nonnegative for SQRT).
2942 funsafe-math-optimizations
2943 Common Var(flag_unsafe_math_optimizations) Optimization SetByCombined
2944 Allow math optimizations that may violate IEEE or ISO standards.
2946 funswitch-loops
2947 Common Var(flag_unswitch_loops) Optimization
2948 Perform loop unswitching.
2950 fsplit-loops
2951 Common Var(flag_split_loops) Optimization
2952 Perform loop splitting.
2954 fversion-loops-for-strides
2955 Common Var(flag_version_loops_for_strides) Optimization
2956 Version loops based on whether indices have a stride of one.
2958 funwind-tables
2959 Common Var(flag_unwind_tables) Optimization
2960 Just generate unwind tables for exception handling.
2962 fuse-ld=bfd
2963 Common Driver Negative(fuse-ld=gold)
2964 Use the bfd linker instead of the default linker.
2966 fuse-ld=gold
2967 Common Driver Negative(fuse-ld=bfd)
2968 Use the gold linker instead of the default linker.
2970 fuse-ld=lld
2971 Common Driver Negative(fuse-ld=lld)
2972 Use the lld LLVM linker instead of the default linker.
2974 fuse-linker-plugin
2975 Common Undocumented Var(flag_use_linker_plugin)
2977 ; Positive if we should track variables, negative if we should run
2978 ; the var-tracking pass only to discard debug annotations, zero if
2979 ; we're not to run it.  When flag_var_tracking == 2 (AUTODETECT_VALUE) it
2980 ; will be set according to optimize, debug_info_level and debug_hooks
2981 ; in process_options ().
2982 fvar-tracking
2983 Common Var(flag_var_tracking) Init(2) PerFunction
2984 Perform variable tracking.
2986 ; Positive if we should track variables at assignments, negative if
2987 ; we should run the var-tracking pass only to discard debug
2988 ; annotations.  When flag_var_tracking_assignments ==
2989 ; AUTODETECT_VALUE it will be set according to flag_var_tracking.
2990 fvar-tracking-assignments
2991 Common Var(flag_var_tracking_assignments) Init(2) PerFunction
2992 Perform variable tracking by annotating assignments.
2994 ; Nonzero if we should toggle flag_var_tracking_assignments after
2995 ; processing options and computing its default.  */
2996 fvar-tracking-assignments-toggle
2997 Common Var(flag_var_tracking_assignments_toggle) PerFunction
2998 Toggle -fvar-tracking-assignments.
3000 ; Positive if we should track uninitialized variables, negative if
3001 ; we should run the var-tracking pass only to discard debug
3002 ; annotations.  When flag_var_tracking_uninit == AUTODETECT_VALUE it
3003 ; will be set according to flag_var_tracking.
3004 fvar-tracking-uninit
3005 Common Var(flag_var_tracking_uninit) PerFunction
3006 Perform variable tracking and also tag variables that are uninitialized.
3008 ; Alias to enable both -ftree-loop-vectorize and -ftree-slp-vectorize.
3009 ftree-vectorize
3010 Common Optimization
3011 Enable vectorization on trees.
3013 ftree-vectorizer-verbose=
3014 Common Joined RejectNegative Ignore
3015 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
3017 ftree-loop-vectorize
3018 Common Var(flag_tree_loop_vectorize) Optimization EnabledBy(ftree-vectorize)
3019 Enable loop vectorization on trees.
3021 ftree-slp-vectorize
3022 Common Var(flag_tree_slp_vectorize) Optimization EnabledBy(ftree-vectorize)
3023 Enable basic block vectorization (SLP) on trees.
3025 fvect-cost-model=
3026 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(vect_cost_model) Var(flag_vect_cost_model) Init(VECT_COST_MODEL_DEFAULT) Optimization
3027 -fvect-cost-model=[unlimited|dynamic|cheap|very-cheap]  Specifies the cost model for vectorization.
3029 fsimd-cost-model=
3030 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(vect_cost_model) Var(flag_simd_cost_model) Init(VECT_COST_MODEL_UNLIMITED) Optimization
3031 -fsimd-cost-model=[unlimited|dynamic|cheap|very-cheap]  Specifies the vectorization cost model for code marked with a simd directive.
3033 Enum
3034 Name(vect_cost_model) Type(enum vect_cost_model) UnknownError(unknown vectorizer cost model %qs)
3036 EnumValue
3037 Enum(vect_cost_model) String(unlimited) Value(VECT_COST_MODEL_UNLIMITED)
3039 EnumValue
3040 Enum(vect_cost_model) String(dynamic) Value(VECT_COST_MODEL_DYNAMIC)
3042 EnumValue
3043 Enum(vect_cost_model) String(cheap) Value(VECT_COST_MODEL_CHEAP)
3045 EnumValue
3046 Enum(vect_cost_model) String(very-cheap) Value(VECT_COST_MODEL_VERY_CHEAP)
3048 fvect-cost-model
3049 Common Alias(fvect-cost-model=,dynamic,unlimited)
3050 Enables the dynamic vectorizer cost model.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
3052 ftree-vect-loop-version
3053 Common Ignore
3054 Does nothing. Preserved for backward compatibility.
3056 ftree-scev-cprop
3057 Common Var(flag_tree_scev_cprop) Init(1) Optimization
3058 Enable copy propagation of scalar-evolution information.
3060 ; -fverbose-asm causes extra commentary information to be produced in
3061 ; the generated assembly code (to make it more readable).  This option
3062 ; is generally only of use to those who actually need to read the
3063 ; generated assembly code (perhaps while debugging the compiler itself).
3064 ; -fno-verbose-asm, the default, causes the extra information
3065 ; to not be added and is useful when comparing two assembler files.
3066 fverbose-asm
3067 Common Var(flag_verbose_asm)
3068 Add extra commentary to assembler output.
3070 fvisibility=
3071 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(symbol_visibility) Var(default_visibility) Init(VISIBILITY_DEFAULT)
3072 -fvisibility=[default|internal|hidden|protected]        Set the default symbol visibility.
3074 Enum
3075 Name(symbol_visibility) Type(enum symbol_visibility) UnknownError(unrecognized visibility value %qs)
3077 EnumValue
3078 Enum(symbol_visibility) String(default) Value(VISIBILITY_DEFAULT)
3080 EnumValue
3081 Enum(symbol_visibility) String(internal) Value(VISIBILITY_INTERNAL)
3083 EnumValue
3084 Enum(symbol_visibility) String(hidden) Value(VISIBILITY_HIDDEN)
3086 EnumValue
3087 Enum(symbol_visibility) String(protected) Value(VISIBILITY_PROTECTED)
3089 fvtable-verify=
3090 Common Joined RejectNegative Enum(vtv_priority) Var(flag_vtable_verify) Init(VTV_NO_PRIORITY)
3091 Validate vtable pointers before using them.
3093 Enum
3094 Name(vtv_priority) Type(enum vtv_priority) UnknownError(unknown vtable verify initialization priority %qs)
3096 EnumValue
3097 Enum(vtv_priority) String(none) Value(VTV_NO_PRIORITY)
3099 EnumValue
3100 Enum(vtv_priority) String(std) Value(VTV_STANDARD_PRIORITY)
3102 EnumValue
3103 Enum(vtv_priority) String(preinit) Value(VTV_PREINIT_PRIORITY)
3105 fvtv-counts
3106 Common Var(flag_vtv_counts)
3107 Output vtable verification counters.
3109 fvtv-debug
3110 Common Var(flag_vtv_debug)
3111 Output vtable verification pointer sets information.
3113 fvpt
3114 Common Var(flag_value_profile_transformations) Optimization
3115 Use expression value profiles in optimizations.
3117 fweb
3118 Common Var(flag_web) Init(2) Optimization
3119 Construct webs and split unrelated uses of single variable.
3121 ftree-builtin-call-dce
3122 Common Var(flag_tree_builtin_call_dce) Init(0) Optimization
3123 Enable conditional dead code elimination for builtin calls.
3125 fwhole-program
3126 Common Var(flag_whole_program) Init(0)
3127 Perform whole program optimizations.
3129 fwrapv-pointer
3130 Common Var(flag_wrapv_pointer) Optimization
3131 Assume pointer overflow wraps around.
3133 fwrapv
3134 Common Var(flag_wrapv) Optimization
3135 Assume signed arithmetic overflow wraps around.
3137 fzero-initialized-in-bss
3138 Common Var(flag_zero_initialized_in_bss) Init(1)
3139 Put zero initialized data in the bss section.
3141 fzero-call-used-regs=
3142 Common RejectNegative Joined
3143 Clear call-used registers upon function return.
3146 Common Driver RejectNegative JoinedOrMissing
3147 Generate debug information in default format.
3149 gas-loc-support
3150 Common Driver Var(dwarf2out_as_loc_support) Init(2)
3151 Assume assembler support for (DWARF2+) .loc directives.
3153 gas-locview-support
3154 Common Driver Var(dwarf2out_as_locview_support) Init(2)
3155 Assume assembler support for view in (DWARF2+) .loc directives.
3157 gcoff
3158 Common Driver WarnRemoved
3159 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
3161 gcoff1
3162 Common Driver WarnRemoved
3163 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
3165 gcoff2
3166 Common Driver WarnRemoved
3167 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
3169 gcoff3
3170 Common Driver WarnRemoved
3171 Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility.
3173 gcolumn-info
3174 Common Driver Var(debug_column_info,1) Init(1)
3175 Record DW_AT_decl_column and DW_AT_call_column in DWARF.
3177 gdwarf
3178 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing Negative(gdwarf-)
3179 Generate debug information in default version of DWARF format.
3181 gdwarf-
3182 Common Driver Joined UInteger Var(dwarf_version) Init(4) Negative(gstabs)
3183 Generate debug information in DWARF v2 (or later) format.
3185 gdwarf32
3186 Common Driver Var(dwarf_offset_size,4) Init(4) RejectNegative
3187 Use 32-bit DWARF format when emitting DWARF debug information.
3189 gdwarf64
3190 Common Driver Var(dwarf_offset_size,8) RejectNegative
3191 Use 64-bit DWARF format when emitting DWARF debug information.
3193 ggdb
3194 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing
3195 Generate debug information in default extended format.
3197 ginline-points
3198 Common Driver Var(debug_inline_points) Init(2)
3199 Generate extended entry point information for inlined functions.
3201 ginternal-reset-location-views
3202 Common Driver Var(debug_internal_reset_location_views) Init(2)
3203 Compute locview reset points based on insn length estimates.
3205 gno-
3206 RejectNegative Joined Undocumented
3207 ; Catch the gno- prefix, so it doesn't backtrack to g<level>.
3209 gno-pubnames
3210 Common Driver Negative(gpubnames) Var(debug_generate_pub_sections, 0) Init(-1)
3211 Don't generate DWARF pubnames and pubtypes sections.
3213 gpubnames
3214 Common Driver Negative(ggnu-pubnames) Var(debug_generate_pub_sections, 1)
3215 Generate DWARF pubnames and pubtypes sections.
3217 ggnu-pubnames
3218 Common Driver Negative(gno-pubnames) Var(debug_generate_pub_sections, 2)
3219 Generate DWARF pubnames and pubtypes sections with GNU extensions.
3221 grecord-gcc-switches
3222 Common Driver Var(dwarf_record_gcc_switches) Init(1)
3223 Record gcc command line switches in DWARF DW_AT_producer.
3225 gsplit-dwarf
3226 Common Driver Var(dwarf_split_debug_info) Init(0)
3227 Generate debug information in separate .dwo files.
3229 gstabs
3230 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing Negative(gstabs+)
3231 Generate debug information in STABS format.
3233 gstabs+
3234 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing Negative(gvms)
3235 Generate debug information in extended STABS format.
3237 gstatement-frontiers
3238 Common Driver Var(debug_nonbind_markers_p) Init(2)
3239 Emit progressive recommended breakpoint locations.
3241 gstrict-dwarf
3242 Common Driver Var(dwarf_strict) Init(0)
3243 Don't emit DWARF additions beyond selected version.
3245 gdescribe-dies
3246 Common Driver Var(flag_describe_dies) Init(0)
3247 Add description attributes to some DWARF DIEs that have no name attribute.
3249 gtoggle
3250 Common Driver Var(flag_gtoggle)
3251 Toggle debug information generation.
3253 gvariable-location-views
3254 Common Driver Var(debug_variable_location_views, 1) Init(2)
3255 Augment variable location lists with progressive views.
3257 gvariable-location-views=incompat5
3258 Common Driver RejectNegative Var(debug_variable_location_views, -1) Init(2)
3260 gvms
3261 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing Negative(gxcoff)
3262 Generate debug information in VMS format.
3264 gxcoff
3265 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing Negative(gxcoff+)
3266 Generate debug information in XCOFF format.
3268 gxcoff+
3269 Common Driver JoinedOrMissing Negative(gdwarf)
3270 Generate debug information in extended XCOFF format.
3272 Enum
3273 Name(compressed_debug_sections) Type(int)
3275 ; Since -gz= is completely handled in specs, the values aren't used and we
3276 ; assign arbitrary constants.
3277 EnumValue
3278 Enum(compressed_debug_sections) String(none) Value(0)
3280 EnumValue
3281 Enum(compressed_debug_sections) String(zlib) Value(1)
3283 EnumValue
3284 Enum(compressed_debug_sections) String(zlib-gnu) Value(2)
3287 Common Driver
3288 Generate compressed debug sections.
3291 Common Driver RejectNegative Joined Enum(compressed_debug_sections)
3292 -gz=<format>    Generate compressed debug sections in format <format>.
3295 Driver Joined Separate
3297 iplugindir=
3298 Common Joined Var(plugindir_string) Init(0)
3299 -iplugindir=<dir>       Set <dir> to be the default plugin directory.
3301 imultiarch
3302 Common Joined Separate RejectDriver Var(imultiarch) Init(0)
3303 -imultiarch <dir>       Set <dir> to be the multiarch include subdirectory.
3306 Driver Joined Separate
3309 Driver
3311 no-canonical-prefixes
3312 Driver
3314 nodefaultlibs
3315 Driver
3317 nostartfiles
3318 Driver
3320 nolibc
3321 Driver
3323 nostdlib
3324 Driver
3327 Common Driver Joined Separate Var(asm_file_name) MissingArgError(missing filename after %qs)
3328 -o <file>       Place output into <file>.
3331 Common Var(profile_flag)
3332 Enable function profiling.
3334 pass-exit-codes
3335 Driver Var(pass_exit_codes)
3337 pedantic
3338 Common Alias(Wpedantic)
3340 pedantic-errors
3341 Common Var(flag_pedantic_errors)
3342 Like -pedantic but issue them as errors.
3345 Driver
3347 pipe
3348 Driver Var(use_pipes)
3350 print-file-name=
3351 Driver JoinedOrMissing Var(print_file_name)
3353 print-libgcc-file-name
3354 Driver
3356 print-multi-directory
3357 Driver Var(print_multi_directory)
3359 print-multi-lib
3360 Driver Var(print_multi_lib)
3362 print-multi-os-directory
3363 Driver Var(print_multi_os_directory)
3365 print-multiarch
3366 Driver Var(print_multiarch)
3368 print-prog-name=
3369 Driver JoinedOrMissing Var(print_prog_name)
3371 print-search-dirs
3372 Driver Var(print_search_dirs)
3374 print-sysroot
3375 Driver Var(print_sysroot)
3377 print-sysroot-headers-suffix
3378 Driver Var(print_sysroot_headers_suffix)
3380 quiet
3381 Common Var(quiet_flag) RejectDriver
3382 Do not display functions compiled or elapsed time.
3385 Driver
3388 Driver
3390 save-temps
3391 Driver
3393 save-temps=
3394 Driver Joined
3397 Driver
3399 time
3400 Driver Var(report_times)
3402 time=
3403 Driver JoinedOrMissing
3406 Driver Joined Separate
3408 undef
3409 Driver
3410 ; C option, but driver must not handle as "-u ndef".
3413 Common Driver Var(verbose_flag)
3414 Enable verbose output.
3416 version
3417 Common Var(version_flag) RejectDriver
3418 Display the compiler's version.
3421 Common Var(inhibit_warnings)
3422 Suppress warnings.
3424 wrapper
3425 Driver Separate Var(wrapper_string)
3428 Driver Joined Separate
3430 shared
3431 Driver RejectNegative Negative(static-pie)
3432 Create a shared library.
3434 shared-libgcc
3435 Driver
3437 specs
3438 Driver Separate Alias(specs=)
3440 specs=
3441 Driver Joined
3443 static
3444 Driver
3446 static-libgcc
3447 Driver
3449 static-libgfortran
3450 Driver
3451 ; Documented for Fortran, but always accepted by driver.
3453 static-libstdc++
3454 Driver
3456 static-libgo
3457 Driver
3458 ; Documented for Go, but always accepted by driver.
3460 static-libasan
3461 Driver
3463 static-libhwasan
3464 Driver
3466 static-libtsan
3467 Driver
3469 static-liblsan
3470 Driver
3472 static-libubsan
3473 Driver
3475 symbolic
3476 Driver
3478 no-pie
3479 Driver RejectNegative Negative(shared)
3480 Don't create a dynamically linked position independent executable.
3483 Driver RejectNegative Negative(no-pie)
3484 Create a dynamically linked position independent executable.
3486 static-pie
3487 Driver RejectNegative Negative(pie)
3488 Create a static position independent executable.
3491 Driver Joined Separate
3493 fipa-ra
3494 Common Var(flag_ipa_ra) Optimization
3495 Use caller save register across calls if possible.
3497 ; This comment is to ensure we retain the blank line above.