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