-g- Produce debugging information in the operating system's native format
(stabs, COFF, XCOFF, or DWARF 2). GDB can work with this debugging
information.
On most systems that use stabs format, -g enables use of extra
debugging information that only GDB can use; this extra information
makes debugging work better in GDB but will probably make other debuggers
crash or
refuse to read the program. If you want to control for certain whether
to generate the extra information, use -gstabs+, -gstabs,
-gxcoff+, -gxcoff, or -gvms (see below).
GCC allows you to use -g with
-O. The shortcuts taken by optimized code may occasionally
produce surprising results: some variables you declared may not exist
at all; flow of control may briefly move where you did not expect it;
some statements may not be executed because they compute constant
results or their values were already at hand; some statements may
execute in different places because they were moved out of loops.
Nevertheless it proves possible to debug optimized output. This makes
it reasonable to use the optimizer for programs that might have bugs.
The following options are useful when GCC is generated with the
capability for more than one debugging format.
-ggdb- Produce debugging information for use by GDB. This means to use the
most expressive format available (DWARF 2, stabs, or the native format
if neither of those are supported), including GDB extensions if at all
possible.
-gstabs- Produce debugging information in stabs format (if that is supported),
without GDB extensions. This is the format used by DBX on most BSD
systems. On MIPS, Alpha and System V Release 4 systems this option
produces stabs debugging output which is not understood by DBX or SDB.
On System V Release 4 systems this option requires the GNU assembler.
-feliminate-unused-debug-symbols- Produce debugging information in stabs format (if that is supported),
for only symbols that are actually used.
-femit-class-debug-always- Instead of emitting debugging information for a C++ class in only one
object file, emit it in all object files using the class. This option
should be used only with debuggers that are unable to handle the way GCC
normally emits debugging information for classes because using this
option will increase the size of debugging information by as much as a
factor of two.
-gstabs+- Produce debugging information in stabs format (if that is supported),
using GNU extensions understood only by the GNU debugger (GDB). The
use of these extensions is likely to make other debuggers crash or
refuse to read the program.
-gcoff- Produce debugging information in COFF format (if that is supported).
This is the format used by SDB on most System V systems prior to
System V Release 4.
-gxcoff- Produce debugging information in XCOFF format (if that is supported).
This is the format used by the DBX debugger on IBM RS/6000 systems.
-gxcoff+- Produce debugging information in XCOFF format (if that is supported),
using GNU extensions understood only by the GNU debugger (GDB). The
use of these extensions is likely to make other debuggers crash or
refuse to read the program, and may cause assemblers other than the GNU
assembler (GAS) to fail with an error.
-gdwarf-2- Produce debugging information in DWARF version 2 format (if that is
supported). This is the format used by DBX on IRIX 6. With this
option, GCC uses features of DWARF version 3 when they are useful;
version 3 is upward compatible with version 2, but may still cause
problems for older debuggers.
-gvms- Produce debugging information in VMS debug format (if that is
supported). This is the format used by DEBUG on VMS systems.
-glevel-ggdblevel-gstabslevel-gcofflevel-gxcofflevel-gvmslevel- Request debugging information and also use level to specify how
much information. The default level is 2.
Level 0 produces no debug information at all. Thus, -g0 negates
-g.
Level 1 produces minimal information, enough for making backtraces in
parts of the program that you don't plan to debug. This includes
descriptions of functions and external variables, but no information
about local variables and no line numbers.
Level 3 includes extra information, such as all the macro definitions
present in the program. Some debuggers support macro expansion when
you use -g3.
-gdwarf-2 does not accept a concatenated debug level, because
GCC used to support an option -gdwarf that meant to generate
debug information in version 1 of the DWARF format (which is very
different from version 2), and it would have been too confusing. That
debug format is long obsolete, but the option cannot be changed now.
Instead use an additional -glevel option to change the
debug level for DWARF2.
-feliminate-dwarf2-dups- Compress DWARF2 debugging information by eliminating duplicated
information about each symbol. This option only makes sense when
generating DWARF2 debugging information with -gdwarf-2.
-femit-struct-debug-baseonly- Emit debug information for struct-like types
only when the base name of the compilation source file
matches the base name of file in which the struct was defined.
This option substantially reduces the size of debugging information,
but at significant potential loss in type information to the debugger.
See -femit-struct-debug-reduced for a less aggressive option.
See -femit-struct-debug-detailed for more detailed control.
This option works only with DWARF 2.
-femit-struct-debug-reduced- Emit debug information for struct-like types
only when the base name of the compilation source file
matches the base name of file in which the type was defined,
unless the struct is a template or defined in a system header.
This option significantly reduces the size of debugging information,
with some potential loss in type information to the debugger.
See -femit-struct-debug-baseonly for a more aggressive option.
See -femit-struct-debug-detailed for more detailed control.
This option works only with DWARF 2.
-femit-struct-debug-detailed[=spec-list]- Specify the struct-like types
for which the compiler will generate debug information.
The intent is to reduce duplicate struct debug information
between different object files within the same program.
This option is a detailed version of
-femit-struct-debug-reduced and -femit-struct-debug-baseonly,
which will serve for most needs.
A specification has the syntax
[`dir:'|`ind:'][`ord:'|`gen:'](`any'|`sys'|`base'|`none')
The optional first word limits the specification to
structs that are used directly (`dir:') or used indirectly (`ind:').
A struct type is used directly when it is the type of a variable, member.
Indirect uses arise through pointers to structs.
That is, when use of an incomplete struct would be legal, the use is indirect.
An example is
`struct one direct; struct two * indirect;'.
The optional second word limits the specification to
ordinary structs (`ord:') or generic structs (`gen:').
Generic structs are a bit complicated to explain.
For C++, these are non-explicit specializations of template classes,
or non-template classes within the above.
Other programming languages have generics,
but `-femit-struct-debug-detailed' does not yet implement them.
The third word specifies the source files for those
structs for which the compiler will emit debug information.
The values `none' and `any' have the normal meaning.
The value `base' means that
the base of name of the file in which the type declaration appears
must match the base of the name of the main compilation file.
In practice, this means that
types declared in foo.c and foo.h will have debug information,
but types declared in other header will not.
The value `sys' means those types satisfying `base'
or declared in system or compiler headers.
You may need to experiment to determine the best settings for your application.
The default is `-femit-struct-debug-detailed=all'.
This option works only with DWARF 2.
-fno-merge-debug-strings- Direct the linker to not merge together strings in the debugging
information which are identical in different object files. Merging is
not supported by all assemblers or linkers. Merging decreases the size
of the debug information in the output file at the cost of increasing
link processing time. Merging is enabled by default.
-fdebug-prefix-map=old=new- When compiling files in directory old, record debugging
information describing them as in new instead.
-fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm- Emit DWARF 2 unwind info as compiler generated
.eh_frame section
instead of using GAS .cfi_* directives.
-p- Generate extra code to write profile information suitable for the
analysis program prof. You must use this option when compiling
the source files you want data about, and you must also use it when
linking.
-pg- Generate extra code to write profile information suitable for the
analysis program gprof. You must use this option when compiling
the source files you want data about, and you must also use it when
linking.
-Q- Makes the compiler print out each function name as it is compiled, and
print some statistics about each pass when it finishes.
-ftime-report- Makes the compiler print some statistics about the time consumed by each
pass when it finishes.
-fmem-report- Makes the compiler print some statistics about permanent memory
allocation when it finishes.
-fpre-ipa-mem-report
-fpost-ipa-mem-report- Makes the compiler print some statistics about permanent memory
allocation before or after interprocedural optimization.
-fprofile-arcs- Add code so that program flow arcs are instrumented. During
execution the program records how many times each branch and call is
executed and how many times it is taken or returns. When the compiled
program exits it saves this data to a file called
auxname.gcda for each source file. The data may be used for
profile-directed optimizations (-fbranch-probabilities), or for
test coverage analysis (-ftest-coverage). Each object file's
auxname is generated from the name of the output file, if
explicitly specified and it is not the final executable, otherwise it is
the basename of the source file. In both cases any suffix is removed
(e.g. foo.gcda for input file dir/foo.c, or
dir/foo.gcda for output file specified as -o dir/foo.o).
See Cross-profiling.
--coverage-
This option is used to compile and link code instrumented for coverage
analysis. The option is a synonym for -fprofile-arcs
-ftest-coverage (when compiling) and -lgcov (when
linking). See the documentation for those options for more details.
- Compile the source files with -fprofile-arcs plus optimization
and code generation options. For test coverage analysis, use the
additional -ftest-coverage option. You do not need to profile
every source file in a program.
- Link your object files with -lgcov or -fprofile-arcs
(the latter implies the former).
- Run the program on a representative workload to generate the arc profile
information. This may be repeated any number of times. You can run
concurrent instances of your program, and provided that the file system
supports locking, the data files will be correctly updated. Also
fork calls are detected and correctly handled (double counting
will not happen).
- For profile-directed optimizations, compile the source files again with
the same optimization and code generation options plus
-fbranch-probabilities (see Options that Control Optimization).
- For test coverage analysis, use gcov to produce human readable
information from the .gcno and .gcda files. Refer to the
gcov documentation for further information.
With -fprofile-arcs, for each function of your program GCC
creates a program flow graph, then finds a spanning tree for the graph.
Only arcs that are not on the spanning tree have to be instrumented: the
compiler adds code to count the number of times that these arcs are
executed. When an arc is the only exit or only entrance to a block, the
instrumentation code can be added to the block; otherwise, a new basic
block must be created to hold the instrumentation code.
-ftest-coverage- Produce a notes file that the gcov code-coverage utility
(see gcov—a Test Coverage Program) can use to
show program coverage. Each source file's note file is called
auxname.gcno. Refer to the -fprofile-arcs option
above for a description of auxname and instructions on how to
generate test coverage data. Coverage data will match the source files
more closely, if you do not optimize.
-fdbg-cnt-list- Print the name and the counter upperbound for all debug counters.
-fdbg-cnt=counter-value-list- Set the internal debug counter upperbound. counter-value-list
is a comma-separated list of name:value pairs
which sets the upperbound of each debug counter name to value.
All debug counters have the initial upperbound of UINT_MAX,
thus dbg_cnt() returns true always unless the upperbound is set by this option.
e.g. With -fdbg-cnt=dce:10,tail_call:0
dbg_cnt(dce) will return true only for first 10 invocations
and dbg_cnt(tail_call) will return false always.
-dletters-fdump-rtl-pass- Says to make debugging dumps during compilation at times specified by
letters. This is used for debugging the RTL-based passes of the
compiler. The file names for most of the dumps are made by appending a
pass number and a word to the dumpname. dumpname is generated
from the name of the output file, if explicitly specified and it is not
an executable, otherwise it is the basename of the source file. These
switches may have different effects when -E is used for
preprocessing.
Debug dumps can be enabled with a -fdump-rtl switch or some
-d option letters. Here are the possible
letters for use in pass and letters, and their meanings:
-fdump-rtl-alignments- Dump after branch alignments have been computed.
-fdump-rtl-asmcons- Dump after fixing rtl statements that have unsatisfied in/out constraints.
-fdump-rtl-auto_inc_dec- Dump after auto-inc-dec discovery. This pass is only run on
architectures that have auto inc or auto dec instructions.
-fdump-rtl-barriers- Dump after cleaning up the barrier instructions.
-fdump-rtl-bbpart- Dump after partitioning hot and cold basic blocks.
-fdump-rtl-bbro- Dump after block reordering.
-fdump-rtl-btl1-fdump-rtl-btl2- -fdump-rtl-btl1 and -fdump-rtl-btl2 enable dumping
after the two branch
target load optimization passes.
-fdump-rtl-bypass- Dump after jump bypassing and control flow optimizations.
-fdump-rtl-combine- Dump after the RTL instruction combination pass.
-fdump-rtl-compgotos- Dump after duplicating the computed gotos.
-fdump-rtl-ce1-fdump-rtl-ce2-fdump-rtl-ce3- -fdump-rtl-ce1, -fdump-rtl-ce2, and
-fdump-rtl-ce3 enable dumping after the three
if conversion passes.
-fdump-rtl-cprop_hardreg- Dump after hard register copy propagation.
-fdump-rtl-csa- Dump after combining stack adjustments.
-fdump-rtl-cse1-fdump-rtl-cse2- -fdump-rtl-cse1 and -fdump-rtl-cse2 enable dumping after
the two common sub-expression elimination passes.
-fdump-rtl-dce- Dump after the standalone dead code elimination passes.
-fdump-rtl-dbr- Dump after delayed branch scheduling.
-fdump-rtl-dce1-fdump-rtl-dce2- -fdump-rtl-dce1 and -fdump-rtl-dce2 enable dumping after
the two dead store elimination passes.
-fdump-rtl-eh- Dump after finalization of EH handling code.
-fdump-rtl-eh_ranges- Dump after conversion of EH handling range regions.
-fdump-rtl-expand- Dump after RTL generation.
-fdump-rtl-fwprop1-fdump-rtl-fwprop2- -fdump-rtl-fwprop1 and -fdump-rtl-fwprop2 enable
dumping after the two forward propagation passes.
-fdump-rtl-gcse1-fdump-rtl-gcse2- -fdump-rtl-gcse1 and -fdump-rtl-gcse2 enable dumping
after global common subexpression elimination.
-fdump-rtl-init-regs- Dump after the initialization of the registers.
-fdump-rtl-initvals- Dump after the computation of the initial value sets.
-fdump-rtl-into_cfglayout- Dump after converting to cfglayout mode.
-fdump-rtl-ira- Dump after iterated register allocation.
-fdump-rtl-jump- Dump after the second jump optimization.
-fdump-rtl-loop2- -fdump-rtl-loop2 enables dumping after the rtl
loop optimization passes.
-fdump-rtl-mach- Dump after performing the machine dependent reorganization pass, if that
pass exists.
-fdump-rtl-mode_sw- Dump after removing redundant mode switches.
-fdump-rtl-rnreg- Dump after register renumbering.
-fdump-rtl-outof_cfglayout- Dump after converting from cfglayout mode.
-fdump-rtl-peephole2- Dump after the peephole pass.
-fdump-rtl-postreload- Dump after post-reload optimizations.
-fdump-rtl-pro_and_epilogue- Dump after generating the function pro and epilogues.
-fdump-rtl-regmove- Dump after the register move pass.
-fdump-rtl-sched1-fdump-rtl-sched2- -fdump-rtl-sched1 and -fdump-rtl-sched2 enable dumping
after the basic block scheduling passes.
-fdump-rtl-see- Dump after sign extension elimination.
-fdump-rtl-seqabstr- Dump after common sequence discovery.
-fdump-rtl-shorten- Dump after shortening branches.
-fdump-rtl-sibling- Dump after sibling call optimizations.
-fdump-rtl-split1-fdump-rtl-split2-fdump-rtl-split3-fdump-rtl-split4-fdump-rtl-split5- -fdump-rtl-split1, -fdump-rtl-split2,
-fdump-rtl-split3, -fdump-rtl-split4 and
-fdump-rtl-split5 enable dumping after five rounds of
instruction splitting.
-fdump-rtl-sms- Dump after modulo scheduling. This pass is only run on some
architectures.
-fdump-rtl-stack- Dump after conversion from GCC's "flat register file" registers to the
x87's stack-like registers. This pass is only run on x86 variants.
-fdump-rtl-subreg1-fdump-rtl-subreg2- -fdump-rtl-subreg1 and -fdump-rtl-subreg2 enable dumping after
the two subreg expansion passes.
-fdump-rtl-unshare- Dump after all rtl has been unshared.
-fdump-rtl-vartrack- Dump after variable tracking.
-fdump-rtl-vregs- Dump after converting virtual registers to hard registers.
-fdump-rtl-web- Dump after live range splitting.
-fdump-rtl-regclass-fdump-rtl-subregs_of_mode_init-fdump-rtl-subregs_of_mode_finish-fdump-rtl-dfinit-fdump-rtl-dfinish- These dumps are defined but always produce empty files.
-fdump-rtl-all- Produce all the dumps listed above.
-dA- Annotate the assembler output with miscellaneous debugging information.
-dD- Dump all macro definitions, at the end of preprocessing, in addition to
normal output.
-dH- Produce a core dump whenever an error occurs.
-dm- Print statistics on memory usage, at the end of the run, to
standard error.
-dp- Annotate the assembler output with a comment indicating which
pattern and alternative was used. The length of each instruction is
also printed.
-dP- Dump the RTL in the assembler output as a comment before each instruction.
Also turns on -dp annotation.
-dv- For each of the other indicated dump files (-fdump-rtl-pass),
dump a representation of the control flow graph suitable for viewing with VCG
to file.pass.vcg.
-dx- Just generate RTL for a function instead of compiling it. Usually used
with -fdump-rtl-expand.
-dy- Dump debugging information during parsing, to standard error.
-fdump-noaddr- When doing debugging dumps, suppress address output. This makes it more
feasible to use diff on debugging dumps for compiler invocations with
different compiler binaries and/or different
text / bss / data / heap / stack / dso start locations.
-fdump-unnumbered- When doing debugging dumps, suppress instruction numbers and address output.
This makes it more feasible to use diff on debugging dumps for compiler
invocations with different options, in particular with and without
-g.
-fdump-translation-unit (C++ only)-fdump-translation-unit-options (C++ only)- Dump a representation of the tree structure for the entire translation
unit to a file. The file name is made by appending .tu to the
source file name. If the `-options' form is used, options
controls the details of the dump as described for the
-fdump-tree options.
-fdump-class-hierarchy (C++ only)-fdump-class-hierarchy-options (C++ only)- Dump a representation of each class's hierarchy and virtual function
table layout to a file. The file name is made by appending .class
to the source file name. If the `-options' form is used,
options controls the details of the dump as described for the
-fdump-tree options.
-fdump-ipa-switch- Control the dumping at various stages of inter-procedural analysis
language tree to a file. The file name is generated by appending a switch
specific suffix to the source file name. The following dumps are possible:
- `all'
- Enables all inter-procedural analysis dumps.
- `cgraph'
- Dumps information about call-graph optimization, unused function removal,
and inlining decisions.
- `inline'
- Dump after function inlining.
-fdump-statistics-option- Enable and control dumping of pass statistics in a separate file. The
file name is generated by appending a suffix ending in `.statistics'
to the source file name. If the `-option' form is used,
`-stats' will cause counters to be summed over the whole compilation unit
while `-details' will dump every event as the passes generate them.
The default with no option is to sum counters for each function compiled.
-fdump-tree-switch-fdump-tree-switch-options- Control the dumping at various stages of processing the intermediate
language tree to a file. The file name is generated by appending a switch
specific suffix to the source file name. If the `-options'
form is used, options is a list of `-' separated options that
control the details of the dump. Not all options are applicable to all
dumps, those which are not meaningful will be ignored. The following
options are available
- `address'
- Print the address of each node. Usually this is not meaningful as it
changes according to the environment and source file. Its primary use
is for tying up a dump file with a debug environment.
- `slim'
- Inhibit dumping of members of a scope or body of a function merely
because that scope has been reached. Only dump such items when they
are directly reachable by some other path. When dumping pretty-printed
trees, this option inhibits dumping the bodies of control structures.
- `raw'
- Print a raw representation of the tree. By default, trees are
pretty-printed into a C-like representation.
- `details'
- Enable more detailed dumps (not honored by every dump option).
- `stats'
- Enable dumping various statistics about the pass (not honored by every dump
option).
- `blocks'
- Enable showing basic block boundaries (disabled in raw dumps).
- `vops'
- Enable showing virtual operands for every statement.
- `lineno'
- Enable showing line numbers for statements.
- `uid'
- Enable showing the unique ID (
DECL_UID) for each variable.
- `verbose'
- Enable showing the tree dump for each statement.
- `all'
- Turn on all options, except raw, slim, verbose
and lineno.
The following tree dumps are possible:
- `original'
- Dump before any tree based optimization, to file.original.
- `optimized'
- Dump after all tree based optimization, to file.optimized.
- `gimple'
- Dump each function before and after the gimplification pass to a file. The
file name is made by appending .gimple to the source file name.
- `cfg'
- Dump the control flow graph of each function to a file. The file name is
made by appending .cfg to the source file name.
- `vcg'
- Dump the control flow graph of each function to a file in VCG format. The
file name is made by appending .vcg to the source file name. Note
that if the file contains more than one function, the generated file cannot
be used directly by VCG. You will need to cut and paste each function's
graph into its own separate file first.
- `ch'
- Dump each function after copying loop headers. The file name is made by
appending .ch to the source file name.
- `ssa'
- Dump SSA related information to a file. The file name is made by appending
.ssa to the source file name.
- `alias'
- Dump aliasing information for each function. The file name is made by
appending .alias to the source file name.
- `ccp'
- Dump each function after CCP. The file name is made by appending
.ccp to the source file name.
- `storeccp'
- Dump each function after STORE-CCP. The file name is made by appending
.storeccp to the source file name.
- `pre'
- Dump trees after partial redundancy elimination. The file name is made
by appending .pre to the source file name.
- `fre'
- Dump trees after full redundancy elimination. The file name is made
by appending .fre to the source file name.
- `copyprop'
- Dump trees after copy propagation. The file name is made
by appending .copyprop to the source file name.
- `store_copyprop'
- Dump trees after store copy-propagation. The file name is made
by appending .store_copyprop to the source file name.
- `dce'
- Dump each function after dead code elimination. The file name is made by
appending .dce to the source file name.
- `mudflap'
- Dump each function after adding mudflap instrumentation. The file name is
made by appending .mudflap to the source file name.
- `sra'
- Dump each function after performing scalar replacement of aggregates. The
file name is made by appending .sra to the source file name.
- `sink'
- Dump each function after performing code sinking. The file name is made
by appending .sink to the source file name.
- `dom'
- Dump each function after applying dominator tree optimizations. The file
name is made by appending .dom to the source file name.
- `dse'
- Dump each function after applying dead store elimination. The file
name is made by appending .dse to the source file name.
- `phiopt'
- Dump each function after optimizing PHI nodes into straightline code. The file
name is made by appending .phiopt to the source file name.
- `forwprop'
- Dump each function after forward propagating single use variables. The file
name is made by appending .forwprop to the source file name.
- `copyrename'
- Dump each function after applying the copy rename optimization. The file
name is made by appending .copyrename to the source file name.
- `nrv'
- Dump each function after applying the named return value optimization on
generic trees. The file name is made by appending .nrv to the source
file name.
- `vect'
- Dump each function after applying vectorization of loops. The file name is
made by appending .vect to the source file name.
- `vrp'
- Dump each function after Value Range Propagation (VRP). The file name
is made by appending .vrp to the source file name.
- `all'
- Enable all the available tree dumps with the flags provided in this option.
-ftree-vectorizer-verbose=n- This option controls the amount of debugging output the vectorizer prints.
This information is written to standard error, unless
-fdump-tree-all or -fdump-tree-vect is specified,
in which case it is output to the usual dump listing file, .vect.
For n=0 no diagnostic information is reported.
If n=1 the vectorizer reports each loop that got vectorized,
and the total number of loops that got vectorized.
If n=2 the vectorizer also reports non-vectorized loops that passed
the first analysis phase (vect_analyze_loop_form) - i.e. countable,
inner-most, single-bb, single-entry/exit loops. This is the same verbosity
level that -fdump-tree-vect-stats uses.
Higher verbosity levels mean either more information dumped for each
reported loop, or same amount of information reported for more loops:
If n=3, alignment related information is added to the reports.
If n=4, data-references related information (e.g. memory dependences,
memory access-patterns) is added to the reports.
If n=5, the vectorizer reports also non-vectorized inner-most loops
that did not pass the first analysis phase (i.e., may not be countable, or
may have complicated control-flow).
If n=6, the vectorizer reports also non-vectorized nested loops.
For n=7, all the information the vectorizer generates during its
analysis and transformation is reported. This is the same verbosity level
that -fdump-tree-vect-details uses.
-frandom-seed=string- This option provides a seed that GCC uses when it would otherwise use
random numbers. It is used to generate certain symbol names
that have to be different in every compiled file. It is also used to
place unique stamps in coverage data files and the object files that
produce them. You can use the -frandom-seed option to produce
reproducibly identical object files.
The string should be different for every file you compile.
-fsched-verbose=n- On targets that use instruction scheduling, this option controls the
amount of debugging output the scheduler prints. This information is
written to standard error, unless -fdump-rtl-sched1 or
-fdump-rtl-sched2 is specified, in which case it is output
to the usual dump listing file, .sched or .sched2
respectively. However for n greater than nine, the output is
always printed to standard error.
For n greater than zero, -fsched-verbose outputs the
same information as -fdump-rtl-sched1 and -fdump-rtl-sched2.
For n greater than one, it also output basic block probabilities,
detailed ready list information and unit/insn info. For n greater
than two, it includes RTL at abort point, control-flow and regions info.
And for n over four, -fsched-verbose also includes
dependence info.
-save-temps- Store the usual “temporary” intermediate files permanently; place them
in the current directory and name them based on the source file. Thus,
compiling foo.c with `-c -save-temps' would produce files
foo.i and foo.s, as well as foo.o. This creates a
preprocessed foo.i output file even though the compiler now
normally uses an integrated preprocessor.
When used in combination with the -x command line option,
-save-temps is sensible enough to avoid over writing an
input source file with the same extension as an intermediate file.
The corresponding intermediate file may be obtained by renaming the
source file before using -save-temps.
-time- Report the CPU time taken by each subprocess in the compilation
sequence. For C source files, this is the compiler proper and assembler
(plus the linker if linking is done). The output looks like this:
# cc1 0.12 0.01
# as 0.00 0.01
The first number on each line is the “user time”, that is time spent
executing the program itself. The second number is “system time”,
time spent executing operating system routines on behalf of the program.
Both numbers are in seconds.
-fvar-tracking- Run variable tracking pass. It computes where variables are stored at each
position in code. Better debugging information is then generated
(if the debugging information format supports this information).
It is enabled by default when compiling with optimization (-Os,
-O, -O2, ...), debugging information (-g) and
the debug info format supports it.
-print-file-name=library- Print the full absolute name of the library file library that
would be used when linking—and don't do anything else. With this
option, GCC does not compile or link anything; it just prints the
file name.
-print-multi-directory- Print the directory name corresponding to the multilib selected by any
other switches present in the command line. This directory is supposed
to exist in GCC_EXEC_PREFIX.
-print-multi-lib- Print the mapping from multilib directory names to compiler switches
that enable them. The directory name is separated from the switches by
`;', and each switch starts with an `@' instead of the
`-', without spaces between multiple switches. This is supposed to
ease shell-processing.
-print-prog-name=program- Like -print-file-name, but searches for a program such as `cpp'.
-print-libgcc-file-name- Same as -print-file-name=libgcc.a.
This is useful when you use -nostdlib or -nodefaultlibs
but you do want to link with libgcc.a. You can do
gcc -nostdlib files... `gcc -print-libgcc-file-name`
-print-search-dirs- Print the name of the configured installation directory and a list of
program and library directories gcc will search—and don't do anything else.
This is useful when gcc prints the error message
`installation problem, cannot exec cpp0: No such file or directory'.
To resolve this you either need to put cpp0 and the other compiler
components where gcc expects to find them, or you can set the environment
variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to the directory where you installed them.
Don't forget the trailing `/'.
See Environment Variables.
-print-sysroot- Print the target sysroot directory that will be used during
compilation. This is the target sysroot specified either at configure
time or using the --sysroot option, possibly with an extra
suffix that depends on compilation options. If no target sysroot is
specified, the option prints nothing.
-print-sysroot-headers-suffix- Print the suffix added to the target sysroot when searching for
headers, or give an error if the compiler is not configured with such
a suffix—and don't do anything else.
-dumpmachine- Print the compiler's target machine (for example,
`i686-pc-linux-gnu')—and don't do anything else.
-dumpversion- Print the compiler version (for example, `3.0')—and don't do
anything else.
-dumpspecs- Print the compiler's built-in specs—and don't do anything else. (This
is used when GCC itself is being built.) See Spec Files.
-feliminate-unused-debug-types- Normally, when producing DWARF2 output, GCC will emit debugging
information for all types declared in a compilation
unit, regardless of whether or not they are actually used
in that compilation unit. Sometimes this is useful, such as
if, in the debugger, you want to cast a value to a type that is
not actually used in your program (but is declared). More often,
however, this results in a significant amount of wasted space.
With this option, GCC will avoid producing debug symbol output
for types that are nowhere used in the source file being compiled.