-mabi=name- Generate code for the specified ABI. Permissible values are: ‘apcs-gnu’,
‘atpcs’, ‘aapcs’, ‘aapcs-linux’ and ‘iwmmxt’.
-mapcs-frame- Generate a stack frame that is compliant with the ARM Procedure Call
Standard for all functions, even if this is not strictly necessary for
correct execution of the code. Specifying -fomit-frame-pointer
with this option causes the stack frames not to be generated for
leaf functions. The default is -mno-apcs-frame.
-mapcs- This is a synonym for -mapcs-frame.
-mthumb-interwork- Generate code that supports calling between the ARM and Thumb
instruction sets. Without this option, on pre-v5 architectures, the
two instruction sets cannot be reliably used inside one program. The
default is -mno-thumb-interwork, since slightly larger code
is generated when -mthumb-interwork is specified. In AAPCS
configurations this option is meaningless.
-mno-sched-prolog- Prevent the reordering of instructions in the function prologue, or the
merging of those instruction with the instructions in the function's
body. This means that all functions start with a recognizable set
of instructions (or in fact one of a choice from a small set of
different function prologues), and this information can be used to
locate the start of functions inside an executable piece of code. The
default is -msched-prolog.
-mfloat-abi=name- Specifies which floating-point ABI to use. Permissible values
are: ‘soft’, ‘softfp’ and ‘hard’.
Specifying ‘soft’ causes GCC to generate output containing
library calls for floating-point operations.
‘softfp’ allows the generation of code using hardware floating-point
instructions, but still uses the soft-float calling conventions.
‘hard’ allows generation of floating-point instructions
and uses FPU-specific calling conventions.
The default depends on the specific target configuration. Note that
the hard-float and soft-float ABIs are not link-compatible; you must
compile your entire program with the same ABI, and link with a
compatible set of libraries.
-mlittle-endian- Generate code for a processor running in little-endian mode. This is
the default for all standard configurations.
-mbig-endian- Generate code for a processor running in big-endian mode; the default is
to compile code for a little-endian processor.
-mwords-little-endian- This option only applies when generating code for big-endian processors.
Generate code for a little-endian word order but a big-endian byte
order. That is, a byte order of the form ‘32107654’. Note: this
option should only be used if you require compatibility with code for
big-endian ARM processors generated by versions of the compiler prior to
2.8. This option is now deprecated.
-march=name- This specifies the name of the target ARM architecture. GCC uses this
name to determine what kind of instructions it can emit when generating
assembly code. This option can be used in conjunction with or instead
of the -mcpu= option. Permissible names are: ‘armv2’,
‘armv2a’, ‘armv3’, ‘armv3m’, ‘armv4’, ‘armv4t’,
‘armv5’, ‘armv5t’, ‘armv5e’, ‘armv5te’,
‘armv6’, ‘armv6j’,
‘armv6t2’, ‘armv6z’, ‘armv6zk’, ‘armv6-m’,
‘armv7’, ‘armv7-a’, ‘armv7-r’, ‘armv7-m’, ‘armv7e-m’,
‘armv7ve’, ‘armv8-a’, ‘armv8-a+crc’,
‘iwmmxt’, ‘iwmmxt2’, ‘ep9312’.
-march=armv7ve is the armv7-a architecture with virtualization
extensions.
-march=armv8-a+crc enables code generation for the ARMv8-A
architecture together with the optional CRC32 extensions.
-march=native causes the compiler to auto-detect the architecture
of the build computer. At present, this feature is only supported on
GNU/Linux, and not all architectures are recognized. If the auto-detect
is unsuccessful the option has no effect.
-mtune=name- This option specifies the name of the target ARM processor for
which GCC should tune the performance of the code.
For some ARM implementations better performance can be obtained by using
this option.
Permissible names are: ‘arm2’, ‘arm250’,
‘arm3’, ‘arm6’, ‘arm60’, ‘arm600’, ‘arm610’,
‘arm620’, ‘arm7’, ‘arm7m’, ‘arm7d’, ‘arm7dm’,
‘arm7di’, ‘arm7dmi’, ‘arm70’, ‘arm700’,
‘arm700i’, ‘arm710’, ‘arm710c’, ‘arm7100’,
‘arm720’,
‘arm7500’, ‘arm7500fe’, ‘arm7tdmi’, ‘arm7tdmi-s’,
‘arm710t’, ‘arm720t’, ‘arm740t’,
‘strongarm’, ‘strongarm110’, ‘strongarm1100’,
‘strongarm1110’,
‘arm8’, ‘arm810’, ‘arm9’, ‘arm9e’, ‘arm920’,
‘arm920t’, ‘arm922t’, ‘arm946e-s’, ‘arm966e-s’,
‘arm968e-s’, ‘arm926ej-s’, ‘arm940t’, ‘arm9tdmi’,
‘arm10tdmi’, ‘arm1020t’, ‘arm1026ej-s’,
‘arm10e’, ‘arm1020e’, ‘arm1022e’,
‘arm1136j-s’, ‘arm1136jf-s’, ‘mpcore’, ‘mpcorenovfp’,
‘arm1156t2-s’, ‘arm1156t2f-s’, ‘arm1176jz-s’, ‘arm1176jzf-s’,
‘cortex-a5’, ‘cortex-a7’, ‘cortex-a8’, ‘cortex-a9’,
‘cortex-a12’, ‘cortex-a15’, ‘cortex-a53’, ‘cortex-a57’,
‘cortex-r4’,
‘cortex-r4f’, ‘cortex-r5’, ‘cortex-r7’, ‘cortex-m4’,
‘cortex-m3’,
‘cortex-m1’,
‘cortex-m0’,
‘cortex-m0plus’,
‘marvell-pj4’,
‘xscale’, ‘iwmmxt’, ‘iwmmxt2’, ‘ep9312’,
‘fa526’, ‘fa626’,
‘fa606te’, ‘fa626te’, ‘fmp626’, ‘fa726te’.
Additionally, this option can specify that GCC should tune the performance
of the code for a big.LITTLE system. Permissible names are:
‘cortex-a15.cortex-a7’, ‘cortex-a57.cortex-a53’.
-mtune=generic-arch specifies that GCC should tune the
performance for a blend of processors within architecture arch.
The aim is to generate code that run well on the current most popular
processors, balancing between optimizations that benefit some CPUs in the
range, and avoiding performance pitfalls of other CPUs. The effects of
this option may change in future GCC versions as CPU models come and go.
-mtune=native causes the compiler to auto-detect the CPU
of the build computer. At present, this feature is only supported on
GNU/Linux, and not all architectures are recognized. If the auto-detect is
unsuccessful the option has no effect.
-mcpu=name- This specifies the name of the target ARM processor. GCC uses this name
to derive the name of the target ARM architecture (as if specified
by -march) and the ARM processor type for which to tune for
performance (as if specified by -mtune). Where this option
is used in conjunction with -march or -mtune,
those options take precedence over the appropriate part of this option.
Permissible names for this option are the same as those for
-mtune.
-mcpu=generic-arch is also permissible, and is
equivalent to -march=arch -mtune=generic-arch.
See -mtune for more information.
-mcpu=native causes the compiler to auto-detect the CPU
of the build computer. At present, this feature is only supported on
GNU/Linux, and not all architectures are recognized. If the auto-detect
is unsuccessful the option has no effect.
-mfpu=name- This specifies what floating-point hardware (or hardware emulation) is
available on the target. Permissible names are: ‘vfp’, ‘vfpv3’,
‘vfpv3-fp16’, ‘vfpv3-d16’, ‘vfpv3-d16-fp16’, ‘vfpv3xd’,
‘vfpv3xd-fp16’, ‘neon’, ‘neon-fp16’, ‘vfpv4’,
‘vfpv4-d16’, ‘fpv4-sp-d16’, ‘neon-vfpv4’,
‘fp-armv8’, ‘neon-fp-armv8’, and ‘crypto-neon-fp-armv8’.
If -msoft-float is specified this specifies the format of
floating-point values.
If the selected floating-point hardware includes the NEON extension
(e.g. -mfpu=‘neon’), note that floating-point
operations are not generated by GCC's auto-vectorization pass unless
-funsafe-math-optimizations is also specified. This is
because NEON hardware does not fully implement the IEEE 754 standard for
floating-point arithmetic (in particular denormal values are treated as
zero), so the use of NEON instructions may lead to a loss of precision.
-mfp16-format=name- Specify the format of the
__fp16 half-precision floating-point type.
Permissible names are ‘none’, ‘ieee’, and ‘alternative’;
the default is ‘none’, in which case the __fp16 type is not
defined. See Half-Precision, for more information.
-mstructure-size-boundary=n- The sizes of all structures and unions are rounded up to a multiple
of the number of bits set by this option. Permissible values are 8, 32
and 64. The default value varies for different toolchains. For the COFF
targeted toolchain the default value is 8. A value of 64 is only allowed
if the underlying ABI supports it.
Specifying a larger number can produce faster, more efficient code, but
can also increase the size of the program. Different values are potentially
incompatible. Code compiled with one value cannot necessarily expect to
work with code or libraries compiled with another value, if they exchange
information using structures or unions.
-mabort-on-noreturn- Generate a call to the function
abort at the end of a
noreturn function. It is executed if the function tries to
return.
-mlong-calls-mno-long-calls- Tells the compiler to perform function calls by first loading the
address of the function into a register and then performing a subroutine
call on this register. This switch is needed if the target function
lies outside of the 64-megabyte addressing range of the offset-based
version of subroutine call instruction.
Even if this switch is enabled, not all function calls are turned
into long calls. The heuristic is that static functions, functions
that have the ‘short-call’ attribute, functions that are inside
the scope of a ‘#pragma no_long_calls’ directive, and functions whose
definitions have already been compiled within the current compilation
unit are not turned into long calls. The exceptions to this rule are
that weak function definitions, functions with the ‘long-call’
attribute or the ‘section’ attribute, and functions that are within
the scope of a ‘#pragma long_calls’ directive are always
turned into long calls.
This feature is not enabled by default. Specifying
-mno-long-calls restores the default behavior, as does
placing the function calls within the scope of a ‘#pragma
long_calls_off’ directive. Note these switches have no effect on how
the compiler generates code to handle function calls via function
pointers.
-msingle-pic-base- Treat the register used for PIC addressing as read-only, rather than
loading it in the prologue for each function. The runtime system is
responsible for initializing this register with an appropriate value
before execution begins.
-mpic-register=reg- Specify the register to be used for PIC addressing.
For standard PIC base case, the default will be any suitable register
determined by compiler. For single PIC base case, the default is
‘R9’ if target is EABI based or stack-checking is enabled,
otherwise the default is ‘R10’.
-mpic-data-is-text-relative- Assume that each data segments are relative to text segment at load time.
Therefore, it permits addressing data using PC-relative operations.
This option is on by default for targets other than VxWorks RTP.
-mpoke-function-name- Write the name of each function into the text section, directly
preceding the function prologue. The generated code is similar to this:
t0
.ascii "arm_poke_function_name", 0
.align
t1
.word 0xff000000 + (t1 - t0)
arm_poke_function_name
mov ip, sp
stmfd sp!, {fp, ip, lr, pc}
sub fp, ip, #4
When performing a stack backtrace, code can inspect the value of
pc stored at fp + 0. If the trace function then looks at
location pc - 12 and the top 8 bits are set, then we know that
there is a function name embedded immediately preceding this location
and has length ((pc[-3]) & 0xff000000).
-mthumb-marm-
Select between generating code that executes in ARM and Thumb
states. The default for most configurations is to generate code
that executes in ARM state, but the default can be changed by
configuring GCC with the --with-mode=state
configure option.
-mtpcs-frame- Generate a stack frame that is compliant with the Thumb Procedure Call
Standard for all non-leaf functions. (A leaf function is one that does
not call any other functions.) The default is -mno-tpcs-frame.
-mtpcs-leaf-frame- Generate a stack frame that is compliant with the Thumb Procedure Call
Standard for all leaf functions. (A leaf function is one that does
not call any other functions.) The default is -mno-apcs-leaf-frame.
-mcallee-super-interworking- Gives all externally visible functions in the file being compiled an ARM
instruction set header which switches to Thumb mode before executing the
rest of the function. This allows these functions to be called from
non-interworking code. This option is not valid in AAPCS configurations
because interworking is enabled by default.
-mcaller-super-interworking- Allows calls via function pointers (including virtual functions) to
execute correctly regardless of whether the target code has been
compiled for interworking or not. There is a small overhead in the cost
of executing a function pointer if this option is enabled. This option
is not valid in AAPCS configurations because interworking is enabled
by default.
-mtp=name- Specify the access model for the thread local storage pointer. The valid
models are soft, which generates calls to
__aeabi_read_tp,
cp15, which fetches the thread pointer from cp15 directly
(supported in the arm6k architecture), and auto, which uses the
best available method for the selected processor. The default setting is
auto.
-mtls-dialect=dialect- Specify the dialect to use for accessing thread local storage. Two
dialects are supported—‘gnu’ and ‘gnu2’. The
‘gnu’ dialect selects the original GNU scheme for supporting
local and global dynamic TLS models. The ‘gnu2’ dialect
selects the GNU descriptor scheme, which provides better performance
for shared libraries. The GNU descriptor scheme is compatible with
the original scheme, but does require new assembler, linker and
library support. Initial and local exec TLS models are unaffected by
this option and always use the original scheme.
-mword-relocations- Only generate absolute relocations on word-sized values (i.e. R_ARM_ABS32).
This is enabled by default on targets (uClinux, SymbianOS) where the runtime
loader imposes this restriction, and when -fpic or -fPIC
is specified.
-mfix-cortex-m3-ldrd- Some Cortex-M3 cores can cause data corruption when
ldrd instructions
with overlapping destination and base registers are used. This option avoids
generating these instructions. This option is enabled by default when
-mcpu=cortex-m3 is specified.
-munaligned-access-mno-unaligned-access- Enables (or disables) reading and writing of 16- and 32- bit values
from addresses that are not 16- or 32- bit aligned. By default
unaligned access is disabled for all pre-ARMv6 and all ARMv6-M
architectures, and enabled for all other architectures. If unaligned
access is not enabled then words in packed data structures will be
accessed a byte at a time.
The ARM attribute Tag_CPU_unaligned_access will be set in the
generated object file to either true or false, depending upon the
setting of this option. If unaligned access is enabled then the
preprocessor symbol __ARM_FEATURE_UNALIGNED will also be
defined.
-mneon-for-64bits- Enables using Neon to handle scalar 64-bits operations. This is
disabled by default since the cost of moving data from core registers
to Neon is high.
-mslow-flash-data- Assume loading data from flash is slower than fetching instruction.
Therefore literal load is minimized for better performance.
This option is only supported when compiling for ARMv7 M-profile and
off by default.
-mrestrict-it- Restricts generation of IT blocks to conform to the rules of ARMv8.
IT blocks can only contain a single 16-bit instruction from a select
set of instructions. This option is on by default for ARMv8 Thumb mode.