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NAME
LDMD - manual page for LLVM D Compiler
DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW: LLVM-based D Compiler
USAGE: ldc [options] files --run program args...
OPTIONS:
-D - Generate documentation
-Dd=<docdir> - Write documentation file to <docdir>
directory
-Df=<filename> - Write documentation file to <filename>
-H - Generate 'header' file
-Hd=<hdrdir> - Write 'header' file to <hdrdir> directory
-Hf=<filename> - Write 'header' file to <filename>
-I=<path> - Where to look for imports
-J=<path> - Where to look for string imports
-L=<linkerflag> - Pass <linkerflag> to the linker
Setting the optimization level:
-O - Equivalent to -O2
-O0 - No optimizations (default)
-O1 - Simple optimizations
-O2 - Good optimizations
-O3 - Aggressive optimizations
-O4 - Link-time optimization
-O5 - Link-time optimization
-annotate - Annotate the bitcode with human readable
source code
-asm-verbose - Add comments to directives.
-c - Do not link
-check-printf-calls - Validate printf call format strings against
arguments
-code-model - Choose code model
=default
- Target default code model
=small - Small code model
=kernel
- Kernel code model
=medium
- Medium code model
=large - Large code model
-d - Allow deprecated language features
-d-debug=<level/idents> - Compile in debug code >= <level> or
identified by <idents>.
-d-version=<level/idents> - Compile in version code >= <level> or
identified by <idents>
-debuglib=<lib,...> - Set default libraries for debug build
-defaultlib=<lib,...> - Set default libraries for non-debug build
-deps=<filename> - Write module dependencies to filename
-enable-asserts - (*) Enable assertions
-enable-boundscheck - (*) Enable array bounds checks
-enable-contracts - (*) Enable function pre- and
post-conditions
-disable-d-passes - Disable D-specific passes in -O<N>
-disable-excess-fp-precision - Disable optimizations that may increase FP
precision
-disable-fp-elim - Disable frame pointer elimination
optimization
-disable-gc2stack - Disable promotion of GC allocations to
stack memory in -O<N>
-enable-inlining - (*) Enable function inlining in -O<N>
-enable-invariants - (*) Enable invariants
-disable-post-RA-scheduler - Disable scheduling after register
allocation
-enable-postconditions - (*) Enable function postconditions
-enable-preconditions - (*) Enable function preconditions
-disable-simplify-drtcalls - Disable simplification of runtime calls in
-O<N>
-disable-spill-fusing - Disable fusing of spill code into
instructions
-enable-correct-eh-support - Make the -lowerinvoke pass insert
expensive, but correct, EH code
-enable-eh - Emit DWARF exception handling (default if
target supports)
-enable-finite-only-fp-math - Enable optimizations that assumes non- NaNs
/ +-Infs
-enable-fp-mad - Enable less precise MAD instructions to be
generated
-enable-load-pre -
-enable-sjlj-eh - Emit SJLJ exception handling (default if
target supports)
-enable-unsafe-fp-math - Enable optimizations that may decrease FP
precision
-float-abi - Choose float ABI type
=default
- Target default float ABI type
=soft - Soft float ABI (implied by -soft-float)
=hard - Hard float ABI (uses FP registers)
Generating debug information:
-g - Generate debug information
-gc - Same as -g, but pretend to be C
-help - Display available options (--help-hidden
for more)
-ignore - Ignore unsupported pragmas
-internalize-public-api-file=<filename> - A file containing list of symbol names to
preserve
-internalize-public-api-list=<list> - A list of symbol names to preserve
-join-liveintervals - Coalesce copies (default=true)
-limit-float-precision=<uint> - Generate low-precision inline sequences for
some float libcalls
-m32 - 32 bit target
-m64 - 64 bit target
-march=<string> - Architecture to generate code for:
-mattr=<a1,+a2,-a3,...> - Target specific attributes (-mattr=help for
details)
-mcpu=<cpu-name> - Target a specific cpu type (-mcpu=help for
details)
-mtriple=<string> - Override target triple
-nested-ctx - How to construct a nested function's
context:
=array
- Array of pointers to variables (including multi-level)
=hybrid
- List of pointers to structs of variables, one per level.
-noasm - Disallow use of inline assembler
-nodefaultlib - Don't add a default library for linking
implicitly
-noruntime - Do not allow code that generates implicit
runtime calls
-noverify - Do not run the validation pass before
writing bitcode
-nozero-initialized-in-bss - Don't place zero-initialized symbols into
bss section
-o- - Do not write object file
-od=<objdir> - Write object files to directory <objdir>
-of=<filename> - Use <filename> as output file name
-op - Do not strip paths from source file
-oq - Write object files with fully qualified
names
-output-bc - Write LLVM bitcode
-output-ll - Write LLVM IR
-output-o - Write native object
-output-s - Write native assembly
-pre-RA-sched - Instruction schedulers available (before
register allocation):
=fast - Fast suboptimal list scheduling
=list-td
- Top-down list scheduler
=list-tdrr
- Top-down register reduction list scheduling
=list-burr
- Bottom-up register reduction list scheduling
=default
- Best scheduler for the target
-print-machineinstrs - Print generated machine code
-profile-estimator-loop-weight=<loop-weight> - Number of loop executions used for
profile-estimator
-profile-info-file=<filename> - Profile file loaded by -profile-loader
-profile-randomness - How to randomly choose to profile:
=global
- global counter
=ra_global
- register allocated global counter
=rdcc - cycle counter
-realign-stack - Realign stack if needed
-regalloc - Register allocator to use: (default =
linearscan)
=linearscan
- linear scan register allocator
-release - Disables asserts, invariants, contracts and
boundscheck
-relocation-model - Choose relocation model
=default
- Target default relocation model
=static
- Non-relocatable code
=pic - Fully relocatable, position independent code
=dynamic-no-pic
- Relocatable external references, non-relocatable code
-rewriter - Rewriter to use: (default: local)
=local
- local rewriter
=trivial
- trivial rewriter
-run=<string> - program args...
-schedule-livein-copies - Schedule copies of livein registers
-schedule-spills - Schedule spill code
-shrink-wrap - Shrink wrap callee-saved register
spills/restores
-singleobj - Create only a single output object file
-soft-float - Generate software floating point library
calls
-stack-alignment=<uint> - Override default stack alignment
-stack-protector-buffer-size=<uint> - Lower bound for a buffer to be considered
for stack protection
-stats - Enable statistics output from program
-tailcallopt - Turn on tail call optimization.
-time-passes - Time each pass, printing elapsed time for
each on exit
-unittest - Compile in unit tests
-unwind-tables - Generate unwinding tables for all functions
-v - Verbose
-v-cg - Verbose codegen
-verify-dom-info - Verify dominator info (time consuming)
-version - Display the version of this program
-vv - Very verbose
-w - Enable warnings
-x86-asm-syntax - Choose style of code to emit from X86
backend:
=att - Emit AT&T-style assembly
=intel - Emit Intel-style assembly
-d-debug can also be specified without options, in which case it enables all debug checks
(i.e. (asserts, boundchecks, contracts and invariants) as well as acting as -d-debug=1
Options marked with (*) also have a -disable-FOO variant with inverted meaning.
based on DMD v1.051 and llvm 2.6 (Wed Dec 2 17:39:53 2009) Copyright (c) 1999-2009 by
Digital Mars and Tomas Lindquist Olsen written by Walter Bright and Tomas Lindquist Olsen
D Language Documentation: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/index.html LDC Homepage:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc
SEE ALSO
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