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NAME
llvm-mc - manual page for llvm-mc 6.0
DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW: llvm machine code playground
USAGE: llvm-mc [options] <input file>
OPTIONS:
General options:
-I=<directory> - Directory of include files
-aarch64-neon-syntax - Choose style of NEON code to emit from
AArch64 backend:
=generic
- Emit generic NEON assembly
=apple - Emit Apple-style NEON assembly
-amdgpu-dump-hsa-metadata - Dump AMDGPU HSA Metadata
-amdgpu-enable-merge-m0 - Merge and hoist M0 initializations
-amdgpu-sdwa-peephole - Enable SDWA peepholer
-amdgpu-spill-sgpr-to-smem - Use scalar stores to spill SGPRs if
supported by subtarget
-amdgpu-verify-hsa-metadata - Verify AMDGPU HSA Metadata
-amdgpu-vgpr-index-mode - Use GPR indexing mode instead of
movrel for vector indexing
-arch=<string> - Target arch to assemble for, see
-version for available targets
-arm-add-build-attributes -
-arm-implicit-it - Allow conditional instructions
outdside of an IT block
=always
- Accept in both ISAs, emit implicit ITs in Thumb
=never - Warn in ARM, reject in Thumb
=arm - Accept in ARM, reject in Thumb
=thumb - Warn in ARM, emit implicit ITs in Thumb
-asm-instrumentation - Instrumentation of inline assembly and
assembly source files
=none - no instrumentation at all
=address
- instrument instructions with memory arguments
-asm-show-inst - Emit internal instruction
representation to assembly file
-atomic-counter-update-promoted - Do counter update using atomic fetch
add
for promoted counters only
-bounds-checking-single-trap - Use one trap block per function
-color - use colored syntax highlighting
(default=autodetect)
-compress-debug-sections - Choose DWARF debug sections
compression:
=none - No compression
=zlib - Use zlib compression
=zlib-gnu
- Use zlib-gnu compression (deprecated)
-cost-kind - Target cost kind
=throughput
- Reciprocal throughput
=latency
- Instruction latency
=code-size
- Code size
-cvp-dont-process-adds -
-debug-counter - Comma separated list of debug counter
skip and count
=predicateinfo-rename
- Controls which variables are renamed with predicateinfo
=instcombine-visit
- Controls which instructions are visited
=newgvn-vn
- Controls which instructions are value numbered
=newgvn-phi
- Controls which instructions we create phi of ops for
-defsym=<string> - Defines a symbol to be an integer
constant
Action to perform:
-as-lex - Lex tokens from a .s file
-assemble - Assemble a .s file (default)
-disassemble - Disassemble strings of hex bytes
-mdis - Marked up disassembly of strings of hex
bytes
-do-counter-promotion - Do counter register promotion
-dwarf-version=<int> - Dwarf version
-enable-load-pre -
-enable-name-compression - Enable name string compression
-enable-packed-inlinable-literals - Enable packed inlinable literals
(v2f16, v2i16)
-enable-si-insert-waitcnts - Use new waitcnt insertion pass
-expensive-combines - Enable expensive instruction combines
-fatal-warnings - Treat warnings as errors
-fdebug-compilation-dir=<string> - Specifies the debug info's compilation
dir
-filetype - Choose an output file type:
=asm - Emit an assembly ('.s') file
=null - Don't emit anything (for timing purposes)
=obj - Emit a native object ('.o') file
-g - Generate dwarf debugging info for
assembly source files
-gpsize=<uint> - Global Pointer Addressing Size.
The default size is 8.
-hash-based-counter-split - Rename counter variable of a comdat
function based on cfg hash
-import-all-index - Import all external functions in
index.
-incremental-linker-compatible - When used with filetype=obj, emit an
object file which can be used with an incremental linker
-instcombine-maxarray-size=<uint> - Maximum array size considered when
doing a combine
-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
-iterative-counter-promotion - Allow counter promotion across the
whole loop nest.
-large-code-model - Create cfi directives that assume the
code might be more than 2gb away
-lto-pass-remarks-output=<filename> - Output filename for pass remarks
-main-file-name=<string> - Specifies the name we should consider
the input file
-mattr=<a1,+a2,-a3,...> - Target specific attributes
(-mattr=help for details)
-max-counter-promotions=<int> - Max number of allowed counter
promotions
-max-counter-promotions-per-loop=<uint> - Max number counter promotions per loop
to avoid increasing register pressure too much
-mc-relax-all - When used with filetype=obj, relax all
fixups in the emitted object file
-mcpu=<cpu-name> - Target a specific cpu type (-mcpu=help
for details)
-memop-size-large=<uint> - Set large value thresthold in memory
intrinsic size profiling. Value of 0 disables the large value profiling.
-memop-size-range=<string> - Set the range of size in memory
intrinsic calls to be profiled precisely, in a format of <start_val>:<end_val>
-merror-missing-parenthesis - Error for missing parenthesis around
predicate registers
-merror-noncontigious-register - Error for register names that aren't
contigious
-mhvx - Enable Hexagon Vector eXtensions
=v60 - Build for HVX v60
=v62 - Build for HVX v62
=v65 - Build for HVX v65
= -
-mips-compact-branches - MIPS Specific: Compact branch policy.
=never
- Do not use compact branches if possible.
=optimal
- Use compact branches where appropiate (default).
=always
- Always use compact branches if possible.
-mips16-constant-islands - Enable mips16 constant islands.
-mips16-hard-float - Enable mips16 hard float.
-mno-compound - Disable looking for compound
instructions for Hexagon
-mno-fixup - Disable fixing up resolved relocations
for Hexagon
-mno-ldc1-sdc1 - Expand double precision loads and
stores to their single precision counterparts
-mno-pairing - Disable looking for duplex
instructions for Hexagon
-mwarn-missing-parenthesis - Warn for missing parenthesis around
predicate registers
-mwarn-noncontigious-register - Warn for register names that arent
contigious
-mwarn-sign-mismatch - Warn for mismatching a signed and
unsigned value
-n - Don't assume assembly file starts in
the text section
-no-deprecated-warn - Suppress all deprecated warnings
-no-discriminators - Disable generation of discriminator
information.
-no-exec-stack - File doesn't need an exec stack
-no-warn - Suppress all warnings
-nvptx-sched4reg - NVPTX Specific: schedule for register
pressue
-o=<filename> - Output filename
-output-asm-variant=<uint> - Syntax variant to use for output
printing
-pie-copy-relocations - PIE Copy Relocations
-position-independent - Position independent
-preserve-comments - Preserve Comments in outputted
assembly
-print-imm-hex - Prefer hex format for immediate values
-print-module-scope - When printing IR for
print-[before|after]{-all} always print a module IR
-r600-ir-structurize - Use StructurizeCFG IR pass
-rdf-dump -
-rdf-limit=<uint> -
-relax-relocations - Emit R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX instead of
R_X86_64_GOTPCREL
-safepoint-ir-verifier-print-only -
-sample-profile-check-record-coverage=<N> - Emit a warning if less than N% of
records in the input profile are matched to the IR.
-sample-profile-check-sample-coverage=<N> - Emit a warning if less than N% of
samples in the input profile are matched to the IR.
-sample-profile-inline-hot-threshold=<N> - Inlined functions that account for
more than N% of all samples collected in the parent function, will be inlined
again.
-sample-profile-max-propagate-iterations=<uint> - Maximum number of iterations to go
through when propagating sample block/edge weights through the CFG.
-save-temp-labels - Don't discard temporary labels
-show-encoding - Show instruction encodings
-show-inst - Show internal instruction
representation
-show-inst-operands - Show instructions operands as parsed
-speculative-counter-promotion-max-exiting=<uint> - The max number of exiting blocks of a
loop to allow
speculative counter promotion
-speculative-counter-promotion-to-loop - When the option is false, if the
target block is in a loop, the promotion will be disallowed unless the promoted counter
update can be further/iteratively promoted into an acyclic region.
-summary-file=<string> - The summary file to use for function
importing.
-threads=<int> -
-triple=<string> - Target triple to assemble for, see
-version for available targets
-unfold-element-atomic-memcpy-max-elements=<uint> - Maximum number of elements in atomic
memcpy the optimizer is allowed to unfold
-verify-region-info - Verify region info (time consuming)
-vp-counters-per-site=<number> - The average number of profile counters
allocated per value profiling site.
-vp-static-alloc - Do static counter allocation for value
profiler
Generic Options:
-help - Display available options
(-help-hidden for more)
-help-list - Display list of available options
(-help-list-hidden for more)
-version - Display the version of this program
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for llvm-mc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and
llvm-mc programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info llvm-mc
should give you access to the complete manual.