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Driver The clang executable is actually a small driver which controls the overall execution of other tools such as the compiler, assembler and linker. Typically you do not need to interact with the driver, but you transparently use it to run the other tools.
Preprocessing This stage handles tokenization of the input source file, macro expansion, #include expansion and handling of other preprocessor directives. The output of this stage is typically called a ".i" (for C), ".ii" (for C++), ".mi" (for Objective-C), or ".mii" (for Objective-C++) file.
Parsing and Semantic Analysis This stage parses the input file, translating preprocessor tokens into a parse tree. Once in the form of a parse tree, it applies semantic analysis to compute types for expressions as well and determine whether the code is well formed. This stage is responsible for generating most of the compiler warnings as well as parse errors. The output of this stage is an "Abstract Syntax Tree" (AST).
Code Generation and Optimization This stage translates an AST into low-level intermediate code (known as "LLVM IR") and ultimately to machine code. This phase is responsible for optimizing the generated code and handling target-specific code generation. The output of this stage is typically called a ".s" file or "assembly" file. Clang also supports the use of an integrated assembler, in which the code generator produces object files directly. This avoids the overhead of generating the ".s" file and of calling the target assembler.
Assembler This stage runs the target assembler to translate the output of the compiler into a target object file. The output of this stage is typically called a ".o" file or "object" file.
Linker This stage runs the target linker to merge multiple object files into an executable or dynamic library. The output of this stage is typically called an "a.out", ".dylib" or ".so" file. NINDENT Clang Static Analyzer The Clang Static Analyzer is a tool that scans source code to try to find bugs through code analysis. This tool uses many parts of Clang and is built into the same driver. Please see <\%https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org> for more details on how to use the static analyzer.
-E Run the preprocessor stage. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fsyntax-only Run the preprocessor, parser and type checking stages. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-S Run the previous stages as well as LLVM generation and optimization stages and target-specific code generation, producing an assembly file. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-c Run all of the above, plus the assembler, generating a target ".o" object file. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
no stage selection option If no stage selection option is specified, all stages above are run, and the linker is run to combine the results into an executable or shared library. NINDENT
-x <language> Treat subsequent input files as having type language. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-std=<standard> Specify the language standard to compile for. Supported values for the C language are: NDENT 7.0 NDENT 3.5
c89 c90 iso9899:1990NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 1990 NINDENT NINDENT
iso9899:199409
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 1990 with amendment 1
NINDENT NINDENT gnu89 gnu90NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 1990 with GNU extensions NINDENT NINDENT
c99 iso9899:1999NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 1999 NINDENT NINDENT
gnu99
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 1999 with GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT c11 iso9899:2011NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 2011 NINDENT NINDENT
gnu11
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 2011 with GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT c17 iso9899:2017NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 2017 NINDENT NINDENT
gnu17
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C 2017 with GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT The default C language standard is gnu11, except on PS4, where it is
gnu99.
Supported values for the C++ language are:
NDENT 7.0 NDENT 3.5 c++98 c++03NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 1998 with amendments NINDENT NINDENT
gnu++98 gnu++03NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 1998 with amendments and GNU extensions NINDENT NINDENT
c++11
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 2011 with amendments
NINDENT NINDENT
gnu++11
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 2011 with amendments and GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT
c++14
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 2014 with amendments
NINDENT NINDENT
gnu++14
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 2014 with amendments and GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT
c++17
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 2017 with amendments
NINDENT NINDENT
gnu++17
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 ISO C++ 2017 with amendments and GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT
c++2a
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 Working draft for ISO C++ 2020
NINDENT NINDENT
gnu++2a
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 Working draft for ISO C++ 2020 with GNU extensions
NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT The default C++ language standard is gnu++14.
Supported values for the OpenCL language are:
NDENT 7.0 NDENT 3.5
cl1.0
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 OpenCL 1.0
NINDENT NINDENT
cl1.1
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 OpenCL 1.1
NINDENT NINDENT
cl1.2
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 OpenCL 1.2
NINDENT NINDENT
cl2.0
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 OpenCL 2.0
NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT The default OpenCL language standard is cl1.0.
Supported values for the CUDA language are:
NDENT 7.0 NDENT 3.5
cuda
NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 NVIDIA CUDA(tm)
NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NDENT 0.0 -stdlib=<library> Specify the C++ standard library to use; supported options are libstdc++ and libc++. If not specified, platform default will be used. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-rtlib=<library> Specify the compiler runtime library to use; supported options are libgcc and compiler-rt. If not specified, platform default will be used. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-ansi Same as -std=c89. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-ObjC, -ObjC++ Treat source input files as Objective-C and Object-C++ inputs respectively. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-trigraphs Enable trigraphs. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-ffreestanding Indicate that the file should be compiled for a freestanding, not a hosted, environment. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fno-builtin Disable special handling and optimizations of builtin functions like strlen() and malloc(). NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fmath-errno Indicate that math functions should be treated as updating errno. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fpascal-strings Enable support for Pascal-style strings with "\epfoo". NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fms-extensions Enable support for Microsoft extensions. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fmsc-version= Set _MSC_VER. Defaults to 1300 on Windows. Not set otherwise. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fborland-extensions Enable support for Borland extensions. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fwritable-strings Make all string literals default to writable. This disables uniquing of strings and other optimizations. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-flax-vector-conversions, -flax-vector-conversions=<kind>, -fno-lax-vector-conversions Allow loose type checking rules for implicit vector conversions. Possible values of <kind>: NDENT 7.0
-fblocks Enable the "Blocks" language feature. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fobjc-abi-version=version Select the Objective-C ABI version to use. Available versions are 1 (legacy "fragile" ABI), 2 (non-fragile ABI 1), and 3 (non-fragile ABI 2). NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fobjc-nonfragile-abi-version=<version> Select the Objective-C non-fragile ABI version to use by default. This will only be used as the Objective-C ABI when the non-fragile ABI is enabled (either via \%-fobjc-nonfragile-abi, or because it is the platform default). NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fobjc-nonfragile-abi, -fno-objc-nonfragile-abi Enable use of the Objective-C non-fragile ABI. On platforms for which this is the default ABI, it can be disabled with \%-fno-objc-nonfragile-abi. NINDENT
-arch <architecture> Specify the architecture to build for. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-mmacosx-version-min=<version> When building for macOS, specify the minimum version supported by your application. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-miphoneos-version-min When building for iPhone OS, specify the minimum version supported by your application. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
--print-supported-cpus Print out a list of supported processors for the given target (specified through --target=<architecture> or -arch <architecture>). If no target is specified, the system default target will be used. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-mcpu=?, -mtune=? Aliases of --print-supported-cpus NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-march=<cpu> Specify that Clang should generate code for a specific processor family member and later. For example, if you specify -march=i486, the compiler is allowed to generate instructions that are valid on i486 and later processors, but which may not exist on earlier ones. NINDENT
-O0, -O1, -O2, -O3, -Ofast, -Os, -Oz, -Og, -O, -O4 Specify which optimization level to use: NDENT 7.0 NDENT 3.5 \%-O0 Means "no optimization": this level compiles the fastest and generates the most debuggable code. \%-O1 Somewhere between \%-O0 and \%-O2. \%-O2 Moderate level of optimization which enables most optimizations. \%-O3 Like \%-O2, except that it enables optimizations that take longer to perform or that may generate larger code (in an attempt to make the program run faster). \%-Ofast Enables all the optimizations from \%-O3 along with other aggressive optimizations that may violate strict compliance with language standards. \%-Os Like \%-O2 with extra optimizations to reduce code size. \%-Oz Like \%-Os (and thus \%-O2), but reduces code size further. \%-Og Like \%-O1. In future versions, this option might disable different optimizations in order to improve debuggability. \%-O Equivalent to \%-O2. \%-O4 and higher NDENT 0.0 NDENT 3.5 Currently equivalent to \%-O3 NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-g, -gline-tables-only, -gmodules Control debug information output. Note that Clang debug information works best at \%-O0. When more than one option starting with -g is specified, the last one wins: NDENT 7.0 NDENT 3.5 -g Generate debug information. -gline-tables-only Generate only line table debug information. This allows for symbolicated backtraces with inlining information, but does not include any information about variables, their locations or types. \%-gmodules Generate debug information that contains external references to types defined in Clang modules or precompiled headers instead of emitting redundant debug type information into every object file. This option transparently switches the Clang module format to object file containers that hold the Clang module together with the debug information. When compiling a program that uses Clang modules or precompiled headers, this option produces complete debug information with faster compile times and much smaller object files. This option should not be used when building static libraries for distribution to other machines because the debug info will contain references to the module cache on the machine the object files in the library were built on. NINDENT NINDENT NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fstandalone-debug -fno-standalone-debug Clang supports a number of optimizations to reduce the size of debug information in the binary. They work based on the assumption that the debug type information can be spread out over multiple compilation units. For instance, Clang will not emit type definitions for types that are not needed by a module and could be replaced with a forward declaration. Further, Clang will only emit type info for a dynamic C++ class in the module that contains the vtable for the class. The -fstandalone-debug option turns off these optimizations. This is useful when working with 3rd-party libraries that don\(aqt come with debug information. This is the default on Darwin. Note that Clang will never emit type information for types that are not referenced at all by the program. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fexceptions Enable generation of unwind information. This allows exceptions to be thrown through Clang compiled stack frames. This is on by default in x86-64. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-ftrapv Generate code to catch integer overflow errors. Signed integer overflow is undefined in C. With this flag, extra code is generated to detect this and abort when it happens. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fvisibility This flag sets the default visibility level. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-fcommon, -fno-common This flag specifies that variables without initializers get common linkage. It can be disabled with \%-fno-common. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-ftls-model=<model> Set the default thread-local storage (TLS) model to use for thread-local variables. Valid values are: "global-dynamic", "local-dynamic", "initial-exec" and "local-exec". The default is "global-dynamic". The default model can be overridden with the tls_model attribute. The compiler will try to choose a more efficient model if possible. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-flto, -flto=full, -flto=thin, -emit-llvm Generate output files in LLVM formats, suitable for link time optimization. When used with \%-S this generates LLVM intermediate language assembly files, otherwise this generates LLVM bitcode format object files (which may be passed to the linker depending on the stage selection options). The default for \%-flto is "full", in which the LLVM bitcode is suitable for monolithic Link Time Optimization (LTO), where the linker merges all such modules into a single combined module for optimization. With "thin", ThinLTO compilation is invoked instead. NINDENT
-### Print (but do not run) the commands to run for this compilation. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
--help Display available options. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Qunused-arguments Do not emit any warnings for unused driver arguments. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Wa,<args> Pass the comma separated arguments in args to the assembler. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Wl,<args> Pass the comma separated arguments in args to the linker. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Wp,<args> Pass the comma separated arguments in args to the preprocessor. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Xanalyzer <arg> Pass arg to the static analyzer. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Xassembler <arg> Pass arg to the assembler. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Xlinker <arg> Pass arg to the linker. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-Xpreprocessor <arg> Pass arg to the preprocessor. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-o <file> Write output to file. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-print-file-name=<file> Print the full library path of file. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-print-libgcc-file-name Print the library path for the currently used compiler runtime library ("libgcc.a" or "libclang_rt.builtins.*.a"). NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-print-prog-name=<name> Print the full program path of name. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-print-search-dirs Print the paths used for finding libraries and programs. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-save-temps Save intermediate compilation results. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-save-stats, -save-stats=cwd, -save-stats=obj Save internal code generation (LLVM) statistics to a file in the current directory (\%-save-stats/"-save-stats=cwd") or the directory of the output file ("-save-state=obj"). NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-integrated-as, -no-integrated-as Used to enable and disable, respectively, the use of the integrated assembler. Whether the integrated assembler is on by default is target dependent. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-time Time individual commands. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-ftime-report Print timing summary of each stage of compilation. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-v Show commands to run and use verbose output. NINDENT
-fshow-column, -fshow-source-location, -fcaret-diagnostics, -fdiagnostics-fixit-info, -fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits, -fdiagnostics-print-source-range-info, -fprint-source-range-info, -fdiagnostics-show-option, -fmessage-length These options control how Clang prints out information about diagnostics (errors and warnings). Please see the Clang User\(aqs Manual for more information. NINDENT
-D<macroname>=<value> Adds an implicit #define into the predefines buffer which is read before the source file is preprocessed. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-U<macroname> Adds an implicit #undef into the predefines buffer which is read before the source file is preprocessed. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-include <filename> Adds an implicit #include into the predefines buffer which is read before the source file is preprocessed. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-I<directory> Add the specified directory to the search path for include files. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-F<directory> Add the specified directory to the search path for framework include files. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-nostdinc Do not search the standard system directories or compiler builtin directories for include files. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-nostdlibinc Do not search the standard system directories for include files, but do search compiler builtin include directories. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
-nobuiltininc Do not search clang\(aqs builtin directory for include files. NINDENT
TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP These environment variables are checked, in order, for the location to write temporary files used during the compilation process. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
CPATH If this environment variable is present, it is treated as a delimited list of paths to be added to the default system include path list. The delimiter is the platform dependent delimiter, as used in the PATH environment variable. Empty components in the environment variable are ignored. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
C_INCLUDE_PATH, OBJC_INCLUDE_PATH, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, OBJCPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH These environment variables specify additional paths, as for \%CPATH, which are only used when processing the appropriate language. NINDENT NDENT 0.0
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET If \%-mmacosx-version-min is unspecified, the default deployment target is read from this environment variable. This option only affects Darwin targets. NINDENT
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