OVERVIEW: clang LLVM compiler
USAGE: clang-17 [options] file...
CL.EXE COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS:
/? Display available options
/arch:<value> Set architecture for code generation
/arm64EC Set build target to arm64ec
/Brepro- Write current time into COFF output (default)
/Brepro Do not write current time into COFF output (breaks link.exe /incremental)
/clang:<arg> Pass <arg> to the clang driver
/C Do not discard comments when preprocessing
/c Compile only
/d1PP Retain macro definitions in /E mode
/d1reportAllClassLayout Dump record layout information
/diagnostics:caret Enable caret and column diagnostics (default)
/diagnostics:classic Disable column and caret diagnostics
/diagnostics:column Disable caret diagnostics but keep column info
/diasdkdir <dir> Path to the DIA SDK
/D <macro[=value]> Define macro
/EH<value> Set exception handling model
/EP Disable linemarker output and preprocess to stdout
/execution-charset:<value>
Set runtime encoding, supports only UTF-8
/external:env:<var> Add dirs in env var <var> to include search path with warnings suppressed
/external:I <dir> Add directory to include search path with warnings suppressed
/external:W0 Ignore warnings from system headers (default)
/external:W1 Enable -Wsystem-headers
/external:W2 Enable -Wsystem-headers
/external:W3 Enable -Wsystem-headers
/external:W4 Enable -Wsystem-headers
/E Preprocess to stdout
/FA<value> Output assembly code file during compilation
/Fa<file or dir/> Set assembly output file name (with /FA)
/Fe<file or dir/> Set output executable file name
/FI <value> Include file before parsing
/Fi<file> Set preprocess output file name (with /P)
/Fo<file or dir/> Set output object file (with /c)
/Fp<file> Set pch file name (with /Yc and /Yu)
/fsanitize=address Enable AddressSanitizer
/GA Assume thread-local variables are defined in the executable
/Gd Set __cdecl as a default calling convention
/GF- Disable string pooling
/GF Enable string pooling (default)
/GR- Do not emit RTTI data
/Gregcall Set __regcall as a default calling convention
/GR Emit RTTI data (default)
/Gr Set __fastcall as a default calling convention
/GS- Disable buffer security check
/GS Enable buffer security check (default)
/Gs Use stack probes (default)
/Gs<value> Set stack probe size (default 4096)
/guard:<value> Enable Control Flow Guard with /guard:cf, or only the table with /guard:cf,nochecks. Enable EH Continuation Guard with /guard:ehcont
/Gv Set __vectorcall as a default calling convention
/Gw- Do not put each data item in its own section (default)
/Gw Put each data item in its own section
/GX- Deprecated (like not passing /EH)
/GX Deprecated; use /EHsc
/Gy- Do not put each function in its own section (default)
/Gy Put each function in its own section
/Gz Set __stdcall as a default calling convention
/help Display available options
/hotpatch Create hotpatchable image
/imsvc <dir> Add <dir> to system include search path, as if in %INCLUDE%
/I <dir> Add directory to include search path
/JMC- Disable just-my-code debugging (default)
/JMC Enable just-my-code debugging
/J Make char type unsigned
/LDd Create debug DLL
/LD Create DLL
/link <options> Forward options to the linker
/MDd Use DLL debug run-time
/MD Use DLL run-time
/MTd Use static debug run-time
/MT Use static run-time
/O1 Optimize for size (like /Og /Os /Oy /Ob2 /GF /Gy)
/O2 Optimize for speed (like /Og /Oi /Ot /Oy /Ob2 /GF /Gy)
/Ob0 Disable function inlining
/Ob1 Only inline functions explicitly or implicitly marked inline
/Ob2 Inline functions as deemed beneficial by the compiler
/Od Disable optimization
/Og No effect
/Oi- Disable use of builtin functions
/Oi Enable use of builtin functions
/openmp- Disable OpenMP support
/openmp:experimental Enable OpenMP support with experimental SIMD support
/openmp Enable OpenMP support
/Os Optimize for size
/Ot Optimize for speed
/Ox Deprecated (like /Og /Oi /Ot /Oy /Ob2); use /O2
/Oy- Disable frame pointer omission (x86 only, default)
/Oy Enable frame pointer omission (x86 only)
/O<flags> Set multiple /O flags at once; e.g. '/O2y-' for '/O2 /Oy-'
/o <file or dir/> Deprecated (set output file name); use /Fe or /Fe
/permissive- Disable non conforming code from compiling (default)
/permissive Enable some non conforming code to compile
/P Preprocess to file
/Qgather- Disable generation of gather instructions in auto-vectorization(x86 only)
/QIntel-jcc-erratum Align branches within 32-byte boundaries to mitigate the performance impact of the Intel JCC erratum.
/Qscatter- Disable generation of scatter instructions in auto-vectorization(x86 only)
/Qvec- Disable the loop vectorization passes
/Qvec Enable the loop vectorization passes
/showFilenames- Do not print the name of each compiled file (default)
/showFilenames Print the name of each compiled file
/showIncludes:user Like /showIncludes but omit system headers
/showIncludes Print info about included files to stderr
/source-charset:<value> Set source encoding, supports only UTF-8
/std:<value> Set language version (c++14,c++17,c++20,c++latest,c11,c17)
/TC Treat all source files as C
/Tc <file> Treat <file> as C source file
/TP Treat all source files as C++
/Tp <file> Treat <file> as C++ source file
/tune:<value> Set CPU for optimization without affecting instruction set
/utf-8 Set source and runtime encoding to UTF-8 (default)
/U <macro> Undefine macro
/vctoolsdir <dir> Path to the VCToolChain
/vctoolsversion <value> For use with /winsysroot, defaults to newest found
/vd<value> Control vtordisp placement
/vmb Use a best-case representation method for member pointers
/vmg Use a most-general representation for member pointers
/vmm Set the default most-general representation to multiple inheritance
/vms Set the default most-general representation to single inheritance
/vmv Set the default most-general representation to virtual inheritance
/volatile:iso Volatile loads and stores have standard semantics
/volatile:ms Volatile loads and stores have acquire and release semantics
/W0 Disable all warnings
/W1 Enable -Wall
/W2 Enable -Wall
/W3 Enable -Wall
/W4 Enable -Wall and -Wextra
/Wall Enable -Weverything
/winsdkdir <dir> Path to the Windows SDK
/winsdkversion <value> Full version of the Windows SDK, defaults to newest found
/winsysroot <dir> Same as "/diasdkdir <dir>/DIA SDK" /vctoolsdir <dir>/VC/Tools/MSVC/<vctoolsversion> "/winsdkdir <dir>/Windows Kits/10"
/WX- Do not treat warnings as errors (default)
/WX Treat warnings as errors
/w Disable all warnings
/X Do not add %INCLUDE% to include search path
/Y- Disable precompiled headers, overrides /Yc and /Yu
/Yc<filename> Generate a pch file for all code up to and including <filename>
/Yu<filename> Load a pch file and use it instead of all code up to and including <filename>
/Z7 Enable CodeView debug information in object files
/Zc:alignedNew- Disable C++17 aligned allocation functions
/Zc:alignedNew Enable C++17 aligned allocation functions
/Zc:char8_t- Disable char8_t from c++2a
/Zc:char8_t Enable char8_t from C++2a
/Zc:dllexportInlines- Do not dllexport/dllimport inline member functions of dllexport/import classes
/Zc:dllexportInlines dllexport/dllimport inline member functions of dllexport/import classes (default)
/Zc:sizedDealloc- Disable C++14 sized global deallocation functions
/Zc:sizedDealloc Enable C++14 sized global deallocation functions
/Zc:strictStrings Treat string literals as const
/Zc:threadSafeInit- Disable thread-safe initialization of static variables
/Zc:threadSafeInit Enable thread-safe initialization of static variables
/Zc:trigraphs- Disable trigraphs (default)
/Zc:trigraphs Enable trigraphs
/Zc:twoPhase- Disable two-phase name lookup in templates (default)
/Zc:twoPhase Enable two-phase name lookup in templates
/Zc:wchar_t- Disable C++ builtin type wchar_t
/Zc:wchar_t Enable C++ builtin type wchar_t (default)
/ZH:MD5 Use MD5 for file checksums in debug info (default)
/ZH:SHA1 Use SHA1 for file checksums in debug info
/ZH:SHA_256 Use SHA256 for file checksums in debug info
/Zi Like /Z7
/Zl Do not let object file auto-link default libraries
/Zp Set default maximum struct packing alignment to 1
/Zp<value> Set default maximum struct packing alignment
/Zs Run the preprocessor, parser and semantic analysis stages
OPTIONS:
-### Print (but do not run) the commands to run for this compilation
--analyze Run the static analyzer
--config=<file> Specify configuration file
-darwin-target-variant <value>
Generate code for an additional runtime variant of the deployment target
-emit-ast Emit Clang AST files for source inputs
--end-no-unused-arguments
Start emitting warnings for unused driver arguments
-faddrsig Emit an address-significance table
-fansi-escape-codes Use ANSI escape codes for diagnostics
-fblocks Enable the 'blocks' language feature
-fcaret-diagnostics-max-lines=<value>
Set the maximum number of source lines to show in a caret diagnostic (0 = no limit).
-fcf-protection=<value> Instrument control-flow architecture protection
-fcf-protection Enable cf-protection in 'full' mode
-fcolor-diagnostics Enable colors in diagnostics
-fcommon Place uninitialized global variables in a common block
-fcomplete-member-pointers
Require member pointer base types to be complete if they would be significant under the Microsoft ABI
-fcoverage-compilation-dir=<value>
The compilation directory to embed in the coverage mapping.
-fcoverage-mapping Generate coverage mapping to enable code coverage analysis
-fcrash-diagnostics-dir=<dir>
Put crash-report files in <dir>
-fcrash-diagnostics=<value>
Set level of crash diagnostic reporting, (option: off, compiler, all)
-fcrash-diagnostics Enable crash diagnostic reporting (default)
-fcs-profile-generate=<directory>
Generate instrumented code to collect context sensitive execution counts into <directory>/default.profraw (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fcs-profile-generate Generate instrumented code to collect context sensitive execution counts into default.profraw (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fdebug-compilation-dir=<value>
The compilation directory to embed in the debug info
-fdebug-macro Emit macro debug information
-fdelayed-template-parsing
Parse templated function definitions at the end of the translation unit
-fdelete-null-pointer-checks
Treat usage of null pointers as undefined behavior (default)
-fdiagnostics-absolute-paths
Print absolute paths in diagnostics
-fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits
Print fix-its in machine parseable form
-fdriver-only Only run the driver.
-fexcess-precision=<value>
Allows control over excess precision on targets where native support for the precision types is not available. By default, excess precision is used to calculate intermediate results following the rules specified in ISO C99.
-fexperimental-library Control whether unstable and experimental library features are enabled. This option enables various library features that are either experimental (also known as TSes), or have been but are not stable yet in the selected Standard Library implementation. It is not recommended to use this option in production code, since neither ABI nor API stability are guaranteed. This is intended to provide a preview of features that will ship in the future for experimentation purposes
-fexperimental-sanitize-metadata-ignorelist=<value>
Disable sanitizer metadata for modules and functions that match the provided special case list
-fexperimental-sanitize-metadata=<value>
Specify the type of metadata to emit for binary analysis sanitizers
-ffile-compilation-dir=<value>
The compilation directory to embed in the debug info and coverage mapping.
-ffile-reproducible Use the target's platform-specific path separator character when expanding the __FILE__ macro
-fforce-emit-vtables Emits more virtual tables to improve devirtualization
-fgnuc-version=<value> Sets various macros to claim compatibility with the given GCC version (default is 4.2.1)
-fimplicit-module-maps Implicitly search the file system for module map files.
-finline-max-stacksize=<value>
Suppress inlining of functions whose stack size exceeds the given value
-fintegrated-cc1 Run cc1 in-process
-fintegrated-objemitter Use internal machine object code emitter.
-flto=<value> Set LTO mode
-flto Enable LTO in 'full' mode
-fmacro-backtrace-limit=<value>
Set the maximum number of entries to print in a macro expansion backtrace (0 = no limit)
-fmemory-profile-use=<pathname>
Use memory profile for profile-guided memory optimization
-fmerge-all-constants Allow merging of constants
-fmodule-file=[<name>=]<file>
Specify the mapping of module name to precompiled module file, or load a module file if name is omitted.
-fmodule-map-file=<file>
Load this module map file
-fmodule-name=<name> Specify the name of the module to build
-fmodules-decluse Require declaration of modules used within a module
-fmodules-ignore-macro=<value>
Ignore the definition of the given macro when building and loading modules
-fmodules-search-all Search even non-imported modules to resolve references
-fmodules-strict-decluse
Like -fmodules-decluse but requires all headers to be in modules
-fmodules Enable the 'modules' language feature
-fms-compatibility-version=<value>
Dot-separated value representing the Microsoft compiler version number to report in _MSC_VER (0 = don't define it (default))
-fms-compatibility Enable full Microsoft Visual C++ compatibility
-fms-extensions Accept some non-standard constructs supported by the Microsoft compiler
-fms-hotpatch Ensure that all functions can be hotpatched at runtime
-fms-runtime-lib=<value>
Select Windows run-time library
-fmsc-version=<value> Microsoft compiler version number to report in _MSC_VER (0 = don't define it (default))
-fno-addrsig Don't emit an address-significance table
-fno-assume-unique-vtables
Disable optimizations based on vtable pointer identity
-fno-builtin-<value> Disable implicit builtin knowledge of a specific function
-fno-builtin Disable implicit builtin knowledge of functions
-fno-color-diagnostics Disable colors in diagnostics
-fno-complete-member-pointers
Do not require member pointer base types to be complete if they would be significant under the Microsoft ABI
-fno-coverage-mapping Disable code coverage analysis
-fno-crash-diagnostics Disable auto-generation of preprocessed source files and a script for reproduction during a clang crash
-fno-debug-macro Do not emit macro debug information
-fno-delayed-template-parsing
Disable delayed template parsing
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
Do not treat usage of null pointers as undefined behavior
-fno-experimental-sanitize-metadata=<value>
Disable emitting metadata for binary analysis sanitizers
-fno-file-reproducible Use the host's platform-specific path separator character when expanding the __FILE__ macro
-fno-integrated-cc1 Spawn a separate process for each cc1
-fno-integrated-objemitter
Use external machine object code emitter.
-fno-knr-functions Disable support for K&R C function declarations
-fno-lto Disable LTO mode (default)
-fno-offload-lto Disable LTO mode (default) for offload compilation
-fno-profile-generate Disable generation of profile instrumentation.
-fno-profile-instr-generate
Disable generation of profile instrumentation.
-fno-profile-instr-use Disable using instrumentation data for profile-guided optimization
-fno-sanitize-address-globals-dead-stripping
Disable linker dead stripping of globals in AddressSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-address-outline-instrumentation
Use default code inlining logic for the address sanitizer
-fno-sanitize-address-poison-custom-array-cookie
Disable poisoning array cookies when using custom operator new[] in AddressSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-address-use-after-scope
Disable use-after-scope detection in AddressSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-address-use-odr-indicator
Disable ODR indicator globals
-fno-sanitize-cfi-canonical-jump-tables
Do not make the jump table addresses canonical in the symbol table
-fno-sanitize-cfi-cross-dso
Disable control flow integrity (CFI) checks for cross-DSO calls.
-fno-sanitize-coverage=<value>
Disable features of coverage instrumentation for Sanitizers
-fno-sanitize-hwaddress-experimental-aliasing
Disable aliasing mode in HWAddressSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-ignorelist
Don't use ignorelist file for sanitizers
-fno-sanitize-memory-param-retval
Disable detection of uninitialized parameters and return values
-fno-sanitize-memory-track-origins
Disable origins tracking in MemorySanitizer
-fno-sanitize-memory-use-after-dtor
Disable use-after-destroy detection in MemorySanitizer
-fno-sanitize-recover=<value>
Disable recovery for specified sanitizers
-fno-sanitize-stable-abi
Conventional ABI instrumentation for sanitizer runtime. Default: Conventional
-fno-sanitize-stats Disable sanitizer statistics gathering.
-fno-sanitize-thread-atomics
Disable atomic operations instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-thread-func-entry-exit
Disable function entry/exit instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-thread-memory-access
Disable memory access instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer
-fno-sanitize-trap=<value>
Disable trapping for specified sanitizers
-fno-sanitize-trap Disable trapping for all sanitizers
-fno-standalone-debug Limit debug information produced to reduce size of debug binary
-fno-sycl Disables SYCL kernels compilation for device
-fno-temp-file Directly create compilation output files. This may lead to incorrect incremental builds if the compiler crashes
-fobjc-runtime=<value> Specify the target Objective-C runtime kind and version
-foffload-lto=<value> Set LTO mode for offload compilation
-foffload-lto Enable LTO in 'full' mode for offload compilation
-fopenmp-target-jit Emit code that can be JIT compiled for OpenMP offloading. Implies -foffload-lto=full
-forder-file-instrumentation
Generate instrumented code to collect order file into default.profraw file (overridden by '=' form of option or LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fpch-instantiate-templates
Instantiate templates already while building a PCH
-fprofile-exclude-files=<value>
Instrument only functions from files where names don't match all the regexes separated by a semi-colon
-fprofile-filter-files=<value>
Instrument only functions from files where names match any regex separated by a semi-colon
-fprofile-generate=<directory>
Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts into <directory>/default.profraw (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fprofile-generate Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts into default.profraw (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fprofile-instr-generate=<file>
Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts into <file> (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fprofile-instr-generate
Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts into default.profraw file (overridden by '=' form of option or LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var)
-fprofile-instr-use=<value>
Use instrumentation data for profile-guided optimization
-fprofile-list=<value> Filename defining the list of functions/files to instrument. The file uses the sanitizer special case list format.
-fprofile-remapping-file=<file>
Use the remappings described in <file> to match the profile data against names in the program
-fprofile-update=<method>
Set update method of profile counters
-fprofile-use=<pathname>
Use instrumentation data for profile-guided optimization. If pathname is a directory, it reads from <pathname>/default.profdata. Otherwise, it reads from file <pathname>.
-fprotect-parens Determines whether the optimizer honors parentheses when floating-point expressions are evaluated
-fsanitize-address-destructor=<value>
Set the kind of module destructors emitted by AddressSanitizer instrumentation. These destructors are emitted to unregister instrumented global variables when code is unloaded (e.g. via `dlclose()`).
-fsanitize-address-field-padding=<value>
Level of field padding for AddressSanitizer
-fsanitize-address-globals-dead-stripping
Enable linker dead stripping of globals in AddressSanitizer
-fsanitize-address-outline-instrumentation
Always generate function calls for address sanitizer instrumentation
-fsanitize-address-poison-custom-array-cookie
Enable poisoning array cookies when using custom operator new[] in AddressSanitizer
-fsanitize-address-use-after-return=<mode>
Select the mode of detecting stack use-after-return in AddressSanitizer
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope
Enable use-after-scope detection in AddressSanitizer
-fsanitize-address-use-odr-indicator
Enable ODR indicator globals to avoid false ODR violation reports in partially sanitized programs at the cost of an increase in binary size
-fsanitize-blacklist=<value>
Alias for -fsanitize-ignorelist=
-fsanitize-cfi-canonical-jump-tables
Make the jump table addresses canonical in the symbol table
-fsanitize-cfi-cross-dso
Enable control flow integrity (CFI) checks for cross-DSO calls.
-fsanitize-cfi-icall-experimental-normalize-integers
Normalize integers in CFI indirect call type signature checks
-fsanitize-cfi-icall-generalize-pointers
Generalize pointers in CFI indirect call type signature checks
-fsanitize-coverage-allowlist=<value>
Restrict sanitizer coverage instrumentation exclusively to modules and functions that match the provided special case list, except the blocked ones
-fsanitize-coverage-ignorelist=<value>
Disable sanitizer coverage instrumentation for modules and functions that match the provided special case list, even the allowed ones
-fsanitize-coverage=<value>
Specify the type of coverage instrumentation for Sanitizers
-fsanitize-hwaddress-abi=<value>
Select the HWAddressSanitizer ABI to target (interceptor or platform, default interceptor). This option is currently unused.
-fsanitize-hwaddress-experimental-aliasing
Enable aliasing mode in HWAddressSanitizer
-fsanitize-ignorelist=<value>
Path to ignorelist file for sanitizers
-fsanitize-memory-param-retval
Enable detection of uninitialized parameters and return values
-fsanitize-memory-track-origins=<value>
Enable origins tracking in MemorySanitizer
-fsanitize-memory-track-origins
Enable origins tracking in MemorySanitizer
-fsanitize-memory-use-after-dtor
Enable use-after-destroy detection in MemorySanitizer
-fsanitize-memtag-mode=<value>
Set default MTE mode to 'sync' (default) or 'async'
-fsanitize-recover=<value>
Enable recovery for specified sanitizers
-fsanitize-stable-abi Stable ABI instrumentation for sanitizer runtime. Default: Conventional
-fsanitize-stats Enable sanitizer statistics gathering.
-fsanitize-system-ignorelist=<value>
Path to system ignorelist file for sanitizers
-fsanitize-thread-atomics
Enable atomic operations instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer (default)
-fsanitize-thread-func-entry-exit
Enable function entry/exit instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer (default)
-fsanitize-thread-memory-access
Enable memory access instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer (default)
-fsanitize-trap=<value> Enable trapping for specified sanitizers
-fsanitize-trap Enable trapping for all sanitizers
-fsanitize-undefined-strip-path-components=<number>
Strip (or keep only, if negative) a given number of path components when emitting check metadata.
-fsanitize=<check> Turn on runtime checks for various forms of undefined or suspicious behavior. See user manual for available checks
-fsplit-lto-unit Enables splitting of the LTO unit
-fstandalone-debug Emit full debug info for all types used by the program
-fswift-async-fp=<option>
Control emission of Swift async extended frame info
-fsycl Enables SYCL kernels compilation for device
-fsyntax-only Run the preprocessor, parser and semantic analysis stages
-fsystem-module Build this module as a system module. Only used with -emit-module
-fthin-link-bitcode=<value>
Write minimized bitcode to <file> for the ThinLTO thin link only
-fthinlto-index=<value> Perform ThinLTO importing using provided function summary index
-ftime-trace-granularity=<value>
Minimum time granularity (in microseconds) traced by time profiler
-ftime-trace=<value> Similar to -ftime-trace. Specify the JSON file or a directory which will contain the JSON file
-ftime-trace Turn on time profiler. Generates JSON file based on output filename.
-ftrivial-auto-var-init-stop-after=<value>
Stop initializing trivial automatic stack variables after the specified number of instances
-ftrivial-auto-var-init=<value>
Initialize trivial automatic stack variables. Defaults to 'uninitialized'
-fvirtual-function-elimination
Enables dead virtual function elimination optimization. Requires -flto=full
-fwhole-program-vtables Enables whole-program vtable optimization. Requires -flto
-gcodeview-command-line Emit compiler path and command line into CodeView debug information
-gcodeview-ghash Emit type record hashes in a .debug$H section
-gcodeview Generate CodeView debug information
-gdwarf Generate source-level debug information with the default dwarf version
-gen-reproducer=<value> Emit reproducer on (option: off, crash (default), error, always)
-gline-directives-only Emit debug line info directives only
-gline-tables-only Emit debug line number tables only
-gno-codeview-command-line
Don't emit compiler path and command line into CodeView debug information
-gno-inline-line-tables Don't emit inline line tables.
-gsplit-dwarf=<value> Set DWARF fission mode
-gstrict-dwarf Restrict DWARF features to those defined in the specified version, avoiding features from later versions.
-g Generate source-level debug information
-march=<value> For a list of available architectures for the target use '-mcpu=help'
-mfunction-return=<value>
Replace returns with jumps to ``__x86_return_thunk`` (x86 only, error otherwise)
-miamcu Use Intel MCU ABI
-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix
Add cs prefix to call and jmp to indirect thunk
-mllvm=<arg> Alias for -mllvm
-mllvm <value> Additional arguments to forward to LLVM's option processing
-mlvi-cfi Enable only control-flow mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI)
-mlvi-hardening Enable all mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI)
-mmlir <value> Additional arguments to forward to MLIR's option processing
-mno-gather Disable generation of gather instructions in auto-vectorization(x86 only)
-mno-lvi-cfi Disable control-flow mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI)
-mno-lvi-hardening Disable mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI)
-mno-scatter Disable generation of scatter instructions in auto-vectorization(x86 only)
-mno-seses Disable speculative execution side effect suppression (SESES)
-mseses Enable speculative execution side effect suppression (SESES). Includes LVI control flow integrity mitigations
--no-default-config Disable loading default configuration files
-nobuiltininc Disable builtin #include directories
-object-file-name=<file>
Set the output <file> for debug infos
-print-supported-cpus Print supported cpu models for the given target (if target is not specified, it will print the supported cpus for the default target)
-Qunused-arguments Don't emit warning for unused driver arguments
-R<remark> Enable the specified remark
--start-no-unused-arguments
Don't emit warnings about unused arguments for the following arguments
-sycl-std=<value> SYCL language standard to compile for.
--target=<value> Generate code for the given target
--version Print version information
-vfsoverlay <value> Overlay the virtual filesystem described by file over the real file system. Additionally, pass this overlay file to the linker if it supports it
-v Show commands to run and use verbose output
-W<warning> Enable the specified warning
-Xclang=<arg> Alias for -Xclang
-Xclang <arg> Pass <arg> to clang -cc1
Options (196)
| Option | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
-### | Print (but do not run) the commands to run for this compilation | help |
--analyze | Run the static analyzer | help |
--config file | Specify configuration file | help |
-darwin-target-variant value | Generate code for an additional runtime variant of the deployment target | help |
-emit-ast | Emit Clang AST files for source inputs | help |
--end-no-unused-arguments | Start emitting warnings for unused driver arguments | help |
-faddrsig | Emit an address-significance table | help |
-fansi-escape-codes | Use ANSI escape codes for diagnostics | help |
-fblocks | Enable the 'blocks' language feature | help |
-fcaret-diagnostics-max-lines value | Set the maximum number of source lines to show in a caret diagnostic (0 = no limit). | help |
-fcf-protection | Enable cf-protection in 'full' mode | help |
-fcolor-diagnostics | Enable colors in diagnostics | help |
-fcommon | Place uninitialized global variables in a common block | help |
-fcomplete-member-pointers | Require member pointer base types to be complete if they would be significant under the Microsoft ABI | help |
-fcoverage-compilation-dir value | The compilation directory to embed in the coverage mapping. | help |
-fcoverage-mapping | Generate coverage mapping to enable code coverage analysis | help |
-fcrash-diagnostics-dir dir | Put crash-report files in <dir> | help |
-fcrash-diagnostics value | Set level of crash diagnostic reporting, (option: off, compiler, all) | help |
-fcs-profile-generate directory | Generate instrumented code to collect context sensitive execution counts into <directory>/default.profraw (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var) | help |
-fdebug-compilation-dir value | The compilation directory to embed in the debug info | help |
-fdebug-macro | Emit macro debug information | help |
-fdelayed-template-parsing | Parse templated function definitions at the end of the translation unit | help |
-fdelete-null-pointer-checks | Treat usage of null pointers as undefined behavior (default) | help |
-fdiagnostics-absolute-paths | Print absolute paths in diagnostics | help |
-fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits | Print fix-its in machine parseable form | help |
-fdriver-only | Only run the driver. | help |
-fexcess-precision value | Allows control over excess precision on targets where native support for the precision types is not available. | help |
-fexperimental-library | Control whether unstable and experimental library features are enabled. | help |
-fexperimental-sanitize-metadata-ignorelist value | Disable sanitizer metadata for modules and functions that match the provided special case list | help |
-fexperimental-sanitize-metadata value | Specify the type of metadata to emit for binary analysis sanitizers | help |
-ffile-compilation-dir value | The compilation directory to embed in the debug info and coverage mapping. | help |
-ffile-reproducible | Use the target's platform-specific path separator character when expanding the __FILE__ macro | help |
-fforce-emit-vtables | Emits more virtual tables to improve devirtualization | help |
-fgnuc-version value | Sets various macros to claim compatibility with the given GCC version (default is 4.2.1) | help |
-fimplicit-module-maps | Implicitly search the file system for module map files. | help |
-finline-max-stacksize value | Suppress inlining of functions whose stack size exceeds the given value | help |
-fintegrated-cc1 | Run cc1 in-process | help |
-flto value | Set LTO mode | help |
-fmacro-backtrace-limit value | Set the maximum number of entries to print in a macro expansion backtrace (0 = no limit) | help |
-fmemory-profile-use pathname | Use memory profile for profile-guided memory optimization | help |
-fmerge-all-constants | Allow merging of constants | help |
-fmodule-file name>=]<file | Specify the mapping of module name to precompiled module file, or load a module file if name is omitted. | help |
-fmodule-map-file file | Load this module map file | help |
-fmodule-name name | Specify the name of the module to build | help |
-fmodules-decluse | Require declaration of modules used within a module | help |
-fmodules-ignore-macro value | Ignore the definition of the given macro when building and loading modules | help |
-fmodules-search-all | Search even non-imported modules to resolve references | help |
-fmodules-strict-decluse | Like -fmodules-decluse but requires all headers to be in modules | help |
-fmodules | Enable the 'modules' language feature | help |
-fms-compatibility-version value | Dot-separated value representing the Microsoft compiler version number to report in _MSC_VER (0 = don't define it (default)) | help |
-fms-compatibility | Enable full Microsoft Visual C++ compatibility | help |
-fms-extensions | Accept some non-standard constructs supported by the Microsoft compiler | help |
-fms-hotpatch | Ensure that all functions can be hotpatched at runtime | help |
-fms-runtime-lib value | Select Windows run-time library | help |
-fmsc-version value | Microsoft compiler version number to report in _MSC_VER (0 = don't define it (default)) | help |
-fno-addrsig | Don't emit an address-significance table | help |
-fno-assume-unique-vtables | Disable optimizations based on vtable pointer identity | help |
-fno-builtin- value | Disable implicit builtin knowledge of a specific function | help |
-fno-builtin | Disable implicit builtin knowledge of functions | help |
-fno-color-diagnostics | Disable colors in diagnostics | help |
-fno-complete-member-pointers | Do not require member pointer base types to be complete if they would be significant under the Microsoft ABI | help |
-fno-coverage-mapping | Disable code coverage analysis | help |
-fno-crash-diagnostics | Disable auto-generation of preprocessed source files and a script for reproduction during a clang crash | help |
-fno-debug-macro | Do not emit macro debug information | help |
-fno-delayed-template-parsing | Disable delayed template parsing | help |
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks | Do not treat usage of null pointers as undefined behavior | help |
-fno-experimental-sanitize-metadata value | Disable emitting metadata for binary analysis sanitizers | help |
-fno-file-reproducible | Use the host's platform-specific path separator character when expanding the __FILE__ macro | help |
-fno-integrated-cc1 | Spawn a separate process for each cc1 | help |
-fno-integrated-objemitter | Use external machine object code emitter. | help |
-fno-knr-functions | Disable support for K&R C function declarations | help |
-fno-lto | Disable LTO mode (default) | help |
-fno-offload-lto | Disable LTO mode (default) for offload compilation | help |
-fno-profile-generate | Disable generation of profile instrumentation. | help |
-fno-profile-instr-generate | Disable generation of profile instrumentation. | help |
-fno-profile-instr-use | Disable using instrumentation data for profile-guided optimization | help |
-fno-sanitize-address-globals-dead-stripping | Disable linker dead stripping of globals in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-address-outline-instrumentation | Use default code inlining logic for the address sanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-address-poison-custom-array-cookie | Disable poisoning array cookies when using custom operator new[] in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-address-use-after-scope | Disable use-after-scope detection in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-address-use-odr-indicator | Disable ODR indicator globals | help |
-fno-sanitize-cfi-canonical-jump-tables | Do not make the jump table addresses canonical in the symbol table | help |
-fno-sanitize-cfi-cross-dso | Disable control flow integrity (CFI) checks for cross-DSO calls. | help |
-fno-sanitize-coverage value | Disable features of coverage instrumentation for Sanitizers | help |
-fno-sanitize-hwaddress-experimental-aliasing | Disable aliasing mode in HWAddressSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-ignorelist | Don't use ignorelist file for sanitizers | help |
-fno-sanitize-memory-param-retval | Disable detection of uninitialized parameters and return values | help |
-fno-sanitize-memory-track-origins | Disable origins tracking in MemorySanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-memory-use-after-dtor | Disable use-after-destroy detection in MemorySanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-recover value | Disable recovery for specified sanitizers | help |
-fno-sanitize-stable-abi | Conventional ABI instrumentation for sanitizer runtime. | help |
-fno-sanitize-stats | Disable sanitizer statistics gathering. | help |
-fno-sanitize-thread-atomics | Disable atomic operations instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-thread-func-entry-exit | Disable function entry/exit instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-thread-memory-access | Disable memory access instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer | help |
-fno-sanitize-trap value | Disable trapping for specified sanitizers | help |
-fno-standalone-debug | Limit debug information produced to reduce size of debug binary | help |
-fno-sycl | Disables SYCL kernels compilation for device | help |
-fno-temp-file | Directly create compilation output files. | help |
-fobjc-runtime value | Specify the target Objective-C runtime kind and version | help |
-foffload-lto value | Set LTO mode for offload compilation | help |
-fopenmp-target-jit | Emit code that can be JIT compiled for OpenMP offloading. | help |
-forder-file-instrumentation | Generate instrumented code to collect order file into default.profraw file (overridden by '=' form of option or LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var) | help |
-fpch-instantiate-templates | Instantiate templates already while building a PCH | help |
-fprofile-exclude-files value | Instrument only functions from files where names don't match all the regexes separated by a semi-colon | help |
-fprofile-filter-files value | Instrument only functions from files where names match any regex separated by a semi-colon | help |
-fprofile-generate directory | Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts into <directory>/default.profraw (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var) | help |
-fprofile-instr-generate file | Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts into <file> (overridden by LLVM_PROFILE_FILE env var) | help |
-fprofile-instr-use value | Use instrumentation data for profile-guided optimization | help |
-fprofile-list value | Filename defining the list of functions/files to instrument. | help |
-fprofile-remapping-file file | Use the remappings described in <file> to match the profile data against names in the program | help |
-fprofile-update method | Set update method of profile counters | help |
-fprofile-use pathname | Use instrumentation data for profile-guided optimization. | help |
-fprotect-parens | Determines whether the optimizer honors parentheses when floating-point expressions are evaluated | help |
-fsanitize-address-destructor value | Set the kind of module destructors emitted by AddressSanitizer instrumentation. | help |
-fsanitize-address-field-padding value | Level of field padding for AddressSanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-address-globals-dead-stripping | Enable linker dead stripping of globals in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-address-outline-instrumentation | Always generate function calls for address sanitizer instrumentation | help |
-fsanitize-address-poison-custom-array-cookie | Enable poisoning array cookies when using custom operator new[] in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-address-use-after-return mode | Select the mode of detecting stack use-after-return in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope | Enable use-after-scope detection in AddressSanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-address-use-odr-indicator | Enable ODR indicator globals to avoid false ODR violation reports in partially sanitized programs at the cost of an increase in binary size | help |
-fsanitize-blacklist value | Alias for -fsanitize-ignorelist= | help |
-fsanitize-cfi-canonical-jump-tables | Make the jump table addresses canonical in the symbol table | help |
-fsanitize-cfi-cross-dso | Enable control flow integrity (CFI) checks for cross-DSO calls. | help |
-fsanitize-cfi-icall-experimental-normalize-integers | Normalize integers in CFI indirect call type signature checks | help |
-fsanitize-cfi-icall-generalize-pointers | Generalize pointers in CFI indirect call type signature checks | help |
-fsanitize-coverage-allowlist value | Restrict sanitizer coverage instrumentation exclusively to modules and functions that match the provided special case list, except the blocked ones | help |
-fsanitize-coverage-ignorelist value | Disable sanitizer coverage instrumentation for modules and functions that match the provided special case list, even the allowed ones | help |
-fsanitize-coverage value | Specify the type of coverage instrumentation for Sanitizers | help |
-fsanitize-hwaddress-abi value | Select the HWAddressSanitizer ABI to target (interceptor or platform, default interceptor). | help |
-fsanitize-hwaddress-experimental-aliasing | Enable aliasing mode in HWAddressSanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-ignorelist value | Path to ignorelist file for sanitizers | help |
-fsanitize-memory-param-retval | Enable detection of uninitialized parameters and return values | help |
-fsanitize-memory-track-origins value | Enable origins tracking in MemorySanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-memory-use-after-dtor | Enable use-after-destroy detection in MemorySanitizer | help |
-fsanitize-memtag-mode value | Set default MTE mode to 'sync' (default) or 'async' | help |
-fsanitize-recover value | Enable recovery for specified sanitizers | help |
-fsanitize-stable-abi | Stable ABI instrumentation for sanitizer runtime. | help |
-fsanitize-stats | Enable sanitizer statistics gathering. | help |
-fsanitize-system-ignorelist value | Path to system ignorelist file for sanitizers | help |
-fsanitize-thread-atomics | Enable atomic operations instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer (default) | help |
-fsanitize-thread-func-entry-exit | Enable function entry/exit instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer (default) | help |
-fsanitize-thread-memory-access | Enable memory access instrumentation in ThreadSanitizer (default) | help |
-fsanitize-trap | Enable trapping for all sanitizers | help |
-fsanitize-undefined-strip-path-components number | Strip (or keep only, if negative) a given number of path components when emitting check metadata. | help |
-fsanitize check | Turn on runtime checks for various forms of undefined or suspicious behavior. | help |
-fsplit-lto-unit | Enables splitting of the LTO unit | help |
-fstandalone-debug | Emit full debug info for all types used by the program | help |
-fswift-async-fp option | Control emission of Swift async extended frame info | help |
-fsycl | Enables SYCL kernels compilation for device | help |
-fsyntax-only | Run the preprocessor, parser and semantic analysis stages | help |
-fsystem-module | Build this module as a system module. | help |
-fthin-link-bitcode value | Write minimized bitcode to <file> for the ThinLTO thin link only | help |
-ftime-trace-granularity value | Minimum time granularity (in microseconds) traced by time profiler | help |
-ftime-trace value | Similar to -ftime-trace. | help |
-ftrivial-auto-var-init-stop-after value | Stop initializing trivial automatic stack variables after the specified number of instances | help |
-ftrivial-auto-var-init value | Initialize trivial automatic stack variables. | help |
-fvirtual-function-elimination | Enables dead virtual function elimination optimization. | help |
-gcodeview-ghash | Emit type record hashes in a .debug$H section | help |
-gcodeview | Generate CodeView debug information | help |
-gdwarf | Generate source-level debug information with the default dwarf version | help |
-gline-directives-only | Emit debug line info directives only | help |
-gline-tables-only | Emit debug line number tables only | help |
-gno-codeview-command-line | Don't emit compiler path and command line into CodeView debug information | help |
-gsplit-dwarf value | Set DWARF fission mode | help |
-gstrict-dwarf | Restrict DWARF features to those defined in the specified version, avoiding features from later versions. | help |
-g | Generate source-level debug information | help |
-march value | For a list of available architectures for the target use '-mcpu=help' | help |
-mfunction-return value | Replace returns with jumps to ``__x86_return_thunk`` (x86 only, error otherwise) | help |
-miamcu | Use Intel MCU ABI | help |
-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix | Add cs prefix to call and jmp to indirect thunk | help |
-mllvm arg | Alias for -mllvm | help |
-mlvi-cfi | Enable only control-flow mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI) | help |
-mlvi-hardening | Enable all mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI) | help |
-mmlir value | Additional arguments to forward to MLIR's option processing | help |
-mno-gather | Disable generation of gather instructions in auto-vectorization(x86 only) | help |
-mno-lvi-cfi | Disable control-flow mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI) | help |
-mno-lvi-hardening | Disable mitigations for Load Value Injection (LVI) | help |
-mno-scatter | Disable generation of scatter instructions in auto-vectorization(x86 only) | help |
-mno-seses | Disable speculative execution side effect suppression (SESES) | help |
-mseses | Enable speculative execution side effect suppression (SESES). | help |
--no-default-config | Disable loading default configuration files | help |
-nobuiltininc | Disable builtin #include directories | help |
-object-file-name file | Set the output <file> for debug infos | help |
-print-supported-cpus | Print supported cpu models for the given target (if target is not specified, it will print the supported cpus for the default target) | help |
-Qunused-arguments | Don't emit warning for unused driver arguments | help |
-R remark | Enable the specified remark | help |
--start-no-unused-arguments | Don't emit warnings about unused arguments for the following arguments | help |
-sycl-std value | SYCL language standard to compile for. | help |
--target value | Generate code for the given target | help |
--version | Print version information | help |
-vfsoverlay value | Overlay the virtual filesystem described by file over the real file system. | help |
-v | Show commands to run and use verbose output | help |
-W warning | Enable the specified warning | help |
-Xclang arg | Alias for -Xclang | help |