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OVERVIEW: Clang-based refactoring tool for C, C++ and Objective-C
USAGE: clang-refactor [subcommand] [options] <source0> [... <sourceN>]

SUBCOMMANDS:

  extract      - (WIP action; use with caution!) Extracts code into a new function
  local-rename - Finds and renames symbols in code with no indexer support

  Type "clang-refactor <subcommand> --help" to get more help on a specific subcommand

OPTIONS:

General options:

  --aarch64-neon-syntax=<value>                              - Choose style of NEON code to emit from AArch64 backend:
    =generic                                                 -   Emit generic NEON assembly
    =apple                                                   -   Emit Apple-style NEON assembly
  --aarch64-use-aa                                           - Enable the use of AA during codegen.
  --abort-on-max-devirt-iterations-reached                   - Abort when the max iterations for devirtualization CGSCC repeat pass is reached
  --allow-ginsert-as-artifact                                - Allow G_INSERT to be considered an artifact. Hack around AMDGPU test infinite loops.
  --amdgpu-atomic-optimizer-strategy=<value>                 - Select DPP or Iterative strategy for scan
    =DPP                                                     -   Use DPP operations for scan
    =Iterative                                               -   Use Iterative approach for scan
    =None                                                    -   Disable atomic optimizer
  --amdgpu-bypass-slow-div                                   - Skip 64-bit divide for dynamic 32-bit values
  --amdgpu-disable-loop-alignment                            - Do not align and prefetch loops
  --amdgpu-dpp-combine                                       - Enable DPP combiner
  --amdgpu-dump-hsa-metadata                                 - Dump AMDGPU HSA Metadata
  --amdgpu-enable-merge-m0                                   - Merge and hoist M0 initializations
  --amdgpu-enable-power-sched                                - Enable scheduling to minimize mAI power bursts
  --amdgpu-kernarg-preload-count=<uint>                      - How many kernel arguments to preload onto SGPRs
  --amdgpu-promote-alloca-to-vector-limit=<uint>             - Maximum byte size to consider promote alloca to vector
  --amdgpu-sdwa-peephole                                     - Enable SDWA peepholer
  --amdgpu-use-aa-in-codegen                                 - Enable the use of AA during codegen.
  --amdgpu-verify-hsa-metadata                               - Verify AMDGPU HSA Metadata
  --amdgpu-vgpr-index-mode                                   - Use GPR indexing mode instead of movrel for vector indexing
  --arm-add-build-attributes                                 -
  --arm-implicit-it=<value>                                  - 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-show-inst                                            - Emit internal instruction representation to assembly file
  --atomic-counter-update-promoted                           - Do counter update using atomic fetch add  for promoted counters only
  --atomic-first-counter                                     - Use atomic fetch add for first counter in a function (usually the entry counter)
  --bounds-checking-single-trap                              - Use one trap block per function
  --bounds-checking-unique-traps                             - Always use one trap per check
  --bpf-stack-size=<int>                                     - Specify the BPF stack size limit
  --cfg-hide-cold-paths=<number>                             - Hide blocks with relative frequency below the given value
  --cfg-hide-deoptimize-paths                                -
  --cfg-hide-unreachable-paths                               -
  --check-functions-filter=<regex>                           - Only emit checks for arguments of functions whose names match the given regular expression
  --cost-kind=<value>                                        - Target cost kind
    =throughput                                              -   Reciprocal throughput
    =latency                                                 -   Instruction latency
    =code-size                                               -   Code size
    =size-latency                                            -   Code size and latency
  --crel                                                     - Use CREL relocation format for ELF
  --cs-profile-generate                                      - Perform context sensitive PGO instrumentation
  --cs-profile-path=<string>                                 - Context sensitive profile file path
  --debug-info-correlate                                     - Use debug info to correlate profiles. (Deprecated, use -profile-correlate=debug-info)
  --debugify-func-limit=<ulong>                              - Set max number of processed functions per pass.
  --debugify-level=<value>                                   - Kind of debug info to add
    =locations                                               -   Locations only
    =location+variables                                      -   Locations and Variables
  --debugify-quiet                                           - Suppress verbose debugify output
  --disable-auto-upgrade-debug-info                          - Disable autoupgrade of debug info
  --disable-i2p-p2i-opt                                      - Disables inttoptr/ptrtoint roundtrip optimization
  --disable-promote-alloca-to-lds                            - Disable promote alloca to LDS
  --disable-promote-alloca-to-vector                         - Disable promote alloca to vector
  --do-counter-promotion                                     - Do counter register promotion
  --dot-cfg-mssa=<file name for generated dot file>          - file name for generated dot file
  --dwarf-version=<int>                                      - Dwarf version
  --dwarf64                                                  - Generate debugging info in the 64-bit DWARF format
  --emit-compact-unwind-non-canonical                        - Whether to try to emit Compact Unwind for non canonical entries.
  --emit-dwarf-unwind=<value>                                - Whether to emit DWARF EH frame entries.
    =always                                                  -   Always emit EH frame entries
    =no-compact-unwind                                       -   Only emit EH frame entries when compact unwind is not available
    =default                                                 -   Use target platform default
  --emscripten-cxx-exceptions-allowed=<string>               - The list of function names in which Emscripten-style exception handling is enabled (see emscripten EMSCRIPTEN_CATCHING_ALLOWED options)
  --enable-cse-in-irtranslator                               - Should enable CSE in irtranslator
  --enable-cse-in-legalizer                                  - Should enable CSE in Legalizer
  --enable-emscripten-cxx-exceptions                         - WebAssembly Emscripten-style exception handling
  --enable-emscripten-sjlj                                   - WebAssembly Emscripten-style setjmp/longjmp handling
  --enable-gvn-hoist                                         - Enable the GVN hoisting pass (default = off)
  --enable-gvn-memdep                                        -
  --enable-gvn-sink                                          - Enable the GVN sinking pass (default = off)
  --enable-jump-table-to-switch                              - Enable JumpTableToSwitch pass (default = off)
  --enable-load-in-loop-pre                                  -
  --enable-load-pre                                          -
  --enable-loop-simplifycfg-term-folding                     -
  --enable-name-compression                                  - Enable name/filename string compression
  --enable-pgo-force-function-attrs                          - Enable pass to set function attributes based on PGO profiles
  --enable-split-backedge-in-load-pre                        -
  --enable-split-loopiv-heuristic                            - Enable loop iv regalloc heuristic
  --enable-vtable-profile-use                                - If ThinLTO and WPD is enabled and this option is true, vtable profiles will be used by ICP pass for more efficient indirect call sequence. If false, type profiles won't be used.
  --enable-vtable-value-profiling                            - If true, the virtual table address will be instrumented to know the types of a C++ pointer. The information is used in indirect call promotion to do selective vtable-based comparison.
  --execute-concurrency=<uint>                               - The number of threads used to process all files in parallel. Set to 0 for hardware concurrency. This flag only applies to all-TUs.
  --executor=<string>                                        - The name of the executor to use.
  --expand-variadics-override=<value>                        - Override the behaviour of expand-variadics
    =unspecified                                             -   Use the implementation defaults
    =disable                                                 -   Disable the pass entirely
    =optimize                                                -   Optimise without changing ABI
    =lowering                                                -   Change variadic calling convention
  --experimental-debug-variable-locations                    - Use experimental new value-tracking variable locations
  --experimental-debuginfo-iterators                         - Enable communicating debuginfo positions through iterators, eliminating intrinsics. Has no effect if --preserve-input-debuginfo-format=true.
  --extra-arg=<string>                                       - Additional argument to append to the compiler command line
  --extra-arg-before=<string>                                - Additional argument to prepend to the compiler command line
  --fatal-warnings                                           - Treat warnings as errors
  --fdpic                                                    - Use the FDPIC ABI
  --filter=<string>                                          - Only process files that match this filter. This flag only applies to all-TUs.
  --force-tail-folding-style=<value>                         - Force the tail folding style
    =none                                                    -   Disable tail folding
    =data                                                    -   Create lane mask for data only, using active.lane.mask intrinsic
    =data-without-lane-mask                                  -   Create lane mask with compare/stepvector
    =data-and-control                                        -   Create lane mask using active.lane.mask intrinsic, and use it for both data and control flow
    =data-and-control-without-rt-check                       -   Similar to data-and-control, but remove the runtime check
    =data-with-evl                                           -   Use predicated EVL instructions for tail folding. If EVL is unsupported, fallback to data-without-lane-mask.
  --fs-profile-debug-bw-threshold=<uint>                     - Only show debug message if the source branch weight is greater  than this value.
  --fs-profile-debug-prob-diff-threshold=<uint>              - Only show debug message if the branch probility is greater than this value (in percentage).
  --generate-merged-base-profiles                            - When generating nested context-sensitive profiles, always generate extra base profile for function with all its context profiles merged into it.
  --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
  --hexagon-add-build-attributes                             -
  --hexagon-rdf-limit=<uint>                                 -
  --hot-cold-split                                           - Enable hot-cold splitting pass
  --hwasan-percentile-cutoff-hot=<int>                       - Hot percentile cuttoff.
  --hwasan-random-rate=<number>                              - Probability value in the range [0.0, 1.0] to keep instrumentation of a function.
  -i                                                         - Inplace edit <file>s
  --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-code-sinking                                 - Enable code sinking
  --instcombine-guard-widening-window=<uint>                 - How wide an instruction window to bypass looking for another guard
  --instcombine-max-num-phis=<uint>                          - Maximum number phis to handle in intptr/ptrint folding
  --instcombine-max-sink-users=<uint>                        - Maximum number of undroppable users for instruction sinking
  --instcombine-maxarray-size=<uint>                         - Maximum array size considered when doing a combine
  --instcombine-negator-enabled                              - Should we attempt to sink negations?
  --instcombine-negator-max-depth=<uint>                     - What is the maximal lookup depth when trying to check for viability of negation sinking.
  --instrprof-atomic-counter-update-all                      - Make all profile counter updates atomic (for testing only)
  --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.
  --lint-abort-on-error                                      - In the Lint pass, abort on errors.
  --lower-allow-check-percentile-cutoff-hot=<int>            - Hot percentile cuttoff.
  --lower-allow-check-random-rate=<number>                   - Probability value in the range [0.0, 1.0] of unconditional pseudo-random checks.
  --lto-aix-system-assembler=<path>                          - Path to a system assembler, picked up on AIX only
  --lto-embed-bitcode=<value>                                - Embed LLVM bitcode in object files produced by LTO
    =none                                                    -   Do not embed
    =optimized                                               -   Embed after all optimization passes
    =post-merge-pre-opt                                      -   Embed post merge, but before optimizations
  --lto-pass-remarks-filter=<regex>                          - Only record optimization remarks from passes whose names match the given regular expression
  --lto-pass-remarks-format=<format>                         - The format used for serializing remarks (default: YAML)
  --lto-pass-remarks-output=<filename>                       - Output filename for pass remarks
  --matrix-default-layout=<value>                            - Sets the default matrix layout
    =column-major                                            -   Use column-major layout
    =row-major                                               -   Use row-major layout
  --matrix-print-after-transpose-opt                         -
  --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
  --mcabac                                                   - tbd
  --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
  --mhvx=<value>                                             - Enable Hexagon Vector eXtensions
    =v60                                                     -   Build for HVX v60
    =v62                                                     -   Build for HVX v62
    =v65                                                     -   Build for HVX v65
    =v66                                                     -   Build for HVX v66
    =v67                                                     -   Build for HVX v67
    =v68                                                     -   Build for HVX v68
    =v69                                                     -   Build for HVX v69
    =v71                                                     -   Build for HVX v71
    =v73                                                     -   Build for HVX v73
  --mips-compact-branches=<value>                            - MIPS Specific: Compact branch policy.
    =never                                                   -   Do not use compact branches if possible.
    =optimal                                                 -   Use compact branches where appropriate (default).
    =always                                                  -   Always use compact branches if possible.
  --mips16-constant-islands                                  - Enable mips16 constant islands.
  --mips16-hard-float                                        - Enable mips16 hard float.
  --mir-strip-debugify-only                                  - Should mir-strip-debug only strip debug info from debugified modules by default
  --misexpect-tolerance=<uint>                               - Prevents emitting diagnostics when profile counts are within N% of the threshold..
  --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
  --no-deprecated-warn                                       - Suppress all deprecated warnings
  --no-discriminators                                        - Disable generation of discriminator information.
  --no-type-check                                            - Suppress type errors (Wasm)
  --no-warn                                                  - Suppress all warnings
  --nvptx-sched4reg                                          - NVPTX Specific: schedule for register pressue
  --object-size-offset-visitor-max-visit-instructions=<uint> - Maximum number of instructions for ObjectSizeOffsetVisitor to look at
  -p <string>                                                - Build path
  --pgo-block-coverage                                       - Use this option to enable basic block coverage instrumentation
  --pgo-temporal-instrumentation                             - Use this option to enable temporal instrumentation
  --pgo-view-block-coverage-graph                            - Create a dot file of CFGs with block coverage inference information
  --poison-checking-function-local                           - Check that returns are non-poison (for testing)
  --print-pipeline-passes                                    - Print a '-passes' compatible string describing the pipeline (best-effort only).
  --profile-correlate=<value>                                - Use debug info or binary file to correlate profiles.
    =<empty>                                                 -   No profile correlation
    =debug-info                                              -   Use debug info to correlate
    =binary                                                  -   Use binary to correlate
  --promote-alloca-vector-loop-user-weight=<uint>            - The bonus weight of users of allocas within loop when sorting profitable allocas
  --r600-ir-structurize                                      - Use StructurizeCFG IR pass
  --riscv-add-build-attributes                               -
  --riscv-use-aa                                             - Enable the use of AA during codegen.
  --runtime-counter-relocation                               - Enable relocating counters at runtime.
  --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-max-propagate-iterations=<uint>           - Maximum number of iterations to go through when propagating sample block/edge weights through the CFG.
  --sampled-instr-burst-duration=<uint>                      - Set the profile instrumentation burst duration, which can range from 0 to one less than the value of 'sampled-instr-period'. This number of samples will be recorded for each 'sampled-instr-period' count update. Setting to 1 enables simple sampling, in which case it is recommended to set 'sampled-instr-period' to a prime number.
  --sampled-instr-period=<uint>                              - Set the profile instrumentation sample period. For each sample period, a fixed number of consecutive samples will be recorded. The number is controlled by 'sampled-instr-burst-duration' flag. The default sample period of 65535 is optimized for generating efficient code that leverages unsigned integer wrapping in overflow.
  --sampled-instrumentation                                  - Do PGO instrumentation sampling
  --sanitizer-early-opt-ep                                   - Insert sanitizers on OptimizerEarlyEP.
  --save-temp-labels                                         - Don't discard temporary labels
  --skip-ret-exit-block                                      - Suppress counter promotion if exit blocks contain ret.
  --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.
  --sve-tail-folding=<string>                                - Control the use of vectorisation using tail-folding for SVE where the option is specified in the form (Initial)[+(Flag1|Flag2|...)]:
                                                               disabled      (Initial) No loop types will vectorize using tail-folding
                                                               default       (Initial) Uses the default tail-folding settings for the target CPU
                                                               all           (Initial) All legal loop types will vectorize using tail-folding
                                                               simple        (Initial) Use tail-folding for simple loops (not reductions or recurrences)
                                                               reductions    Use tail-folding for loops containing reductions
                                                               noreductions  Inverse of above
                                                               recurrences   Use tail-folding for loops containing fixed order recurrences
                                                               norecurrences Inverse of above
                                                               reverse       Use tail-folding for loops requiring reversed predicates
                                                               noreverse     Inverse of above
  --tail-predication=<value>                                 - MVE tail-predication pass options
    =disabled                                                -   Don't tail-predicate loops
    =enabled-no-reductions                                   -   Enable tail-predication, but not for reduction loops
    =enabled                                                 -   Enable tail-predication, including reduction loops
    =force-enabled-no-reductions                             -   Enable tail-predication, but not for reduction loops, and force this which might be unsafe
    =force-enabled                                           -   Enable tail-predication, including reduction loops, and force this which might be unsafe
  --thinlto-assume-merged                                    - Assume the input has already undergone ThinLTO function importing and the other pre-optimization pipeline changes.
  --threads=<int>                                            -
  --type-based-intrinsic-cost                                - Calculate intrinsics cost based only on argument types
  --ubsan-guard-checks                                       - Guard UBSAN checks with `llvm.allow.ubsan.check()`.
  --ubsan-unique-traps                                       - Deoptimize traps for UBSAN so there is 1 trap per check.
  --use-undef                                                - Use undef when generating programs.
  -v                                                         - Use verbose output
  --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
  --wasm-enable-eh                                           - WebAssembly exception handling
  --wasm-enable-exnref                                       - WebAssembly exception handling (exnref)
  --wasm-enable-sjlj                                         - WebAssembly setjmp/longjmp handling
  --write-experimental-debuginfo                             - Write debug info in the new non-intrinsic format. Has no effect if --preserve-input-debuginfo-format=true.
  --x86-align-branch=<string>                                - Specify types of branches to align (plus separated list of types):
                                                               jcc      indicates conditional jumps
                                                               fused    indicates fused conditional jumps
                                                               jmp      indicates direct unconditional jumps
                                                               call     indicates direct and indirect calls
                                                               ret      indicates rets
                                                               indirect indicates indirect unconditional jumps
  --x86-align-branch-boundary=<uint>                         - Control how the assembler should align branches with NOP. If the boundary's size is not 0, it should be a power of 2 and no less than 32. Branches will be aligned to prevent from being across or against the boundary of specified size. The default value 0 does not align branches.
  --x86-branches-within-32B-boundaries                       - Align selected instructions to mitigate negative performance impact of Intel's micro code update for errata skx102.  May break assumptions about labels corresponding to particular instructions, and should be used with caution.
  --x86-pad-max-prefix-size=<uint>                           - Maximum number of prefixes to use for padding
  --x86-relax-relocations                                    - Emit GOTPCRELX/REX_GOTPCRELX instead of GOTPCREL on x86-64 ELF
  --x86-sse2avx                                              - Specify that the assembler should encode SSE instructions with VEX prefix

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
Options (184)
OptionDescriptionSource
--aarch64-neon-syntax value- Choose style of NEON code to emit from AArch64 backend: =generic - Emit generic NEON assembly =apple - Emit Apple-style NEON assemblyhelp
--aarch64-use-aa- Enable the use of AA during codegen.help
--abort-on-max-devirt-iterations-reached- Abort when the max iterations for devirtualization CGSCC repeat pass is reachedhelp
--allow-ginsert-as-artifact- Allow G_INSERT to be considered an artifact.help
--amdgpu-atomic-optimizer-strategy value- Select DPP or Iterative strategy for scan =DPP - Use DPP operations for scan =Iterative - Use Iterative approach for scan =None - Disable atomic optimizerhelp
--amdgpu-bypass-slow-div- Skip 64-bit divide for dynamic 32-bit valueshelp
--amdgpu-disable-loop-alignment- Do not align and prefetch loopshelp
--amdgpu-dpp-combine- Enable DPP combinerhelp
--amdgpu-dump-hsa-metadata- Dump AMDGPU HSA Metadatahelp
--amdgpu-enable-merge-m0- Merge and hoist M0 initializationshelp
--amdgpu-enable-power-sched- Enable scheduling to minimize mAI power burstshelp
--amdgpu-kernarg-preload-count uint- How many kernel arguments to preload onto SGPRshelp
--amdgpu-promote-alloca-to-vector-limit uint- Maximum byte size to consider promote alloca to vectorhelp
--amdgpu-sdwa-peephole- Enable SDWA peepholerhelp
--amdgpu-use-aa-in-codegen- Enable the use of AA during codegen.help
--amdgpu-verify-hsa-metadata- Verify AMDGPU HSA Metadatahelp
--amdgpu-vgpr-index-mode- Use GPR indexing mode instead of movrel for vector indexinghelp
--arm-add-build-attributes-help
--arm-implicit-it value- 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 -…help
--asm-show-inst- Emit internal instruction representation to assembly filehelp
--atomic-counter-update-promoted- Do counter update using atomic fetch add for promoted counters onlyhelp
--atomic-first-counter- Use atomic fetch add for first counter in a function (usually the entry counter)help
--bounds-checking-single-trap- Use one trap block per functionhelp
--bounds-checking-unique-traps- Always use one trap per checkhelp
--bpf-stack-size int- Specify the BPF stack size limithelp
--cfg-hide-cold-paths number- Hide blocks with relative frequency below the given valuehelp
--cfg-hide-deoptimize-paths-help
--cfg-hide-unreachable-paths-help
--check-functions-filter regex- Only emit checks for arguments of functions whose names match the given regular expressionhelp
--cost-kind value- Target cost kind =throughput - Reciprocal throughput =latency - Instruction latency =code-size - Code size =size-latency - Code size and latencyhelp
--crel- Use CREL relocation format for ELFhelp
--cs-profile-generate- Perform context sensitive PGO instrumentationhelp
--cs-profile-path string- Context sensitive profile file pathhelp
--debug-info-correlate- Use debug info to correlate profiles.help
--debugify-func-limit ulong- Set max number of processed functions per pass.help
--debugify-level value- Kind of debug info to add =locations - Locations only =location+variables - Locations and Variableshelp
--debugify-quiet- Suppress verbose debugify outputhelp
--disable-auto-upgrade-debug-info- Disable autoupgrade of debug infohelp
--disable-i2p-p2i-opt- Disables inttoptr/ptrtoint roundtrip optimizationhelp
--disable-promote-alloca-to-lds- Disable promote alloca to LDShelp
--disable-promote-alloca-to-vector- Disable promote alloca to vectorhelp
--do-counter-promotion- Do counter register promotionhelp
--dot-cfg-mssa file- file name for generated dot filehelp
--dwarf-version int- Dwarf versionhelp
--dwarf64- Generate debugging info in the 64-bit DWARF formathelp
--emit-compact-unwind-non-canonical- Whether to try to emit Compact Unwind for non canonical entries.help
--emit-dwarf-unwind value- Whether to emit DWARF EH frame entries.help
--emscripten-cxx-exceptions-allowed string- The list of function names in which Emscripten-style exception handling is enabled (see emscripten EMSCRIPTEN_CATCHING_ALLOWED options)help
--enable-cse-in-irtranslator- Should enable CSE in irtranslatorhelp
--enable-cse-in-legalizer- Should enable CSE in Legalizerhelp
--enable-emscripten-cxx-exceptions- WebAssembly Emscripten-style exception handlinghelp
--enable-emscripten-sjlj- WebAssembly Emscripten-style setjmp/longjmp handlinghelp
--enable-gvn-hoist- Enable the GVN hoisting pass (default = off)help
--enable-gvn-memdep-help
--enable-gvn-sink- Enable the GVN sinking pass (default = off)help
--enable-jump-table-to-switch- Enable JumpTableToSwitch pass (default = off)help
--enable-load-in-loop-pre-help
--enable-load-pre-help
--enable-loop-simplifycfg-term-folding-help
--enable-name-compression- Enable name/filename string compressionhelp
--enable-pgo-force-function-attrs- Enable pass to set function attributes based on PGO profileshelp
--enable-split-backedge-in-load-pre-help
--enable-split-loopiv-heuristic- Enable loop iv regalloc heuristichelp
--enable-vtable-profile-use- If ThinLTO and WPD is enabled and this option is true, vtable profiles will be used by ICP pass for more efficient indirect call sequence.help
--enable-vtable-value-profiling- If true, the virtual table address will be instrumented to know the types of a C++ pointer.help
--execute-concurrency uint- The number of threads used to process all files in parallel.help
--executor string- The name of the executor to use.help
--expand-variadics-override value- Override the behaviour of expand-variadics =unspecified - Use the implementation defaults =disable - Disable the pass entirely =optimize - Optimise without changing ABI =lowering - Change variadic…help
--experimental-debug-variable-locations- Use experimental new value-tracking variable locationshelp
--experimental-debuginfo-iterators- Enable communicating debuginfo positions through iterators, eliminating intrinsics.help
--extra-arg string- Additional argument to append to the compiler command linehelp
--extra-arg-before string- Additional argument to prepend to the compiler command linehelp
--fatal-warnings- Treat warnings as errorshelp
--fdpic- Use the FDPIC ABIhelp
--filter string- Only process files that match this filter.help
--force-tail-folding-style value- Force the tail folding style =none - Disable tail folding =data - Create lane mask for data only, using active.lane.mask intrinsic =data-without-lane-mask - Create lane mask with compare/stepvector…help
--fs-profile-debug-bw-threshold uint- Only show debug message if the source branch weight is greater than this value.help
--fs-profile-debug-prob-diff-threshold uint- Only show debug message if the branch probility is greater than this value (in percentage).help
--generate-merged-base-profiles- When generating nested context-sensitive profiles, always generate extra base profile for function with all its context profiles merged into it.help
--gpsize uint- Global Pointer Addressing Size.help
--hash-based-counter-split- Rename counter variable of a comdat function based on cfg hashhelp
--hexagon-add-build-attributes-help
--hexagon-rdf-limit uint-help
--hot-cold-split- Enable hot-cold splitting passhelp
--hwasan-percentile-cutoff-hot int- Hot percentile cuttoff.help
--hwasan-random-rate number- Probability value in the range [0.0, 1.0] to keep instrumentation of a function.help
-i- Inplace edit <file>shelp
--import-all-index- Import all external functions in index.help
--incremental-linker-compatible- When used with filetype=obj, emit an object file which can be used with an incremental linkerhelp
--instcombine-code-sinking- Enable code sinkinghelp
--instcombine-guard-widening-window uint- How wide an instruction window to bypass looking for another guardhelp
--instcombine-max-num-phis uint- Maximum number phis to handle in intptr/ptrint foldinghelp
--instcombine-max-sink-users uint- Maximum number of undroppable users for instruction sinkinghelp
--instcombine-maxarray-size uint- Maximum array size considered when doing a combinehelp
--instcombine-negator-enabled- Should we attempt to sink negations?help
--instcombine-negator-max-depth uint- What is the maximal lookup depth when trying to check for viability of negation sinking.help
--instrprof-atomic-counter-update-all- Make all profile counter updates atomic (for testing only)help
--internalize-public-api-file filename- A file containing list of symbol names to preservehelp
--internalize-public-api-list list- A list of symbol names to preservehelp
--iterative-counter-promotion- Allow counter promotion across the whole loop nest.help
--lint-abort-on-error- In the Lint pass, abort on errors.help
--lower-allow-check-percentile-cutoff-hot int- Hot percentile cuttoff.help
--lower-allow-check-random-rate number- Probability value in the range [0.0, 1.0] of unconditional pseudo-random checks.help
--lto-aix-system-assembler path- Path to a system assembler, picked up on AIX onlyhelp
--lto-embed-bitcode value- Embed LLVM bitcode in object files produced by LTO =none - Do not embed =optimized - Embed after all optimization passes =post-merge-pre-opt - Embed post merge, but before optimizationshelp
--lto-pass-remarks-filter regex- Only record optimization remarks from passes whose names match the given regular expressionhelp
--lto-pass-remarks-format format- The format used for serializing remarks (default: YAML)help
--lto-pass-remarks-output filename- Output filename for pass remarkshelp
--matrix-default-layout value- Sets the default matrix layout =column-major - Use column-major layout =row-major - Use row-major layouthelp
--matrix-print-after-transpose-opt-help
--max-counter-promotions int- Max number of allowed counter promotionshelp
--max-counter-promotions-per-loop uint- Max number counter promotions per loop to avoid increasing register pressure too muchhelp
--mc-relax-all- When used with filetype=obj, relax all fixups in the emitted object filehelp
--mcabac- tbdhelp
--merror-missing-parenthesis- Error for missing parenthesis around predicate registershelp
--merror-noncontigious-register- Error for register names that aren't contigioushelp
--mhvx- Enable Hexagon Vector eXtensionshelp
--mips-compact-branches value- MIPS Specific: Compact branch policy.help
--mips16-constant-islands- Enable mips16 constant islands.help
--mips16-hard-float- Enable mips16 hard float.help
--mir-strip-debugify-only- Should mir-strip-debug only strip debug info from debugified modules by defaulthelp
--misexpect-tolerance uint- Prevents emitting diagnostics when profile counts are within N% of the threshold..help
--mno-compound- Disable looking for compound instructions for Hexagonhelp
--mno-fixup- Disable fixing up resolved relocations for Hexagonhelp
--mno-ldc1-sdc1- Expand double precision loads and stores to their single precision counterpartshelp
--mno-pairing- Disable looking for duplex instructions for Hexagonhelp
--mwarn-missing-parenthesis- Warn for missing parenthesis around predicate registershelp
--mwarn-noncontigious-register- Warn for register names that arent contigioushelp
--mwarn-sign-mismatch- Warn for mismatching a signed and unsigned valuehelp
--no-deprecated-warn- Suppress all deprecated warningshelp
--no-discriminators- Disable generation of discriminator information.help
--no-type-check- Suppress type errors (Wasm)help
--no-warn- Suppress all warningshelp
--nvptx-sched4reg- NVPTX Specific: schedule for register pressuehelp
-p string- Build pathhelp
--pgo-block-coverage- Use this option to enable basic block coverage instrumentationhelp
--pgo-temporal-instrumentation- Use this option to enable temporal instrumentationhelp
--pgo-view-block-coverage-graph- Create a dot file of CFGs with block coverage inference informationhelp
--poison-checking-function-local- Check that returns are non-poison (for testing)help
--print-pipeline-passes- Print a '-passes' compatible string describing the pipeline (best-effort only).help
--profile-correlate value- Use debug info or binary file to correlate profiles.help
--promote-alloca-vector-loop-user-weight uint- The bonus weight of users of allocas within loop when sorting profitable allocashelp
--r600-ir-structurize- Use StructurizeCFG IR passhelp
--riscv-add-build-attributes-help
--riscv-use-aa- Enable the use of AA during codegen.help
--runtime-counter-relocation- Enable relocating counters at runtime.help
--safepoint-ir-verifier-print-only-help
--sample-profile-check-record-coverage N- Emit a warning if less than N% of records in the input profile are matched to the IR.help
--sample-profile-check-sample-coverage N- Emit a warning if less than N% of samples in the input profile are matched to the IR.help
--sample-profile-max-propagate-iterations uint- Maximum number of iterations to go through when propagating sample block/edge weights through the CFG.help
--sampled-instr-burst-duration uint- Set the profile instrumentation burst duration, which can range from 0 to one less than the value of 'sampled-instr-period'.help
--sampled-instr-period uint- Set the profile instrumentation sample period.help
--sampled-instrumentation- Do PGO instrumentation samplinghelp
--sanitizer-early-opt-ep- Insert sanitizers on OptimizerEarlyEP.help
--save-temp-labels- Don't discard temporary labelshelp
--skip-ret-exit-block- Suppress counter promotion if exit blocks contain ret.help
--speculative-counter-promotion-max-exiting uint- The max number of exiting blocks of a loop to allow speculative counter promotionhelp
--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.help
--summary-file string- The summary file to use for function importing.help
--sve-tail-folding string- Control the use of vectorisation using tail-folding for SVE where the option is specified in the form (Initial)[+(Flag1|Flag2|...)]: disabled (Initial) No loop types will vectorize using…help
--tail-predication value- MVE tail-predication pass options =disabled - Don't tail-predicate loops =enabled-no-reductions - Enable tail-predication, but not for reduction loops =enabled - Enable tail-predication, including…help
--thinlto-assume-merged- Assume the input has already undergone ThinLTO function importing and the other pre-optimization pipeline changes.help
--threads int-help
--type-based-intrinsic-cost- Calculate intrinsics cost based only on argument typeshelp
--ubsan-guard-checks- Guard UBSAN checks with `llvm.allow.ubsan.check()`.help
--ubsan-unique-traps- Deoptimize traps for UBSAN so there is 1 trap per check.help
--use-undef- Use undef when generating programs.help
-v- Use verbose outputhelp
--verify-region-info- Verify region info (time consuming)help
--vp-counters-per-site number- The average number of profile counters allocated per value profiling site.help
--vp-static-alloc- Do static counter allocation for value profilerhelp
--wasm-enable-eh- WebAssembly exception handlinghelp
--wasm-enable-exnref- WebAssembly exception handling (exnref)help
--wasm-enable-sjlj- WebAssembly setjmp/longjmp handlinghelp
--write-experimental-debuginfo- Write debug info in the new non-intrinsic format.help
--x86-align-branch string- Specify types of branches to align (plus separated list of types): jcc indicates conditional jumps fused indicates fused conditional jumps jmp indicates direct unconditional jumps call indicates…help
--x86-align-branch-boundary uint- Control how the assembler should align branches with NOP.help
--x86-branches-within-32B-boundaries- Align selected instructions to mitigate negative performance impact of Intel's micro code update for errata skx102.help
--x86-pad-max-prefix-size uint- Maximum number of prefixes to use for paddinghelp
--x86-relax-relocations- Emit GOTPCRELX/REX_GOTPCRELX instead of GOTPCREL on x86-64 ELFhelp
--x86-sse2avx- Specify that the assembler should encode SSE instructions with VEX prefixhelp
--help- Display available options (--help-hidden for more)help
--help-list- Display list of available options (--help-list-hidden for more)help
--version- Display the version of this programhelp

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