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authorDaniel Dunbar <daniel@zuster.org>2009-05-18 21:34:46 +0000
committerDaniel Dunbar <daniel@zuster.org>2009-05-18 21:34:46 +0000
commit94f497b0724601539dd02637aabda584b41e200e (patch)
treecfd87d99edfe63d36e65ef7467ccd46e58dfb932 /docs/tools
parent2f2433f2c4965640e3eea62c87deb7292492b10f (diff)
Several fixes to the clang man page.
- -emit-llvm isn't a stage selection option. - Document -O4 and -flto. - -ObjC++ and -ObjC apply to all inputs, not subsequent ones. - Some versions of pod2man aren't happy about the comment after =over=? - Some minor grammar fixes. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@72044 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/tools/clang.pod b/docs/tools/clang.pod
index 4adf57faf2..c520f93997 100644
--- a/docs/tools/clang.pod
+++ b/docs/tools/clang.pod
@@ -93,15 +93,10 @@ Run the preprocessor stage.
Run the preprocessor, parser and type checking stages.
-=item B<-emit-llvm>
-
-Run the preprocessor, parser, type checking stages, LLVM generation and
-optimization stages.
-
=item B<-S>
-Run all of the above, plus target-specific code generation, producing an
-assembly file.
+Run the previous stages as well as LLVM generation and optimization stages and
+target-specific code generation, producing an assembly file.
=item B<-c>
@@ -138,11 +133,11 @@ Same as B<-std=c89>.
=item B<-ObjC++>
-Treat subsequent source input files as Objective-C++ inputs.
+Treat source input files as Objective-C++ inputs.
=item B<-ObjC>
-Treat subsequent source input files as Objective-C inputs.
+Treat source input files as Objective-C inputs.
=item B<-trigraphs>
@@ -200,19 +195,12 @@ with both GC and non-GC mode.
=head2 Target Selection Options
-Clang fully supports cross compilation and an inherent part of its design.
+Clang fully supports cross compilation as an inherent part of its design.
Depending on how your version of Clang is configured, it may have support for
-a number of cross compilers, or may just support a native target.
+a number of cross compilers, or may only support a native target.
=over
-=cut
-######
-######=item B<-triple>=I<target triple>
-######
-=pod
-
-
=item B<-arch> I<architecture>
Specify the architecture to build for.
@@ -245,12 +233,14 @@ may not exist on earlier ones.
=item B<-O0> B<-O1> B<-O2> B<-Os> B<-O3> B<-O4>
Specify which optimization level to use. B<-O0> means "no optimization": this
-level compiles the fastest and generates the most debuggable code. B<-O2> is
-a moderate level of debugging which enables most optimizations. B<-Os> is like
-B<-O2> but it does extra optimizations to reduce code size. B<-O3> is like
-B<-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). B<-O1>
-is somewhere between B<-O0> and B<-O1>.
+level compiles the fastest and generates the most debuggable code. B<-O2> is a
+moderate level of optimization which enables most optimizations. B<-Os> is like
+B<-O2> with extra optimizations to reduce code size. B<-O3> is like B<-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). On
+supported platforms, B<-O4> enables link-time optimization; object files are
+stored in the LLVM bitcode file format and whole program optimization is done at
+link time. B<-O1> is somewhere between B<-O0> and B<-O2>.
=item B<-g>
@@ -279,6 +269,13 @@ This flag sets the default visibility level.
This flag specifies that variables without initializers get common linkage. It
can be disabled with B<-fno-common>.
+=item B<-flto> B<-emit-llvm>
+
+Generate output files in LLVM formats, suitable for link time optimization. When
+used with B<-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).
+
=cut
##=item B<-fnext-runtime> B<-fobjc-nonfragile-abi> B<-fgnu-runtime>