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+============================
+Clang Compiler User's Manual
+============================
+
+.. contents::
+ :local:
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+The Clang Compiler is an open-source compiler for the C family of
+programming languages, aiming to be the best in class implementation of
+these languages. Clang builds on the LLVM optimizer and code generator,
+allowing it to provide high-quality optimization and code generation
+support for many targets. For more general information, please see the
+`Clang Web Site <http://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the `LLVM Web
+Site <http://llvm.org>`_.
+
+This document describes important notes about using Clang as a compiler
+for an end-user, documenting the supported features, command line
+options, etc. If you are interested in using Clang to build a tool that
+processes code, please see :doc:`InternalsManual`. If you are interested in the
+`Clang Static Analyzer <http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org>`_, please see its web
+page.
+
+Clang is designed to support the C family of programming languages,
+which includes :ref:`C <c>`, :ref:`Objective-C <objc>`, :ref:`C++ <cxx>`, and
+:ref:`Objective-C++ <objcxx>` as well as many dialects of those. For
+language-specific information, please see the corresponding language
+specific section:
+
+- :ref:`C Language <c>`: K&R C, ANSI C89, ISO C90, ISO C94 (C89+AMD1), ISO
+ C99 (+TC1, TC2, TC3).
+- :ref:`Objective-C Language <objc>`: ObjC 1, ObjC 2, ObjC 2.1, plus
+ variants depending on base language.
+- :ref:`C++ Language <cxx>`
+- :ref:`Objective C++ Language <objcxx>`
+
+In addition to these base languages and their dialects, Clang supports a
+broad variety of language extensions, which are documented in the
+corresponding language section. These extensions are provided to be
+compatible with the GCC, Microsoft, and other popular compilers as well
+as to improve functionality through Clang-specific features. The Clang
+driver and language features are intentionally designed to be as
+compatible with the GNU GCC compiler as reasonably possible, easing
+migration from GCC to Clang. In most cases, code "just works".
+Clang also provides an alternative driver, :ref:`clang-cl`, that is designed
+to be compatible with the Visual C++ compiler, cl.exe.
+
+In addition to language specific features, Clang has a variety of
+features that depend on what CPU architecture or operating system is
+being compiled for. Please see the :ref:`Target-Specific Features and
+Limitations <target_features>` section for more details.
+
+The rest of the introduction introduces some basic :ref:`compiler
+terminology <terminology>` that is used throughout this manual and
+contains a basic :ref:`introduction to using Clang <basicusage>` as a
+command line compiler.
+
+.. _terminology:
+
+Terminology
+-----------
+
+Front end, parser, backend, preprocessor, undefined behavior,
+diagnostic, optimizer
+
+.. _basicusage:
+
+Basic Usage
+-----------
+
+Intro to how to use a C compiler for newbies.
+
+compile + link compile then link debug info enabling optimizations
+picking a language to use, defaults to C11 by default. Autosenses based
+on extension. using a makefile
+
+Command Line Options
+====================
+
+This section is generally an index into other sections. It does not go
+into depth on the ones that are covered by other sections. However, the
+first part introduces the language selection and other high level
+options like :option:`-c`, :option:`-g`, etc.
+
+Options to Control Error and Warning Messages
+---------------------------------------------
+
+.. option:: -Werror
+
+ Turn warnings into errors.
+
+.. This is in plain monospaced font because it generates the same label as
+.. -Werror, and Sphinx complains.
+
+``-Werror=foo``
+
+ Turn warning "foo" into an error.
+
+.. option:: -Wno-error=foo
+
+ Turn warning "foo" into an warning even if :option:`-Werror` is specified.
+
+.. option:: -Wfoo
+
+ Enable warning "foo".
+
+.. option:: -Wno-foo
+
+ Disable warning "foo".
+
+.. option:: -w
+
+ Disable all diagnostics.
+
+.. option:: -Weverything
+
+ :ref:`Enable all diagnostics. <diagnostics_enable_everything>`
+
+.. option:: -pedantic
+
+ Warn on language extensions.
+
+.. option:: -pedantic-errors
+
+ Error on language extensions.
+
+.. option:: -Wsystem-headers
+
+ Enable warnings from system headers.
+
+.. option:: -ferror-limit=123
+
+ Stop emitting diagnostics after 123 errors have been produced. The default is
+ 20, and the error limit can be disabled with :option:`-ferror-limit=0`.
+
+.. option:: -ftemplate-backtrace-limit=123
+
+ Only emit up to 123 template instantiation notes within the template
+ instantiation backtrace for a single warning or error. The default is 10, and
+ the limit can be disabled with :option:`-ftemplate-backtrace-limit=0`.
+
+.. _cl_diag_formatting:
+
+Formatting of Diagnostics
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Clang aims to produce beautiful diagnostics by default, particularly for
+new users that first come to Clang. However, different people have
+different preferences, and sometimes Clang is driven not by a human,
+but by a program that wants consistent and easily parsable output. For
+these cases, Clang provides a wide range of options to control the exact
+output format of the diagnostics that it generates.
+
+.. _opt_fshow-column:
+
+**-f[no-]show-column**
+ Print column number in diagnostic.
+
+ This option, which defaults to on, controls whether or not Clang
+ prints the column number of a diagnostic. For example, when this is
+ enabled, Clang will print something like:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:28:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+ //
+
+ When this is disabled, Clang will print "test.c:28: warning..." with
+ no column number.
+
+ The printed column numbers count bytes from the beginning of the
+ line; take care if your source contains multibyte characters.
+
+.. _opt_fshow-source-location:
+
+**-f[no-]show-source-location**
+ Print source file/line/column information in diagnostic.
+
+ This option, which defaults to on, controls whether or not Clang
+ prints the filename, line number and column number of a diagnostic.
+ For example, when this is enabled, Clang will print something like:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:28:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+ //
+
+ When this is disabled, Clang will not print the "test.c:28:8: "
+ part.
+
+.. _opt_fcaret-diagnostics:
+
+**-f[no-]caret-diagnostics**
+ Print source line and ranges from source code in diagnostic.
+ This option, which defaults to on, controls whether or not Clang
+ prints the source line, source ranges, and caret when emitting a
+ diagnostic. For example, when this is enabled, Clang will print
+ something like:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:28:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+ //
+
+**-f[no-]color-diagnostics**
+ This option, which defaults to on when a color-capable terminal is
+ detected, controls whether or not Clang prints diagnostics in color.
+
+ When this option is enabled, Clang will use colors to highlight
+ specific parts of the diagnostic, e.g.,
+
+ .. nasty hack to not lose our dignity
+
+ .. raw:: html
+
+ <pre>
+ <b><span style="color:black">test.c:28:8: <span style="color:magenta">warning</span>: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]</span></b>
+ #endif bad
+ <span style="color:green">^</span>
+ <span style="color:green">//</span>
+ </pre>
+
+ When this is disabled, Clang will just print:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:2:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+ //
+
+**-fansi-escape-codes**
+ Controls whether ANSI escape codes are used instead of the Windows Console
+ API to output colored diagnostics. This option is only used on Windows and
+ defaults to off.
+
+.. option:: -fdiagnostics-format=clang/msvc/vi
+
+ Changes diagnostic output format to better match IDEs and command line tools.
+
+ This option controls the output format of the filename, line number,
+ and column printed in diagnostic messages. The options, and their
+ affect on formatting a simple conversion diagnostic, follow:
+
+ **clang** (default)
+ ::
+
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int'
+
+ **msvc**
+ ::
+
+ t.c(3,11) : warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int'
+
+ **vi**
+ ::
+
+ t.c +3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int'
+
+.. _opt_fdiagnostics-show-option:
+
+**-f[no-]diagnostics-show-option**
+ Enable ``[-Woption]`` information in diagnostic line.
+
+ This option, which defaults to on, controls whether or not Clang
+ prints the associated :ref:`warning group <cl_diag_warning_groups>`
+ option name when outputting a warning diagnostic. For example, in
+ this output:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:28:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+ //
+
+ Passing **-fno-diagnostics-show-option** will prevent Clang from
+ printing the [:ref:`-Wextra-tokens <opt_Wextra-tokens>`] information in
+ the diagnostic. This information tells you the flag needed to enable
+ or disable the diagnostic, either from the command line or through
+ :ref:`#pragma GCC diagnostic <pragma_GCC_diagnostic>`.
+
+.. _opt_fdiagnostics-show-category:
+
+.. option:: -fdiagnostics-show-category=none/id/name
+
+ Enable printing category information in diagnostic line.
+
+ This option, which defaults to "none", controls whether or not Clang
+ prints the category associated with a diagnostic when emitting it.
+ Each diagnostic may or many not have an associated category, if it
+ has one, it is listed in the diagnostic categorization field of the
+ diagnostic line (in the []'s).
+
+ For example, a format string warning will produce these three
+ renditions based on the setting of this option:
+
+ ::
+
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat,1]
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat,Format String]
+
+ This category can be used by clients that want to group diagnostics
+ by category, so it should be a high level category. We want dozens
+ of these, not hundreds or thousands of them.
+
+.. _opt_fdiagnostics-fixit-info:
+
+**-f[no-]diagnostics-fixit-info**
+ Enable "FixIt" information in the diagnostics output.
+
+ This option, which defaults to on, controls whether or not Clang
+ prints the information on how to fix a specific diagnostic
+ underneath it when it knows. For example, in this output:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:28:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+ //
+
+ Passing **-fno-diagnostics-fixit-info** will prevent Clang from
+ printing the "//" line at the end of the message. This information
+ is useful for users who may not understand what is wrong, but can be
+ confusing for machine parsing.
+
+.. _opt_fdiagnostics-print-source-range-info:
+
+**-fdiagnostics-print-source-range-info**
+ Print machine parsable information about source ranges.
+ This option makes Clang print information about source ranges in a machine
+ parsable format after the file/line/column number information. The
+ information is a simple sequence of brace enclosed ranges, where each range
+ lists the start and end line/column locations. For example, in this output:
+
+ ::
+
+ exprs.c:47:15:{47:8-47:14}{47:17-47:24}: error: invalid operands to binary expression ('int *' and '_Complex float')
+ P = (P-42) + Gamma*4;
+ ~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~
+
+ The {}'s are generated by -fdiagnostics-print-source-range-info.
+
+ The printed column numbers count bytes from the beginning of the
+ line; take care if your source contains multibyte characters.
+
+.. option:: -fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits
+
+ Print Fix-Its in a machine parseable form.
+
+ This option makes Clang print available Fix-Its in a machine
+ parseable format at the end of diagnostics. The following example
+ illustrates the format:
+
+ ::
+
+ fix-it:"t.cpp":{7:25-7:29}:"Gamma"
+
+ The range printed is a half-open range, so in this example the
+ characters at column 25 up to but not including column 29 on line 7
+ in t.cpp should be replaced with the string "Gamma". Either the
+ range or the replacement string may be empty (representing strict
+ insertions and strict erasures, respectively). Both the file name
+ and the insertion string escape backslash (as "\\\\"), tabs (as
+ "\\t"), newlines (as "\\n"), double quotes(as "\\"") and
+ non-printable characters (as octal "\\xxx").
+
+ The printed column numbers count bytes from the beginning of the
+ line; take care if your source contains multibyte characters.
+
+.. option:: -fno-elide-type
+
+ Turns off elision in template type printing.
+
+ The default for template type printing is to elide as many template
+ arguments as possible, removing those which are the same in both
+ template types, leaving only the differences. Adding this flag will
+ print all the template arguments. If supported by the terminal,
+ highlighting will still appear on differing arguments.
+
+ Default:
+
+ ::
+
+ t.cc:4:5: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'vector<map<[...], map<float, [...]>>>' to 'vector<map<[...], map<double, [...]>>>' for 1st argument;
+
+ -fno-elide-type:
+
+ ::
+
+ t.cc:4:5: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'vector<map<int, map<float, int>>>' to 'vector<map<int, map<double, int>>>' for 1st argument;
+
+.. option:: -fdiagnostics-show-template-tree
+
+ Template type diffing prints a text tree.
+
+ For diffing large templated types, this option will cause Clang to
+ display the templates as an indented text tree, one argument per
+ line, with differences marked inline. This is compatible with
+ -fno-elide-type.
+
+ Default:
+
+ ::
+
+ t.cc:4:5: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'vector<map<[...], map<float, [...]>>>' to 'vector<map<[...], map<double, [...]>>>' for 1st argument;
+
+ With :option:`-fdiagnostics-show-template-tree`:
+
+ ::
+
+ t.cc:4:5: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion for 1st argument;
+ vector<
+ map<
+ [...],
+ map<
+ [float != double],
+ [...]>>>
+
+.. _cl_diag_warning_groups:
+
+Individual Warning Groups
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+TODO: Generate this from tblgen. Define one anchor per warning group.
+
+.. _opt_wextra-tokens:
+
+.. option:: -Wextra-tokens
+
+ Warn about excess tokens at the end of a preprocessor directive.
+
+ This option, which defaults to on, enables warnings about extra
+ tokens at the end of preprocessor directives. For example:
+
+ ::
+
+ test.c:28:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wextra-tokens]
+ #endif bad
+ ^
+
+ These extra tokens are not strictly conforming, and are usually best
+ handled by commenting them out.
+
+.. option:: -Wambiguous-member-template
+
+ Warn about unqualified uses of a member template whose name resolves to
+ another template at the location of the use.
+
+ This option, which defaults to on, enables a warning in the
+ following code:
+
+ ::
+
+ template<typename T> struct set{};
+ template<typename T> struct trait { typedef const T& type; };
+ struct Value {
+ template<typename T> void set(typename trait<T>::type value) {}
+ };
+ void foo() {
+ Value v;
+ v.set<double>(3.2);
+ }
+
+ C++ [basic.lookup.classref] requires this to be an error, but,
+ because it's hard to work around, Clang downgrades it to a warning
+ as an extension.
+
+.. option:: -Wbind-to-temporary-copy
+
+ Warn about an unusable copy constructor when binding a reference to a
+ temporary.
+
+ This option enables warnings about binding a
+ reference to a temporary when the temporary doesn't have a usable
+ copy constructor. For example:
+
+ ::
+
+ struct NonCopyable {
+ NonCopyable();
+ private:
+ NonCopyable(const NonCopyable&);
+ };
+ void foo(const NonCopyable&);
+ void bar() {
+ foo(NonCopyable()); // Disallowed in C++98; allowed in C++11.
+ }
+
+ ::
+
+ struct NonCopyable2 {
+ NonCopyable2();
+ NonCopyable2(NonCopyable2&);
+ };
+ void foo(const NonCopyable2&);
+ void bar() {
+ foo(NonCopyable2()); // Disallowed in C++98; allowed in C++11.
+ }
+
+ Note that if ``NonCopyable2::NonCopyable2()`` has a default argument
+ whose instantiation produces a compile error, that error will still
+ be a hard error in C++98 mode even if this warning is turned off.
+
+Options to Control Clang Crash Diagnostics
+------------------------------------------
+
+As unbelievable as it may sound, Clang does crash from time to time.
+Generally, this only occurs to those living on the `bleeding
+edge <http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#svn>`_. Clang goes to great
+lengths to assist you in filing a bug report. Specifically, Clang
+generates preprocessed source file(s) and associated run script(s) upon
+a crash. These files should be attached to a bug report to ease
+reproducibility of the failure. Below are the command line options to
+control the crash diagnostics.
+
+.. option:: -fno-crash-diagnostics
+
+ Disable auto-generation of preprocessed source files during a clang crash.
+
+The -fno-crash-diagnostics flag can be helpful for speeding the process
+of generating a delta reduced test case.
+
+Options to Emit Optimization Reports
+------------------------------------
+
+Optimization reports trace, at a high-level, all the major decisions
+done by compiler transformations. For instance, when the inliner
+decides to inline function ``foo()`` into ``bar()``, or the loop unroller
+decides to unroll a loop N times, or the vectorizer decides to
+vectorize a loop body.
+
+Clang offers a family of flags which the optimizers can use to emit
+a diagnostic in three cases:
+
+1. When the pass makes a transformation (:option:`-Rpass`).
+
+2. When the pass fails to make a transformation (:option:`-Rpass-missed`).
+
+3. When the pass determines whether or not to make a transformation
+ (:option:`-Rpass-analysis`).
+
+NOTE: Although the discussion below focuses on :option:`-Rpass`, the exact
+same options apply to :option:`-Rpass-missed` and :option:`-Rpass-analysis`.
+
+Since there are dozens of passes inside the compiler, each of these flags
+take a regular expression that identifies the name of the pass which should
+emit the associated diagnostic. For example, to get a report from the inliner,
+compile the code with:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang -O2 -Rpass=inline code.cc -o code
+ code.cc:4:25: remark: foo inlined into bar [-Rpass=inline]
+ int bar(int j) { return foo(j, j - 2); }
+ ^
+
+Note that remarks from the inliner are identified with `[-Rpass=inline]`.
+To request a report from every optimization pass, you should use
+:option:`-Rpass=.*` (in fact, you can use any valid POSIX regular
+expression). However, do not expect a report from every transformation
+made by the compiler. Optimization remarks do not really make sense
+outside of the major transformations (e.g., inlining, vectorization,
+loop optimizations) and not every optimization pass supports this
+feature.
+
+Current limitations
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+1. Optimization remarks that refer to function names will display the
+ mangled name of the function. Since these remarks are emitted by the
+ back end of the compiler, it does not know anything about the input
+ language, nor its mangling rules.
+
+2. Some source locations are not displayed correctly. The front end has
+ a more detailed source location tracking than the locations included
+ in the debug info (e.g., the front end can locate code inside macro
+ expansions). However, the locations used by :option:`-Rpass` are
+ translated from debug annotations. That translation can be lossy,
+ which results in some remarks having no location information.
+
+Other Options
+-------------
+Clang options that that don't fit neatly into other categories.
+
+.. option:: -MV
+
+ When emitting a dependency file, use formatting conventions appropriate
+ for NMake or Jom. Ignored unless another option causes Clang to emit a
+ dependency file.
+
+When Clang emits a dependency file (e.g., you supplied the -M option)
+most filenames can be written to the file without any special formatting.
+Different Make tools will treat different sets of characters as "special"
+and use different conventions for telling the Make tool that the character
+is actually part of the filename. Normally Clang uses backslash to "escape"
+a special character, which is the convention used by GNU Make. The -MV
+option tells Clang to put double-quotes around the entire filename, which
+is the convention used by NMake and Jom.
+
+
+Language and Target-Independent Features
+========================================
+
+Controlling Errors and Warnings
+-------------------------------
+
+Clang provides a number of ways to control which code constructs cause
+it to emit errors and warning messages, and how they are displayed to
+the console.
+
+Controlling How Clang Displays Diagnostics
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+When Clang emits a diagnostic, it includes rich information in the
+output, and gives you fine-grain control over which information is
+printed. Clang has the ability to print this information, and these are
+the options that control it:
+
+#. A file/line/column indicator that shows exactly where the diagnostic
+ occurs in your code [:ref:`-fshow-column <opt_fshow-column>`,
+ :ref:`-fshow-source-location <opt_fshow-source-location>`].
+#. A categorization of the diagnostic as a note, warning, error, or
+ fatal error.
+#. A text string that describes what the problem is.
+#. An option that indicates how to control the diagnostic (for
+ diagnostics that support it)
+ [:ref:`-fdiagnostics-show-option <opt_fdiagnostics-show-option>`].
+#. A :ref:`high-level category <diagnostics_categories>` for the diagnostic
+ for clients that want to group diagnostics by class (for diagnostics
+ that support it)
+ [:ref:`-fdiagnostics-show-category <opt_fdiagnostics-show-category>`].
+#. The line of source code that the issue occurs on, along with a caret
+ and ranges that indicate the important locations
+ [:ref:`-fcaret-diagnostics <opt_fcaret-diagnostics>`].
+#. "FixIt" information, which is a concise explanation of how to fix the
+ problem (when Clang is certain it knows)
+ [:ref:`-fdiagnostics-fixit-info <opt_fdiagnostics-fixit-info>`].
+#. A machine-parsable representation of the ranges involved (off by
+ default)
+ [:ref:`-fdiagnostics-print-source-range-info <opt_fdiagnostics-print-source-range-info>`].
+
+For more information please see :ref:`Formatting of
+Diagnostics <cl_diag_formatting>`.
+
+Diagnostic Mappings
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+All diagnostics are mapped into one of these 6 classes:
+
+- Ignored
+- Note
+- Remark
+- Warning
+- Error
+- Fatal
+
+.. _diagnostics_categories:
+
+Diagnostic Categories
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Though not shown by default, diagnostics may each be associated with a
+high-level category. This category is intended to make it possible to
+triage builds that produce a large number of errors or warnings in a
+grouped way.
+
+Categories are not shown by default, but they can be turned on with the
+:ref:`-fdiagnostics-show-category <opt_fdiagnostics-show-category>` option.
+When set to "``name``", the category is printed textually in the
+diagnostic output. When it is set to "``id``", a category number is
+printed. The mapping of category names to category id's can be obtained
+by running '``clang --print-diagnostic-categories``'.
+
+Controlling Diagnostics via Command Line Flags
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+TODO: -W flags, -pedantic, etc
+
+.. _pragma_gcc_diagnostic:
+
+Controlling Diagnostics via Pragmas
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Clang can also control what diagnostics are enabled through the use of
+pragmas in the source code. This is useful for turning off specific
+warnings in a section of source code. Clang supports GCC's pragma for
+compatibility with existing source code, as well as several extensions.
+
+The pragma may control any warning that can be used from the command
+line. Warnings may be set to ignored, warning, error, or fatal. The
+following example code will tell Clang or GCC to ignore the -Wall
+warnings:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wall"
+
+In addition to all of the functionality provided by GCC's pragma, Clang
+also allows you to push and pop the current warning state. This is
+particularly useful when writing a header file that will be compiled by
+other people, because you don't know what warning flags they build with.
+
+In the below example :option:`-Wmultichar` is ignored for only a single line of
+code, after which the diagnostics return to whatever state had previously
+existed.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ #pragma clang diagnostic push
+ #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wmultichar"
+
+ char b = 'df'; // no warning.
+
+ #pragma clang diagnostic pop
+
+The push and pop pragmas will save and restore the full diagnostic state
+of the compiler, regardless of how it was set. That means that it is
+possible to use push and pop around GCC compatible diagnostics and Clang
+will push and pop them appropriately, while GCC will ignore the pushes
+and pops as unknown pragmas. It should be noted that while Clang
+supports the GCC pragma, Clang and GCC do not support the exact same set
+of warnings, so even when using GCC compatible #pragmas there is no
+guarantee that they will have identical behaviour on both compilers.
+
+In addition to controlling warnings and errors generated by the compiler, it is
+possible to generate custom warning and error messages through the following
+pragmas:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ // The following will produce warning messages
+ #pragma message "some diagnostic message"
+ #pragma GCC warning "TODO: replace deprecated feature"
+
+ // The following will produce an error message
+ #pragma GCC error "Not supported"
+
+These pragmas operate similarly to the ``#warning`` and ``#error`` preprocessor
+directives, except that they may also be embedded into preprocessor macros via
+the C99 ``_Pragma`` operator, for example:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ #define STR(X) #X
+ #define DEFER(M,...) M(__VA_ARGS__)
+ #define CUSTOM_ERROR(X) _Pragma(STR(GCC error(X " at line " DEFER(STR,__LINE__))))
+
+ CUSTOM_ERROR("Feature not available");
+
+Controlling Diagnostics in System Headers
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Warnings are suppressed when they occur in system headers. By default,
+an included file is treated as a system header if it is found in an
+include path specified by ``-isystem``, but this can be overridden in
+several ways.
+
+The ``system_header`` pragma can be used to mark the current file as
+being a system header. No warnings will be produced from the location of
+the pragma onwards within the same file.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ char a = 'xy'; // warning
+
+ #pragma clang system_header
+
+ char b = 'ab'; // no warning
+
+The :option:`--system-header-prefix=` and :option:`--no-system-header-prefix=`
+command-line arguments can be used to override whether subsets of an include
+path are treated as system headers. When the name in a ``#include`` directive
+is found within a header search path and starts with a system prefix, the
+header is treated as a system header. The last prefix on the
+command-line which matches the specified header name takes precedence.
+For instance:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang -Ifoo -isystem bar --system-header-prefix=x/ \
+ --no-system-header-prefix=x/y/
+
+Here, ``#include "x/a.h"`` is treated as including a system header, even
+if the header is found in ``foo``, and ``#include "x/y/b.h"`` is treated
+as not including a system header, even if the header is found in
+``bar``.
+
+A ``#include`` directive which finds a file relative to the current
+directory is treated as including a system header if the including file
+is treated as a system header.
+
+.. _diagnostics_enable_everything:
+
+Enabling All Diagnostics
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+In addition to the traditional ``-W`` flags, one can enable **all**
+diagnostics by passing :option:`-Weverything`. This works as expected
+with
+:option:`-Werror`, and also includes the warnings from :option:`-pedantic`.
+
+Note that when combined with :option:`-w` (which disables all warnings), that
+flag wins.
+
+Controlling Static Analyzer Diagnostics
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+While not strictly part of the compiler, the diagnostics from Clang's
+`static analyzer <http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org>`_ can also be
+influenced by the user via changes to the source code. See the available
+`annotations <http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/annotations.html>`_ and the
+analyzer's `FAQ
+page <http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/faq.html#exclude_code>`_ for more
+information.
+
+.. _usersmanual-precompiled-headers:
+
+Precompiled Headers
+-------------------
+
+`Precompiled headers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precompiled_header>`__
+are a general approach employed by many compilers to reduce compilation
+time. The underlying motivation of the approach is that it is common for
+the same (and often large) header files to be included by multiple
+source files. Consequently, compile times can often be greatly improved
+by caching some of the (redundant) work done by a compiler to process
+headers. Precompiled header files, which represent one of many ways to
+implement this optimization, are literally files that represent an
+on-disk cache that contains the vital information necessary to reduce
+some of the work needed to process a corresponding header file. While
+details of precompiled headers vary between compilers, precompiled
+headers have been shown to be highly effective at speeding up program
+compilation on systems with very large system headers (e.g., Mac OS X).
+
+Generating a PCH File
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To generate a PCH file using Clang, one invokes Clang with the
+:option:`-x <language>-header` option. This mirrors the interface in GCC
+for generating PCH files:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ $ gcc -x c-header test.h -o test.h.gch
+ $ clang -x c-header test.h -o test.h.pch
+
+Using a PCH File
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+A PCH file can then be used as a prefix header when a :option:`-include`
+option is passed to ``clang``:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang -include test.h test.c -o test
+
+The ``clang`` driver will first check if a PCH file for ``test.h`` is
+available; if so, the contents of ``test.h`` (and the files it includes)
+will be processed from the PCH file. Otherwise, Clang falls back to
+directly processing the content of ``test.h``. This mirrors the behavior
+of GCC.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Clang does *not* automatically use PCH files for headers that are directly
+ included within a source file. For example:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang -x c-header test.h -o test.h.pch
+ $ cat test.c
+ #include "test.h"
+ $ clang test.c -o test
+
+ In this example, ``clang`` will not automatically use the PCH file for
+ ``test.h`` since ``test.h`` was included directly in the source file and not
+ specified on the command line using :option:`-include`.
+
+Relocatable PCH Files
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+It is sometimes necessary to build a precompiled header from headers
+that are not yet in their final, installed locations. For example, one
+might build a precompiled header within the build tree that is then
+meant to be installed alongside the headers. Clang permits the creation
+of "relocatable" precompiled headers, which are built with a given path
+(into the build directory) and can later be used from an installed
+location.
+
+To build a relocatable precompiled header, place your headers into a
+subdirectory whose structure mimics the installed location. For example,
+if you want to build a precompiled header for the header ``mylib.h``
+that will be installed into ``/usr/include``, create a subdirectory
+``build/usr/include`` and place the header ``mylib.h`` into that
+subdirectory. If ``mylib.h`` depends on other headers, then they can be
+stored within ``build/usr/include`` in a way that mimics the installed
+location.
+
+Building a relocatable precompiled header requires two additional
+arguments. First, pass the ``--relocatable-pch`` flag to indicate that
+the resulting PCH file should be relocatable. Second, pass
+:option:`-isysroot /path/to/build`, which makes all includes for your library
+relative to the build directory. For example:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ # clang -x c-header --relocatable-pch -isysroot /path/to/build /path/to/build/mylib.h mylib.h.pch
+
+When loading the relocatable PCH file, the various headers used in the
+PCH file are found from the system header root. For example, ``mylib.h``
+can be found in ``/usr/include/mylib.h``. If the headers are installed
+in some other system root, the :option:`-isysroot` option can be used provide
+a different system root from which the headers will be based. For
+example, :option:`-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk` will look for
+``mylib.h`` in ``/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/mylib.h``.
+
+Relocatable precompiled headers are intended to be used in a limited
+number of cases where the compilation environment is tightly controlled
+and the precompiled header cannot be generated after headers have been
+installed.
+
+.. _controlling-code-generation:
+
+Controlling Code Generation
+---------------------------
+
+Clang provides a number of ways to control code generation. The options
+are listed below.
+
+**-f[no-]sanitize=check1,check2,...**
+ Turn on runtime checks for various forms of undefined or suspicious
+ behavior.
+
+ This option controls whether Clang adds runtime checks for various
+ forms of undefined or suspicious behavior, and is disabled by
+ default. If a check fails, a diagnostic message is produced at
+ runtime explaining the problem. The main checks are:
+
+ - .. _opt_fsanitize_address:
+
+ ``-fsanitize=address``:
+ :doc:`AddressSanitizer`, a memory error
+ detector.
+ - .. _opt_fsanitize_thread:
+
+ ``-fsanitize=thread``: :doc:`ThreadSanitizer`, a data race detector.
+ - .. _opt_fsanitize_memory:
+
+ ``-fsanitize=memory``: :doc:`MemorySanitizer`,
+ a detector of uninitialized reads. Requires instrumentation of all
+ program code.
+ - .. _opt_fsanitize_undefined:
+
+ ``-fsanitize=undefined``: :doc:`UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer`,
+ a fast and compatible undefined behavior checker.
+
+ - ``-fsanitize=dataflow``: :doc:`DataFlowSanitizer`, a general data
+ flow analysis.
+ - ``-fsanitize=cfi``: :doc:`control flow integrity <ControlFlowIntegrity>`
+ checks. Requires ``-flto``.
+ - ``-fsanitize=safe-stack``: :doc:`safe stack <SafeStack>`
+ protection against stack-based memory corruption errors.
+
+ There are more fine-grained checks available: see
+ the :ref:`list <ubsan-checks>` of specific kinds of
+ undefined behavior that can be detected and the :ref:`list <cfi-schemes>`
+ of control flow integrity schemes.
+
+ The ``-fsanitize=`` argument must also be provided when linking, in
+ order to link to the appropriate runtime library.
+
+ It is not possible to combine more than one of the ``-fsanitize=address``,
+ ``-fsanitize=thread``, and ``-fsanitize=memory`` checkers in the same
+ program.
+
+**-f[no-]sanitize-recover=check1,check2,...**
+
+ Controls which checks enabled by ``-fsanitize=`` flag are non-fatal.
+ If the check is fatal, program will halt after the first error
+ of this kind is detected and error report is printed.
+
+ By default, non-fatal checks are those enabled by
+ :doc:`UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer`,
+ except for ``-fsanitize=return`` and ``-fsanitize=unreachable``. Some
+ sanitizers may not support recovery (or not support it by default
+ e.g. :doc:`AddressSanitizer`), and always crash the program after the issue
+ is detected.
+
+ Note that the ``-fsanitize-trap`` flag has precedence over this flag.
+ This means that if a check has been configured to trap elsewhere on the
+ command line, or if the check traps by default, this flag will not have
+ any effect unless that sanitizer's trapping behavior is disabled with
+ ``-fno-sanitize-trap``.
+
+ For example, if a command line contains the flags ``-fsanitize=undefined
+ -fsanitize-trap=undefined``, the flag ``-fsanitize-recover=alignment``
+ will have no effect on its own; it will need to be accompanied by
+ ``-fno-sanitize-trap=alignment``.
+
+**-f[no-]sanitize-trap=check1,check2,...**
+
+ Controls which checks enabled by the ``-fsanitize=`` flag trap. This
+ option is intended for use in cases where the sanitizer runtime cannot
+ be used (for instance, when building libc or a kernel module), or where
+ the binary size increase caused by the sanitizer runtime is a concern.
+
+ This flag is only compatible with :doc:`control flow integrity
+ <ControlFlowIntegrity>` schemes and :doc:`UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer`
+ checks other than ``vptr``. If this flag
+ is supplied together with ``-fsanitize=undefined``, the ``vptr`` sanitizer
+ will be implicitly disabled.
+
+ This flag is enabled by default for sanitizers in the ``cfi`` group.
+
+.. option:: -fsanitize-blacklist=/path/to/blacklist/file
+
+ Disable or modify sanitizer checks for objects (source files, functions,
+ variables, types) listed in the file. See
+ :doc:`SanitizerSpecialCaseList` for file format description.
+
+.. option:: -fno-sanitize-blacklist
+
+ Don't use blacklist file, if it was specified earlier in the command line.
+
+**-f[no-]sanitize-coverage=[type,features,...]**
+
+ Enable simple code coverage in addition to certain sanitizers.
+ See :doc:`SanitizerCoverage` for more details.
+
+.. option:: -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error
+
+ Deprecated alias for ``-fsanitize-trap=undefined``.
+
+.. option:: -fsanitize-cfi-cross-dso
+
+ Enable cross-DSO control flow integrity checks. This flag modifies
+ the behavior of sanitizers in the ``cfi`` group to allow checking
+ of cross-DSO virtual and indirect calls.
+
+.. option:: -fno-assume-sane-operator-new
+
+ Don't assume that the C++'s new operator is sane.
+
+ This option tells the compiler to do not assume that C++'s global
+ new operator will always return a pointer that does not alias any
+ other pointer when the function returns.
+
+.. option:: -ftrap-function=[name]
+
+ Instruct code generator to emit a function call to the specified
+ function name for ``__builtin_trap()``.
+
+ LLVM code generator translates ``__builtin_trap()`` to a trap
+ instruction if it is supported by the target ISA. Otherwise, the
+ builtin is translated into a call to ``abort``. If this option is
+ set, then the code generator will always lower the builtin to a call
+ to the specified function regardless of whether the target ISA has a
+ trap instruction. This option is useful for environments (e.g.
+ deeply embedded) where a trap cannot be properly handled, or when
+ some custom behavior is desired.
+
+.. option:: -ftls-model=[model]
+
+ Select which TLS model to use.
+
+ Valid values are: ``global-dynamic``, ``local-dynamic``,
+ ``initial-exec`` and ``local-exec``. The default value is
+ ``global-dynamic``. The compiler may use a different model if the
+ selected model is not supported by the target, or if a more
+ efficient model can be used. The TLS model can be overridden per
+ variable using the ``tls_model`` attribute.
+
+.. option:: -femulated-tls
+
+ Select emulated TLS model, which overrides all -ftls-model choices.
+
+ In emulated TLS mode, all access to TLS variables are converted to
+ calls to __emutls_get_address in the runtime library.
+
+.. option:: -mhwdiv=[values]
+
+ Select the ARM modes (arm or thumb) that support hardware division
+ instructions.
+
+ Valid values are: ``arm``, ``thumb`` and ``arm,thumb``.
+ This option is used to indicate which mode (arm or thumb) supports
+ hardware division instructions. This only applies to the ARM
+ architecture.
+
+.. option:: -m[no-]crc
+
+ Enable or disable CRC instructions.
+
+ This option is used to indicate whether CRC instructions are to
+ be generated. This only applies to the ARM architecture.
+
+ CRC instructions are enabled by default on ARMv8.
+
+.. option:: -mgeneral-regs-only
+
+ Generate code which only uses the general purpose registers.
+
+ This option restricts the generated code to use general registers
+ only. This only applies to the AArch64 architecture.
+
+**-f[no-]max-type-align=[number]**
+ Instruct the code generator to not enforce a higher alignment than the given
+ number (of bytes) when accessing memory via an opaque pointer or reference.
+ This cap is ignored when directly accessing a variable or when the pointee
+ type has an explicit “aligned” attribute.
+
+ The value should usually be determined by the properties of the system allocator.
+ Some builtin types, especially vector types, have very high natural alignments;
+ when working with values of those types, Clang usually wants to use instructions
+ that take advantage of that alignment. However, many system allocators do
+ not promise to return memory that is more than 8-byte or 16-byte-aligned. Use
+ this option to limit the alignment that the compiler can assume for an arbitrary
+ pointer, which may point onto the heap.
+
+ This option does not affect the ABI alignment of types; the layout of structs and
+ unions and the value returned by the alignof operator remain the same.
+
+ This option can be overridden on a case-by-case basis by putting an explicit
+ “aligned” alignment on a struct, union, or typedef. For example:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ #include <immintrin.h>
+ // Make an aligned typedef of the AVX-512 16-int vector type.
+ typedef __v16si __aligned_v16si __attribute__((aligned(64)));
+
+ void initialize_vector(__aligned_v16si *v) {
+ // The compiler may assume that ‘v’ is 64-byte aligned, regardless of the
+ // value of -fmax-type-align.
+ }
+
+
+Profile Guided Optimization
+---------------------------
+
+Profile information enables better optimization. For example, knowing that a
+branch is taken very frequently helps the compiler make better decisions when
+ordering basic blocks. Knowing that a function ``foo`` is called more
+frequently than another function ``bar`` helps the inliner.
+
+Clang supports profile guided optimization with two different kinds of
+profiling. A sampling profiler can generate a profile with very low runtime
+overhead, or you can build an instrumented version of the code that collects
+more detailed profile information. Both kinds of profiles can provide execution
+counts for instructions in the code and information on branches taken and
+function invocation.
+
+Regardless of which kind of profiling you use, be careful to collect profiles
+by running your code with inputs that are representative of the typical
+behavior. Code that is not exercised in the profile will be optimized as if it
+is unimportant, and the compiler may make poor optimization choices for code
+that is disproportionately used while profiling.
+
+Differences Between Sampling and Instrumentation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Although both techniques are used for similar purposes, there are important
+differences between the two:
+
+1. Profile data generated with one cannot be used by the other, and there is no
+ conversion tool that can convert one to the other. So, a profile generated
+ via ``-fprofile-instr-generate`` must be used with ``-fprofile-instr-use``.
+ Similarly, sampling profiles generated by external profilers must be
+ converted and used with ``-fprofile-sample-use``.
+
+2. Instrumentation profile data can be used for code coverage analysis and
+ optimization.
+
+3. Sampling profiles can only be used for optimization. They cannot be used for
+ code coverage analysis. Although it would be technically possible to use
+ sampling profiles for code coverage, sample-based profiles are too
+ coarse-grained for code coverage purposes; it would yield poor results.
+
+4. Sampling profiles must be generated by an external tool. The profile
+ generated by that tool must then be converted into a format that can be read
+ by LLVM. The section on sampling profilers describes one of the supported
+ sampling profile formats.
+
+
+Using Sampling Profilers
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Sampling profilers are used to collect runtime information, such as
+hardware counters, while your application executes. They are typically
+very efficient and do not incur a large runtime overhead. The
+sample data collected by the profiler can be used during compilation
+to determine what the most executed areas of the code are.
+
+Using the data from a sample profiler requires some changes in the way
+a program is built. Before the compiler can use profiling information,
+the code needs to execute under the profiler. The following is the
+usual build cycle when using sample profilers for optimization:
+
+1. Build the code with source line table information. You can use all the
+ usual build flags that you always build your application with. The only
+ requirement is that you add ``-gline-tables-only`` or ``-g`` to the
+ command line. This is important for the profiler to be able to map
+ instructions back to source line locations.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang++ -O2 -gline-tables-only code.cc -o code
+
+2. Run the executable under a sampling profiler. The specific profiler
+ you use does not really matter, as long as its output can be converted
+ into the format that the LLVM optimizer understands. Currently, there
+ exists a conversion tool for the Linux Perf profiler
+ (https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/), so these examples assume that you
+ are using Linux Perf to profile your code.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ perf record -b ./code
+
+ Note the use of the ``-b`` flag. This tells Perf to use the Last Branch
+ Record (LBR) to record call chains. While this is not strictly required,
+ it provides better call information, which improves the accuracy of
+ the profile data.
+
+3. Convert the collected profile data to LLVM's sample profile format.
+ This is currently supported via the AutoFDO converter ``create_llvm_prof``.
+ It is available at http://github.com/google/autofdo. Once built and
+ installed, you can convert the ``perf.data`` file to LLVM using
+ the command:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ create_llvm_prof --binary=./code --out=code.prof
+
+ This will read ``perf.data`` and the binary file ``./code`` and emit
+ the profile data in ``code.prof``. Note that if you ran ``perf``
+ without the ``-b`` flag, you need to use ``--use_lbr=false`` when
+ calling ``create_llvm_prof``.
+
+4. Build the code again using the collected profile. This step feeds
+ the profile back to the optimizers. This should result in a binary
+ that executes faster than the original one. Note that you are not
+ required to build the code with the exact same arguments that you
+ used in the first step. The only requirement is that you build the code
+ with ``-gline-tables-only`` and ``-fprofile-sample-use``.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang++ -O2 -gline-tables-only -fprofile-sample-use=code.prof code.cc -o code
+
+
+Sample Profile Formats
+""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+Since external profilers generate profile data in a variety of custom formats,
+the data generated by the profiler must be converted into a format that can be
+read by the backend. LLVM supports three different sample profile formats:
+
+1. ASCII text. This is the easiest one to generate. The file is divided into
+ sections, which correspond to each of the functions with profile
+ information. The format is described below. It can also be generated from
+ the binary or gcov formats using the ``llvm-profdata`` tool.
+
+2. Binary encoding. This uses a more efficient encoding that yields smaller
+ profile files. This is the format generated by the ``create_llvm_prof`` tool
+ in http://github.com/google/autofdo.
+
+3. GCC encoding. This is based on the gcov format, which is accepted by GCC. It
+ is only interesting in environments where GCC and Clang co-exist. This
+ encoding is only generated by the ``create_gcov`` tool in
+ http://github.com/google/autofdo. It can be read by LLVM and
+ ``llvm-profdata``, but it cannot be generated by either.
+
+If you are using Linux Perf to generate sampling profiles, you can use the
+conversion tool ``create_llvm_prof`` described in the previous section.
+Otherwise, you will need to write a conversion tool that converts your
+profiler's native format into one of these three.
+
+
+Sample Profile Text Format
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+This section describes the ASCII text format for sampling profiles. It is,
+arguably, the easiest one to generate. If you are interested in generating any
+of the other two, consult the ``ProfileData`` library in in LLVM's source tree
+(specifically, ``include/llvm/ProfileData/SampleProfReader.h``).
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ function1:total_samples:total_head_samples
+ offset1[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn1:num fn2:num ... ]
+ offset2[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn3:num fn4:num ... ]
+ ...
+ offsetN[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn5:num fn6:num ... ]
+ offsetA[.discriminator]: fnA:num_of_total_samples
+ offsetA1[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn7:num fn8:num ... ]
+ offsetA1[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn9:num fn10:num ... ]
+ offsetB[.discriminator]: fnB:num_of_total_samples
+ offsetB1[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn11:num fn12:num ... ]
+
+This is a nested tree in which the identation represents the nesting level
+of the inline stack. There are no blank lines in the file. And the spacing
+within a single line is fixed. Additional spaces will result in an error
+while reading the file.
+
+Any line starting with the '#' character is completely ignored.
+
+Inlined calls are represented with indentation. The Inline stack is a
+stack of source locations in which the top of the stack represents the
+leaf function, and the bottom of the stack represents the actual
+symbol to which the instruction belongs.
+
+Function names must be mangled in order for the profile loader to
+match them in the current translation unit. The two numbers in the
+function header specify how many total samples were accumulated in the
+function (first number), and the total number of samples accumulated
+in the prologue of the function (second number). This head sample
+count provides an indicator of how frequently the function is invoked.
+
+There are two types of lines in the function body.
+
+- Sampled line represents the profile information of a source location.
+ ``offsetN[.discriminator]: number_of_samples [fn5:num fn6:num ... ]``
+
+- Callsite line represents the profile information of an inlined callsite.
+ ``offsetA[.discriminator]: fnA:num_of_total_samples``
+
+Each sampled line may contain several items. Some are optional (marked
+below):
+
+a. Source line offset. This number represents the line number
+ in the function where the sample was collected. The line number is
+ always relative to the line where symbol of the function is
+ defined. So, if the function has its header at line 280, the offset
+ 13 is at line 293 in the file.
+
+ Note that this offset should never be a negative number. This could
+ happen in cases like macros. The debug machinery will register the
+ line number at the point of macro expansion. So, if the macro was
+ expanded in a line before the start of the function, the profile
+ converter should emit a 0 as the offset (this means that the optimizers
+ will not be able to associate a meaningful weight to the instructions
+ in the macro).
+
+b. [OPTIONAL] Discriminator. This is used if the sampled program
+ was compiled with DWARF discriminator support
+ (http://wiki.dwarfstd.org/index.php?title=Path_Discriminators).
+ DWARF discriminators are unsigned integer values that allow the
+ compiler to distinguish between multiple execution paths on the
+ same source line location.
+
+ For example, consider the line of code ``if (cond) foo(); else bar();``.
+ If the predicate ``cond`` is true 80% of the time, then the edge
+ into function ``foo`` should be considered to be taken most of the
+ time. But both calls to ``foo`` and ``bar`` are at the same source
+ line, so a sample count at that line is not sufficient. The
+ compiler needs to know which part of that line is taken more
+ frequently.
+
+ This is what discriminators provide. In this case, the calls to
+ ``foo`` and ``bar`` will be at the same line, but will have
+ different discriminator values. This allows the compiler to correctly
+ set edge weights into ``foo`` and ``bar``.
+
+c. Number of samples. This is an integer quantity representing the
+ number of samples collected by the profiler at this source
+ location.
+
+d. [OPTIONAL] Potential call targets and samples. If present, this
+ line contains a call instruction. This models both direct and
+ number of samples. For example,
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ 130: 7 foo:3 bar:2 baz:7
+
+ The above means that at relative line offset 130 there is a call
+ instruction that calls one of ``foo()``, ``bar()`` and ``baz()``,
+ with ``baz()`` being the relatively more frequently called target.
+
+As an example, consider a program with the call chain ``main -> foo -> bar``.
+When built with optimizations enabled, the compiler may inline the
+calls to ``bar`` and ``foo`` inside ``main``. The generated profile
+could then be something like this:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ main:35504:0
+ 1: _Z3foov:35504
+ 2: _Z32bari:31977
+ 1.1: 31977
+ 2: 0
+
+This profile indicates that there were a total of 35,504 samples
+collected in main. All of those were at line 1 (the call to ``foo``).
+Of those, 31,977 were spent inside the body of ``bar``. The last line
+of the profile (``2: 0``) corresponds to line 2 inside ``main``. No
+samples were collected there.
+
+Profiling with Instrumentation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Clang also supports profiling via instrumentation. This requires building a
+special instrumented version of the code and has some runtime
+overhead during the profiling, but it provides more detailed results than a
+sampling profiler. It also provides reproducible results, at least to the
+extent that the code behaves consistently across runs.
+
+Here are the steps for using profile guided optimization with
+instrumentation:
+
+1. Build an instrumented version of the code by compiling and linking with the
+ ``-fprofile-instr-generate`` option.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang++ -O2 -fprofile-instr-generate code.cc -o code
+
+2. Run the instrumented executable with inputs that reflect the typical usage.
+ By default, the profile data will be written to a ``default.profraw`` file
+ in the current directory. You can override that default by setting the
+ ``LLVM_PROFILE_FILE`` environment variable to specify an alternate file.
+ Any instance of ``%p`` in that file name will be replaced by the process
+ ID, so that you can easily distinguish the profile output from multiple
+ runs.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ LLVM_PROFILE_FILE="code-%p.profraw" ./code
+
+3. Combine profiles from multiple runs and convert the "raw" profile format to
+ the input expected by clang. Use the ``merge`` command of the
+ ``llvm-profdata`` tool to do this.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ llvm-profdata merge -output=code.profdata code-*.profraw
+
+ Note that this step is necessary even when there is only one "raw" profile,
+ since the merge operation also changes the file format.
+
+4. Build the code again using the ``-fprofile-instr-use`` option to specify the
+ collected profile data.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang++ -O2 -fprofile-instr-use=code.profdata code.cc -o code
+
+ You can repeat step 4 as often as you like without regenerating the
+ profile. As you make changes to your code, clang may no longer be able to
+ use the profile data. It will warn you when this happens.
+
+Profile generation and use can also be controlled by the GCC-compatible flags
+``-fprofile-generate`` and ``-fprofile-use``. Although these flags are
+semantically equivalent to their GCC counterparts, they *do not* handle
+GCC-compatible profiles. They are only meant to implement GCC's semantics
+with respect to profile creation and use.
+
+.. option:: -fprofile-generate[=<dirname>]
+
+ Without any other arguments, ``-fprofile-generate`` behaves identically to
+ ``-fprofile-instr-generate``. When given a directory name, it generates the
+ profile file ``default.profraw`` in the directory named ``dirname``. If
+ ``dirname`` does not exist, it will be created at runtime. The environment
+ variable ``LLVM_PROFILE_FILE`` can be used to override the directory and
+ filename for the profile file at runtime. For example,
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ clang++ -O2 -fprofile-generate=yyy/zzz code.cc -o code
+
+ When ``code`` is executed, the profile will be written to the file
+ ``yyy/zzz/default.profraw``. This can be altered at runtime via the
+ ``LLVM_PROFILE_FILE`` environment variable:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ $ LLVM_PROFILE_FILE=/tmp/myprofile/code.profraw ./code
+
+ The above invocation will produce the profile file
+ ``/tmp/myprofile/code.profraw`` instead of ``yyy/zzz/default.profraw``.
+ Notice that ``LLVM_PROFILE_FILE`` overrides the directory *and* the file
+ name for the profile file.
+
+.. option:: -fprofile-use[=<pathname>]
+
+ Without any other arguments, ``-fprofile-use`` behaves identically to
+ ``-fprofile-instr-use``. Otherwise, if ``pathname`` is the full path to a
+ profile file, it reads from that file. If ``pathname`` is a directory name,
+ it reads from ``pathname/default.profdata``.
+
+Disabling Instrumentation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+In certain situations, it may be useful to disable profile generation or use
+for specific files in a build, without affecting the main compilation flags
+used for the other files in the project.
+
+In these cases, you can use the flag ``-fno-profile-instr-generate`` (or
+``-fno-profile-generate``) to disable profile generation, and
+``-fno-profile-instr-use`` (or ``-fno-profile-use``) to disable profile use.
+
+Note that these flags should appear after the corresponding profile
+flags to have an effect.
+
+Controlling Debug Information
+-----------------------------
+
+Controlling Size of Debug Information
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Debug info kind generated by Clang can be set by one of the flags listed
+below. If multiple flags are present, the last one is used.
+
+.. option:: -g0
+
+ Don't generate any debug info (default).
+
+.. option:: -gline-tables-only
+
+ Generate line number tables only.
+
+ This kind of debug info allows to obtain stack traces with function names,
+ file names and line numbers (by such tools as ``gdb`` or ``addr2line``). It
+ doesn't contain any other data (e.g. description of local variables or
+ function parameters).
+
+.. option:: -fstandalone-debug
+
+ Clang supports a number of optimizations to reduce the size of debug
+ information in the binary. They work based on the assumption that
+ the debug type information can be spread out over multiple
+ compilation units. For instance, Clang will not emit type
+ definitions for types that are not needed by a module and could be
+ replaced with a forward declaration. Further, Clang will only emit
+ type info for a dynamic C++ class in the module that contains the
+ vtable for the class.
+
+ The **-fstandalone-debug** option turns off these optimizations.
+ This is useful when working with 3rd-party libraries that don't come
+ with debug information. Note that Clang will never emit type
+ information for types that are not referenced at all by the program.
+
+.. option:: -fno-standalone-debug
+
+ On Darwin **-fstandalone-debug** is enabled by default. The
+ **-fno-standalone-debug** option can be used to get to turn on the
+ vtable-based optimization described above.
+
+.. option:: -g
+
+ Generate complete debug info.
+
+Controlling Debugger "Tuning"
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+While Clang generally emits standard DWARF debug info (http://dwarfstd.org),
+different debuggers may know how to take advantage of different specific DWARF
+features. You can "tune" the debug info for one of several different debuggers.
+
+.. option:: -ggdb, -glldb, -gsce
+
+ Tune the debug info for the ``gdb``, ``lldb``, or Sony Computer Entertainment
+ debugger, respectively. Each of these options implies **-g**. (Therefore, if
+ you want both **-gline-tables-only** and debugger tuning, the tuning option
+ must come first.)
+
+
+Comment Parsing Options
+-----------------------
+
+Clang parses Doxygen and non-Doxygen style documentation comments and attaches
+them to the appropriate declaration nodes. By default, it only parses
+Doxygen-style comments and ignores ordinary comments starting with ``//`` and
+``/*``.
+
+.. option:: -Wdocumentation
+
+ Emit warnings about use of documentation comments. This warning group is off
+ by default.
+
+ This includes checking that ``\param`` commands name parameters that actually
+ present in the function signature, checking that ``\returns`` is used only on
+ functions that actually return a value etc.
+
+.. option:: -Wno-documentation-unknown-command
+
+ Don't warn when encountering an unknown Doxygen command.
+
+.. option:: -fparse-all-comments
+
+ Parse all comments as documentation comments (including ordinary comments
+ starting with ``//`` and ``/*``).
+
+.. option:: -fcomment-block-commands=[commands]
+
+ Define custom documentation commands as block commands. This allows Clang to
+ construct the correct AST for these custom commands, and silences warnings
+ about unknown commands. Several commands must be separated by a comma
+ *without trailing space*; e.g. ``-fcomment-block-commands=foo,bar`` defines
+ custom commands ``\foo`` and ``\bar``.
+
+ It is also possible to use ``-fcomment-block-commands`` several times; e.g.
+ ``-fcomment-block-commands=foo -fcomment-block-commands=bar`` does the same
+ as above.
+
+.. _c:
+
+C Language Features
+===================
+
+The support for standard C in clang is feature-complete except for the
+C99 floating-point pragmas.
+
+Extensions supported by clang
+-----------------------------
+
+See :doc:`LanguageExtensions`.
+
+Differences between various standard modes
+------------------------------------------
+
+clang supports the -std option, which changes what language mode clang
+uses. The supported modes for C are c89, gnu89, c94, c99, gnu99, c11,
+gnu11, and various aliases for those modes. If no -std option is
+specified, clang defaults to gnu11 mode. Many C99 and C11 features are
+supported in earlier modes as a conforming extension, with a warning. Use
+``-pedantic-errors`` to request an error if a feature from a later standard
+revision is used in an earlier mode.
+
+Differences between all ``c*`` and ``gnu*`` modes:
+
+- ``c*`` modes define "``__STRICT_ANSI__``".
+- Target-specific defines not prefixed by underscores, like "linux",
+ are defined in ``gnu*`` modes.
+- Trigraphs default to being off in ``gnu*`` modes; they can be enabled by
+ the -trigraphs option.
+- The parser recognizes "asm" and "typeof" as keywords in ``gnu*`` modes;
+ the variants "``__asm__``" and "``__typeof__``" are recognized in all
+ modes.
+- The Apple "blocks" extension is recognized by default in ``gnu*`` modes
+ on some platforms; it can be enabled in any mode with the "-fblocks"
+ option.
+- Arrays that are VLA's according to the standard, but which can be
+ constant folded by the frontend are treated as fixed size arrays.
+ This occurs for things like "int X[(1, 2)];", which is technically a
+ VLA. ``c*`` modes are strictly compliant and treat these as VLAs.
+
+Differences between ``*89`` and ``*99`` modes:
+
+- The ``*99`` modes default to implementing "inline" as specified in C99,
+ while the ``*89`` modes implement the GNU version. This can be
+ overridden for individual functions with the ``__gnu_inline__``
+ attribute.
+- Digraphs are not recognized in c89 mode.
+- The scope of names defined inside a "for", "if", "switch", "while",
+ or "do" statement is different. (example: "``if ((struct x {int
+ x;}*)0) {}``".)
+- ``__STDC_VERSION__`` is not defined in ``*89`` modes.
+- "inline" is not recognized as a keyword in c89 mode.
+- "restrict" is not recognized as a keyword in ``*89`` modes.
+- Commas are allowed in integer constant expressions in ``*99`` modes.
+- Arrays which are not lvalues are not implicitly promoted to pointers
+ in ``*89`` modes.
+- Some warnings are different.
+
+Differences between ``*99`` and ``*11`` modes:
+
+- Warnings for use of C11 features are disabled.
+- ``__STDC_VERSION__`` is defined to ``201112L`` rather than ``199901L``.
+
+c94 mode is identical to c89 mode except that digraphs are enabled in
+c94 mode (FIXME: And ``__STDC_VERSION__`` should be defined!).
+
+GCC extensions not implemented yet
+----------------------------------
+
+clang tries to be compatible with gcc as much as possible, but some gcc
+extensions are not implemented yet:
+
+- clang does not support #pragma weak (`bug
+ 3679 <http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3679>`_). Due to the uses
+ described in the bug, this is likely to be implemented at some point,
+ at least partially.
+- clang does not support decimal floating point types (``_Decimal32`` and
+ friends) or fixed-point types (``_Fract`` and friends); nobody has
+ expressed interest in these features yet, so it's hard to say when
+ they will be implemented.
+- clang does not support nested functions; this is a complex feature
+ which is infrequently used, so it is unlikely to be implemented
+ anytime soon. In C++11 it can be emulated by assigning lambda
+ functions to local variables, e.g:
+
+ .. code-block:: cpp
+
+ auto const local_function = [&](int parameter) {
+ // Do something
+ };
+ ...
+ local_function(1);
+
+- clang does not support global register variables; this is unlikely to
+ be implemented soon because it requires additional LLVM backend
+ support.
+- clang does not support static initialization of flexible array
+ members. This appears to be a rarely used extension, but could be
+ implemented pending user demand.
+- clang does not support
+ ``__builtin_va_arg_pack``/``__builtin_va_arg_pack_len``. This is
+ used rarely, but in some potentially interesting places, like the
+ glibc headers, so it may be implemented pending user demand. Note
+ that because clang pretends to be like GCC 4.2, and this extension
+ was introduced in 4.3, the glibc headers will not try to use this
+ extension with clang at the moment.
+- clang does not support the gcc extension for forward-declaring
+ function parameters; this has not shown up in any real-world code
+ yet, though, so it might never be implemented.
+
+This is not a complete list; if you find an unsupported extension
+missing from this list, please send an e-mail to cfe-dev. This list
+currently excludes C++; see :ref:`C++ Language Features <cxx>`. Also, this
+list does not include bugs in mostly-implemented features; please see
+the `bug
+tracker <http://llvm.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3Aclang+component%3A-New%2BBugs%2CAST%2CBasic%2CDriver%2CHeaders%2CLLVM%2BCodeGen%2Cparser%2Cpreprocessor%2CSemantic%2BAnalyzer>`_
+for known existing bugs (FIXME: Is there a section for bug-reporting
+guidelines somewhere?).
+
+Intentionally unsupported GCC extensions
+----------------------------------------
+
+- clang does not support the gcc extension that allows variable-length
+ arrays in structures. This is for a few reasons: one, it is tricky to
+ implement, two, the extension is completely undocumented, and three,
+ the extension appears to be rarely used. Note that clang *does*
+ support flexible array members (arrays with a zero or unspecified
+ size at the end of a structure).
+- clang does not have an equivalent to gcc's "fold"; this means that
+ clang doesn't accept some constructs gcc might accept in contexts
+ where a constant expression is required, like "x-x" where x is a
+ variable.
+- clang does not support ``__builtin_apply`` and friends; this extension
+ is extremely obscure and difficult to implement reliably.
+
+.. _c_ms:
+
+Microsoft extensions
+--------------------
+
+clang has some experimental support for extensions from Microsoft Visual
+C++; to enable it, use the ``-fms-extensions`` command-line option. This is
+the default for Windows targets. Note that the support is incomplete.
+Some constructs such as ``dllexport`` on classes are ignored with a warning,
+and others such as `Microsoft IDL annotations
+<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8tesw2eh.aspx>`_ are silently
+ignored.
+
+clang has a ``-fms-compatibility`` flag that makes clang accept enough
+invalid C++ to be able to parse most Microsoft headers. For example, it
+allows `unqualified lookup of dependent base class members
+<http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html#dep_lookup_bases>`_, which is
+a common compatibility issue with clang. This flag is enabled by default
+for Windows targets.
+
+``-fdelayed-template-parsing`` lets clang delay parsing of function template
+definitions until the end of a translation unit. This flag is enabled by
+default for Windows targets.
+
+- clang allows setting ``_MSC_VER`` with ``-fmsc-version=``. It defaults to
+ 1700 which is the same as Visual C/C++ 2012. Any number is supported
+ and can greatly affect what Windows SDK and c++stdlib headers clang
+ can compile.
+- clang does not support the Microsoft extension where anonymous record
+ members can be declared using user defined typedefs.
+- clang supports the Microsoft ``#pragma pack`` feature for controlling
+ record layout. GCC also contains support for this feature, however
+ where MSVC and GCC are incompatible clang follows the MSVC
+ definition.
+- clang supports the Microsoft ``#pragma comment(lib, "foo.lib")`` feature for
+ automatically linking against the specified library. Currently this feature
+ only works with the Visual C++ linker.
+- clang supports the Microsoft ``#pragma comment(linker, "/flag:foo")`` feature
+ for adding linker flags to COFF object files. The user is responsible for
+ ensuring that the linker understands the flags.
+- clang defaults to C++11 for Windows targets.
+
+.. _cxx:
+
+C++ Language Features
+=====================
+
+clang fully implements all of standard C++98 except for exported
+templates (which were removed in C++11), and all of standard C++11
+and the current draft standard for C++1y.
+
+Controlling implementation limits
+---------------------------------
+
+.. option:: -fbracket-depth=N
+
+ Sets the limit for nested parentheses, brackets, and braces to N. The
+ default is 256.
+
+.. option:: -fconstexpr-depth=N
+
+ Sets the limit for recursive constexpr function invocations to N. The
+ default is 512.
+
+.. option:: -ftemplate-depth=N
+
+ Sets the limit for recursively nested template instantiations to N. The
+ default is 256.
+
+.. option:: -foperator-arrow-depth=N
+
+ Sets the limit for iterative calls to 'operator->' functions to N. The
+ default is 256.
+
+.. _objc:
+
+Objective-C Language Features
+=============================
+
+.. _objcxx:
+
+Objective-C++ Language Features
+===============================
+
+.. _openmp:
+
+OpenMP Features
+===============
+
+Clang supports all OpenMP 3.1 directives and clauses. In addition, some
+features of OpenMP 4.0 are supported. For example, ``#pragma omp simd``,
+``#pragma omp for simd``, ``#pragma omp parallel for simd`` directives, extended
+set of atomic constructs, ``proc_bind`` clause for all parallel-based
+directives, ``depend`` clause for ``#pragma omp task`` directive (except for
+array sections), ``#pragma omp cancel`` and ``#pragma omp cancellation point``
+directives, and ``#pragma omp taskgroup`` directive.
+
+Use :option:`-fopenmp` to enable OpenMP. Support for OpenMP can be disabled with
+:option:`-fno-openmp`.
+
+Controlling implementation limits
+---------------------------------
+
+.. option:: -fopenmp-use-tls
+
+ Controls code generation for OpenMP threadprivate variables. In presence of
+ this option all threadprivate variables are generated the same way as thread
+ local variables, using TLS support. If :option:`-fno-openmp-use-tls`
+ is provided or target does not support TLS, code generation for threadprivate
+ variables relies on OpenMP runtime library.
+
+.. _target_features:
+
+Target-Specific Features and Limitations
+========================================
+
+CPU Architectures Features and Limitations
+------------------------------------------
+
+X86
+^^^
+
+The support for X86 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) is considered stable on
+Darwin (Mac OS X), Linux, FreeBSD, and Dragonfly BSD: it has been tested
+to correctly compile many large C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++
+codebases.
+
+On ``x86_64-mingw32``, passing i128(by value) is incompatible with the
+Microsoft x64 calling convention. You might need to tweak
+``WinX86_64ABIInfo::classify()`` in lib/CodeGen/TargetInfo.cpp.
+
+For the X86 target, clang supports the :option:`-m16` command line
+argument which enables 16-bit code output. This is broadly similar to
+using ``asm(".code16gcc")`` with the GNU toolchain. The generated code
+and the ABI remains 32-bit but the assembler emits instructions
+appropriate for a CPU running in 16-bit mode, with address-size and
+operand-size prefixes to enable 32-bit addressing and operations.
+
+ARM
+^^^
+
+The support for ARM (specifically ARMv6 and ARMv7) is considered stable
+on Darwin (iOS): it has been tested to correctly compile many large C,
+C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ codebases. Clang only supports a
+limited number of ARM architectures. It does not yet fully support
+ARMv5, for example.
+
+PowerPC
+^^^^^^^
+
+The support for PowerPC (especially PowerPC64) is considered stable
+on Linux and FreeBSD: it has been tested to correctly compile many
+large C and C++ codebases. PowerPC (32bit) is still missing certain
+features (e.g. PIC code on ELF platforms).
+
+Other platforms
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+clang currently contains some support for other architectures (e.g. Sparc);
+however, significant pieces of code generation are still missing, and they
+haven't undergone significant testing.
+
+clang contains limited support for the MSP430 embedded processor, but
+both the clang support and the LLVM backend support are highly
+experimental.
+
+Other platforms are completely unsupported at the moment. Adding the
+minimal support needed for parsing and semantic analysis on a new
+platform is quite easy; see ``lib/Basic/Targets.cpp`` in the clang source
+tree. This level of support is also sufficient for conversion to LLVM IR
+for simple programs. Proper support for conversion to LLVM IR requires
+adding code to ``lib/CodeGen/CGCall.cpp`` at the moment; this is likely to
+change soon, though. Generating assembly requires a suitable LLVM
+backend.
+
+Operating System Features and Limitations
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Darwin (Mac OS X)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Thread Sanitizer is not supported.
+
+Windows
+^^^^^^^
+
+Clang has experimental support for targeting "Cygming" (Cygwin / MinGW)
+platforms.
+
+See also :ref:`Microsoft Extensions <c_ms>`.
+
+Cygwin
+""""""
+
+Clang works on Cygwin-1.7.
+
+MinGW32
+"""""""
+
+Clang works on some mingw32 distributions. Clang assumes directories as
+below;
+
+- ``C:/mingw/include``
+- ``C:/mingw/lib``
+- ``C:/mingw/lib/gcc/mingw32/4.[3-5].0/include/c++``
+
+On MSYS, a few tests might fail.
+
+MinGW-w64
+"""""""""
+
+For 32-bit (i686-w64-mingw32), and 64-bit (x86\_64-w64-mingw32), Clang
+assumes as below;
+
+- ``GCC versions 4.5.0 to 4.5.3, 4.6.0 to 4.6.2, or 4.7.0 (for the C++ header search path)``
+- ``some_directory/bin/gcc.exe``
+- ``some_directory/bin/clang.exe``
+- ``some_directory/bin/clang++.exe``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../include/c++/GCC_version``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../include/c++/GCC_version/x86_64-w64-mingw32``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../include/c++/GCC_version/i686-w64-mingw32``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../include/c++/GCC_version/backward``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../x86_64-w64-mingw32/include``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../i686-w64-mingw32/include``
+- ``some_directory/bin/../include``
+
+This directory layout is standard for any toolchain you will find on the
+official `MinGW-w64 website <http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net>`_.
+
+Clang expects the GCC executable "gcc.exe" compiled for
+``i686-w64-mingw32`` (or ``x86_64-w64-mingw32``) to be present on PATH.
+
+`Some tests might fail <http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9072>`_ on
+``x86_64-w64-mingw32``.
+
+.. _clang-cl:
+
+clang-cl
+========
+
+clang-cl is an alternative command-line interface to Clang driver, designed for
+compatibility with the Visual C++ compiler, cl.exe.
+
+To enable clang-cl to find system headers, libraries, and the linker when run
+from the command-line, it should be executed inside a Visual Studio Native Tools
+Command Prompt or a regular Command Prompt where the environment has been set
+up using e.g. `vcvars32.bat <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f2ccy3wt.aspx>`_.
+
+clang-cl can also be used from inside Visual Studio by using an LLVM Platform
+Toolset.
+
+Command-Line Options
+--------------------
+
+To be compatible with cl.exe, clang-cl supports most of the same command-line
+options. Those options can start with either ``/`` or ``-``. It also supports
+some of Clang's core options, such as the ``-W`` options.
+
+Options that are known to clang-cl, but not currently supported, are ignored
+with a warning. For example:
+
+ ::
+
+ clang-cl.exe: warning: argument unused during compilation: '/AI'
+
+To suppress warnings about unused arguments, use the ``-Qunused-arguments`` option.
+
+Options that are not known to clang-cl will cause errors. If they are spelled with a
+leading ``/``, they will be mistaken for a filename:
+
+ ::
+
+ clang-cl.exe: error: no such file or directory: '/foobar'
+
+Please `file a bug <http://llvm.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=clang&component=Driver>`_
+for any valid cl.exe flags that clang-cl does not understand.
+
+Execute ``clang-cl /?`` to see a list of supported options:
+
+ ::
+
+ CL.EXE COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS:
+ /? Display available options
+ /arch:<value> Set architecture for code generation
+ /Brepro- Emit an object file which cannot be reproduced over time
+ /Brepro Emit an object file which can be reproduced over time
+ /C Don't discard comments when preprocessing
+ /c Compile only
+ /D <macro[=value]> Define macro
+ /EH<value> Exception handling model
+ /EP Disable linemarker output and preprocess to stdout
+ /E Preprocess to stdout
+ /fallback Fall back to cl.exe if clang-cl fails to compile
+ /FA Output assembly code file during compilation
+ /Fa<file or directory> Output assembly code to this file during compilation (with /FA)
+ /Fe<file or directory> Set output executable file or directory (ends in / or \)
+ /FI <value> Include file before parsing
+ /Fi<file> Set preprocess output file name (with /P)
+ /Fo<file or directory> Set output object file, or directory (ends in / or \) (with /c)
+ /fp:except-
+ /fp:except
+ /fp:fast
+ /fp:precise
+ /fp:strict
+ /GA Assume thread-local variables are defined in the executable
+ /GF- Disable string pooling
+ /GR- Disable emission of RTTI data
+ /GR Enable emission of RTTI data
+ /Gs<value> Set stack probe size
+ /Gw- Don't put each data item in its own section
+ /Gw Put each data item in its own section
+ /Gy- Don't put each function in its own section
+ /Gy Put each function in its own section
+ /help Display available options
+ /I <dir> Add directory to include search path
+ /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
+ /Ob0 Disable inlining
+ /Od Disable optimization
+ /Oi- Disable use of builtin functions
+ /Oi Enable use of builtin functions
+ /Os Optimize for size
+ /Ot Optimize for speed
+ /O<value> Optimization level
+ /o <file or directory> Set output file or directory (ends in / or \)
+ /P Preprocess to file
+ /Qvec- Disable the loop vectorization passes
+ /Qvec Enable the loop vectorization passes
+ /showIncludes Print info about included files to stderr
+ /TC Treat all source files as C
+ /Tc <filename> Specify a C source file
+ /TP Treat all source files as C++
+ /Tp <filename> Specify a C++ source file
+ /U <macro> Undefine macro
+ /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 -Wall and -Wextra
+ /WX- Do not treat warnings as errors
+ /WX Treat warnings as errors
+ /w Disable all warnings
+ /Z7 Enable CodeView debug information in object files
+ /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
+ /Zi Alias for /Z7. Does not produce PDBs.
+ /Zl Don't mention any default libraries in the object file
+ /Zp Set the default maximum struct packing alignment to 1
+ /Zp<value> Specify the default maximum struct packing alignment
+ /Zs Syntax-check only
+
+ OPTIONS:
+ -### Print (but do not run) the commands to run for this compilation
+ --analyze Run the static analyzer
+ -fansi-escape-codes Use ANSI escape codes for diagnostics
+ -fcolor-diagnostics Use colors in diagnostics
+ -fdiagnostics-parseable-fixits
+ Print fix-its in machine parseable form
+ -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
+ -fmsc-version=<value> Microsoft compiler version number to report in _MSC_VER
+ (0 = don't define it (default))
+ -fno-sanitize-coverage=<value>
+ Disable specified features of coverage instrumentation for Sanitizers
+ -fno-sanitize-recover=<value>
+ Disable recovery for specified sanitizers
+ -fno-sanitize-trap=<value>
+ Disable trapping for specified sanitizers
+ -fsanitize-blacklist=<value>
+ Path to blacklist file for sanitizers
+ -fsanitize-coverage=<value>
+ Specify the type of coverage instrumentation for Sanitizers
+ -fsanitize-recover=<value>
+ Enable recovery for specified sanitizers
+ -fsanitize-trap=<value> Enable trapping for specified sanitizers
+ -fsanitize=<check> Turn on runtime checks for various forms of undefined or suspicious
+ behavior. See user manual for available checks
+ -gcodeview Generate CodeView debug information
+ -mllvm <value> Additional arguments to forward to LLVM's option processing
+ -Qunused-arguments Don't emit warning for unused driver arguments
+ -R<remark> Enable the specified remark
+ --target=<value> Generate code for the given target
+ -v Show commands to run and use verbose output
+ -W<warning> Enable the specified warning
+ -Xclang <arg> Pass <arg> to the clang compiler
+
+The /fallback Option
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+When clang-cl is run with the ``/fallback`` option, it will first try to
+compile files itself. For any file that it fails to compile, it will fall back
+and try to compile the file by invoking cl.exe.
+
+This option is intended to be used as a temporary means to build projects where
+clang-cl cannot successfully compile all the files. clang-cl may fail to compile
+a file either because it cannot generate code for some C++ feature, or because
+it cannot parse some Microsoft language extension.