From: Adrian Prantl Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:03:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [man page] Document -gline-tables-only in the clang man page. X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f2e96f716ef29de0a272572d03d85fd842f0bbe0;p=clang [man page] Document -gline-tables-only in the clang man page. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@275076 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/CommandGuide/clang.rst b/docs/CommandGuide/clang.rst index 3143626b52..0546304e71 100644 --- a/docs/CommandGuide/clang.rst +++ b/docs/CommandGuide/clang.rst @@ -253,22 +253,32 @@ Code Generation Options Currently equivalent to :option:`-O3` -.. option:: -g +.. option:: -g, -gline-tables-only, -gmodules - Generate debug information. Note that Clang debug information works best at -O0. + Control debug information output. Note that Clang debug information works + best at :option:`-O0`. When more than one option starting with `-g` is + specified, the last one wins: -.. option:: -gmodules + :option:`-g` Generate debug information. - Generate debug information that contains external references to - types defined in clang modules or precompiled headers instead of - emitting redundant debug type information into every object file. - This option implies :option:`-fmodule-format=obj`. + :option:`-gline-tables-only` Generate only line table debug information. This + allows for symbolicated backtraces with inlining information, but does not + include any information about variables, their locations or types. + + :option:`-gmodules` Generate debug information that contains external + references to types defined in Clang modules or precompiled headers instead + of emitting redundant debug type information into every object file. This + option transparently switches the Clang module format to object file + containers that hold the Clang module together with the debug information. + When compiling a program that uses Clang modules or precompiled headers, + this option produces complete debug information with faster compile + times and much smaller object files. + + This option should not be used when building static libraries for + distribution to other machines because the debug info will contain + references to the module cache on the machine the object files in the + library were built on. - This option should not be used when building static libraries for - distribution to other machines because the debug info will contain - references to the module cache on the machine the object files in - the library were built on. - .. option:: -fstandalone-debug -fno-standalone-debug Clang supports a number of optimizations to reduce the size of debug