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LLVM version 3.8.0
Optimized build.
Built Jul 9 2016 (11:22:59).
Default target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Host CPU: ivybridge
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OVERVIEW: llvm .bc -> .bc modular optimizer and analysis printer
USAGE: opt [options] <input bitcode file>
OPTIONS:
General options:
-O1 - Optimization level 1. Similar to clang -O1
-O2 - Optimization level 2. Similar to clang -O2
-O3 - Optimization level 3. Similar to clang -O3
-Os - Like -O2 with extra optimizations for size. Similar to clang -Os
-Oz - Like -Os but reduces code size further. Similar to clang -Oz
-S - Write output as LLVM assembly
-aarch64-neon-syntax - Choose style of NEON code to emit from AArch64 backend:
=generic - Emit generic NEON assembly
=apple - Emit Apple-style NEON assembly
-analyze - Only perform analysis, no optimization
-asm-instrumentation - Instrumentation of inline assembly and assembly source files
=none - no instrumentation at all
=address - instrument instructions with memory arguments
-asm-show-inst - Emit internal instruction representation to assembly file
-bounds-checking-single-trap - Use one trap block per function
-code-model - Choose code model
=default - Target default code model
=small - Small code model
=kernel - Kernel code model
=medium - Medium code model
=large - Large code model
-color - use colored syntax highlighting (default=autodetect)
-cppfname=<function name> - Specify the name of the generated function
-cppfor=<string> - Specify the name of the thing to generate
-cppgen - Choose what kind of output to generate
=program - Generate a complete program
=module - Generate a module definition
=contents - Generate contents of a module
=function - Generate a function definition
=functions - Generate all function definitions
=inline - Generate an inline function
=variable - Generate a variable definition
=type - Generate a type definition
-data-sections - Emit data into separate sections
-debugger-tune - Tune debug info for a particular debugger
=gdb - gdb
=lldb - lldb
=sce - SCE targets (e.g. PS4)
-default-data-layout=<layout-string> - data layout string to use if not specified by module
-disable-fp-elim - Disable frame pointer elimination optimization
-disable-inlining - Do not run the inliner pass
-disable-loop-unrolling - Disable loop unrolling in all relevant passes
-disable-loop-vectorization - Disable the loop vectorization pass
-disable-opt - Do not run any optimization passes
-disable-simplify-libcalls - Disable simplify-libcalls
-disable-slp-vectorization - Disable the slp vectorization pass
-disable-spill-fusing - Disable fusing of spill code into instructions
-disable-tail-calls - Never emit tail calls
-dwarf-version=<int> - Dwarf version
-emulated-tls - Use emulated TLS model
-enable-fp-mad - Enable less precise MAD instructions to be generated
-enable-implicit-null-checks - Fold null checks into faulting memory operations
-enable-load-pre -
-enable-no-infs-fp-math - Enable FP math optimizations that assume no +-Infs
-enable-no-nans-fp-math - Enable FP math optimizations that assume no NaNs
-enable-objc-arc-opts - enable/disable all ARC Optimizations
-enable-pie - Assume the creation of a position independent executable.
-enable-scoped-noalias -
-enable-tbaa -
-enable-unsafe-fp-math - Enable optimizations that may decrease FP precision
-exhaustive-register-search - Exhaustive Search for registers bypassing the depth and interference cutoffs of last chance recoloring
-f - Enable binary output on terminals
-fatal-warnings - Treat warnings as errors
-filetype - Choose a file type (not all types are supported by all targets):
=asm - Emit an assembly ('.s') file
=obj - Emit a native object ('.o') file
=null - Emit nothing, for performance testing
-filter-print-funcs=<function names> - Only print IR for functions whose name match this for all print-[before|after][-all] options
-float-abi - Choose float ABI type
=default - Target default float ABI type
=soft - Soft float ABI (implied by -soft-float)
=hard - Hard float ABI (uses FP registers)
-fp-contract - Enable aggressive formation of fused FP ops
=fast - Fuse FP ops whenever profitable
=on - Only fuse 'blessed' FP ops.
=off - Only fuse FP ops when the result won't be affected.
-function-sections - Emit functions into separate sections
-funit-at-a-time - Enable IPO. This corresponds to gcc's -funit-at-a-time
-gpsize=<uint> - Global Pointer Addressing Size. The default size is 8.
-imp-null-check-page-size=<uint> - The page size of the target in bytes
-incremental-linker-compatible - When used with filetype=obj, emit an object file which can be used with an incremental linker
-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
-join-liveintervals - Coalesce copies (default=true)
-jump-table-type - Choose the type of Jump-Instruction Table for jumptable.
=single - Create a single table for all jumptable functions
=arity - Create one table per number of parameters.
=simplified - Create one table per simplified function type.
=full - Create one table per unique function type.
-limit-float-precision=<uint> - Generate low-precision inline sequences for some float libcalls
-load=<pluginfilename> - Load the specified plugin
-march=<string> - Architecture to generate code for (see --version)
-mattr=<a1,+a2,-a3,...> - Target specific attributes (-mattr=help for details)
-mc-relax-all - When used with filetype=obj, relax all fixups in the emitted object file
-mcpu=<cpu-name> - Target a specific cpu type (-mcpu=help for details)
-meabi - Set EABI type (default depends on triple):
=default - Triple default EABI version
=4 - EABI version 4
=5 - EABI version 5
=gnu - EABI GNU
-merror-missing-parenthesis - Error for missing parenthesis around predicate registers
-merror-noncontigious-register - Error for register names that aren't contigious
-mfuture-regs - Enable future registers
-mips16-constant-islands - Enable mips16 constant islands.
-mips16-hard-float - Enable mips16 hard float.
-mno-compound - Disable looking for compound instructions 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
-mtriple=<string> - Override target triple for module
-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-discriminators - Disable generation of discriminator information.
-no-warn - Suppress all warnings
-nozero-initialized-in-bss - Don't place zero-initialized symbols into bss section
-nvptx-sched4reg - NVPTX Specific: schedule for register pressue
-o=<filename> - Override output filename
-p - Print module after each transformation
-print-after-all - Print IR after each pass
-print-before-all - Print IR before each pass
-print-breakpoints-for-testing - Print select breakpoints location for testing
-print-machineinstrs=<pass-name> - Print machine instrs
-rdf-dump -
-rdf-limit=<uint> -
-recip=<all,none,default,divf,!vec-sqrtd,vec-divd:0,sqrt:9...> - Choose reciprocal operation types and parameters.
-regalloc - Register allocator to use
=default - pick register allocator based on -O option
=basic - basic register allocator
=fast - fast register allocator
=greedy - greedy register allocator
=pbqp - PBQP register allocator
-relocation-model - Choose relocation model
=default - Target default relocation model
=static - Non-relocatable code
=pic - Fully relocatable, position independent code
=dynamic-no-pic - Relocatable external references, non-relocatable code
-rewrite-map-file=<filename> - Symbol Rewrite Map
-rng-seed=<seed> - Seed for the random number generator
-run-pass=<pass-name> - Run compiler only for one specific pass
-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-global-cold-threshold=<N> - Top-level functions that account for less than N% of all samples collected in the profile, will be marked as cold for the inliner to consider.
-sample-profile-global-hot-threshold=<N> - Top-level functions that account for more than N% of all samples collected in the profile, will be marked as hot for the inliner to consider.
-sample-profile-inline-hot-threshold=<N> - Inlined functions that account for more than N% of all samples collected in the parent function, will be inlined again.
-sample-profile-max-propagate-iterations=<uint> - Maximum number of iterations to go through when propagating sample block/edge weights through the CFG.
Optimizations available:
-aa - Function Alias Analysis Results
-aa-eval - Exhaustive Alias Analysis Precision Evaluator
-adce - Aggressive Dead Code Elimination
-add-discriminators - Add DWARF path discriminators
-alignment-from-assumptions - Alignment from assumptions
-alloca-hoisting - Hoisting alloca instructions in non-entry blocks to the entry block
-always-inline - Inliner for always_inline functions
-amdgpu-annotate-kernel-features - Add AMDGPU function attributes
-amdgpu-annotate-uniform - Add AMDGPU uniform metadata
-argpromotion - Promote 'by reference' arguments to scalars
-asan - AddressSanitizer: detects use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs.
-asan-module - AddressSanitizer: detects use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs.ModulePass
-assumption-cache-tracker - Assumption Cache Tracker
-atomic-expand - Expand Atomic calls in terms of either load-linked & store-conditional or cmpxchg
-barrier - A No-Op Barrier Pass
-basicaa - Basic Alias Analysis (stateless AA impl)
-basiccg - CallGraph Construction
-bb-vectorize - Basic-Block Vectorization
-bdce - Bit-Tracking Dead Code Elimination
-block-freq - Block Frequency Analysis
-bool-ret-to-int - Convert i1 constants to i32 if they are returned
-bounds-checking - Run-time bounds checking
-branch-prob - Branch Probability Analysis
-break-crit-edges - Break critical edges in CFG
-cfl-aa - CFL-Based Alias Analysis
-codegenprepare - Optimize for code generation
-consthoist - Constant Hoisting
-constmerge - Merge Duplicate Global Constants
-constprop - Simple constant propagation
-correlated-propagation - Value Propagation
-cost-model - Cost Model Analysis
-cross-dso-cfi - Cross-DSO CFI
-da - Dependence Analysis
-dce - Dead Code Elimination
-deadargelim - Dead Argument Elimination
-deadarghaX0r - Dead Argument Hacking (BUGPOINT USE ONLY; DO NOT USE)
-delinearize - Delinearization
-demanded-bits - Demanded bits analysis
-dfsan - DataFlowSanitizer: dynamic data flow analysis.
-die - Dead Instruction Elimination
-divergence - Divergence Analysis
-domfrontier - Dominance Frontier Construction
-domtree - Dominator Tree Construction
-dot-callgraph - Print call graph to 'dot' file
-dot-cfg - Print CFG of function to 'dot' file
-dot-cfg-only - Print CFG of function to 'dot' file (with no function bodies)
-dot-dom - Print dominance tree of function to 'dot' file
-dot-dom-only - Print dominance tree of function to 'dot' file (with no function bodies)
-dot-postdom - Print postdominance tree of function to 'dot' file
-dot-postdom-only - Print postdominance tree of function to 'dot' file (with no function bodies)
-dot-regions - Print regions of function to 'dot' file
-dot-regions-only - Print regions of function to 'dot' file (with no function bodies)
-dse - Dead Store Elimination
-dwarfehprepare - Prepare DWARF exceptions
-early-cse - Early CSE
-elim-avail-extern - Eliminate Available Externally Globals
-external-aa - External Alias Analysis
-extract-blocks - Extract Basic Blocks From Module (for bugpoint use)
-flattencfg - Flatten the CFG
-float2int - Float to int
-forceattrs - Force set function attributes
-function-import - Summary Based Function Import
-functionattrs - Deduce function attributes
-generic-to-nvvm - Ensure that the global variables are in the global address space
-globaldce - Dead Global Elimination
-globalopt - Global Variable Optimizer
-globals-aa - Globals Alias Analysis
-gvn - Global Value Numbering
-indvars - Induction Variable Simplification
-inferattrs - Infer set function attributes
-inline - Function Integration/Inlining
-insert-gcov-profiling - Insert instrumentation for GCOV profiling
-instcombine - Combine redundant instructions
-instcount - Counts the various types of Instructions
-instnamer - Assign names to anonymous instructions
-instrprof - Frontend instrumentation-based coverage lowering.
-instsimplify - Remove redundant instructions
-internalize - Internalize Global Symbols
-intervals - Interval Partition Construction
-ipconstprop - Interprocedural constant propagation
-ipsccp - Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation
-irce - Inductive range check elimination
-iv-users - Induction Variable Users
-jump-threading - Jump Threading
-lazy-value-info - Lazy Value Information Analysis
-lcssa - Loop-Closed SSA Form Pass
-licm - Loop Invariant Code Motion
-lint - Statically lint-checks LLVM IR
-liveintervals - Live Interval Analysis
-livevars - Live Variable Analysis
-load-combine - Combine Adjacent Loads
-loop-accesses - Loop Access Analysis
-loop-deletion - Delete dead loops
-loop-distribute - Loop Distribition
-loop-extract - Extract loops into new functions
-loop-extract-single - Extract at most one loop into a new function
-loop-idiom - Recognize loop idioms
-loop-instsimplify - Simplify instructions in loops
-loop-interchange - Interchanges loops for cache reuse
-loop-load-elim - Loop Load Elimination
-loop-reduce - Loop Strength Reduction
-loop-reroll - Reroll loops
-loop-rotate - Rotate Loops
-loop-simplify - Canonicalize natural loops
-loop-unroll - Unroll loops
-loop-unswitch - Unswitch loops
-loop-vectorize - Loop Vectorization
-loops - Natural Loop Information
-lower-expect - Lower 'expect' Intrinsics
-loweratomic - Lower atomic intrinsics to non-atomic form
-lowerbitsets - Lower bitset metadata
-lowerinvoke - Lower invoke and unwind, for unwindless code generators
-lowerswitch - Lower SwitchInst's to branches
-machinedomtree - MachineDominator Tree Construction
-machinepostdomtree - MachinePostDominator Tree Construction
-mem2reg - Promote Memory to Register
-memcpyopt - MemCpy Optimization
-memdep - Memory Dependence Analysis
-mergefunc - Merge Functions
-mergereturn - Unify function exit nodes
-metarenamer - Assign new names to everything
-mldst-motion - MergedLoadStoreMotion
-module-debuginfo - Decodes module-level debug info
-msan - MemorySanitizer: detects uninitialized reads.
-nary-reassociate - Nary reassociation
-nvptx-assign-valid-global-names - Assign valid PTX names to globals
-nvptx-favor-non-generic - Remove unnecessary non-generic-to-generic addrspacecasts
-nvptx-lower-aggr-copies - Lower aggregate copies, and llvm.mem* intrinsics into loops
-nvptx-lower-alloca - Lower Alloca
-nvptx-lower-kernel-args - Lower kernel arguments (NVPTX)
-nvvm-reflect - Replace occurrences of __nvvm_reflect() calls with 0/1
-objc-arc - ObjC ARC optimization
-objc-arc-aa - ObjC-ARC-Based Alias Analysis
-objc-arc-apelim - ObjC ARC autorelease pool elimination
-objc-arc-contract - ObjC ARC contraction
-objc-arc-expand - ObjC ARC expansion
-pa-eval - Evaluate ProvenanceAnalysis on all pairs
-partial-inliner - Partial Inliner
-partially-inline-libcalls - Partially inline calls to library functions
-pgo-instr-gen - PGO instrumentation.
-pgo-instr-use - Read PGO instrumentation profile.
-place-backedge-safepoints-impl - Place Backedge Safepoints
-place-safepoints - Place Safepoints
-postdomtree - Post-Dominator Tree Construction
-print-alias-sets - Alias Set Printer
-print-bb - Print BB to stderr
-print-callgraph - Print a call graph
-print-callgraph-sccs - Print SCCs of the Call Graph
-print-cfg-sccs - Print SCCs of each function CFG
-print-dom-info - Dominator Info Printer
-print-externalfnconstants - Print external fn callsites passed constants
-print-function - Print function to stderr
-print-memdeps - Print MemDeps of function
-print-memderefs - Memory Dereferenciblity of pointers in function
-print-module - Print module to stderr
-prune-eh - Remove unused exception handling info
-reassociate - Reassociate expressions
-reg2mem - Demote all values to stack slots
-regions - Detect single entry single exit regions
-rewrite-statepoints-for-gc - Make relocations explicit at statepoints
-rewrite-symbols - Rewrite Symbols
-rpo-functionattrs - Deduce function attributes in RPO
-safe-stack - Safe Stack instrumentation pass
-sample-profile - Sample Profile loader
-sancov - SanitizerCoverage: TODO.ModulePass
-scalar-evolution - Scalar Evolution Analysis
-scalarizer - Scalarize vector operations
-scalarrepl - Scalar Replacement of Aggregates (DT)
-scalarrepl-ssa - Scalar Replacement of Aggregates (SSAUp)
-sccp - Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation
-scev-aa - ScalarEvolution-based Alias Analysis
-scoped-noalias - Scoped NoAlias Alias Analysis
-separate-const-offset-from-gep - Split GEPs to a variadic base and a constant offset for better CSE
-sgpr-copies - SI Fix SGPR copies
-si-fix-cf-live-intervals - SI Fix CF Live Intervals
-si-fix-sgpr-live-ranges - SI Fix SGPR Live Ranges
-si-fold-operands - SI Fold Operands
-si-i1-copies - SI Lower i1 Copies
-si-load-store-opt - SI Load / Store Optimizer
-simplifycfg - Simplify the CFG
-sink - Code sinking
-sjljehprepare - Prepare SjLj exceptions
-slotindexes - Slot index numbering
-slp-vectorizer - SLP Vectorizer
-slsr - Straight line strength reduction
-speculative-execution - Speculatively execute instructions
-sroa - Scalar Replacement Of Aggregates
-strip - Strip all symbols from a module
-strip-dead-debug-info - Strip debug info for unused symbols
-strip-dead-prototypes - Strip Unused Function Prototypes
-strip-debug-declare - Strip all llvm.dbg.declare intrinsics
-strip-nondebug - Strip all symbols, except dbg symbols, from a module
-structurizecfg - Structurize the CFG
-tailcallelim - Tail Call Elimination
-targetlibinfo - Target Library Information
-tbaa - Type-Based Alias Analysis
-tsan - ThreadSanitizer: detects data races.
-tti - Target Transform Information
-unreachable-mbb-elimination - Remove unreachable machine basic blocks
-verify - Module Verifier
-view-callgraph - View call graph
-view-cfg - View CFG of function
-view-cfg-only - View CFG of function (with no function bodies)
-view-dom - View dominance tree of function
-view-dom-only - View dominance tree of function (with no function bodies)
-view-postdom - View postdominance tree of function
-view-postdom-only - View postdominance tree of function (with no function bodies)
-view-regions - View regions of function
-view-regions-only - View regions of function (with no function bodies)
-winehprepare - Prepare Windows exceptions
-x86-winehstate - Insert stores for EH state numbers
-stack-alignment=<uint> - Override default stack alignment
-stackmap-version=<int> - Specify the stackmap encoding version (default = 1)
-stackrealign - Force align the stack to the minimum alignment
-start-after=<pass-name> - Resume compilation after a specific pass
-stats - Enable statistics output from program (available with Asserts)
-std-link-opts - Include the standard link time optimizations
-stop-after=<pass-name> - Stop compilation after a specific pass
-strip-debug - Strip debugger symbol info from translation unit
-summary-file=<string> - The summary file to use for function importing.
-tailcallopt - Turn fastcc calls into tail calls by (potentially) changing ABI.
-thread-model - Choose threading model
=posix - POSIX thread model
=single - Single thread model
-time-passes - Time each pass, printing elapsed time for each on exit
-unique-section-names - Give unique names to every section
-use-ctors - Use .ctors instead of .init_array.
-verify-debug-info -
-verify-dom-info - Verify dominator info (time consuming)
-verify-each - Verify after each transform
-verify-loop-info - Verify loop info (time consuming)
-verify-regalloc - Verify during register allocation
-verify-region-info - Verify region info (time consuming)
-verify-scev - Verify ScalarEvolution's backedge taken counts (slow)
-x86-asm-syntax - Choose style of code to emit from X86 backend:
=att - Emit AT&T-style assembly
=intel - Emit Intel-style assembly
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