Miscellaneous Options
- bigobj
Increases the number of sections that an object file can contain.
- dryrun
Specifies that driver tool commands should be shown but not executed.
- dumpmachine
Displays the target machine and operating system configuration.
- dumpversion
Displays the version number of the compiler.
- global-hoist, Qglobal-hoist
Enables certain optimizations that can move memory loads to a point earlier in the program execution than where they appear in the source.
- Gy
Separates functions into COMDATs for the linker. This is a deprecated option. There is no replacement option.
- help
Displays all available compiler options or a category of compiler options.
- intel-freestanding
Lets you compile in the absence of a gcc environment.
- intel-freestanding-target-os
Lets you specify the target operating system for compilation.
- MP-force
Disables the default heuristics used when compiler option /MP is specified. This lets you control the number of processes spawned.
- multibyte-chars, Qmultibyte-chars
Determines whether multi-byte characters are supported.
- multiple-processes, MP
Creates multiple processes that can be used to compile large numbers of source files at the same time.
- nologo
Tells the compiler to not display compiler version information.
- print-sysroot
Prints the target sysroot directory that is used during compilation.
- save-temps, Qsave-temps
Tells the compiler to save intermediate files created during compilation.
- showIncludes
Tells the compiler to display a list of the include files.
- sox
Tells the compiler to save the compilation options and version number in the executable file. It also lets you choose whether to include lists of certain functions.
- sysroot
Specifies the root directory where headers and libraries are located.
- Tc
Tells the compiler to process a file as a C source file.
- TC
Tells the compiler to process all source or unrecognized file types as C source files.
- Tp
Tells the compiler to process a file as a C++ source file.
- V
Displays the compiler version information.
- version
Tells the compiler to display GCC-style version information.
- watch
Tells the compiler to display certain information to the console output window.