llc - LLVM static compiler
The llc command compiles LLVM source inputs into assembly
language for a specified architecture. The assembly language output can then
be passed through a native assembler and linker to generate a native
executable.
The choice of architecture for the output assembly code is
automatically determined from the input file, unless the -march
option is used to override the default.
If filename is “-” or omitted,
llc reads from standard input. Otherwise, it will from
filename. Inputs can be in either the LLVM assembly language format
(.ll) or the LLVM bitcode format (.bc).
If the -o option is omitted, then llc will send its
output to standard output if the input is from standard input. If the
-o option specifies “-”, then the output will
also be sent to standard output.
If no -o option is specified and an input file other than
“-” is specified, then llc creates the output
filename by taking the input filename, removing any existing .bc
extension, and adding a .s suffix.
Other llc options are described below.
- -help
- Print a summary of command line options.
- -o <filename>
- Use <filename> as the output filename. See the summary above
for more details.
- -O=uint
- Generate code at different optimization levels. These correspond to the
-O0, -O1, -O2, and -O3 optimization levels
used by clang.
- -march=<arch>
- Specify the architecture for which to generate assembly, overriding the
target encoded in the input file. See the output of llc -help for a
list of valid architectures. By default this is inferred from the target
triple or autodetected to the current architecture.
- -mcpu=<cpuname>
- Specify a specific chip in the current architecture to generate code for.
By default this is inferred from the target triple and autodetected to the
current architecture. For a list of available CPUs, use:
llvm-as < /dev/null | llc -march=xyz -mcpu=help
- -filetype=<output
file type>
- Specify what kind of output llc should generated. Options are:
asm for textual assembly ( '.s'), obj for native
object files ('.o') and null for not emitting anything (for
performance testing).
Note that not all targets support all options.
- -mattr=a1,+a2,-a3,...
- Override or control specific attributes of the target, such as whether
SIMD operations are enabled or not. The default set of attributes is set
by the current CPU. For a list of available attributes, use:
llvm-as < /dev/null | llc -march=xyz -mattr=help
- --frame-pointer
- Specify effect of frame pointer elimination optimization
(all,non-leaf,none).
- --disable-excess-fp-precision
- Disable optimizations that may produce excess precision for floating
point. Note that this option can dramatically slow down code on some
systems (e.g. X86).
- --enable-unsafe-fp-math
- Enable optimizations that make unsafe assumptions about IEEE math (e.g.
that addition is associative) or may not work for all input ranges. These
optimizations allow the code generator to make use of some instructions
which would otherwise not be usable (such as fsin on X86).
- --stats
- Print statistics recorded by code-generation passes.
- --time-passes
- Record the amount of time needed for each pass and print a report to
standard error.
- --load=<dso_path>
- Dynamically load dso_path (a path to a dynamically shared object)
that implements an LLVM target. This will permit the target name to be
used with the -march option so that code can be generated for that
target.
- -meabi=[default|gnu|4|5]
- Specify which EABI version should conform to. Valid EABI versions are
gnu, 4 and 5. Default value (default) depends
on the triple.
- -stack-size-section
- Emit the .stack_sizes section which contains stack size metadata. The
section contains an array of pairs of function symbol values (pointer
size) and stack sizes (unsigned LEB128). The stack size values only
include the space allocated in the function prologue. Functions with
dynamic stack allocations are not included.
- Emit the __remarks (MachO) section which contains metadata about remark
diagnostics.
- --print-after-isel
- Print generated machine code after instruction selection (useful for
debugging).
- --regalloc=<allocator>
- Specify the register allocator to use. Valid register allocators are:
basic
Basic register allocator.
fast
Fast register allocator. It is the default for
unoptimized code.
greedy
Greedy register allocator. It is the default for
optimized code.
pbqp
Register allocator based on ‘Partitioned Boolean
Quadratic Programming’.
- --spiller=<spiller>
- Specify the spiller to use for register allocators that support it.
Currently this option is used only by the linear scan register allocator.
The default spiller is local. Valid spillers are:
simple
local
If llc succeeds, it will exit with 0. Otherwise, if an
error occurs, it will exit with a non-zero value.
Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/).