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| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst b/llvm/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst index 1c0da181892..e28def74d5e 100644 --- a/llvm/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst +++ b/llvm/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst @@ -262,16 +262,21 @@ separate option groups syntactically. * Possible option types: - - ``switch_option`` - a simple boolean switch, for example ``-time``. + - ``switch_option`` - a simple boolean switch without arguments, + for example ``-O2`` or ``-time``. - - ``parameter_option`` - option that takes an argument, for example - ``-std=c99``; + - ``parameter_option`` - option that takes one argument, for + example ``-std=c99``. It is also allowed to use spaces instead of + the equality sign: ``-std c99``. - ``parameter_list_option`` - same as the above, but more than one - occurence of the option is allowed. + option occurence is allowed. - - ``prefix_option`` - same as the parameter_option, but the option name - and parameter value are not separated. + - ``prefix_option`` - same as the parameter_option, but the option + name and argument do not have to be separated. Example: + ``-ofile``. This can be also specified as ``-o file``; however, + ``-o=file`` will be parsed incorrectly (``=file`` will be + interpreted as option value). - ``prefix_list_option`` - same as the above, but more than one occurence of the option is allowed; example: ``-lm -lpthread``. |
