LLVM: `opt` tool

NAME

opt

SYNOPSIS

opt [options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

The opt command is the modular LLVM optimizer. It takes LLVM bytecode as input, runs the specified optimizations on it, and then outputs the optimized LLVM bytecode.

The optimizations available via opt depend upon what libraries were linked into it as well as any additional libraries that have been loaded with the -load option. Use the -help option to determine what optimizations you can use.

If no filename is specified on the command line, opt reads its input from standard input.

If an output filename is not specified with the -o option, opt writes its output to the standard output.

OPTIONS

-f
Force overwrite. Normally, opt will refuse to overwrite an output file that already exists. With this option, opt will overwrite the output file and replace it with new bytecode.
-help
Print a summary of command line options.
-o <filename>
Specify the output filename.
-stats
Print statistics.
-time-passes
Record the amount of time needed for each pass and print it to standard error.
-debug
If this is a debug build, this option will enable debug printouts from passes which use the DEBUG macro. See the Programmer's Manual for more information.
-q
Quiet mode. Do not print messages on whether the program was modified.
-load <plugin.so>
Load the dynamic object plugin.so. This object should register new optimization passes. Once loaded, the object will add new command line options to enable various optimizations. To see the new complete list of optimizations, use the -help and -load options together:
opt -load <plugin.so> -help
-p
Print module after each transformation.

EXIT STATUS

If opt succeeds, it will exit with 0. Otherwise, if an error occurs, it will exit with a non-zero value.