CPARSER(1)

NAME
cparser - C compiler

SYNOPSIS
cparser [-c | -S | -E | --print-ast] [--print-implicit-cast] [--print-parenthesis] [-ansi] [-std=standard] [--[no-]gcc] [--[no-]ms] [-g] [-Olevel] [-W[no-][error=]warning] [-w] [-I dir] [-L dir] [-Dmacro[=defn]] [-Umacro] [-f option] [-finput-charset=encoding] [-b option] [-l library] [-o outfile] [-x language] [-Wl,option] [-Wp,option] file ...

DESCRIPTION
cparser is a C compiler, which can parse C90 and C99 as well as many GCC and some MSC extensions. It also provides many useful analyses for warnings and generates concise messages in case of error. It uses libFIRM for optimization and code generation. The compiler driver is largely compatible with GCC.

OPTIONS

-c  Compile the input files to object files. The default output filename is the input filename with the extension replaced by .o.

-S  Compile the input files to assembler. The default output filename is the input filename with the extension replaced by .s.

-E  Preprocess the input file only. By default the result is output to stdout.

--print-ast
    Output the abstract syntax tree of the parsed input file as C again.

--print-implicit-cast
    When using --print-ast, show casts, which are inserted by the semantic checks.

--print-parenthesis
    When using --print-ast, show all expressions fully parenthesized.

-ansi
    Same as -std=c90 (for C) or -std=c++98 (for C++).

-std=standard
    Select the language standard. Supported values are:
    c89
    c90
    iso9899:1990
        ISO C90
    gnu89
        ISO C90 with GCC extensions
    c99
    iso9899:1999
        ISO C99
    gnu99
        ISO C99 with GCC extensions
    c11
    iso9899:2011
        ISO C11
    gnu11
        ISO C11 with GCC extensions
    c++98
        ISO C++ 1998. Not supported yet.
    gnu++98
        ISO C++ 1998 with GCC extensions. Not supported yet.

--[no-]gcc
    Disable/enable GCC extensions. This switch supersedes -std.

--[no-]ms
    Disable/enable MSC extensions.

-g  When compiling C files, add debug information in stabs format.

-Olevel
    Select the optimization level. Sensible values are between 0 and 4, inclusive.

-Wwarning
    Enable the specified warning.

-Wno-warning
    Disable the specified warning.

-Werror=warning
    Enable the specified warning and turn it into an error.

-Wno-error=warning
    Force the specified warning to only be a warning, even in the presence of -Werror. This neither enables nor disables the warning itself.

-Waddress
    Warn about suspicious use of addresses, like using the address of a function or variable as boolean condition or comparing with the address of a string literal.

-Waggregate-return
    Warn about defining or calling a function, which returns a struct or union by value.

-Wall
    Activate most warnings. In particular these are -Waddress, -Wattribute, -Wchar-subscripts, -Wcomment, -Wempty-statement, -Wformat, -Wimplicit-function-declaration, -Wimplicit-int, -Winit-self, -Wmain, -Wnonnull, -Wparentheses, -Wpointer-arith, -Wredundant-decls, -Wreturn-type, -Wshadow-local, -Wsign-compare, -Wstrict-prototypes, -Wswitch-enum, -Wunknown-pragmas, -Wunreachable-code, -Wunused-function, -Wunused-label, -Wunused-parameter, -Wunused-value, -Wunused-variable.

-Wcast-qual
    Warn whenever a pointer cast removes qualifiers from the pointed-to type, e.g. casting a const char* to char*.

-Wchar-subscripts
    Warn about using an expression of type char as array subscript, e.g. char c; arr[c].

-Wdeclaration-after-statement
    Warn about mixing declarations and statements, which is not allowed prior to C99.

-Wdiv-by-zero
    Warn about compile-time integer division by zero.

-Wempty-statement
    Warn about empty statements, i.e. statements which only consist of a single ‘’;. Use {} as replacement to avoid this warning.

-Werror
    Treat warnings as errors, i.e. do not continue after parsing when a warning is encountered.

-Wextra
    (Alias -W) Activate some more warnings. In particular these are -Wempty-statement, -Wshadow, -Wunused-parameter, -Wunused-value.

-Wfatal-errors
    Immediately abort compilation when encountering an error.

-Wformat
    Check format strings of char and wchar_t functions.

-Wimplicit
    Activate -Wimplicit-function-declaration, -Wimplicit-int.

-Wimplicit-function-declaration
    Warn about calling a function without a prior declaration.

-Wimplicit-int
    Warn about declarations whose declaration specifiers do not include a type specifier.

-Winit-self
    Warn about uninitialized variables which are initialized with themselves.

-Wlong-long
    Warn if the type ‘long long’ is used.

-Wmain
    Warn if the type of ‘main’ is suspicious, i.e. if it is not a non-static function declared as either int main(void), int main(int, char**) or, as an extension, int main(int, char**, char**).

-Wmissing-declarations
    Warn if a non-static function or a global variable without a storage class is defined without a prior declaration. This is typically a sign of a missing #include or that the object should be static.

-Wmissing-noreturn
    Warn about functions, which are candidates for the attribute ‘noreturn’.

-Wmissing-prototypes
    Warn if a global function is defined without a previous prototype declaration.

-Wmultichar
    Warn if a multicharacter constant (‘FOOF’) is used.

-Wnested-externs
    Warn if an ‘extern’ declaration is encountered within a function.

-Wparentheses
    Warn if parentheses are omitted in certain contexts. Warn if an assignment is used as condition, e.g. if (x = 23). Warn if && without parentheses is used within ||, e.g. if (x || y && z). Warn if it there may be confusion which ‘if’ -statement an ‘else’ -branch belongs to, e.g. if (x) if (y) {} else {}. Warn if cascaded comparisons appear which do not have their mathematical meaning, e.g. if (23 <= x < 42). Warn if + or - is used as operand of << or >>, e.g. x + y << z.

-Wredundant-decls
    Warn about redundant declarations, i.e. multiple declarations of the same object or static forward declarations which have no use before their definition.

-Wshadow
    Warn when a new declaration shadows another declaration with the same name in an outer scope.

-Wshadow-local
    Like -Wshadow, but only warn if the shadowed declaration is not global, e.g. a local variable shadows a parameter or another local variable.

-Wunreachable-code
    Warn when the compiler determines that a statement (or in some cases a part thereof) will never be executed.

-Wunused
    Activate -Wunused-function, -Wunused-label, -Wunused-parameter, -Wunused-value, -Wunused-variable.

-Wunused-parameter
    Warn when a parameter is never used or only ever read to calculate its own new value, e.g. x = x + 1.

-Wunused-variable
    Warn when a variable is never used or only ever read to calculate its own new value, e.g. x = x + 1.

-w  Suppress all warnings.

-I dir
    Add the directory dir to the paths to be searched for include files.

-L dir
    Add the directory dir to the paths to be searched for libraries.

-Dmacro
    Define the preprocessor macro macro which will expand to 1.

-Dmacro=defn
    Define the preprocessor macro macro and set its expanded value to defn.

-Umacro
    Undefine the preprocessor macro macro.

-f option
    Set a frontend or optimizer option. Use -fhelp to get a list of supported optimizer options.

-f[no-]diagnostics-show-option
    Show the switch, which controls a warning, after each warning. Default is on.

-finput-charset=encoding
    Select the encoding of the input. Supported values are ISO_8859-1:1987 (aliases CP819, IBM819, ISO-8859-1, ISO8859-1, ISO_8859-1, csISOLatin1, iso-ir-100, l1 and latin1 ), ISO-8859-15 (aliases ISO8859-15, ISO_8859-15 and Latin-9 ), windows-1252 (alias cp1252 ) and UTF-8 (default). Case is ignored.

-f[no-]show-column
    Show the column number in diagnostic messages.

-fsigned-char
    Define ‘char’ to have the same range, representation and behaviour as ‘signed char’.

-funsigned-char
    Define ‘char’ to have the same range, representation and behaviour as ‘unsigned char’.

-b option
    Set a backend option. Use -bhelp to get a list of supported options.

-l library
    Link with the specified library.

-o outfile
    Specify the output filename. This is only valid when using a single input filename. - as filename uses stdout for output.

-x language
    Overwrite the language auto-detection for the following filenames by the specified language. Supported values are:
    assembler
        Assembler file
    assembler-with-cpp
        Assembler file, which needs to be preprocessed
    c
    c-header
        C file
    c++
    c++-header
        C++ file
    none
        Revert to auto-detection

-Wl,option
    Pass option to the linker.

-Wp,option
    Pass option to the preprocessor.

SEE ALSO
gcc(1), http://www.libfirm.org/

BUGS
Probably many - if you hit one, please report it.

cparser needs to support more switches for better GCC compatibility.

This manual page is incomplete.

AUTHORS
-nosplit cparser was written by Matthias Braun <matze@braunis.de>, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> and Michael Beck.