srp@ethz.UUCP (Scott Presnell) (06/26/87)
For your amusement, here is a listing of options avaible in cl.exe for MSC 4.00, the documented options were added for completeness. The undocumented options were 'discovered' using the Norton Utilities, and thier functions determined "on a rainy day". Hope someone will find them useful. Please feel free to correct me or fill in the blanks. Go wild son ... -------- Listing of options in 'cl' of MS-C Ver. 4.00, documented and undocumented. Switch Documented Function -c yes -d no Display passes as they happen. -dos Xenix -i no -imp no -n no -s no -k no Keep temp files (quiet). -link yes -l* no False friend, see below. -m# no Make .map file. -nl# no -nologo no Don't print logo on startup. -pack yes -pathgen no -o# no Name the output (exe) file. -p no Gives warning about no -Gp. -pa# no -pl# no Supply alternate linker. -p0# no Supply alternate pass 0 cmd. -p1# no Supply alternate pass 1 cmd. -p2# no Supply alternate pass 2 cmd. -p3# no Supply alternate pass 3 cmd. -pL# no -u yes -v# no -w yes -z no Print passes (donot compile). -A* yes -Ba# no -Bd no Print passes as they happen. -Bk no Keep temp files (verbose). -Bl# no Supply alternate linker. -Bz no Print passes (donot compile). -B0# no Supply alternate pass 0 cmd. -B1# no Supply alternate pass 1 cmd. -B2# no Supply alternate pass 2 cmd. -B3# no Supply alternate pass 3 cmd. -BL# no -C yes -CSOFF no -D# yes -E yes -EP yes -FP* yes -Fa(*) yes -Fe* yes -Fc(*) yes -Fl(*) yes -Fs(*) yes -Fo* yes -Fm(*) yes -Gt(*) yes -G* yes -HELP yes -H# yes -I# yes -K no Keep temp files (see -k). -J yes -L no Make .cod file only. -M# Xenix See pg 298 MS-C Users Guide. -ND# yes -NM# yes -NT# yes -O(*) yes -P yes -PLM no _main & exit unresolved. -PLMF no no default lib search. -PLMN no -PLMF + something else? -S no Make .asm file only. -U# yes -V# yes -W# yes -X yes -Z* yes *, # -- symbols used in the cl.exe string formats. Usually indicates something further needs to be specified. Favorite Undocumented Option: -nologo (makes my error.log files much smaller). NB: -l does not act like -l in 'ld' on UNIX systems. 'Cl' just seems to chop off the -l and treat the rest like an object file to be linked. Note undocumented 'cc/ld' compatible options, -o, -S, -B?, -O. I would suspect that -Ba#, -pa# would allow an alternate assembler, but 'cl' doesn't seem to be able to call 'masm'. Any one got any good ideas about what -pathgen might do? Regards, ------- Scott Presnell Organic Chemistry Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zentrum) CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. uucp:seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!srp (srp@ethz.uucp); bitnet:Benner@CZHETH5A "... I dunno, maybe it was Ewe-tah ..."