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Article 1306 of comp.sys.ibm.pc:
Path: irs1!umd5!mimsy!oddjob!uwvax!husc6!seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!srp
From: [email protected] (Scott Presnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Undocumented Switches in 'cl.exe' for MS-C Ver 4.00
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 26 Jun 87 10:36:35 GMT
Organization: Chem. Dept., Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. (ETH-Zurich)
Lines: 114
Keywords: cl, MSC, amusement

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 ...

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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,

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Scott Presnell Organic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zentrum)
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
uucp:seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!srp ([email protected]); bitnet:Benner@CZHETH5A
"... I dunno, maybe it was Ewe-tah ..."



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