Re: [swift-users] what is the use of "-frontend" argument to swift?

Ah, got it. Sorry for being brusque—the question coming in on swift-users rather than swift-dev threw me off. If you need help with tests feel free to ask! (…but probably on swift-dev) Jordan > On Dec 5, 2017, at 22:09, Atul Sowani via swift-users > wrote: > > Thanks

Re: [swift-users] what is the use of "-frontend" argument to swift?

From: swift-users-boun...@swift.org [mailto:swift-users-boun...@swift.org] On Behalf Of Atul Sowani via swift-users Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:10 PM To: swift-users@swift.org Subject: Re: [swift-users] what is the use of "-frontend" argument to swift? Thanks Kyle and Jord

Re: [swift-users] what is the use of "-frontend" argument to swift?

Thanks Kyle and Jordan! That's the information I was looking for. Anyway I am not using these options explicitly, but found that they are invoked while Swift test suite is run. A few test cases are failing for me on ppc64le and while analyzing it I came across these options. Thanks for the info!

Re: [swift-users] what is the use of "-frontend" argument to swift?

Looks like it's an alias for -emit-object: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/include/swift/Option/Options.td#L576 ...which will give an object file as output rather than the default, an executable.

[swift-users] what is the use of "-frontend" argument to swift?

Hi, What is the purpose of "-frontend -c" arguments of swift? I tried "swift --help" but that does not mention it. Also I couldn't find it easily in any swift documents. Can somebody kindly let me know the purpose of these arguments? Thanks, Atul. ___