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!
Best regards, Atul. On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com> wrote: > -c is an alias for -emit-object. -frontend is "magically start talking to > Swift's implementation details" and you shouldn't use it. More info in > docs/Driver.md <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Driver.md> > . > > Jordan > > > On Dec 5, 2017, at 14:23, Kyle Murray via swift-users < > swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > 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. > > -Kyle > > On Dec 5, 2017, at 1:49 AM, Atul Sowani via swift-users < > swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > > >
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