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 <swift-users@swift.org> > wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 >> >> <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 <mailto: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 <mailto:swift-users@swift.org> >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >>> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >> <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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