Qoption

Passes options to a specified tool.

IDE Equivalent

None

Architectures

IA-32, Intel® EM64T, Intel® Itanium® architecture

Syntax

Linux:	-Qoption,string,options
Windows:	/Qoption,string,options

Arguments

string	Is the name of the tool.
options	Are one or more comma-separated, valid options for the designated tool.

Default

OFF	No options are passed to tools.

Description

This option passes options to a specified tool. To use this option, you must also specify -ip (Linux), /Qip (Windows), -ipo (Linux), or /Qipo (Windows).

If an argument contains a space or tab character, you must enclose the entire argument in quotation marks (" "). You must separate multiple arguments with commas.

string can be any of the following:

c - Indicates the Intel C++ compiler.
cpp (or fpp) - Indicates the Intel C++ preprocessor.
cxxinc - Indicates C++ header files.
cinc - Indicates C header files.
asm - Indicates the assembler.
link - Indicates the linker.
prof - Indicates the profiler.
On Windows systems, the following is also available:

masm - Indicates the Microsoft assembler.

On Linux systems, the following are also available:

as - Indicates the assembler.
gas - Indicates the GNU assembler.
ld - Indicates the loader.
gld - Indicates the GNU loader.
lib - Indicates an additional library.
crt - Indicates the crt%.o files linked into executables to contain the place to start execution.

Alternate Options

None

Example

The following command activates procedural and interprocedural optimizations on source.cpp and sets the maximum increase in the number of intermediate language statements to 5 for each function:

On Windows systems:

icl /Qip /Qoption,c,-ip_ninl_max_stats=5 source.cpp

On Linux systems:

icpc -ip -Qoption,c,-ip_ninl_max_stats=5 source.cpp