<varlistentry>
<term>
+ <option>-ddump-splices</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-splices</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Dump Template Haskell expressions that we splice in,
+ and what Haskell code the expression evaluates to.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
<option>-ddump-types</option>:
<indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-types</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-rules</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>dumps all rewrite rules (including those generated
- by the specialisation pass)</para>
+ <para>dumps all rewrite rules specified in this module;
+ see <xref linkend="controlling-rules"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-rule-firings</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-rule-firings</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>dumps the names of all rules that fired in this module</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-rule-rewrites</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-rule-rewrites</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>dumps detailed information about all rules that fired in
+ this module
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-vect</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-vect</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>dumps the output of the vectoriser.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <option>-ddump-workwrap</option>:
- <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-workwrap</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <option>-ddump-worker-wrapper</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-worker-wrapper</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>worker/wrapper split output</para>
<varlistentry>
<term>
+ <option>-ddump-prep</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-prep</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>output of core preparation pass</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
<option>-ddump-stg</option>:
<indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-stg</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<varlistentry>
<term>
+ <option>-ddump-cmm</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-cmm</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print the C-- code out.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-opt-cmm</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-opt-cmm</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Dump the results of C-- to C-- optimising passes.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
<option>-ddump-asm</option>:
<indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-asm</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<varlistentry>
<term>
+ <option>-ddump-simpl-phases</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-simpl-phases</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Show the output of each run of the simplifier. Used when even
+ <option>-dverbose-core2core</option> doesn't cut it.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-simpl-iterations</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-simpl-iterations</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Show the output of each <emphasis>iteration</emphasis>
+ of the simplifier (each run of the simplifier has a maximum
+ number of iterations, normally 4). This outputs even more information
+ than <option>-ddump-simpl-phases</option>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-simpl-stats</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-simpl-stats option</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Dump statistics about how many of each kind of
+ transformation too place. If you add
+ <option>-dppr-debug</option> you get more detailed
+ information.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-if-trace</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-if-trace</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Make the interface loader be *real* chatty about what it is
+ upto.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-tc-trace</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-tc-trace</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Make the type checker be *real* chatty about what it is
+ upto.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-vt-trace</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-tv-trace</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Make the vectoriser be *real* chatty about what it is
+ upto.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-rn-trace</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-rn-trace</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Make the renamer be *real* chatty about what it is
+ upto.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-rn-stats</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dshow-rn-stats</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print out summary of what kind of information the renamer
+ had to bring in.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
<option>-dverbose-core2core</option>
<indexterm><primary><option>-dverbose-core2core</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
of output!) So: when we're really desperate:</para>
<screen>
-% ghc -noC -O -ddump-simpl -dverbose-simpl -dcore-lint Foo.hs
+% ghc -noC -O -ddump-simpl -dverbose-core2core -dcore-lint Foo.hs
</screen>
</listitem>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <option>-ddump-simpl-iterations</option>:
- <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-simpl-iterations</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <option>-dshow-passes</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dshow-passes</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Show the output of each <emphasis>iteration</emphasis>
- of the simplifier (each run of the simplifier has a maximum
- number of iterations, normally 4). Used when even
- <option>-dverbose-simpl</option> doesn't cut it.</para>
+ <para>Print out each pass name as it happens.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-ddump-core-stats</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-core-stats</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print a one-line summary of the size of the Core program
+ at the end of the optimisation pipeline.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-dfaststring-stats</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dfaststring-stats</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Show statistics for the usage of fast strings by the
+ compiler.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <option>-dppr-user-length</option>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-dppr-user-length</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <option>-dsuppress-uniques</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dsuppress-uniques</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>In error messages, expressions are printed to a
- certain “depth”, with subexpressions beyond the
- depth replaced by ellipses. This flag sets the
- depth.</para>
+ <para>Suppress the printing of uniques in debugging output. This may make
+ the printout ambiguous (e.g. unclear where an occurrence of 'x' is bound), but
+ it makes the output of two compiler runs have many fewer gratuitous differences,
+ so you can realistically apply <command>diff</command>. Once <command>diff</command>
+ has shown you where to look, you can try again without <option>-dsuppress-uniques</option></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <option>-ddump-simpl-stats</option>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-simpl-stats option</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <option>-dsuppress-coercions</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dsuppress-coercions</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Dump statistics about how many of each kind of
- transformation too place. If you add
- <option>-dppr-debug</option> you get more detailed
- information.</para>
+ <para>Suppress the printing of coercions in Core dumps to make them
+shorter.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <option>-ddump-rn-trace</option>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-ddump-rn-trace</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <option>-dsuppress-module-prefixes</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dsuppress-module-prefixes</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Make the renamer be *real* chatty about what it is
- upto.</para>
+ <para>Suppress the printing of module qualification prefixes in Core dumps to make them easier to read.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <option>-ddump-rn-stats</option>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-dshow-rn-stats</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <option>-dppr-user-length</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dppr-user-length</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Print out summary of what kind of information the renamer
- had to bring in.</para>
+ <para>In error messages, expressions are printed to a
+ certain “depth”, with subexpressions beyond the
+ depth replaced by ellipses. This flag sets the
+ depth. Its default value is 5.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>-dshow-unused-imports</option>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-dshow-unused-imports</option></primary></indexterm>
+ <term>
+ <option>-dno-debug-output</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dno-debug-output</option></primary></indexterm>
</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Have the renamer report what imports does not
- contribute.</para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Suppress any unsolicited debugging output. When GHC
+ has been built with the <literal>DEBUG</literal> option it
+ occasionally emits debug output of interest to developers.
+ The extra output can confuse the testing framework and
+ cause bogus test failures, so this flag is provided to
+ turn it off.</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-dcmm-lint</option>:
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-dcmm-lint</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ditto for C-- level.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</sect2>
of platform-specific code that needs to be written in order to get
unregisterised compilation going is usually fairly small.</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>-unreg</option>:
- <indexterm><primary><option>-unreg</option></primary></indexterm>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Compile via vanilla ANSI C only, turning off
- platform-specific optimisations. NOTE: in order to use
- <option>-unreg</option>, you need to have a set of libraries
- (including the RTS) built for unregisterised compilation.
- This amounts to building GHC with way "u" enabled.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <para>Unregisterised compilation cannot be selected at
+ compile-time; you have to build GHC with the appropriate options
+ set. Consult the GHC Building Guide for details.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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