</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-V</option></term>
<term><option>––version</option></term>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-V</option></primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary><option>––version</option></primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>Print a one-line string including GHC's version number.</para>
<para>The source files for the program don't all need to be in the
same directory; the <option>-i</option> option can be used to add
directories to the search path (see <xref
- linkend="options-finding-imports">).</para>
+ linkend="search-path">).</para>
</sect1>
standard output.</para>
</sect1>
- <sect1 id="options-output">
- <title>Re-directing the compilation output(s)</title>
-
- <indexterm><primary>output-directing options</primary></indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary>redirecting compilation output</primary></indexterm>
-
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-o</option></term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-o</option></primary></indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>GHC's compiled output normally goes into a
- <filename>.hc</filename>, <filename>.o</filename>, etc.,
- file, depending on the last-run compilation phase. The
- option <option>-o foo</option><IndexTerm><Primary>-o
- option</Primary></IndexTerm> re-directs the output of that
- last-run phase to file <filename>foo</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>Note: this “feature” can be
- counterintuitive: <command>ghc -C -o foo.o foo.hs</command>
- will put the intermediate C code in the file
- <filename>foo.o</filename>, name notwithstanding!</para>
-
- <para>Note: on Windows, if the result is an executable file, the
- extension "<filename>.exe</filename>" is added if the specified filename
- does not already have an extension. Thus
- <programlisting>
- ghc -o foo Main.hs
- </programlisting>
- will compile and link the module <filename>Main.hs</filename>, and put the
- resulting executable in <filename>foo.exe</filename> (not <filename>foo</filename>).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-odir</option></term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-odir</option></primary></indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <option>-o</option> option isn't of much use if
- you have <emphasis>several</emphasis> input files…
- Non-interface output files are normally put in the same
- directory as their corresponding input file came from. You
- may specify that they be put in another directory using the
- <option>-odir <dir></option><IndexTerm><Primary>-odir
- <dir> option</Primary></IndexTerm> (the “Oh,
- dear” option). For example:</para>
-
-<Screen>
-% ghc -c parse/Foo.hs parse/Bar.hs gurgle/Bumble.hs -odir `arch`
-</Screen>
-
- <para>The output files, <filename>Foo.o</filename>,
- <filename>Bar.o</filename>, and
- <filename>Bumble.o</filename> would be put into a
- subdirectory named after the architecture of the executing
- machine (<filename>sun4</filename>,
- <filename>mips</filename>, etc). The directory must already
- exist; it won't be created.</para>
-
- <para>Note that the <option>-odir</option> option does
- <emphasis>not</emphasis> affect where the interface files
- are put. In the above example, they would still be put in
- <filename>parse/Foo.hi</filename>,
- <filename>parse/Bar.hi</filename>, and
- <filename>gurgle/Bumble.hi</filename>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-ohi</option> <replaceable>file</replaceable></term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-ohi</option></primary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>The interface output may be directed to another file
- <filename>bar2/Wurble.iface</filename> with the option
- <option>-ohi bar2/Wurble.iface</option> (not
- recommended).</para>
-
- <para>WARNING: if you redirect the interface file somewhere
- that GHC can't find it, then the recompilation checker may
- get confused (at the least, you won't get any recompilation
- avoidance). We recommend using a combination of
- <option>-hidir</option> and <option>-hisuf</option> options
- instead, if possible.</para>
-
- <para>To avoid generating an interface at all, you could use
- this option to redirect the interface into the bit bucket:
- <literal>-ohi /dev/null</literal>, for example.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-hidir</option> <replaceable>directory</replaceable></term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-hidir</option></primary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>Redirects all generated interface files into
- <replaceable>directory</replaceable>, instead of the default
- which is to place the interface file in the same directory
- as the source file.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-osuf</option> <replaceable>suffix</replaceable></term>
- <term><option>-hisuf</option> <replaceable>suffix</replaceable></term>
- <term><option>-hcsuf</option> <replaceable>suffix</replaceable></term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-osuf</option></primary></indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-hisuf</option></primary></indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-hcsuf</option></primary></indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>EXOTICA: The <option>-osuf</option>
- <replaceable>suffix</replaceable> will change the
- <literal>.o</literal> file suffix for object files to
- whatever you specify. We use this when compiling libraries,
- so that objects for the profiling versions of the libraries
- don't clobber the normal ones.</para>
-
- <para>Similarly, the <option>-hisuf</option>
- <replaceable>suffix</replaceable> will change the
- <literal>.hi</literal> file suffix for non-system interface
- files (see <XRef LinkEnd="hi-options">).</para>
-
- <para>Finally, the option <option>-hcsuf</option>
- <replaceable>suffix</replaceable> will change the
- <literal>.hc</literal> file suffix for compiler-generated
- intermediate C files.</para>
-
- <para>The <option>-hisuf</option>/<option>-osuf</option>
- game is particularly useful if you want to compile a program both with and without
- profiling, in the same directory. You can say:
- <Screen>
- ghc ...
- </Screen>
- to get the ordinary version, and
- <Screen>
- ghc ... -osuf prof.o -hisuf prof.hi -prof -auto-all
- </Screen>
- to get the profiled version.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <sect2 id="keeping-intermediates">
- <title>Keeping Intermediate Files</title>
- <indexterm><primary>intermediate files, saving</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary><literal>.hc</literal> files, saving</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary><literal>.s</literal> files, saving</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
-
- <para>The following options are useful for keeping certain
- intermediate files around, when normally GHC would throw these
- away after compilation:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-keep-hc-files</option></term>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><option>-keep-hc-files</option></primary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>Keep intermediate <literal>.hc</literal> files when
- doing <literal>.hs</literal>-to-<literal>.o</literal>
- compilations via C (NOTE: <literal>.hc</literal> files
- aren't generated when using the native code generator, you
- may need to use <option>-fvia-C</option> to force them
- to be produced).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-keep-s-files</option></term>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><option>-keep-s-files</option></primary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>Keep intermediate <literal>.s</literal> files.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-keep-raw-s-files</option></term>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><option>-keep-raw-s-files</option></primary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>Keep intermediate <literal>.raw-s</literal> files.
- These are the direct output from the C compiler, before
- GHC does “assembly mangling” to produce the
- <literal>.s</literal> file. Again, these are not produced
- when using the native code generator.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-keep-tmp-files</option></term>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><option>-keep-tmp-files</option></primary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>temporary files</primary>
- <secondary>keeping</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>Instructs the GHC driver not to delete any of its
- temporary files, which it normally keeps in
- <literal>/tmp</literal> (or possibly elsewhere; see <xref
- linkend="temp-files">). Running GHC with
- <option>-v</option> will show you what temporary files
- were generated along the way.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="temp-files">
- <title>Redirecting temporary files</title>
-
- <indexterm>
- <primary>temporary files</primary>
- <secondary>redirecting</secondary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-tmpdir</option></term>
- <indexterm><primary><option>-tmpdir</option></primary></indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>If you have trouble because of running out of space
- in <filename>/tmp</filename> (or wherever your
- installation thinks temporary files should go), you may
- use the <option>-tmpdir
- <dir></option><IndexTerm><Primary>-tmpdir
- <dir> option</Primary></IndexTerm> option to specify
- an alternate directory. For example, <option>-tmpdir
- .</option> says to put temporary files in the current
- working directory.</para>
-
- <para>Alternatively, use your <Constant>TMPDIR</Constant>
- environment variable.<IndexTerm><Primary>TMPDIR
- environment variable</Primary></IndexTerm> Set it to the
- name of the directory where temporary files should be put.
- GCC and other programs will honour the
- <Constant>TMPDIR</Constant> variable as well.</para>
-
- <para>Even better idea: Set the
- <Constant>DEFAULT_TMPDIR</Constant> make variable when
- building GHC, and never worry about
- <Constant>TMPDIR</Constant> again. (see the build
- documentation).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
-
- </sect1>
+ &separate;
<sect1 id="options-sanity">
<title>Warnings and sanity-checking</title>
patterns that can fail, eg. <literal>\(x:xs)->...</literal>.
Normally, these aren't treated as incomplete patterns by
<option>-fwarn-incomplete-patterns</option>.</para>
+ <para>``Lambda-bound patterns'' includes all places where there is a single pattern,
+ including list comprehensions and do-notation. In these cases, a pattern-match
+ failure is quite legitimate, and triggers filtering (list comprehensions) or
+ the monad <literal>fail</literal> operation (monads). For example:
+ <programlisting>
+ f :: [Maybe a] -> [a]
+ f xs = [y | Just y <- xs]
+ </programlisting>
+ Switching on <option>-fwarn-simple-patterns</option> will elicit warnings about
+ these probably-innocent cases, which is why the flag is off by default. </para>
+ <para> The <literal>deriving( Read )</literal> mechanism produces monadic code with
+ pattern matches, so you will also get misleading warnings about the compiler-generated
+ code. (This is arguably a Bad Thing, but it's awkward to fix.)</para>
+
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</sect1>
- &separate;
&packages;
<sect1 id="options-optimise">
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