manpage: -floop-labels

[xonotic/gmqcc.git] / doc / gmqcc.1

diff --git a/doc/gmqcc.1 b/doc/gmqcc.1
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--- a/doc/gmqcc.1
+++ b/doc/gmqcc.1
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ list of QC source files that are to be compiled in order.
 \fBgmqcc\fR optionally takes options to specify the output and
 input files on the commandline, and also accepts assembly files.
 .SH OPTIONS
-\fBgmqcc\fR mostly tries to mimick gcc's commandline handling, though
+\fBgmqcc\fR mostly tries to mimic gcc's commandline handling, though
 there are also traditional long-options available.
 .TP
 .B "-h, --help"
@@ -121,6 +121,17 @@ them.
 -f\fIno-\fRcorrect-ternary
 .fi
 .in
+.TP
+.B "-dump"
+DEBUG OPTION. Print the code's intermediate representation before the
+optimization and finalization passes to stdout before generating the
+binary.
+.TP
+.B "-dumpfin"
+DEBUG OPTION. Print the code's intermediate representation after the
+optimization and finalization passes to stdout before generating the
+binary. The instructions will be enumerated, and values will contain a
+list of liferanges.
 .SH COMPILE WARNINGS
 .TP
 .B -Wunused-variable
@@ -354,6 +365,31 @@ instruction on the string before using it.
 Enable utf8 characters. This allows utf-8 encoded character constants,
 and escape sequence codepoints in the valid utf-8 range. Effectively
 enabling escape sequences like '\\{x2211}'.
+.TP
+.B -fbail-on-werror
+When a warning is treated as an error, and this option is set (which
+it is by default), it is like any other error and will cause
+compilation to stop. When disabling this flag by using
+\-fno-bail-on-werror, compilation will continue until the end, but no
+output is generated. Instead the first such error message's context is
+shown.
+.TP
+.B -floop-labels
+Allow loops to be labeled, and allow 'break' and 'continue' to take an
+optional label to decide which loop to actually jump out of or
+continue.
+.sp
+.in +4
+.nf
+for :outer (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
+    while (inner) {
+        ...;
+        if (something)
+            continue outer;
+    }
+}
+.fi
+.in
 .SH OPTIMIZATIONS
 .TP
 .B -Opeephole
@@ -385,6 +421,11 @@ result. This can reduce the size of the global section.
 This will not have declared variables overlap, even if it was
 possible.
 .TP
+.B -Oglobal-temps
+Causes temporary values which do not need to be backed up on a CALL to
+not be stored in the function's locals-area. With this, a CALL to a
+function may need to back up fewer values and thus execute faster.
+.TP
 .B -Ostrip-constant-names
 Don't generate defs for immediate values or even declared constants.
 Meaning variables which are implicitly constant or qualified as such
@@ -416,6 +457,14 @@ unnecessary copying and unnecessary temporary values. This
 optimization makes operations which are used as a parameter evaluate
 directly into the parameter-global if that is possible, which is when
 there's no other CALL instruction in between.
+.TP
+.B -Ovoid-return
+Usually an empty RETURN instruction is added to the end of a void
+typed function. However, additionally after every function a DONE
+instruction is added for several reasons. (For example the qcvm's
+disassemble switch uses it to know when the function ends.). This
+optimization replaces that last RETURN with DONE rather than adding
+the DONE additionally.
 .SH CONFIG
 The configuration file is similar to regular .ini files. Comments
 start with hashtags or semicolons, sections are written in square