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      1 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
      3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 /*
      6 Compile, typically invoked as ``go tool compile,'' compiles a single Go package
      7 comprising the files named on the command line. It then writes a single
      8 object file named for the basename of the first source file with a .o suffix.
      9 The object file can then be combined with other objects into a package archive
     10 or passed directly to the linker (``go tool link''). If invoked with -pack, the compiler
     11 writes an archive directly, bypassing the intermediate object file.
     12 
     13 The generated files contain type information about the symbols exported by
     14 the package and about types used by symbols imported by the package from
     15 other packages. It is therefore not necessary when compiling client C of
     16 package P to read the files of P's dependencies, only the compiled output of P.
     17 
     18 Command Line
     19 
     20 Usage:
     21 
     22 	go tool compile [flags] file...
     23 
     24 The specified files must be Go source files and all part of the same package.
     25 The same compiler is used for all target operating systems and architectures.
     26 The GOOS and GOARCH environment variables set the desired target.
     27 
     28 Flags:
     29 
     30 	-D path
     31 		Set relative path for local imports.
     32 	-I dir1 -I dir2
     33 		Search for imported packages in dir1, dir2, etc,
     34 		after consulting $GOROOT/pkg/$GOOS_$GOARCH.
     35 	-L
     36 		Show complete file path in error messages.
     37 	-N
     38 		Disable optimizations.
     39 	-S
     40 		Print assembly listing to standard output (code only).
     41 	-S -S
     42 		Print assembly listing to standard output (code and data).
     43 	-V
     44 		Print compiler version and exit.
     45 	-asmhdr file
     46 		Write assembly header to file.
     47 	-complete
     48 		Assume package has no non-Go components.
     49 	-cpuprofile file
     50 		Write a CPU profile for the compilation to file.
     51 	-dynlink
     52 		Allow references to Go symbols in shared libraries (experimental).
     53 	-e
     54 		Remove the limit on the number of errors reported (default limit is 10).
     55 	-h
     56 		Halt with a stack trace at the first error detected.
     57 	-importmap old=new
     58 		Interpret import "old" as import "new" during compilation.
     59 		The option may be repeated to add multiple mappings.
     60 	-installsuffix suffix
     61 		Look for packages in $GOROOT/pkg/$GOOS_$GOARCH_suffix
     62 		instead of $GOROOT/pkg/$GOOS_$GOARCH.
     63 	-largemodel
     64 		Generated code that assumes a large memory model.
     65 	-memprofile file
     66 		Write memory profile for the compilation to file.
     67 	-memprofilerate rate
     68 		Set runtime.MemProfileRate for the compilation to rate.
     69 	-nolocalimports
     70 		Disallow local (relative) imports.
     71 	-o file
     72 		Write object to file (default file.o or, with -pack, file.a).
     73 	-p path
     74 		Set expected package import path for the code being compiled,
     75 		and diagnose imports that would cause a circular dependency.
     76 	-pack
     77 		Write a package (archive) file rather than an object file
     78 	-race
     79 		Compile with race detector enabled.
     80 	-u
     81 		Disallow importing packages not marked as safe; implies -nolocalimports.
     82 
     83 There are also a number of debugging flags; run the command with no arguments
     84 for a usage message.
     85 
     86 Compiler Directives
     87 
     88 The compiler accepts compiler directives in the form of // comments at the
     89 beginning of a line. To distinguish them from non-directive comments, the directives
     90 require no space between the slashes and the name of the directive. However, since
     91 they are comments, tools unaware of the directive convention or of a particular
     92 directive can skip over a directive like any other comment.
     93 
     94 	//line path/to/file:linenumber
     95 
     96 The //line directive specifies that the source line that follows should be recorded
     97 as having come from the given file path and line number. Successive lines are
     98 recorded using increasing line numbers, until the next directive. This directive
     99 typically appears in machine-generated code, so that compilers and debuggers
    100 will show lines in the original input to the generator.
    101 
    102 The //line directive is an historical special case; all other directives are of the form
    103 //go:name, indicating that the directive is defined by the Go toolchain.
    104 
    105 	//go:noescape
    106 
    107 The //go:noescape directive specifies that the next declaration in the file, which
    108 must be a func without a body (meaning that it has an implementation not written
    109 in Go) does not allow any of the pointers passed as arguments to escape into the
    110 heap or into the values returned from the function. This information can be used as
    111 during the compiler's escape analysis of Go code calling the function.
    112 
    113 	//go:nosplit
    114 
    115 The //go:nosplit directive specifies that the next function declared in the file must
    116 not include a stack overflow check. This is most commonly used by low-level
    117 runtime sources invoked at times when it is unsafe for the calling goroutine to be
    118 preempted.
    119 
    120 	//go:linkname localname importpath.name
    121 
    122 The //go:linkname directive instructs the compiler to use ``importpath.name'' as the
    123 object file symbol name for the variable or function declared as ``localname'' in the
    124 source code. Because this directive can subvert the type system and package
    125 modularity, it is only enabled in files that have imported "unsafe".
    126 */
    127 package main
    128