c

Prevents linking.

IDE Equivalent

None

Architectures

IA-32 architecture, Intel® 64 architecture, IA-64 architecture

Syntax

Linux and Mac OS:	-c
Windows:	/c

Arguments

None

Default

OFF	Linking is performed.

Description

This option prevents linking. Compilation stops after the object file is generated.

The compiler generates an object file for each C or C++ source file or preprocessed source file. It also takes an assembler file and invokes the assembler to generate an object file.

Alternate Options

None