Qoption

Passes options to a specified tool.

IDE Equivalent

None

Architectures

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

Syntax

Linux and Mac OS:	-Qoption,string,options
Windows:	/Qoption,string,options

Arguments

string	Is the name of the tool.
options	Are one or more comma-separated, valid options for the designated tool.

Default

OFF	No options are passed to tools.

Description

This option passes options to a specified tool.

If an argument contains a space or tab character, you must enclose the entire argument in quotation marks (" "). You must separate multiple arguments with commas.

string can be any of the following:

asm - Indicates the assembler.
link - Indicates the linker.
prof - Indicates the profiler.
On Windows systems, the following is also available:

masm - Indicates the Microsoft assembler.

On Linux and Mac OS systems, the following are also available:

as - Indicates the assembler.
gas - Indicates the GNU assembler.
ld - Indicates the loader.
gld - Indicates the GNU loader.
lib - Indicates an additional library.
crt - Indicates the crt%.o files linked into executables to contain the place to start execution.

Alternate Options