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16 <p>These documents are HTML versions of the <a href="man/man1/">man pages</a>
17 for all of the LLVM tools. These pages describe how to use the LLVM commands
18 and what their options are. Note that these pages do not describe all of the
19 options available for all tools. To get a complete listing, pass the
20 <tt>-help</tt> (general options) or <tt>-help-hidden</tt> (general+debugging
21 options) arguments to the tool you are interested in.</p>
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27 <a name="basic">Basic Commands</a>
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35 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-as.html"><b>llvm-as</b></a> -
36 assemble a human-readable .ll file into bytecode</li>
38 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-dis.html"><b>llvm-dis</b></a> -
39 disassemble a bytecode file into a human-readable .ll file</li>
41 <li><a href="/cmds/opt.html"><b>opt</b></a> -
42 run a series of LLVM-to-LLVM optimizations on a bytecode file</li>
44 <li><a href="/cmds/llc.html"><b>llc</b></a> -
45 generate native machine code for a bytecode file</li>
47 <li><a href="/cmds/lli.html"><b>lli</b></a> -
48 directly run a program compiled to bytecode using a JIT compiler or
51 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-link.html"><b>llvm-link</b></a> -
52 link several bytecode files into one</li>
54 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-ar.html"><b>llvm-ar</b></a> -
55 archive bytecode files</li>
57 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-ranlib.html"><b>llvm-ranlib</b></a> -
58 create an index for archives made with llvm-ar</li>
60 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-nm.html"><b>llvm-nm</b></a> -
61 print out the names and types of symbols in a bytecode file</li>
63 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-prof.html"><b>llvm-prof</b></a> -
64 format raw `<tt>llvmprof.out</tt>' data into a human-readable report</li>
66 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-ld.html"><b>llvm-ld</b></a> -
67 general purpose linker with loadable runtime optimization support</li>
69 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-config.html"><b>llvm-config</b></a> -
70 print out LLVM compilation options, libraries, etc. as configured</li>
72 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-diff.html"><b>llvm-diff</b></a> -
73 structurally compare two modules</li>
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81 <a name="frontend">C and C++ Front-end Commands</a>
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88 <li><a href="/cmds/llvmgcc.html"><b>llvm-gcc</b></a> -
89 GCC-based C front-end for LLVM
91 <li><a href="/cmds/llvmgxx.html"><b>llvm-g++</b></a> -
92 GCC-based C++ front-end for LLVM</li>
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100 <a name="debug">Debugging Tools</a>
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109 <li><a href="/cmds/bugpoint.html"><b>bugpoint</b></a> -
110 automatic test-case reducer</li>
112 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-extract.html"><b>llvm-extract</b></a> -
113 extract a function from an LLVM bytecode file</li>
115 <li><a href="/cmds/llvm-bcanalyzer.html"><b>llvm-bcanalyzer</b></a> -
116 bytecode analyzer (analyzes the binary encoding itself, not the program it
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124 <a name="internal">Internal Tools</a>
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131 <li><a href="/cmds/FileCheck.html"><b>FileCheck</b></a> -
132 Flexible file verifier used extensively by the testing harness</li>
133 <li><a href="/cmds/tblgen.html"><b>tblgen</b></a> -
134 target description reader and generator</li>
135 <li><a href="/cmds/lit.html"><b>lit</b></a> -
136 LLVM Integrated Tester, for running tests</li>
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