=head1 DESCRIPTION
The B<llvm-gcc> command is the LLVM C front end. It is a modified
-version of gcc that takes C programs and compiles them into LLVM
-bytecode or assembly language, depending upon the options.
+version of gcc that compiles C/ObjC programs into native objects, LLVM
+bytecode or LLVM assembly language, depending upon the options.
-Unless the B<-S> option is specified, B<llvm-gcc> will use the
-L<gccas|gccas> program to perform some optimizations and create an
-LLVM bytecode file. Unless the B<-c> option is specified, B<llvm-gcc>
-will also use the L<gccld|gccld> program to perform further
-optimizations and link the resulting bytecode file(s) with support
-libraries to create an executable program.
+By default, B<llvm-gcc> compiles to native objects just like GCC does. If the
+B<-emit-llvm> option is given then it will generate LLVM bytecode files instead.
+If B<-S> (assembly) is also given, then it will generate LLVM assembly.
Being derived from the GNU Compiler Collection, B<llvm-gcc> has many
of gcc's features and accepts most of gcc's options. It handles a
Link in the library libI<name>.[bc | a | so]. This library should
be a bytecode library.
-=item B<-Wa,>I<option>
+=item B<-emit-llvm>
-Pass I<option> to gccas
-
-=item B<-Wl,>I<option>
-
-Pass I<option> to gccld
-
-=item B<-Wa,-disable-inlining -Wl,-disable-inlining>
-
-Fully disable all inlining
+Make the output be LLVM bytecode (or assembly) instead of native object (or
+assembly).
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=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<llvm-g++|llvmgxx>, L<gccas|gccas>, L<gccld|gccld>
+L<llvm-g++|llvmgxx>
=head1 AUTHORS
-Maintained by the LLVM Team (L<http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu>).
+Maintained by the LLVM Team (L<http://llvm.org>).
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