<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Ah, got it. Sorry for being brusque—the question coming in on swift-users rather than swift-dev threw me off. If you need help with tests feel free to ask! (…but probably on swift-dev)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2017, at 22:09, Atul Sowani via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Thanks Kyle and Jordan! That's the information I was looking for. Anyway I am not using these options explicitly, but found that they are invoked while Swift test suite is run. A few test cases are failing for me on ppc64le and while analyzing it I came across these options. Thanks for the info!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Atul.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Jordan Rose <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jordan_rose@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">jordan_rose@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">-c is an alias for -emit-object. -frontend is "magically start talking to Swift's implementation details" and you shouldn't use it. More info in <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Driver.md" target="_blank" class="">docs/Driver.md</a>.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2017, at 14:23, Kyle Murray via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-2208320330942142784Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Looks like it's an alias for <font face="Menlo" class="">-emit-object</font>:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/include/swift/Option/Options.td#L576" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/apple/<wbr class="">swift/blob/master/include/<wbr class="">swift/Option/Options.td#L576</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...which will give an object file as output rather than the default, an executable. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Kyle<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2017, at 1:49 AM, Atul Sowani via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-2208320330942142784Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is the purpose of "-frontend -c" arguments of swift? I tried "swift --help" but that does not mention it. Also I couldn't find it easily in any swift documents. Can somebody kindly let me know the purpose of these arguments?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Atul.</div></div>
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