Qoption

Passes options to a specified tool.

IDE Equivalent

None

Architectures

IA-32, Intel® EM64T, Intel® Itanium® architecture

Syntax

Linux:	-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. To use this option, you must also specify -ip (Linux), /Qip (Windows), -ipo (Linux), or /Qipo (Windows).

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:

f - Indicates the Intel Fortran compiler.
fpp (or cpp) - Indicates the Intel Fortran preprocessor.
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 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

None

Example

On Linux systems:

The following example directs the linker to link with an alternative library:

ifort -Qoption,link,-L.,-Lmylib prog1.f

On Windows systems:

The following example directs the linker to create a memory map when the compiler produces the executable file from the source being compiled:

ifort /Qoption,link,/map:prog1.map prog1.f

The following command activates procedural and interprocedural optimizations on source.f and sets the maximum increase in the number of intermediate language statements to 5 for each function: