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-rw-r--r--tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst17
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/CompilerDriver.html b/docs/CompilerDriver.html
index 769d053c72..fcd66bab3a 100644
--- a/docs/CompilerDriver.html
+++ b/docs/CompilerDriver.html
@@ -263,13 +263,18 @@ separate option groups syntactically.</p>
<li><p class="first">Possible option types:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">switch_option</span></tt> - a simple boolean switch, for example <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-time</span></tt>.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parameter_option</span></tt> - option that takes an argument, for example
-<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-std=c99</span></tt>;</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">switch_option</span></tt> - a simple boolean switch without arguments,
+for example <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-O2</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-time</span></tt>.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parameter_option</span></tt> - option that takes one argument, for
+example <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-std=c99</span></tt>. It is also allowed to use spaces instead of
+the equality sign: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-std</span> <span class="pre">c99</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parameter_list_option</span></tt> - same as the above, but more than one
-occurence of the option is allowed.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">prefix_option</span></tt> - same as the parameter_option, but the option name
-and parameter value are not separated.</li>
+option occurence is allowed.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">prefix_option</span></tt> - same as the parameter_option, but the option
+name and argument do not have to be separated. Example:
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-ofile</span></tt>. This can be also specified as <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-o</span> <span class="pre">file</span></tt>; however,
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-o=file</span></tt> will be parsed incorrectly (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">=file</span></tt> will be
+interpreted as option value).</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">prefix_list_option</span></tt> - same as the above, but more than one
occurence of the option is allowed; example: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-lm</span> <span class="pre">-lpthread</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">alias_option</span></tt> - a special option type for creating
@@ -588,7 +593,7 @@ status code.</p>
<a href="mailto:foldr@codedgers.com">Mikhail Glushenkov</a><br />
<a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br />
-Last modified: $Date$
+Last modified: $Date: 2008-12-11 11:34:48 -0600 (Thu, 11 Dec 2008) $
</address></div>
</div>
</div>
diff --git a/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst b/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst
index 1c0da18189..e28def74d5 100644
--- a/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst
+++ b/tools/llvmc/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst
@@ -262,16 +262,21 @@ separate option groups syntactically.
* Possible option types:
- - ``switch_option`` - a simple boolean switch, for example ``-time``.
+ - ``switch_option`` - a simple boolean switch without arguments,
+ for example ``-O2`` or ``-time``.
- - ``parameter_option`` - option that takes an argument, for example
- ``-std=c99``;
+ - ``parameter_option`` - option that takes one argument, for
+ example ``-std=c99``. It is also allowed to use spaces instead of
+ the equality sign: ``-std c99``.
- ``parameter_list_option`` - same as the above, but more than one
- occurence of the option is allowed.
+ option occurence is allowed.
- - ``prefix_option`` - same as the parameter_option, but the option name
- and parameter value are not separated.
+ - ``prefix_option`` - same as the parameter_option, but the option
+ name and argument do not have to be separated. Example:
+ ``-ofile``. This can be also specified as ``-o file``; however,
+ ``-o=file`` will be parsed incorrectly (``=file`` will be
+ interpreted as option value).
- ``prefix_list_option`` - same as the above, but more than one
occurence of the option is allowed; example: ``-lm -lpthread``.