B.2.93.1 Examples

In this example, compilation and linking occur in a single step:

cc -xipo -xO4 -o prog part1.c part2.c part3.c

The optimizer performs crossfile inlining across all three source files. This is done in the final link step, so the compilation of the source files need not all take place in a single compilation and could take place over a number of separate compilations, each specifying -xipo.

In this example, compilation and linking occur in separate steps:

cc -xipo -xO4 -c part1.c part2.c
cc -xipo -xO4 -c part3.c
cc -xipo -xO4 -o prog part1.o part2.o part3.o

A restriction is that libraries, even if compiled with -xipo, do not participate in crossfile interprocedural analysis, as this example shows:

cc -xipo -xO4 one.c two.c three.c
ar -r mylib.a one.o two.o three.o
...
cc -xipo -xO4 -o myprog main.c four.c mylib.a

Here interprocedural optimizations are performed between one.c, two.c and three.c, and between main.c and four.c, but not between main.c or four.c and the routines on mylib.a. (The first compilation may generate warnings about undefined symbols, but the interprocedural optimizations are performed because it is a compile and link step.)