Thanks Diego, but I think that my previous question was not very clear. I asked for a gcc option to compile Gimple file directly (I have no file.c) I have file.gimple and I want to tell compiler: start your job from converting gimple to ssa and continue until reaching binary code. thank you Asma ----- Message d'origine ---- De : Diego Novillo <dnovillo@xxxxxxxxxx> À : charfi asma <charfiasma@xxxxxxxx> Cc : gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Envoyé le : Jeu 28 Janvier 2010, 15 h 31 min 31 s Objet : Re: [Gimple] look for gcc command to start compiling from GIMPLE On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:20, charfi asma <charfiasma@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > i,e. How to tell compiler : do not run genericise.c nor gimplify.c > for example, If we want compiler to stop just after preprocessing, we use -E coptions. > So, is there an options that tells compiler: do not preprocess and start compiling from gimple IR. With gcc 4.5 you'll be able to do it using the LTO machinery with the -flto switch: $ gcc -flto -c file.c generates file.o which contains a mix of gimple IL and final assembly. The representation of gimple is not in text form, however. Diego.