cobc1

Manual page for cobc 3.2.0

Usage

cobc [options] ... file ...

Overview

GnuCOBOL compiler for most COBOL dialects with lots of extensions

Options

-h, --help: display this help and exit

-V, --version: display compiler version information and exit

-dumpversion: display compiler version and exit

-i, --info: display compiler information (build/environment) and exit

-v, --verbose: verbose mode, display additional information; multiple -v options increase the verbosity, the maximum is 3 as follows: (1) display compiler version and the commands invoked by the compiler, (2) pass verbose option to assembler/compiler (3) pass verbose option to linker

-q, --brief: reduced displays, commands invoked not shown

-###: like -v but commands not executed

-x: build an executable program

-m: build a dynamically loadable module (default)

-j [<args>], --job[=<args>]: run program after build, passing <args>

-std=<dialect>: warnings/features for a specific dialect <dialect> can be one of: default, cobol2014, cobol2002, cobol85, xopen, ibm-strict, ibm, mvs-strict, mvs, mf-strict, mf, bs2000-strict, bs2000, acu-strict, acu, rm-strict, rm, gcos-strict, gcos; see configuration files in directory config

-F, --free: use free source format (alias for -fformat=free)

--fixed: use fixed source format (default; alias for -fformat=fixed)

-O, -O2, -O3, -Os: enable optimization

-O0: disable optimization

-g: enable C compiler debug and stack check

-d, --debug: enable all run-time error checking, equal to -fstack-check -fec=EC-ALL

-fec=<exception-name> enable code generation for <exception-name>,: see --list-exceptions for the possible values, sets -fsource-location

-fno-ec=<exception-name>: disable code generation for <exception-name>

-o <file>: place the output into <file>

-b: combine all input files into a single dynamically loadable module

-E: preprocess only; do not compile or link

-C: translation only; convert COBOL to C

-S: compile only; output assembly file

-c: compile and assemble, but do not link

-T <file>: generate and place a wide program listing into <file>

-t <file>: generate and place a program listing into <file>

--tlines=<lines>: specify lines per page in listing, default = 55

-P[=<dir or file>]: generate preprocessed program listing (.lst)

-X, --Xref: specify cross reference in listing

-I <directory>: add <directory> to copy/include search path

-L <directory>: add <directory> to library search path

-l <lib>: link the library <lib>

-K <entry>: generate CALL to <entry> as static

-D <define>: define <define> for COBOL compilation

-A <options>: add <options> to the C compile phase

-Q <options>: add <options> to the C link phase

--coverage: instrument generated binaries for coverage

--conf=<file>: user-defined dialect configuration; see -std

--list-reserved: display reserved words

--list-intrinsics: display intrinsic functions

--list-mnemonics: display mnemonic names

--list-exceptions: display exception names

--list-system: display system routines

--save-temps[=<dir>]: save intermediate files * default: current directory

-MT <target>: set/add target file used in dependency list

-MF <file>: place dependency list into <file>

-ext <extension>: add file extension for resolving COPY

Warning options:

-Wall: enable most warnings (all except as noted below)

-Wextra: like -Wall but enable some extra warning flags

-w: disable all warnings

-Wno-<warning>: disable warning enabled by default, -Wall or -Wextra

-Wadditional: additional warnings only raised with -Wall

-Wno-unfinished: do not warn if unfinished features are used * ALWAYS active

-Wno-pending: do not warn if pending features are used * ALWAYS active

-Wno-repository-checks: do not warn/check for program/function/external signature mismatch * ALWAYS active

-Wno-ignored-error: do not warn about errors in code parts which are unreachable and so normally ignored * ALWAYS active

-Wobsolete: warn if obsolete features are used

-Warchaic: warn if archaic features are used

-Wredefinition: warn about non-referenced ambiguous data items

-Wtruncate: warn about field truncation from constant assignments

-Wpossible-truncate: warn about possible field truncation * NOT set with -Wall

-Woverlap: warn about overlapping MOVE of items

-Wpossible-overlap: warn about MOVE of items that may overlap depending on variables * NOT set with -Wall

-Wparentheses: warn if parentheses are omitted around AND within OR

-Wstrict-typing: warn strictly about type mismatch, even when same size * NOT set with -Wall

-Wtyping: warn about type mismatch

-Wimplicit-define: warn whenever data items are implicitly defined * NOT set with -Wall

-Wno-corresponding: do not warn about CORRESPONDING with no matching items * ALWAYS active

-Winitial-value: warn if initial VALUE clause is ignored

-Wprototypes: warn about missing FUNCTION prototypes/definitions

-Warithmetic-osvs: warn if arithmetic expression precision has changed

-Wcall-params: warn about non 01/77 items for CALL parameters * NOT set with -Wall

-Wconstant-expression: warn about expressions that always resolve to true/false

-Wconstant-numlit-expression: warn about numeric expressions that always resolve to true/false

-Wlarger-01-redefines: warn about larger redefines allowed by COBOL standards

-Wcolumn-overflow: warn about text after program-text area, FIXED format * NOT set with -Wall

-Wterminator: warn about lack of scope terminator END-XXX * NOT set with -Wall

-Wlinkage: warn about dangling LINKAGE items * NOT set with -Wall

-Wunreachable: warn about likely unreachable statements * NOT set with -Wall

-Wno-dialect: do not warn about dialect specific issues * ALWAYS active

-Wno-goto-section: do not warn about GO TO section-name * ALWAYS active

-Wgoto-different-section: warn about GO TO a praragraph defined in a different section

-Wsuspicious-perform-thru: warn if PERFORM THRU references procedures not in ascending order or multiple sections * ALWAYS active

-Wdangling-text: warn about source text after program-area * NOT set with -Wall

-Wno-missing-newline: do not warn about missing newlines * ALWAYS active

-Wno-others: do not warn about different issues * ALWAYS active

-Wno-unsupported: do not warn if runtime does not support a feature used

-fdiagnostics-plain-output: make diagnostic output as plain as possible

-Werror: treat all warnings as errors

-Wno-error: don't treat warnings as errors

-Werror=<warning>: treat specified <warning> as error

-Wno-error=<warning>: don't treat specified <warning> as error

Compiler options:

-fsign=[ASCII|EBCDIC] define display sign representation: * default: machine native

-ffold-copy=[UPPER|LOWER]: fold COPY subject to value * default: no transformation

-ffold-call=[UPPER|LOWER]: fold PROGRAM-ID, CALL, CANCEL subject to value * default: no transformation

`-fmax-errors=<number> maximum number of errors to report before`	compilation is aborted * default: 128
`-fintrinsics=[ALL\|intrinsic function name(,name,...)]`	intrinsics to be used without FUNCTION keyword

-fdump=<scope>: dump data fields on abort, <scope> may be a combination of: ALL, WS, LS, RD, FD, SC, LO

-fcallfh=<name>: specifies <name> to be used for I/O as external provided EXTFH interface module

-febcdic-table=<cconv-table>/<file>: EBCDIC/ASCII translation table * e.g. default, ebcdic500_latin1...

-fdefault-colseq=[ASCII|EBCDIC|NATIVE]: define default collating sequence * default: NATIVE

-fstack-extended: store origin of entrypoints and PERFORM * turned on by --debug/-fdump

-fno-remove-unreachable: disable remove of unreachable code * turned off by -g

-ftrace: generate trace code * scope: executed SECTION/PARAGRAPH

-ftraceall: generate trace code * scope: executed SECTION/PARAGRAPH/STATEMENTS

-fsyntax-only: syntax error checking only; don't emit any output

-fdebugging-line: enable debugging lines * 'D' in indicator column or floating >>D

-fsource-location: generate source location code * turned on by --debug/-ftraceall/-fec/-fdump

-fimplicit-init: automatic initialization of the COBOL runtime system

-fno-recursive-check: disable check of recursive program call; effectively compiling as RECURSIVE program

-fstack-check: PERFORM stack checking * turned on by --debug/-g

-fmemory-check=<scope>: checks for invalid writes to internal storage, <scope> may be one of: all, pointer, using, none * default: none, set to all by --debug

-fsection-exit-check: check that code execution does not leave the scope of SECTIONs

-fimplicit-goback-check: check that code execution does not end implicit at end of PROCEDURE DIVISION

-fwrite-after: use AFTER 1 for WRITE of LINE SEQUENTIAL * default: BEFORE 1

-fmfcomment: '*' in column 1 treated as comment with listing suppression * FIXED/COBOL85/VARIABLE format only

-facucomment: '$' in indicator area treated as '*', '|' treated as floating comment

-fno-trunc: allow numeric field overflow * non-ANSI behaviour

-fsingle-quote: use a single quote (apostrophe) for QUOTE * default: double quote

-foptional-file: treat all files as OPTIONAL * unless NOT OPTIONAL specified

-fstatic-call: output static function calls for the CALL statement

-fno-gen-c-decl-static-call: disable generation of C function declarations for subroutines with static CALL

-fgen-c-line-directives: generate source location directives in C code; * turned on by -g/--coverage

-fgen-c-labels: generate extra labels in C sources; * turned on by -g

-fno-theaders: suppress all headers from listing while keeping page breaks

-fno-tsource: suppress source from listing

-fno-tmessages: suppress warning and error summary from listing

-ftsymbols: specify symbols in listing

-ftcmd: specify command line in listing

-fno-ttimestamp: suppress timestamp in listing headers

-fttitle=<title>: set listing title with '_' replaced by spaces; defaults to package name and version

-fno-diagnostics-show-option: suppress output of option that directly controls the diagnostic

-fno-diagnostics-show-caret: do not display source context on warning/error diagnostic

-fno-diagnostics-show-line-numbers: suppress display of line numbers in diagnostics

Compiler dialect configuration options:

-freserved-words=<value>: use of complete/fixed reserved words

-ftab-width=1..12: number of spaces that are assumed for tabs

-ftext-column=72..255: right margin column number for fixed-form reference-format

-fpic-length=<number>: maximum number of characters allowed in the PICTURE character-string

-fword-length=1..63: maximum word-length for COBOL (= programmer defined) words

-fliteral-length=<number>: maximum literal size in general

-fnumeric-literal-length=1..38: maximum numeric literal size

-fdefaultbyte=<value>: default initialization for fields without VALUE, may be one of * character in quotes * decimal 0..255 representing a character * "init" to initialize to PICTURE/USAGE * "none" to do no explicit initialization * default: "init"

-fformat=<value>: default reference-format, may be one of: FIXED, FREE, COBOL85, VARIABLE, XOPEN, XCARD, CRT, TERMINAL, COBOLX

-fbinary-size=<value>: binary byte size - defines the allocated bytes according to PIC, may be one of: 2-4-8, 1-2-4-8, 1--8

-fbinary-byteorder=<value>: binary byte order, may be one of: native, big-endian

-fassign-clause=<value>: how to interpret 'ASSIGN word': as 'ASSIGN EXTERNAL word' or 'ASSIGN DYNAMIC word', may be one of: dynamic, external, ibm (= external), mf (= dynamic)

-fscreen-section-rules=<value>: which compiler's rules to apply to SCREEN SECTION item clauses, may be one of: acu, gc, mf, rm, std, xopen

-fdpc-in-data=<value>: whether DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA has effect in XML/JSON GENERATE, may be one of: none, xml, json, all

-fsubscript-check=<value>: checking for subscript (only done with EC-BOUND-SUBSCRIPT active), may be one of: full, max, record

-ffilename-mapping: resolve file names at run time using environment variables

-fpretty-display: alternate formatting of numeric fields

-fbinary-truncate: numeric truncation according to ANSI

-fcomplex-odo: allow non-standard OCCURS DEPENDING ON syntax

-fodoslide: adjust items following OCCURS DEPENDING (implies complex-odo)

-finit-justify: applies JUSTIFY with VALUE clause

-findirect-redefines: allow REDEFINES to other than last equal level number

-frelax-syntax-checks: allow certain syntax variations (e.g. REDEFINES position)

-fref-mod-zero-length: allow zero length reference-modification (only changed with EC-BOUND-REF-MOD active)

-frelax-level-hierarchy: allow non-matching level numbers

-fselect-working: require ASSIGN USING items to be in WORKING-STORAGE

-flocal-implies-recursive: LOCAL-STORAGE SECTION implies RECURSIVE attribute

-fsticky-linkage: LINKAGE SECTION items remain allocated between invocations

-fmove-ibm: MOVE operates as on IBM (left to right, byte by byte)

-fperform-osvs: exit point of any currently executing perform is recognized if reached

-farithmetic-osvs: limit precision in intermediate results to precision of final result (less accurate)

-fconstant-folding: evaluate constant expressions at compile time

-fhostsign: allow hexadecimal value 'F' for NUMERIC test of signed PACKED DECIMAL field

-fprogram-name-redefinition: program names don't lead to a reserved identifier

-faccept-update: set WITH UPDATE clause as default for ACCEPT dest-item, instead of WITH NO UPDATE

-faccept-auto: set WITH AUTO clause as default for ACCEPT dest-item, instead of WITH TAB

-fconsole-is-crt: assume CONSOLE IS CRT if not set otherwise

-fno-echo-means-secure: NO-ECHO hides input with asterisks like SECURE

-fline-col-zero-default: assume a field DISPLAY starts at LINE 0 COL 0 (i.e. at the cursor), not LINE 1 COL 1

-fdisplay-special-fig-consts: special behaviour of DISPLAY SPACE/ALL X'01'/ALL X'02'/ALL X'07'

-fbinary-comp-1: COMP-1 is a 16-bit signed integer

-fnumeric-pointer: POINTER is a 64-bit unsigned integer

-fmove-non-numeric-lit-to-numeric-is-zero: imply zero in move of non-numeric literal to numeric items

-fimplicit-assign-dynamic-var implicitly define a variable if an ASSIGN DYNAMIC does not match any data item

-fdevice-mnemonics: specifying device by mnemonic

-fxml-parse-xmlss: XML PARSE XMLSS

-fareacheck: check contents of Area A (when reference format supports Area A enforcement), enabled checks include: * division, section, paragraph names, level indicators (FD, SD, RD, and CD),

and toplevel numbers (01 and 77) must start in Area A;: * statements must not start in Area A; and * separator periods must not be within Area A

-fcomment-paragraphs=<support>: comment paragraphs in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION (AUTHOR, DATE-WRITTEN, ...)

-fcontrol-division=<support>: CONTROL DIVISION

-fpartial-replace-when-literal-src=<support>: apply partial replacing with literal source operand even when it replaces with spaces only; * "skip" prevents such replacements

-fmemory-size-clause=<support>: MEMORY-SIZE clause

-fmultiple-file-tape-clause=<support> MULTIPLE-FILE-TAPE clause

-flabel-records-clause=<support>: LABEL-RECORDS clause

-fvalue-of-clause=<support>: VALUE-OF clause

-fdata-records-clause=<support>: DATA-RECORDS clause

-ftop-level-occurs-clause=<support>: OCCURS clause on top-level

-fsame-as-clause=<support>: SAME AS clause

-ftype-to-clause=<support>: TYPE TO clause

-fusage-type=<support>: USAGE type-name

-fsynchronized-clause=<support>: SYNCHRONIZED clause

-fsync-left-right=<support>: LEFT/RIGHT phrases in SYNCHRONIZED clause

-fspecial-names-clause=<support>: SPECIAL-NAMES clause

-fgoto-statement-without-name=<support>: GO TO statement without name

-fstop-literal-statement=<support>: STOP-literal statement

-fstop-identifier-statement=<support> STOP-identifier statement

-fstop-error-statement=<support>: STOP ERROR statement

-fdebugging-mode=<support>: DEBUGGING MODE and debugging indicator

-fuse-for-debugging=<support> USE FOR DEBUGGING

-fpadding-character-clause=<support>: PADDING CHARACTER clause

-fnext-sentence-phrase=<support>: NEXT SENTENCE phrase

-flisting-statements=<support>: listing-directive statements EJECT, SKIP1, SKIP2, SKIP3

-ftitle-statement=<support>: listing-directive statement TITLE

-fentry-statement=<support>: ENTRY statement

-fmove-noninteger-to-alphanumeric=<support>: move noninteger to alphanumeric

-fmove-figurative-constant-to-numeric=<support>: move figurative constants to numeric

-fmove-figurative-space-to-numeric=<support>: move figurative constant SPACE to numeric

-fmove-figurative-quote-to-numeric=<support>: move figurative constant QUOTE to numeric

-fodo-without-to=<support>: OCCURS DEPENDING ON without to

-fsection-segments=<support>: section segments

-falter-statement=<support>: ALTER statement

-fcall-overflow=<support>: OVERFLOW clause for CALL

-fnumeric-boolean=<support>: boolean literals (B'1010')

-fhexadecimal-boolean=<support>: hexadecimal-boolean literals (BX'A')

-fnational-literals=<support> national literals (N'UTF-16 string')

-fhexadecimal-national-literals=<support>: hexadecimal-national literals (NX'265E')

-fnational-character-literals=<support>: non-standard national literals (NC'UTF-16 string')

-fhp-octal-literals=<support> HP COBOL octal literals (%377)

-facu-literals=<support>: ACUCOBOL-GT literals (#B #O #H #X)

-febcdic-symbolic-characters: EBCDIC symbolic characters in literals (" "135,151,151"bar"195, 194"Z" for " foobarBAZ")

-fword-continuation=<support> continuation of COBOL words

-fnot-exception-before-exception=<support>: NOT ON EXCEPTION before ON EXCEPTION

-faccept-display-extensions=<support> extensions to ACCEPT and DISPLAY

-frenames-uncommon-levels=<support>: RENAMES of 01-, 66- and 77-level items

-flarger-redefines=<support>: allow larger REDEFINES items

-fsymbolic-constant=<support> constants defined in SPECIAL-NAMES

-fconstant-78=<support>: constant with level 78 item (note: has left to right precedence in expressions)

-fconstant-01=<support>: constant with level 01 CONSTANT AS/FROM item

-fperform-varying-without-by=<support>: PERFORM VARYING without BY phrase (implies BY 1)

-freference-out-of-declaratives=<support>: references to sections not in DECLARATIVES from within DECLARATIVES

-fprogram-prototypes=<support>: CALL/CANCEL with program-prototype-name

-fcall-convention-mnemonic=<support>: specifying call-convention by mnemonic

-fcall-convention-linkage=<support>: specifying call-convention by WITH ... LINKAGE

-fusing-optional=<support>: support for PROCEDURE DIVISION USING OPTIONAL

-fnumeric-value-for-edited-item=<support>: numeric literals in VALUE clause of numeric-edited items

-fincorrect-conf-sec-order=<support>: incorrect order of CONFIGURATION SECTION paragraphs

-fdefine-constant-directive=<support> allow >> DEFINE CONSTANT var AS literal

-ffree-redefines-position=<support>: REDEFINES clause not following entry-name in definition

-frecords-mismatch-record-clause=<support>: record sizes does not match RECORD clause

-frecord-delimiter=<support>: RECORD DELIMITER clause

-fsequential-delimiters=<support>: BINARY-SEQUENTIAL and LINE-SEQUENTIAL phrases in RECORD DELIMITER

-frecord-delim-with-fixed-recs=<support>: RECORD DELIMITER clause on file with fixed-length records

-fmissing-statement=<support> missing statement (e.g. empty IF / PERFORM)

-fmissing-period=<support>: missing period in PROCEDURE DIVISION (when reference format supports Area A enforcement)

-fzero-length-literals=<support>: zero-length literals, e.g. '' and ""

-fxml-generate-extra-phrases=<support>: XML GENERATE's phrases other than COUNT IN

-fcontinue-after=<support>: AFTER phrase in CONTINUE statement

-fgoto-entry=<support>: ENTRY FOR GO TO and GO TO ENTRY statements

-fassign-variable=<support>: ASSIGN [TO] variable in SELECT

-fassign-using-variable=<support>: ASSIGN USING/VARYING variable in SELECT

-fassign-ext-dyn=<support>: ASSIGN EXTERNAL/DYNAMIC in SELECT

-fassign-disk-from=<support>: ASSIGN DISK FROM variable in SELECT

-fvsam-status=<support>: VSAM status in FILE STATUS

-fself-call-recursive=<support>: CALL to own PROGRAM-ID implies RECURSIVE attribute

-frecord-contains-depending-clause=<support>: DEPENDING clause in RECORD CONTAINS

-fpicture-l=<support>: PICTURE string with 'L' character

: where <support> is one of the following: 'ok', 'warning', 'archaic', 'obsolete', 'skip', 'ignore', 'error', 'unconformable'

-fnot-reserved=<word>: word to be taken out of the reserved words list

-freserved=<word>: word to be added to reserved words list

-freserved=<word>:<alias>: word to be added to reserved words list as alias

-fnot-register=<word>: special register to disable

-fregister=<word> or <word>:<definition>, where definition uses backslash esca: special register to enable

Releases

8 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 3 times.

-### since Debian 10 (Buster); --Xref since Debian 13 (Trixie); --brief since Debian 13 (Trixie); --conf since Debian 13 (Trixie); --coverage since Debian 13 (Trixie); --debug since Debian 13 (Trixie); --fixed since Debian 13 (Trixie); --free since Debian 13 (Trixie); --help since Debian 13 (Trixie); --info since Debian 13 (Trixie); --job since Debian 13 (Trixie); --list-exceptions since Debian 13 (Trixie); --list-intrinsics since Debian 13 (Trixie); --list-mnemonics since Debian 13 (Trixie); --list-reserved since Debian 13 (Trixie); --list-system since Debian 13 (Trixie); --save-temps since Debian 13 (Trixie); --tlines since Debian 10 (Buster); --verbose since Debian 13 (Trixie); --version since Debian 13 (Trixie); -A since Debian 10 (Buster); -C since Debian 10 (Buster); -D since Debian 10 (Buster); -E since Debian 10 (Buster); -F since Debian 10 (Buster); -I since Debian 10 (Buster); -K since Debian 10 (Buster); -L since Debian 10 (Buster); -MF since Debian 13 (Trixie); -MT since Debian 13 (Trixie); -O since Debian 10 (Buster); -O0 since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -O2 since Debian 10 (Buster); -O3 since Debian 10 (Buster); -Os since Debian 10 (Buster); -Q since Debian 10 (Buster); -S since Debian 10 (Buster); -T since Debian 10 (Buster); -V since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wadditional since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wall since Debian 10 (Buster); -Warchaic since Debian 10 (Buster); -Warithmetic-osvs since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wcall-params since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wcolumn-overflow since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wconstant-expression since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wconstant-numlit-expression since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wdangling-text since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Werror since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wextra since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -Wgoto-different-section since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wimplicit-define since Debian 10 (Buster); -Winitial-value since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wlarger-01-redefines since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wlinkage since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wno-corresponding since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-dialect since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -Wno-error since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-goto-section since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-ignored-error since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-missing-newline since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-others since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-pending since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wno-repository-checks since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wno-unfinished since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wno-unsupported since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -Wobsolete since Debian 10 (Buster); -Woverlap since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wparentheses since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wpossible-overlap since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wpossible-truncate since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wprototypes since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wredefinition since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wstrict-typing since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wsuspicious-perform-thru since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wterminator since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wtruncate since Debian 10 (Buster); -Wtyping since Debian 13 (Trixie); -Wunreachable since Debian 10 (Buster); -X since Debian 13 (Trixie); -b since Debian 10 (Buster); -c since Debian 10 (Buster); -d since Debian 10 (Buster); -dumpversion since Debian 13 (Trixie); -ext since Debian 10 (Buster); -faccept-auto since Debian 10 (Buster); -faccept-update since Debian 10 (Buster); -facu-literals since Debian 10 (Buster); -facucomment since Debian 10 (Buster); -falter-statement since Debian 10 (Buster); -fareacheck since Debian 13 (Trixie); -farithmetic-osvs since Debian 10 (Buster); -fassign-clause since Debian 10 (Buster); -fassign-disk-from since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fassign-ext-dyn since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fassign-using-variable since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fassign-variable since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fbinary-byteorder since Debian 10 (Buster); -fbinary-comp-1 since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fbinary-size since Debian 10 (Buster); -fbinary-truncate since Debian 10 (Buster); -fcall-convention-linkage since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fcall-convention-mnemonic since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fcall-overflow since Debian 10 (Buster); -fcallfh since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fcomment-paragraphs since Debian 10 (Buster); -fcomplex-odo since Debian 10 (Buster); -fconsole-is-crt since Debian 10 (Buster); -fconstant-01 since Debian 10 (Buster); -fconstant-78 since Debian 10 (Buster); -fconstant-folding since Debian 10 (Buster); -fcontinue-after since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fcontrol-division since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fdata-records-clause since Debian 10 (Buster); -fdebugging-line since Debian 10 (Buster); -fdebugging-mode since Debian 10 (Buster); -fdefault-colseq since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fdefaultbyte since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fdevice-mnemonics since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fdiagnostics-plain-output since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fdisplay-special-fig-consts since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fdpc-in-data since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fdump since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -febcdic-symbolic-characters since Debian 13 (Trixie); -febcdic-table since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fentry-statement since Debian 10 (Buster); -ffilename-mapping since Debian 10 (Buster); -ffold-call since Debian 10 (Buster); -ffold-copy since Debian 10 (Buster); -fformat since Debian 13 (Trixie); -ffree-redefines-position since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fgen-c-labels since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fgen-c-line-directives since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fgoto-entry since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -fgoto-statement-without-name since Debian 10 (Buster); -fhexadecimal-boolean since Debian 10 (Buster); -fhexadecimal-national-literals since Debian 10 (Buster); -fhostsign since Debian 10 (Buster); -fimplicit-goback-check since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fimplicit-init since Debian 10 (Buster); -fincorrect-conf-sec-order since Debian 10 (Buster); -findirect-redefines since Debian 10 (Buster); -finit-justify since Debian 13 (Trixie); -flabel-records-clause since Debian 10 (Buster); -flarger-redefines since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fline-col-zero-default since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -flisting-statements since Debian 10 (Buster); -fliteral-length since Debian 10 (Buster); -flocal-implies-recursive since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fmemory-check since Debian 13 (Trixie); -fmemory-size-clause since Debian 10 (Buster); 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