The Mercury User’s Guide: Target options

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9.8.2 Target options

--target c (grades: none, reg, asm_fast, hlc)

--csharp, --target csharp (grades: csharp)

--java, --target java (grades: java)

Specify the target language used for compilation: C, C# or Java. C means ANSI/ISO C, optionally with GNU C extensions (see below). Targets other than C imply ‘--high-level-code’.

--compile-to-c

--compile-to-C

An abbreviation for ‘--target c --target-code-only’. Generate C code in module.c, but do not invoke the C compiler to generate object code.

--csharp-only

An abbreviation for ‘--target csharp --target-code-only’. Generate C# code in module.cs, but do not invoke the C# compiler to produce CIL bytecode.

--java-only

An abbreviation for ‘--target java --target-code-only’. Generate Java code in module.java, but do not invoke the Java compiler to produce Java bytecode.