rucc_driver/

lib.rs

//! The driver: command line parsing, the phase graph, job scheduling and the linker
//! invocation.
//!
//! Design: `spec/04-driver-and-cli.md`. Layer rank 13, see `spec/18-package-layout.md`.
//!
//! This is the only crate that is allowed to know the process exists. It reads the command
//! line, touches the file system, spawns the linker and writes to the terminal, and it hands
//! everything below it a [`Session`]. The binary crate is a `main` that calls
//! [`run`] and nothing else, so that the whole driver is reachable from a test.
//!
//! # Status
//!
//! `--help`, `--version` and `--print-config` are real, which is the `M0` exit criterion in
//! `spec/17-milestones.md`. The phase graph is real and `-###` prints it, and the scheduler
//! that will run it is real and tested.
//!
//! Two phases run. `-E` reads the file, runs phase 4 over it and writes the result, to `-o` or
//! to standard output. `--emit=tast` carries on through phase 7, the parse and the checking,
//! and writes the typed tree. The flags those two read are real with them, which is `-D`, `-U`,
//! `-I`, `-I-`, `-iquote`, `-isystem`, `-idirafter`, `-iprefix`, `-iwithprefix`,
//! `-iwithprefixbefore`, `-include`, `-imacros`, `--sysroot=`, `-isysroot`, `-P`, `-std=`,
//! `-fgnuc-version=`, `-ansi`, `-ffreestanding`, `-fno-builtin`, `-fno-builtin-<name>`,
//! `-fgnu89-inline`, `-pedantic` and `-Werror`.
//! The phases after them still say they are not implemented.
//!
//! This crate is tier 3 in `spec/18-package-layout.md` section 18.5: its Rust API is
//! explicitly unstable and will change without a major version bump.

#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/rucc-driver/0.10.3")]

pub mod compile;
pub mod deps;
pub mod library;
pub mod link;
mod map;
pub mod phase;
pub mod preprocess;
pub mod schedule;

use std::fmt::Write as _;
use std::io::Write as _;
use std::path::PathBuf;

use rucc_codegen::coverage::{self, Fired};
use rucc_pp::Dependency;
use rucc_session::{Dumps, EmitKind, Options, Preinclude, SaveTemps, Session, Std, runtime};
use rucc_target::Triple;

use crate::link::LinkOptions;

pub use crate::compile::{Artifact, Compiled, Temps, compile, compile_ir};
pub use crate::phase::{Input, InputKind, Job, LinkJob, Output, Phase, Plan};
pub use crate::preprocess::{OsFileSystem, Preprocessed, preprocess};
pub use crate::schedule::Jobs;

/// The compiler's version, taken from the workspace manifest.
pub const VERSION: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");

/// What the command line asked for.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum Action {
    /// Print usage and exit successfully.
    Help,
    /// Print the version and exit successfully.
    Version,
    /// Print one line and exit successfully, which is what the `-dump` and `-print` family do.
    ///
    /// A build system asks these before it compiles anything, and what it does with the answer
    /// is paste it into a path or into another command line, so each one is a single line with
    /// no decoration around it.
    Print(String),
    /// Print the resolved configuration and exit successfully.
    PrintConfig(Box<Options>),
    /// Print the passes the level will run and exit successfully.
    PrintPipeline(Box<Options>),
    /// Print the phase plan and the link line and exit successfully, which is `-###`.
    PrintPlan {
        /// The resolved options, which is what says what the link line is for.
        opts: Box<Options>,
        /// What to do to each input, and in what order.
        plan: Box<Plan>,
        /// What the command line said about linking.
        link: Box<LinkOptions>,
    },
    /// Compile the given inputs.
    Compile {
        /// The resolved options.
        opts: Box<Options>,
        /// What to do to each input, and in what order.
        plan: Box<Plan>,
        /// What the command line said about linking.
        link: Box<LinkOptions>,
        /// How many translation units to compile at once.
        jobs: Jobs,
        /// Whether `-v` asked for the plan to be printed while it runs.
        verbose: bool,
    },
}

/// Why a command line was rejected.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct CliError {
    /// The message, lowercase and without a trailing period, in the same shape as any other
    /// diagnostic.
    pub message: String,
}

impl std::fmt::Display for CliError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        f.write_str(&self.message)
    }
}

impl std::error::Error for CliError {}

fn err(message: impl Into<String>) -> CliError {
    CliError { message: message.into() }
}

/// A question the command line asked instead of asking for a compilation.
///
/// These are answered after the loop rather than where they are read, because every one of them
/// is about the target or about the library search and the last word on both is the end of the
/// command line.
enum Query {
    /// `-dumpmachine`, the triple.
    Machine,
    /// `-dumpversion` and `-dumpfullversion`, which are the same three numbers here.
    Version,
    /// `-print-multiarch`, the directory name a distribution files this target under.
    Multiarch,
    /// `-print-search-dirs`, in the three lines GCC prints.
    SearchDirs,
    /// `-print-file-name=<name>`, the full path of a library file.
    FileName(String),
    /// `-print-prog-name=<name>`, the full path of a program.
    ProgName(String),
    /// `-print-libgcc-file-name`, which is `-print-file-name=libgcc.a` under another spelling.
    Libgcc,
}

/// Usage text.
///
/// Deliberately short. `spec/04-driver-and-cli.md` puts the full flag reference in the
/// manual page, because a `--help` nobody can read in one screen is a `--help` nobody reads.
pub const USAGE: &str = "\
rucc, an optimizing C compiler

usage: rucc [options] file...

options:
  -c                     compile and assemble, do not link
  -S                     compile only, emit assembly
  -E                     preprocess only
  -o <file>              write output to <file>, or to standard output for -
  -D <name>[=<value>], -U <name>      define a macro, or undefine one after every -D
  -I <dir>               add <dir> to the include search path
  -iquote -isystem -idirafter <dir>   the other chains, -nostdinc drops ours
  -I-, -iprefix <p>, -iwithprefix[before] <dir>   the older spellings of those
  -include <file>, -imacros <file>    read <file> first, the second for its macros only
  --sysroot=<dir>        look for the library's headers under <dir>, -isysroot too
  -P, -dM                with -E: leave out the markers, or dump the macros
  -M -MM -MD -MMD        write a make rule for the source, the last two compile as well
  -MF <file> -MT <t> -MQ <t> -MP   where the rule goes, what it builds, targets with no recipe
  -std=<dialect>         c89 through c23, and the gnu spellings
  -fgnuc-version=<v>     the GCC release to claim, default 7.0.0
  -x <lang>              treat later inputs as <lang>, or none to stop
  -O<level>              optimize: 0, 1, 2, 3, s, z
  -fsafety=<tier>        check memory safety: off, detect, enforce, kernel
  -f<pass> -fno-<pass> -fdump-ir=<what> -fopt-info[-<kind>][=FILE]
  -fpass-fuel=<pass>=<n>, -fpass-fuel-global=<n>   stop a pass, or all of them, after n
  -fdisable-<pass>[=<funcs>], -fenable-<pass>[=<funcs>]   run a pass on some functions only
  -g -g0 -gdwarf-5, -fno-omit-frame-pointer, -mno-red-zone   debug info, frame pointer, red zone
  -l<name>, -L <dir>, -B <dir>   link a library, where to look for one, where our own tools are
  -fPIC -fpic -fPIE -fpie, -fno-common, -f[no-]strict-aliasing, -pipe   what it does anyway
  -static -shared -pie -no-pie -nostdlib -nostartfiles -nodefaultlibs -rdynamic -s   how to link
  -Wl,<arg>, -Xlinker <arg>, -fuse-ld=<name>   hand an argument to the linker, or pick one
  -Werror -pedantic -pedantic-errors -w   how much to say, and whether it is fatal
  -m64 -march= -mtune= -mcpu= -mabi= -mcmodel=   what machine to generate for
  -pthread               build for more than one thread, and link the library for it
  -dumpmachine -dumpversion -print-multiarch -print-search-dirs   what this compiler is
  -print-file-name=<name> -print-prog-name=<name>   where a file or a program is
  -j[n]                  compile n translation units at once, default all
  -v, -###               print each phase as it runs, or without running any
  -save-temps[=cwd|obj], -time   keep the .i and the .s, say how long each step took
  --target=<triple>      generate code for <triple>
  --emit=<kind>          exe, obj, asm, preprocessed, tast, ir, mir-final,
                         safety-summary, type-granules
  --print-config, --print-pipeline    print the configuration or the pipeline, and exit
  --version              print the version and exit
  -h, --help             print this message and exit

See spec/04-driver-and-cli.md for the full flag reference.
";

/// The argument of a flag that may be joined to it or may be the next word.
///
/// `-DFOO` and `-D FOO` are the same thing, and `at` is where the flag's own letters end.
fn joined_or_next(
    arg: &str,
    at: usize,
    args: &[String],
    i: &mut usize,
) -> Result<String, CliError> {
    if arg.len() > at {
        return Ok(arg[at..].to_owned());
    }
    let next = args.get(*i).ok_or_else(|| err(format!("{arg} requires an argument")))?;
    *i += 1;
    Ok(next.clone())
}

/// Parses a command line, without the program name.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Returns the message to print when the arguments do not name a compilation this compiler
/// can attempt.
pub fn parse_args(args: &[String]) -> Result<Action, CliError> {
    let host = Triple::host()
        .ok_or_else(|| err("this host is not a supported target and no --target was given"))?;
    let mut opts = Options::new(host);
    let mut inputs: Vec<Input> = Vec::new();
    let mut print_config = false;
    let mut print_pipeline = false;
    let mut print_plan = false;
    let mut verbose = false;
    let mut jobs = Jobs::default();
    let mut nostdinc = false;
    let mut sysroot: Option<PathBuf> = None;
    let mut output = None;
    let mut link = LinkOptions::default();
    let mut query: Option<Query> = None;
    let mut threads = false;
    // `-x` applies to inputs that come after it and stays in effect until the next one, which
    // is why it is tracked across the loop rather than attached to a single argument.
    let mut forced: Option<InputKind> = None;
    // What `-iprefix` last said, stuck on the front of every later `-iwithprefix`. It applies to
    // the flags after it and not the ones before, so a command line may set it more than once.
    // GCC's default is its own installed header directory with the last component taken off,
    // which is a path a cross compiler's build system knows and passes; there is no equivalent
    // here, so with no `-iprefix` the prefix is nothing and `-iwithprefix` names a directory
    // outright.
    let mut iprefix = String::new();

    let mut i = 0;
    while i < args.len() {
        let arg = args[i].as_str();
        i += 1;
        match arg {
            "-h" | "--help" => return Ok(Action::Help),
            "--version" => return Ok(Action::Version),
            "--print-config" => print_config = true,
            "--print-pipeline" => print_pipeline = true,
            "-###" => print_plan = true,
            "-v" => verbose = true,
            // The files a compilation goes through, kept rather than thrown away. The bare
            // spelling means `=obj` and not `=cwd`, which is not what the manual says and is what
            // gcc 16 does; `SaveTemps::Object` carries the measurement.
            "-save-temps" => opts.save_temps = SaveTemps::Object,
            _ if arg.starts_with("-save-temps=") => {
                opts.save_temps = arg["-save-temps=".len()..].parse().map_err(err)?;
            }
            // How long each step took. A misspelling of this is worth rejecting rather than
            // ignoring, since a run that says nothing looks like a compilation that took no time.
            "-time" => opts.time = true,
            "-c" => opts.emit = EmitKind::Object,
            "-S" => opts.emit = EmitKind::Asm,
            "-E" => opts.emit = EmitKind::Preprocessed,
            "-g" => opts.debug_info = true,
            // GCC's own levels of how much debug information to write. Zero is none and every
            // other number is some, and this compiler has one amount, so the numbers above zero
            // all mean the same thing here. `-ggdb` is the same flag asking for whatever the
            // debugger on the machine prefers, which is what we emit anyway.
            "-g0" => opts.debug_info = false,
            "-g1" | "-g2" | "-g3" | "-ggdb" | "-ggdb1" | "-ggdb2" | "-ggdb3" => {
                opts.debug_info = true;
            }
            // The version of DWARF to write. We write DWARF 5 and nothing else, so a build that
            // asks for another version is told rather than handed a file it cannot read.
            "-gdwarf" | "-gdwarf-5" => opts.debug_info = true,
            _ if arg.starts_with("-gdwarf-") => {
                return Err(err(format!(
                    "{arg}: this compiler writes DWARF 5 and no other version, see \
                     spec/11-debug-info.md"
                )));
            }
            "-Werror" => opts.warnings_are_errors = true,
            // Nothing that is not fatal is said at all. Read at the one place a diagnostic goes
            // through rather than here, so that a warning `-w` dropped is not counted either.
            "-w" => opts.warnings = false,
            "-pedantic-errors" => {
                opts.pedantic = true;
                opts.warnings_are_errors = true;
            }
            "-P" => opts.line_markers = false,
            // The dependency family, which section 4.4 calls required because every build system
            // that generates its own makefiles asks for it. The two that end in `D` write a file
            // beside the object and let the compilation happen, and the two that do not write to
            // standard output and stop after it. Nothing here turns the system headers back on
            // once a flag has turned them off, which is GCC's behaviour and is why `-MM -M` is
            // `-MM`: the flag asking for fewer of them is the one with something to say.
            "-M" => {
                opts.deps.emit = true;
                opts.deps.instead_of_compiling = true;
            }
            "-MM" => {
                opts.deps.emit = true;
                opts.deps.instead_of_compiling = true;
                opts.deps.system_headers = false;
            }
            "-MD" => opts.deps.emit = true,
            "-MMD" => {
                opts.deps.emit = true;
                opts.deps.system_headers = false;
            }
            "-MP" => opts.deps.phony = true,
            // These three take a word and only in the separated form, which is how GCC spells
            // them and how every build system writes them.
            "-MF" | "-MT" | "-MQ" => {
                let value =
                    args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err(format!("{arg} requires an argument")))?;
                i += 1;
                match arg {
                    "-MF" => opts.deps.file = Some(value.clone()),
                    // The whole of the difference between the two. `-MT` is for a build that has
                    // already escaped what it is passing, and `-MQ` is for one that has a name
                    // and wants it to arrive as that name.
                    "-MT" => opts.deps.targets.push(value.clone()),
                    _ => opts.deps.targets.push(deps::escaped(value)),
                }
            }
            // The questions a build system asks before it compiles anything. Answered after the
            // loop, because each one is about the target or the library search and the command
            // line has not finished saying what those are.
            "-dumpmachine" => query = Some(Query::Machine),
            "-dumpversion" | "-dumpfullversion" => query = Some(Query::Version),
            "-print-multiarch" => query = Some(Query::Multiarch),
            "-print-search-dirs" => query = Some(Query::SearchDirs),
            "-print-libgcc-file-name" => query = Some(Query::Libgcc),
            _ if arg.starts_with("-print-file-name=") => {
                query = Some(Query::FileName(arg["-print-file-name=".len()..].to_owned()));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-print-prog-name=") => {
                query = Some(Query::ProgName(arg["-print-prog-name=".len()..].to_owned()));
            }
            // A program built to run in more than one thread. On every platform this compiler
            // targets that is a macro the library's headers read and one more library on the
            // link line, and the library is added after the loop so that it lands after the
            // objects that refer to it.
            "-pthread" | "-pthreads" => {
                opts.defines.push("_REENTRANT".to_owned());
                threads = true;
            }
            "-ansi" => {
                opts.std = Std::C89;
                opts.gnu_extensions = false;
            }
            // `-Wpedantic` is the same flag under the name the `-W` family gives it, which is
            // the spelling a build system that groups its warning flags tends to write.
            "-pedantic" | "-Wpedantic" => opts.pedantic = true,
            // Both directions, because a build that needs this for one directory turns it back
            // off for the next one rather than leaving it on for the whole tree.
            "-fpermissive" => opts.permissive = true,
            "-fno-permissive" => opts.permissive = false,
            "-ffreestanding" => opts.hosted = false,
            "-fhosted" => opts.hosted = true,
            "-fno-builtin" => opts.builtins = false,
            "-fbuiltin" => opts.builtins = true,
            // The C89 dialects are under GNU's reading whatever this says, so turning it off
            // there is turning off something the dialect asked for, which is accepted and does
            // nothing. gcc refuses that command line, and there is nothing it could have meant.
            "-fgnu89-inline" => opts.gnu89_inline = true,
            "-fno-gnu89-inline" => opts.gnu89_inline = false,
            // Both directions of each, because a build system that wants one of these usually
            // writes it beside the flag that turns it back off for one directory.
            "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" => opts.frame_pointer = true,
            "-fomit-frame-pointer" => opts.frame_pointer = false,
            "-mno-red-zone" => opts.red_zone = false,
            "-mred-zone" => opts.red_zone = true,
            // GCC drops its own include directory along with the system ones, because its
            // headers are half of a pair with the library's and half a pair is worse than
            // none. A build that passes this is supplying the whole set itself.
            "-nostdinc" => nostdinc = true,
            "-o" => {
                output = Some(args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err("-o requires an argument"))?.clone());
                i += 1;
            }
            // The flags that take a directory only in the separated form. GCC spells them
            // this way and nothing writes `-iquotedir`, so accepting the joined form would
            // mean guessing at a path that starts with the flag's own letters.
            // Apple's spelling of `--sysroot`, and the one its own build systems pass. The
            // two mean the same thing here: the configured directories are under there rather
            // than under the root.
            "-isysroot" => {
                let dir = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err("-isysroot requires an argument"))?;
                i += 1;
                sysroot = Some(PathBuf::from(dir));
            }
            "-iquote" | "-isystem" | "-idirafter" => {
                let dir = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err(format!("{arg} requires an argument")))?;
                i += 1;
                match arg {
                    "-iquote" => opts.search.push_quote(dir.clone()),
                    "-isystem" => opts.search.push_system(dir.clone()),
                    _ => opts.search.push_after(dir.clone()),
                }
            }
            "-iprefix" => {
                iprefix = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err("-iprefix requires an argument"))?.clone();
                i += 1;
            }
            // Where GCC puts these is not where its manual says it puts them, and this is the
            // measured answer rather than the documented one: `-iwithprefix` lands in the
            // `-isystem` slot and not the `-idirafter` slot, and `-iwithprefixbefore` lands in
            // the `-I` slot. A cross build that uses them is relying on the behaviour, since
            // that is the compiler it was developed against.
            "-iwithprefix" | "-iwithprefixbefore" => {
                let dir = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err(format!("{arg} requires an argument")))?;
                i += 1;
                let dir = format!("{iprefix}{dir}");
                if arg == "-iwithprefix" {
                    opts.search.push_system(dir);
                } else {
                    opts.search.push_bracket(dir);
                }
            }
            "-include" | "-imacros" => {
                let name = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err(format!("{arg} requires an argument")))?;
                i += 1;
                opts.preincludes
                    .push(Preinclude { name: name.clone(), macros_only: arg == "-imacros" });
            }
            // The flag `-iquote` was introduced to replace, still passed by build systems old
            // enough to predate the replacement. It is not a directory: it says that every `-I`
            // so far is for quoted includes only, and that a quoted include stops looking next
            // to the file that wrote it.
            "-I-" => opts.search.split_quote_chain(),
            "-x" => {
                let lang = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err("-x requires an argument"))?;
                i += 1;
                forced = if lang == "none" {
                    None
                } else {
                    Some(InputKind::from_x_arg(lang).map_err(|e| err(format!("{e}")))?)
                };
            }
            // Not a GCC flag. spec/03-architecture.md section 3.5 compiles several
            // translation units in one process rather than making the build system fork, and
            // section 3.8's determinism check compares `-j1` against `-j16`, so the knob has
            // to exist and has to be spelled the way `make` spells it.
            // `-DFOO`, `-D FOO` and the same for `-U` and `-I`. Both forms are in wide use
            // and a build system may produce either, so both are read here rather than
            // being normalised by whatever generated the command line.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-D") => {
                let value = joined_or_next(arg, 2, args, &mut i)?;
                opts.defines.push(value);
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-U") => {
                let value = joined_or_next(arg, 2, args, &mut i)?;
                opts.undefines.push(value);
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-I") => {
                let dir = joined_or_next(arg, 2, args, &mut i)?;
                opts.search.push_bracket(dir);
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-std=") => {
                let name = &arg["-std=".len()..];
                let (std, gnu) = Std::from_flag(name)
                    .ok_or_else(|| err(format!("unknown dialect `{name}`, see --help")))?;
                opts.std = std;
                opts.gnu_extensions = gnu;
            }
            // Section 4.5. The claim decides which half of glibc's `sys/cdefs.h` we are
            // handed, so a differential run that does not set it is comparing two compilers
            // that believe they are different compilers.
            // GCC packs these into one flag, so `-dDI` is two of them. Letters in the family
            // that we have not written yet are accepted and ignored, because a dump is a
            // debugging aid and a build that asks for one should still compile. A letter
            // outside the family falls through to the unknown option error, which is what
            // keeps `-dumpversion` from being read as a dump of nothing.
            _ if Dumps::is_family(arg) => {
                opts.dumps.add(&arg[2..]);
            }
            // One name at a time, which is what a build that means its own `memcpy` and the
            // library's everything else writes. The name is not checked against a list, because
            // the flag is about what the program means by a name and a program is allowed to mean
            // something by a name this compiler has never heard of.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fno-builtin-") => {
                opts.no_builtin.push(arg["-fno-builtin-".len()..].to_owned());
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fgnuc-version=") => {
                let v = &arg["-fgnuc-version=".len()..];
                opts.gnuc = v.parse().map_err(err)?;
            }
            // spec/13-gnu-compat.md section 13.3 promises this flag an error that says why rather
            // than the unknown option one, because a build reaching for it is asking for a feature
            // and deserves to be told it is not coming rather than told the spelling is wrong.
            // The negative form is what this compiler does anyway, so it is taken and dropped.
            "-fnested-functions" => {
                return Err(err(
                    "nested functions are not supported: a call to one goes through a trampoline \
                     written on the stack, which no target that enforces an unexecutable stack \
                     allows",
                ));
            }
            "-fno-nested-functions" => {}
            // What this compiler already does, so the flag asks for nothing and is taken and
            // dropped. An address that may turn out to be in a shared library is loaded out of the
            // global offset table rather than worked out from where the instruction is, which is
            // what makes the output usable in a shared library and in a position independent
            // executable, and `__PIC__` has said so since predefines were written.
            //
            // It matters that this is accepted rather than merely harmless. Every autoconf and
            // cmake build puts `-fPIC` on the compile line, so a compiler that rejects it cannot
            // be the `CC` of a project that has a configure script, whatever else it can do. That
            // is how this was found: building SQLite's test fixture stopped on it.
            "-fPIC" | "-fpic" | "-fPIE" | "-fpie" => {}
            // The other direction is a request, not a description, and it is one this compiler
            // cannot grant, so it gets the treatment section 13.3 asks for rather than the unknown
            // option error. Answering it by carrying on would be answering a different question:
            // the code would still be position independent, which is correct everywhere an
            // ordinary program runs and is wrong in a kernel, where the flag is written precisely
            // because there is no loader to fill a global offset table in.
            "-fno-pic" | "-fno-pie" => {
                return Err(err(
                    "position dependent code is not supported: an address that may be in another \
                     object is loaded out of the global offset table, and nothing here emits the \
                     absolute form this asks for. Use -no-pie if what you meant was how to link",
                ));
            }
            // Another description of what this compiler does. A file scope declaration with no
            // initializer is written into `.bss` as an ordinary defined symbol, not offered to the
            // linker as a common one for it to merge, which is what `-fno-common` asks for and what
            // gcc has done by default since 10. Nothing in the front end produces `Linkage::Common`
            // at all.
            "-fno-common" => {}
            // And the request, which is the one that cannot be granted. It is a real difference and
            // not a preference: two files each writing `int g;` link under `-fcommon` and are a
            // duplicate definition without it, which is the whole reason the flag survives.
            "-fcommon" => {
                return Err(err(
                    "a tentative definition is written into .bss as its own symbol here, and \
                     nothing emits the common symbol this asks the linker to merge. Give the \
                     variable a definition in one file and declare it extern in the others",
                ));
            }
            // Both directions of this one are taken, which is the exception to the rule above, and
            // the reason is which way being wrong costs something.
            //
            // Nothing here derives anything from the type an object is accessed through. The IR has
            // somewhere to put a type based aliasing node and lowering fills it with nothing on
            // every access, so no pass has one to read and the alias analysis falls back to what it
            // can see. That makes `-fno-strict-aliasing` a description, the way `-fPIC` is.
            //
            // `-fstrict-aliasing` is a request to assume more than that, and this compiler assumes
            // less. Answering a request for a weaker guarantee by giving a stronger one is safe in
            // a way the `-fno-pic` case is not: every program that is correct under the assumption
            // is correct without it, only slower. And `-O2` implies it, so a build that spells it
            // out is a build that would stop on a compiler that refused it, for no gain at all.
            "-fstrict-aliasing" | "-fno-strict-aliasing" => {}
            // About temporary files rather than about code. There is nothing between the phases of
            // one compilation here to write to a file in the first place.
            "-pipe" => {}
            // Nothing here writes colour, so all of these are the same answer, and it is the answer
            // that costs nothing: the diagnostics come out plain either way and no build depends on
            // an escape sequence being there. Taken rather than refused because cmake writes
            // `-fdiagnostics-color=always` on every compile line when the generator is ninja, which
            // makes this the second most common flag after `-fPIC` to stop a build over a question
            // about how the text looks.
            "-fdiagnostics-color" | "-fno-diagnostics-color" => {}
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fdiagnostics-color=") => {}
            // The link flags. None of them changes the compilation, which is why they are
            // collected apart from `opts` and why `-lm` on a `-c` line is a note rather than an
            // error: it is a thing said to a linker that is not going to run.
            "-static" => link.is_static = true,
            "-shared" => link.shared = true,
            "-pie" => link.pie = Some(true),
            "-no-pie" | "-nopie" => link.pie = Some(false),
            "-nostdlib" => link.no_stdlib = true,
            "-nostartfiles" => link.no_startfiles = true,
            "-nodefaultlibs" => link.no_defaultlibs = true,
            "-fno-builtins-lib" => link.no_builtins_lib = true,
            "-fbuiltins-lib" => link.no_builtins_lib = false,
            "-rdynamic" | "-export-dynamic" => link.export_dynamic = true,
            "-s" => link.strip = true,
            "-Xlinker" => {
                let next = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err("-Xlinker requires an argument"))?;
                i += 1;
                link.passthrough.push(next.clone());
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-Wl,") => {
                // Commas separate arguments rather than being part of one, which is what makes
                // `-Wl,-rpath,/opt/lib` two words to the linker and one word here.
                link.passthrough.extend(arg["-Wl,".len()..].split(',').map(str::to_owned));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fuse-ld=") => {
                link.use_ld = Some(arg["-fuse-ld=".len()..].to_owned());
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-l") && arg.len() > 2 => {
                inputs.push(Input::library(&arg[2..]));
            }
            "-l" => {
                let next = args.get(i).ok_or_else(|| err("-l requires an argument"))?;
                i += 1;
                inputs.push(Input::library(next));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-L") => {
                link.search.push(PathBuf::from(joined_or_next(arg, 2, args, &mut i)?));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-B") => {
                link.prefixes.push(PathBuf::from(joined_or_next(arg, 2, args, &mut i)?));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-j") => {
                jobs = Jobs::parse(&arg[2..]).map_err(err)?;
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("--sysroot=") => {
                sysroot = Some(PathBuf::from(&arg["--sysroot=".len()..]));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("--target=") => {
                let t = &arg["--target=".len()..];
                opts.target = t.parse().map_err(|e| err(format!("{e}")))?;
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("--emit=") => {
                let k = &arg["--emit=".len()..];
                opts.emit = k
                    .parse()
                    .map_err(|()| err(format!("unknown --emit kind `{k}`, see --help")))?;
            }
            // A bare `-O` is `-O1`, which is what GCC has and what a hand written makefile tends
            // to write. `-Og` is GCC's level for a build somebody is going to step through, and
            // it is `-O1` with the transformations that move code around left out; this compiler
            // has no such level yet, so it is the nearest one and `--print-pipeline` says what
            // that came to rather than the flag pretending otherwise.
            "-O" | "-Og" => opts.opt_level = rucc_session::OptLevel::O1,
            // The union of `-O3` and `-ffast-math`, and the second half of that changes what
            // floating point arithmetic means. Refused rather than taken as `-O3`, because a
            // build that asks for fast math and is quietly given ordinary arithmetic gets a
            // slower program than it asked for and a build that is given fast math it did not
            // ask for gets a wrong one.
            "-Ofast" => {
                return Err(err(
                    "-Ofast is -O3 with fast math, and fast math is not implemented, see \
                     spec/04-driver-and-cli.md section 4.6",
                ));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-O") => {
                opts.opt_level = arg[2..]
                    .parse()
                    .map_err(|()| err(format!("unknown optimization level `{arg}`")))?;
            }
            // What every name gets when nothing in the source said, which the attribute in the
            // source overrides rather than the other way round. Before the optimizer's `-f`
            // family below for the reason the tier below it is.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fvisibility=") => {
                let seen = &arg["-fvisibility=".len()..];
                opts.visibility = seen.parse().map_err(|()| {
                    err(format!(
                        "`{seen}` is not a visibility, which is default, hidden, internal or \
                         protected"
                    ))
                })?;
            }
            // The memory safety monitor, from section 15.4 of
            // `spec/safe-memory/15-integration.md`. Before the optimizer's `-f` family below,
            // because a pass that took the name `safety=detect` would otherwise be handed the
            // flag, and the tier is not a pass.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fsafety=") => {
                let tier = &arg["-fsafety=".len()..];
                opts.safety = tier.parse().map_err(|()| {
                    err(format!(
                        "`{tier}` is not a safety tier, which is off, detect, enforce or kernel"
                    ))
                })?;
            }
            // The optimizer's own flags, from section 9.10 of `spec/09-optimizer.md`. These come
            // after every `-f` the rest of the compiler answers to, so a pass can never take a
            // name that already means something else on the command line.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fpass-fuel=") => {
                let (name, count) = arg["-fpass-fuel=".len()..]
                    .split_once('=')
                    .ok_or_else(|| err("-fpass-fuel= is spelled <pass>=<count>"))?;
                if rucc_opt::pass::find(name).is_none() {
                    return Err(err(format!(
                        "`{name}` is not a pass this compiler has, see --print-pipeline"
                    )));
                }
                let count: u32 = count
                    .parse()
                    .map_err(|_| err(format!("`{count}` is not a number of transformations")))?;
                opts.pass_fuel.push((name.to_owned(), count));
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fpass-fuel-global=") => {
                let count = &arg["-fpass-fuel-global=".len()..];
                let count: u32 = count
                    .parse()
                    .map_err(|_| err(format!("`{count}` is not a number of transformations")))?;
                opts.pass_fuel_global = Some(count);
            }
            // Everything from `-fopt-info` to the end of the argument, which is optional
            // keywords joined by hyphens and an optional `=<file>`. Checked here rather than
            // where the remarks are printed, because by then the compilation somebody wanted
            // to hear about is over.
            _ if arg == "-fopt-info"
                || arg.starts_with("-fopt-info=")
                || arg.starts_with("-fopt-info-") =>
            {
                let rest = &arg["-fopt-info".len()..];
                let (kinds, file) = match rest.split_once('=') {
                    Some((kinds, file)) => (kinds, Some(file)),
                    None => (rest, None),
                };
                let kinds = kinds.strip_prefix('-').unwrap_or(kinds);
                rucc_opt::Wants::none().add(kinds).map_err(err)?;
                opts.opt_info.push(kinds.to_owned());
                if let Some(file) = file {
                    if file.is_empty() {
                        return Err(err("-fopt-info= was given no file to write to"));
                    }
                    opts.opt_info_file = Some(file.to_owned());
                }
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fdump-ir=") => {
                // Checked here rather than where the dumps are taken, because the compilation
                // that would have been dumped is over by then.
                let spec = &arg["-fdump-ir=".len()..];
                rucc_opt::Dumps::default().add(spec).map_err(err)?;
                opts.dump_ir.push(spec.to_owned());
            }
            // Before the bare `-f<pass>` below, because a pass called `enable-something` would
            // otherwise take the flag away from the gate. Checked here rather than where the
            // pipeline reads it, for the reason that applies to all of these: a misspelled pass
            // name that quietly gated nothing looks exactly like a pass that is not the guilty
            // one, and a bisection would carry on past the thing it was looking for.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-fdisable-") || arg.starts_with("-fenable-") => {
                let on = arg.starts_with("-fenable-");
                let spec = &arg[if on { "-fenable-".len() } else { "-fdisable-".len() }..];
                rucc_opt::Gates::default().add(on, spec).map_err(err)?;
                opts.pass_gates.push((on, spec.to_owned()));
            }
            _ if arg.strip_prefix("-fno-").is_some_and(|n| rucc_opt::pass::find(n).is_some()) => {
                opts.passes.push((arg["-fno-".len()..].to_owned(), false));
            }
            _ if arg.strip_prefix("-f").is_some_and(|n| rucc_opt::pass::find(n).is_some()) => {
                opts.passes.push((arg["-f".len()..].to_owned(), true));
            }
            // The unstable options, spelled the way rustc spells them and carrying the same
            // promise, which is none: one of these may change or go away in any release. They are
            // measurements and debugging aids rather than things a build asks for, which is why
            // none of them is in the usage text and all of them are in section 4.11 of
            // `spec/04-driver-and-cli.md`.
            "-Zverify-each" => opts.verify_each = true,
            _ if arg.starts_with("-Zrule-coverage=") => {
                let file = &arg["-Zrule-coverage=".len()..];
                if file.is_empty() {
                    return Err(err("-Zrule-coverage= needs a file to write to"));
                }
                opts.rule_coverage = Some(file.to_owned());
            }
            _ if arg.starts_with("-Z") => {
                return Err(err(format!(
                    "`{arg}` is not an unstable option this compiler has, see \
                     spec/04-driver-and-cli.md section 4.11 for the ones it does"
                )));
            }
            // The word size, which is a statement about the target and is taken as one. A build
            // that says the size the target already has is saying nothing, and one that says the
            // other size is asking for a target this compiler does not have, which it is told
            // rather than being given the wrong one.
            "-m64" | "-m32" | "-mx32" => {
                let want: u32 = match arg {
                    "-m64" => 64,
                    _ => 32,
                };
                let have = rucc_target::TargetInfo::new(opts.target).pointer_width;
                if have != want {
                    return Err(err(format!(
                        "{arg} asks for a {want} bit target and {} is {have} bit, use \
                         --target= to name the one you mean",
                        opts.target
                    )));
                }
            }
            // Which processor in the family to generate for. This compiler emits the base
            // instruction set of the architecture and nothing above it, so a program built with
            // any of these runs on the machine that was named; it is a program that could have
            // been faster rather than a program that is wrong, which is what makes these safe to
            // take and ignore where a flag that changed the meaning of the code would not be.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-march=")
                || arg.starts_with("-mtune=")
                || arg.starts_with("-mcpu=") => {}
            // The calling convention, which is not safe to ignore. Taken when it names the one
            // the target already uses and refused otherwise.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-mabi=") => {
                let want = &arg["-mabi=".len()..];
                let have = match opts.target.arch {
                    rucc_target::Arch::X86_64 => "sysv",
                    rucc_target::Arch::Aarch64 => "lp64",
                    rucc_target::Arch::Riscv64 => "lp64d",
                };
                if want != have {
                    return Err(err(format!(
                        "{arg}: {} uses the {have} convention and this compiler has no other",
                        opts.target
                    )));
                }
            }
            // How far apart the pieces of the program may be. The small model is what we emit and
            // it is every hosted program's default; the kernel model is a different one and a
            // build that asks for it and does not get it links and then does not run.
            "-mcmodel=small" => {}
            _ if arg.starts_with("-mcmodel=") => {
                return Err(err(format!(
                    "{arg}: this compiler emits the small code model and no other, see \
                     spec/12-targets.md"
                )));
            }
            // GCC's own scripting language for how the driver builds a command line.
            // `spec/04-driver-and-cli.md` section 4.4 settles that we will not have it, so a
            // build reaching for it is told which flags do the same job.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-specs=") => {
                return Err(err(
                    "-specs= is not supported: the parts of it builds rely on are -B, -L, \
                     -nostdlib, -nostartfiles and -Wl,, see spec/04-driver-and-cli.md \
                     section 4.4",
                ));
            }
            // Arguments meant for a separate assembler or preprocessor, which this compiler does
            // not have: both are inside it and neither reads a command line. Refused rather than
            // dropped, because every one of these says something about the output and a build
            // that asked for `-Wa,--noexecstack` and was silently given an executable stack got
            // the opposite of what it asked for.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-Wa,") || arg.starts_with("-Wp,") => {
                return Err(err(format!(
                    "`{arg}` is an argument for a separate assembler or preprocessor, and both \
                     are inside this compiler rather than programs it runs"
                )));
            }
            "-Xassembler" | "-Xpreprocessor" => {
                return Err(err(format!(
                    "{arg} hands an argument to a separate assembler or preprocessor, and both \
                     are inside this compiler rather than programs it runs"
                )));
            }
            // Everything else in the `-W` family. `spec/04-driver-and-cli.md` section 4.1 has
            // this one as a rule about build systems rather than about warnings: autoconf finds
            // out whether a warning flag exists by passing it and looking at the exit status, so
            // a compiler that refuses one it has not heard of fails a configure script written
            // for a GCC newer than itself. The names are not checked against a list because this
            // compiler has no warning groups for a list to be of, which #485 is about.
            _ if arg.starts_with("-W") => {}
            // Flags that name something this compiler does not do and would not do differently
            // if it did. `-fno-ident` is about a comment in the output that we do not write
            // either way, and the others are about a way of ordering the compilation that has
            // been GCC's only way for twenty years. Section 4.1 asks for the list to be short
            // and for adding to it to be deliberate, which is why it is written out here.
            "-fno-ident"
            | "-fident"
            | "-funit-at-a-time"
            | "-fno-unit-at-a-time"
            | "-shared-libgcc"
            | "-static-libgcc" => {}
            _ if arg.starts_with('-') && arg.len() > 1 => {
                // Silently ignoring an unknown flag is how a build ends up not doing what
                // its author asked. spec/13-gnu-compat.md section 13.4 makes this an error
                // for the flags that change code generation, and the safe default until the
                // flag table is populated is to reject everything we do not know.
                return Err(err(format!("unknown option `{arg}`")));
            }
            _ => inputs.push(Input { path: arg.to_owned(), forced, library: false }),
        }
    }

    // Last, so that it lands after every `-isystem` the command line gave. That is GCC's
    // order: a directory the user names outranks the compiler's own, and the compiler's own
    // outranks the library's. It is pushed after the loop rather than before it because
    // `SearchPath` appends within a group and the position is what the order is.
    // The same directory the headers were looked for under, because a sysroot is a statement
    // about a whole installation and not about half of one.
    link.sysroot = sysroot.clone();
    // After the loop rather than where `-pthread` was read, so that it lands after the objects
    // that refer to it. A static link takes the definitions it needs from a library when it
    // reaches it and not afterwards, so a library before the objects is a library that answers
    // nothing.
    if threads {
        inputs.push(Input::library("pthread"));
    }
    if let Some(query) = query {
        return Ok(Action::Print(answer(&query, &opts, &link)));
    }
    // `-M` and `-MM` produce the rule and nothing else, so the run stops after phase 4 whatever
    // else the command line asked for. Read here rather than where the flag was, because a `-c`
    // written after it has to lose and the loop cannot know that until it has ended. The output
    // file is where the rule goes rather than where an object would have gone, and the last
    // phase being the preprocessor is what makes that true without a second rule for it.
    if opts.deps.instead_of_compiling {
        opts.emit = EmitKind::Preprocessed;
    }
    if !nostdinc {
        opts.search.push_system(runtime::DIR);
        // And the library's after ours, which is the other half of the same order. They go on
        // here rather than at the point `--target=` or `--sysroot=` was read because either
        // one changes the answer and the last word on both is the end of the loop.
        for dir in library::system_dirs(opts.target, sysroot.as_deref()) {
            opts.search.push_system(dir);
        }
    }
    // Once, here, rather than as each directory is pushed. A `-I` that names a system
    // directory has to lose to the system entry and the system entry is added last, so the
    // question cannot be answered until the whole path is known.
    opts.search.remove_duplicates();

    // The target has to be resolved before the configuration is printed, so this check comes
    // after the loop rather than at the point `--print-config` was seen.
    if print_config {
        return Ok(Action::PrintConfig(Box::new(opts)));
    }
    if print_pipeline {
        return Ok(Action::PrintPipeline(Box::new(opts)));
    }
    let plan = Plan::new(&opts, &inputs, output.as_deref()).map_err(|e| err(e.message))?;
    if print_plan {
        return Ok(Action::PrintPlan {
            opts: Box::new(opts),
            plan: Box::new(plan),
            link: Box::new(link),
        });
    }
    Ok(Action::Compile {
        opts: Box::new(opts),
        plan: Box::new(plan),
        link: Box::new(link),
        jobs,
        verbose,
    })
}

/// What one of the `-dump` and `-print` flags prints.
///
/// GCC prints the name back unchanged when it cannot find the file a `-print` flag asked about,
/// which is what makes the answer safe to paste into a link line whether or not the file is
/// there, and this does the same.
fn answer(query: &Query, opts: &Options, link: &LinkOptions) -> String {
    let found = |name: &str| {
        link::find_in_search(link, opts.target, name)
            .map_or_else(|| name.to_owned(), |path| path.display().to_string())
    };
    match query {
        Query::Machine => opts.target.to_string(),
        Query::Version => VERSION.to_owned(),
        Query::Multiarch => link::multiarch(opts.target),
        // The three lines GCC prints, in its order and with its punctuation, because what reads
        // them is a script written against that shape. There is no installation directory to
        // report: this compiler is one binary that works wherever it is copied, and the headers
        // it ships are inside it, so `install` is where the binary is and nothing is under it.
        Query::SearchDirs => {
            let here = std::env::current_exe()
                .ok()
                .and_then(|p| p.parent().map(std::path::Path::to_path_buf))
                .unwrap_or_default();
            let list = |dirs: &[PathBuf]| {
                dirs.iter().map(|d| d.display().to_string()).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(":")
            };
            let libraries = link::search_dirs(link, opts.target);
            format!(
                "install: {}\nprograms: ={}\nlibraries: ={}",
                here.display(),
                list(&link.prefixes),
                list(&libraries)
            )
        }
        Query::FileName(name) => found(name),
        // The name GCC gives the library of routines a compiler's output calls that the C
        // library does not have. Ours is built in and there is no file, so the answer is the
        // name itself, which is what GCC prints when it cannot find one either.
        Query::Libgcc => found("libgcc.a"),
        // A program rather than a library: the linker and the archiver are the ones a build asks
        // about, and this compiler finds them on the path or under `-B` rather than shipping
        // them, so the name back is the honest answer unless a `-B` prefix holds one.
        Query::ProgName(name) => link
            .prefixes
            .iter()
            .map(|dir| dir.join(name))
            .find(|path| path.is_file())
            .map_or_else(|| name.clone(), |path| path.display().to_string()),
    }
}

/// Renders the passes this level will run, in order, with what each one does.
///
/// The level is the whole of the answer unless a `-f` flag edited it, which is section 9.1 of
/// `spec/09-optimizer.md`: a level is a list somebody wrote down rather than something that
/// emerges from which flags happen to be set, and this is how that list is read.
#[must_use]
pub fn print_pipeline(opts: &Options) -> String {
    let mut settings = rucc_opt::Options::for_level(opts.opt_level);
    settings.toggles.clone_from(&opts.passes);
    settings.global_fuel = opts.pass_fuel_global;
    for (on, spec) in &opts.pass_gates {
        // Every spelling was checked while the arguments were parsed, so there is nothing here
        // this can refuse, and a listing is not the place to report it if there were.
        let _ = settings.gates.add(*on, spec);
    }
    rucc_opt::pipeline::print(&settings)
}

/// Renders the resolved configuration.
///
/// One `key: value` per line, sorted by nothing in particular but fixed in order, because
/// this output is diffed across hosts in CI and a reordering would read as a change.
#[must_use]
pub fn print_config(opts: &Options) -> String {
    let sess = Session::new(opts.clone());
    let t = &sess.target;
    let mut out = String::new();
    let _ = writeln!(out, "version: {VERSION}");
    // The three field triple the driver was given rather than the ten field tuple it widens to,
    // because this output is what a build system reads to find out what it asked for. The tuple is
    // the compiler's model of the machine and this line is a receipt for a command line.
    let _ = writeln!(out, "target: {}", opts.target);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "arch: {}", opts.target.arch.as_str());
    let _ = writeln!(out, "os: {}", opts.target.os.as_str());
    let _ = writeln!(out, "env: {}", opts.target.env.as_str());
    let _ = writeln!(out, "object-format: {}", t.object_format.as_str());
    let _ = writeln!(out, "pointer-width: {}", t.pointer_width);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "long-width: {}", t.long_width);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "long-double-width: {}", t.long_double_width);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "endian: {}", if t.little_endian { "little" } else { "big" });
    let _ = writeln!(out, "char-signed: {}", t.char_is_signed);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "va-list: {}", t.va_list.map_or("none", |list| list.as_str()));
    // The register file as a count per class, which is enough to tell a target whose registers
    // are described from one whose are not without printing sixteen names nobody asked for.
    let regs: Vec<String> = t
        .regs
        .classes()
        .map(|(class, info)| format!("{} {}", info.name, t.regs.len(class)))
        .collect();
    let _ = writeln!(
        out,
        "registers: {}",
        if regs.is_empty() { "none".to_string() } else { regs.join(", ") }
    );
    let _ = writeln!(out, "opt-level: {}", sess.opts.opt_level);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "safety: {}", sess.opts.safety);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "emit: {}", sess.opts.emit.as_str());
    let _ = writeln!(out, "debug-info: {}", sess.opts.debug_info);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "frame-pointer: {}", sess.opts.frame_pointer);
    let _ = writeln!(out, "red-zone: {}", sess.opts.red_zone);
    // Last because it is the one key with more than one line under it, and the only one
    // whose value is a property of the machine rather than of the command line.
    for dir in sess.opts.search.dirs() {
        let system = if dir.is_system { " (system)" } else { "" };
        let _ = writeln!(out, "include: {}{system}", dir.path.display());
    }
    out
}

/// The output name the make target is taken from, which is the `-o` argument or nothing.
///
/// A run that stops at the preprocessor has not named an object, whatever its `-o` says: under
/// `-E` that argument is the preprocessed text and under `-M` it is the rule itself, and neither
/// is a file `make` would rebuild by running this rule. GCC agrees and falls back to the source
/// name in both, which is why a `-MD -E -o out.i` writes `out.d` holding a rule for `a.o`. From
/// `-S` on the argument does name what the rule builds, and it is used as written.
fn deps_target_output<'a>(opts: &Options, plan: &'a Plan) -> Option<&'a str> {
    if opts.emit == EmitKind::Preprocessed { None } else { plan.output.as_deref() }
}

/// Writes to a path the command line named rather than one the plan derived, where `-` is
/// standard output.
fn write_named(path: &str, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<(), String> {
    if path == "-" {
        return write_out(&Output::Stdout, bytes);
    }
    write_out(&Output::File(path.to_owned()), bytes)
}

/// Writes the make rule for one input, and reports whether it got there.
///
/// A rule with no file of its own goes where the compilation it replaced would have written,
/// which is what makes the usual makefile recipe work: `rucc -M $< -o $@` leaves the rule in
/// `$@`, and the same line with the `-o` left off puts it on standard output.
fn write_deps(
    opts: &Options,
    plan: &Plan,
    job: &Job,
    found: &[Dependency],
    stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write,
) -> bool {
    let targets = if opts.deps.targets.is_empty() {
        vec![deps::default_target(&job.input, deps_target_output(opts, plan))]
    } else {
        opts.deps.targets.clone()
    };
    let rule = deps::rule(&opts.deps, &targets, &job.input, found);
    // The file, on the other hand, is named after the `-o` in every mode that still has one to
    // spend, which is every mode except the two that spend it on the rule.
    let wrote = match deps::default_file(&opts.deps, &job.input, plan.output.as_deref()) {
        // A `-MF` on a run that had nowhere else to put the rule leaves the file the `-o`
        // named empty rather than absent, because a makefile that named it as a target of its
        // own is a makefile that will look for it.
        Some(path) => write_named(&path, rule.as_bytes()).and_then(|()| {
            if opts.deps.instead_of_compiling { write_out(&job.output, b"") } else { Ok(()) }
        }),
        None => write_out(&job.output, rule.as_bytes()),
    };
    if let Err(e) = wrote {
        let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {e}");
        return false;
    }
    true
}

/// Runs phase 4 over every input that has one, and writes what came out.
///
/// One input that fails does not stop the others. A build that reports every file it could
/// not preprocess in one run is worth more than one that stops at the first, and the exit
/// status is still a failure either way.
fn preprocess_all(opts: &Options, plan: &Plan) -> i32 {
    let fs = OsFileSystem::new();
    let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
    let mut failed = false;
    for job in &plan.jobs {
        if !job.phases.first().is_some_and(|p| *p == Phase::Preprocess) {
            // An input that is already preprocessed, or an object file. GCC passes these
            // through untouched, and the plan has already said so in its notes.
            continue;
        }
        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
        let result = preprocess(opts, &job.input, &fs);
        if opts.time {
            say_time(&job.input, started.elapsed(), &mut stderr);
        }
        for message in &result.messages {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "{message}");
        }
        if result.failed() {
            failed = true;
            continue;
        }
        if opts.deps.emit {
            failed |= !write_deps(opts, plan, job, &result.deps, &mut stderr);
            // `-M` and `-MM` asked for the rule instead of the text, so there is nothing else
            // to write. The other two asked for both and fall through to the text below.
            if opts.deps.instead_of_compiling {
                continue;
            }
        }
        if let Err(e) = write_out(&job.output, result.text.as_bytes()) {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {e}");
            failed = true;
        }
    }
    i32::from(failed)
}

/// Runs the front end over every input that has a compile phase, and writes what came out.
///
/// The same rule as [`preprocess_all`]: one input that fails does not stop the others, and the
/// exit status is a failure either way. An input that is already assembly or an object has no
/// compile phase and is passed over here, which the plan has already said in its notes.
fn compile_all(opts: &Options, plan: &Plan) -> i32 {
    let fs = OsFileSystem::new();
    let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
    let mut failed = false;
    let (mut remarks, ok) = Remarks::new(opts.opt_info_file.as_ref(), &mut stderr);
    failed |= !ok;
    let mut fired = Fired::new();
    for job in &plan.jobs {
        if !job.phases.contains(&Phase::Compile) {
            continue;
        }
        // An input of IR is read back rather than compiled, since the C it came from is not
        // here any more. Everything after this is the same, so the two paths meet again at the
        // messages and the file the result is written to.
        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
        let result = if job.kind == InputKind::Ir {
            compile_ir(opts, &job.input, &fs)
        } else {
            compile(opts, &job.input, &fs)
        };
        if opts.time {
            say_time(&job.input, started.elapsed(), &mut stderr);
        }
        fired.merge(&result.fired);
        failed |= !write_dumps(&job.input, &result.dumps, &mut stderr);
        failed |= !remarks.write(&result.remarks, &mut stderr);
        for message in &result.messages {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "{message}");
        }
        // Before the failure below, because a compilation that stopped in the back end is exactly
        // the one whose preprocessed source somebody wants to look at.
        failed |= !write_temps(job, &result.temps, &mut stderr);
        if result.failed() {
            failed = true;
            continue;
        }
        // `-MD` and `-MMD` write the rule beside the object and let the compilation happen, so
        // this is the one path where both files come out of the same run. An input of IR has no
        // dependencies to report and produces an empty list, which produces a rule naming only
        // itself, and that is the honest answer rather than a missing file.
        if opts.deps.emit {
            failed |= !write_deps(opts, plan, job, &result.deps, &mut stderr);
        }
        if let Err(e) = write_out(&job.output, result.artifact.bytes()) {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {e}");
            failed = true;
        }
    }
    failed |= !write_coverage(opts, &fired, &mut stderr);
    i32::from(failed)
}

/// A directory for the object files only the link step ever sees, removed when it goes away.
///
/// `-c` writes its object where the user can see it and linking does not, which is the whole of
/// the difference: a `rucc a.c b.c` leaves an executable behind and nothing else, the same as
/// every other compiler. Removing them on drop rather than at the end of a function is so that a
/// link that failed leaves nothing behind either.
struct Scratch {
    /// Where the objects go.
    dir: PathBuf,
}

impl Scratch {
    /// Makes one, under whatever the platform calls its temporary directory.
    ///
    /// The name carries the process id so that two compilers running at once do not share a
    /// directory, which they would otherwise do the moment two of them compiled a file of the
    /// same name.
    fn new() -> Result<Scratch, String> {
        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("rucc-{}", std::process::id()));
        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).map_err(|e| format!("{}: {e}", dir.display()))?;
        Ok(Scratch { dir })
    }
}

impl Drop for Scratch {
    fn drop(&mut self) {
        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&self.dir);
    }
}

/// The link line the plan describes, for `-###`.
///
/// The names in it are the hints the plan carries rather than the temporaries a real compilation
/// would choose, because `-###` prints the line without having compiled anything and so has
/// nothing to point at. That also makes the printed line readable rather than naming a directory
/// that only exists while a compilation is running.
fn link_line(opts: &Options, link: &LinkOptions, job: &LinkJob) -> Result<String, link::Error> {
    let linker = link::find(opts.target, link)?;
    let args = link::line(opts.target, link, &job.inputs, &job.output)?;
    Ok(link::render(&linker, &args))
}

/// Compiles everything, then links it.
///
/// The objects go in a directory that is removed afterwards, which is why this is not
/// [`compile_all`] followed by a link: the plan says an object feeding the linker is temporary
/// and does not say where, because where is a question that only has an answer once something is
/// running.
fn link_all(opts: &Options, plan: &Plan, link: &LinkOptions, verbose: bool) -> i32 {
    let Some(job) = &plan.link else {
        // Every path into here comes from a plan whose last phase is the link, and such a plan
        // has a link job. Saying so is cheaper than an unwrap that would have to be explained.
        let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
        let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: there is nothing to link");
        return 1;
    };
    // Before anything is compiled, because a linker that is not on the machine is worth knowing
    // about in the second it takes to look rather than after the compilation.
    let linker = match link::find(opts.target, link) {
        Ok(linker) => linker,
        Err(why) => return complain(why),
    };

    let scratch = match Scratch::new() {
        Ok(scratch) => scratch,
        Err(why) => return complain(format!("could not make a place for the object files: {why}")),
    };

    let fs = OsFileSystem::new();
    let mut failed = false;
    // One per job, in job order, which is what lets the link line below be rebuilt with the real
    // paths in it: every job contributes exactly one file to the line and does so in this order.
    let mut produced: Vec<String> = Vec::with_capacity(plan.jobs.len());
    let mut fired = Fired::new();
    {
        let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
        let (mut remarks, ok) = Remarks::new(opts.opt_info_file.as_ref(), &mut stderr);
        failed |= !ok;
        for (at, job) in plan.jobs.iter().enumerate() {
            let out = match &job.output {
                Output::Temporary(hint) => {
                    // The index because two inputs in different directories can have the same
                    // name, and the two objects of `rucc a/x.c b/x.c` must not be one file.
                    scratch.dir.join(format!("{at}-{hint}")).display().to_string()
                }
                Output::File(path) => path.clone(),
                // A job feeding the linker never writes to standard output, since the plan gives
                // it a temporary. This is here so that the match is total rather than a panic.
                Output::Stdout => continue,
            };
            produced.push(out.clone());
            if !job.phases.contains(&Phase::Compile) {
                continue;
            }
            let started = std::time::Instant::now();
            let result = if job.kind == InputKind::Ir {
                compile_ir(opts, &job.input, &fs)
            } else {
                compile(opts, &job.input, &fs)
            };
            if opts.time {
                say_time(&job.input, started.elapsed(), &mut stderr);
            }
            fired.merge(&result.fired);
            failed |= !write_dumps(&job.input, &result.dumps, &mut stderr);
            failed |= !remarks.write(&result.remarks, &mut stderr);
            for message in &result.messages {
                let _ = writeln!(stderr, "{message}");
            }
            failed |= !write_temps(job, &result.temps, &mut stderr);
            if result.failed() {
                failed = true;
                continue;
            }
            // A `-MD` on a command line that links writes the rule next to the executable and
            // names the executable as its target, since that is the file this source builds
            // here. The object it went through is in a temporary directory and is gone by the
            // time `make` reads any of this.
            if opts.deps.emit {
                failed |= !write_deps(opts, plan, job, &result.deps, &mut stderr);
            }
            if !matches!(result.artifact, Artifact::Object(_)) {
                // Worth saying rather than writing whatever it is and letting the linker read it.
                // An empty file is a valid empty linker script, so a link handed one gets as far
                // as reporting every symbol of this file undefined, which is a page of messages
                // about something that went wrong here.
                let _ = writeln!(
                    stderr,
                    "rucc: internal error: {}: no object file was produced for the link",
                    job.input
                );
                failed = true;
                continue;
            }
            if let Err(e) = std::fs::write(&out, result.artifact.bytes()) {
                let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {out}: {e}");
                failed = true;
            }
        }
        failed |= !write_coverage(opts, &fired, &mut stderr);
    }
    if failed {
        // Nothing is linked from a compilation that did not finish. A linker run over the objects
        // that did compile would report every function of the file that did not as undefined,
        // which is a page of messages about a mistake already reported once.
        return 1;
    }

    // The items in command line order with the temporaries filled in. A library contributes no
    // job and passes through, and every file item takes the next job's real output, which is
    // what keeps a library that was written between two objects between them here.
    let mut outputs = produced.into_iter();
    let mut items = Vec::with_capacity(job.inputs.len());
    for item in &job.inputs {
        match item {
            link::Item::Library(name) => items.push(link::Item::Library(name.clone())),
            link::Item::File(_) => match outputs.next() {
                Some(path) => items.push(link::Item::File(path)),
                None => return complain("the plan asks the linker for a file nothing produced"),
            },
        }
    }

    let args = match link::line(opts.target, link, &items, &job.output) {
        Ok(args) => args,
        Err(why) => return complain(why),
    };
    if verbose {
        let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
        let _ = writeln!(stderr, "{}", link::render(&linker, &args));
    }
    let started = std::time::Instant::now();
    let ran = link::run(&linker, &args);
    if opts.time {
        // The one step of a compilation that really is another program, so this line is the same
        // measurement gcc's is and names the linker the way gcc names `collect2`.
        let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
        say_time(&linker.name, started.elapsed(), &mut stderr);
    }
    match ran {
        Ok(()) => 0,
        // The linker has already said what was wrong on its own error output, and repeating that
        // linking failed would only push its message further up the screen.
        Err(link::Error::Refused { .. }) => 1,
        Err(why) => complain(why),
    }
}

/// Prints one driver level message and gives back the exit status that goes with it.
fn complain(why: impl std::fmt::Display) -> i32 {
    let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
    let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {why}");
    1
}

/// Writes what `-Zrule-coverage=FILE` asked for, and says whether it could.
///
/// Once for the whole command line rather than once per input, because the question is which
/// lowering rules this run of the compiler reached and a file per input would leave the reader
/// unioning files to find out something one process already knew.
///
/// A file that could not be written is a failure and not a warning. What asks for this is a
/// measurement run, and a measurement that quietly did not happen is worse than one that stopped.
fn write_coverage(opts: &Options, fired: &Fired, stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write) -> bool {
    let Some(path) = &opts.rule_coverage else { return true };
    let Some(table) = coverage::table(opts.target.arch) else {
        let _ = writeln!(
            stderr,
            "rucc: error: there are no lowering rules for {} yet, so there is no coverage of them \
             to report",
            opts.target
        );
        return false;
    };
    match std::fs::write(path, fired.listing(table)) {
        Ok(()) => true,
        Err(e) => {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {path}: {e}");
            false
        }
    }
}

/// Where the `-fopt-info` remarks go, and how much of the run has already gone there.
///
/// Standard error by default, and one file for the whole run when `-fopt-info=<file>` named one.
/// A file rather than the diagnostic stream is what a harness wants: the corpus in
/// `tamnd/rucc-corpus` matches a rejection against what the compiler said on standard error, and
/// a few thousand remarks mixed into that would bury it.
struct Remarks {
    /// The file, if there is one.
    file: Option<String>,
    /// Whether anything has been written to it yet, which decides between truncating and
    /// appending. One file holds the whole run rather than the last input in it.
    started: bool,
}

impl Remarks {
    /// Prepares the destination, emptying the file if there is one.
    ///
    /// Emptied here rather than at the first remark, because a run where no pass had anything to
    /// say should leave an empty file and not yesterday's. An absent file and an empty one are
    /// different facts and something reading this will act on the difference.
    fn new(file: Option<&String>, stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write) -> (Self, bool) {
        let mut ok = true;
        if let Some(path) = file {
            if let Err(e) = std::fs::write(path, "") {
                let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {path}: {e}");
                ok = false;
            }
        }
        (Self { file: file.cloned(), started: false }, ok)
    }

    /// Writes one input's remarks, and says whether that worked.
    ///
    /// A file that cannot be written is a failure and not a warning, for the reason
    /// [`write_dumps`] gives: remarks that quietly did not arrive look exactly like a compilation
    /// where nothing happened.
    fn write(&mut self, text: &str, stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write) -> bool {
        if text.is_empty() {
            return true;
        }
        let Some(path) = &self.file else {
            let _ = write!(stderr, "{text}");
            return true;
        };
        let opened = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
            .write(true)
            .append(self.started)
            .truncate(!self.started)
            .create(true)
            .open(path);
        self.started = true;
        let result =
            opened.and_then(|mut file| std::io::Write::write_all(&mut file, text.as_bytes()));
        if let Err(e) = result {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {path}: {e}");
            return false;
        }
        true
    }
}

/// Writes what `-fdump-ir=` asked to see, one file per dump.
///
/// The name is the input file with the dump's own name and `.ir` after it, so a directory listing
/// after a run is the passes in the order they ran, per input. They go in the working directory
/// rather than beside the output, because a dump is something a person asked for at a prompt and
/// the working directory is where that person is.
///
/// A file that could not be written is a failure and not a warning, for the reason
/// [`write_coverage`] gives: what asked for this is somebody debugging a pass, and a dump that
/// quietly did not happen looks exactly like a pass that did not run.
fn write_dumps(input: &str, dumps: &[rucc_opt::Dump], stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write) -> bool {
    let stem = std::path::Path::new(input)
        .file_name()
        .map_or_else(|| input.to_owned(), |name| name.to_string_lossy().into_owned());
    let mut ok = true;
    for dump in dumps {
        let path = format!("{stem}.{}.ir", dump.name);
        if let Err(e) = std::fs::write(&path, &dump.text) {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {path}: {e}");
            ok = false;
        }
    }
    ok
}

/// Writes the files `-save-temps` kept, which is nothing at all unless it was given.
///
/// A file that could not be written is a failure rather than a warning, for the reason
/// [`write_dumps`] gives: somebody asked for these by name, and one that quietly did not happen
/// looks like a compilation that never went through that step.
fn write_temps(job: &Job, temps: &Temps, stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write) -> bool {
    let mut ok = true;
    let kept = [(job.saved_text(), &temps.preprocessed), (job.saved_asm(), &temps.assembly)];
    for (path, text) in kept {
        // A step the compilation did not reach has nothing to keep, and a job that is not keeping
        // that step has nowhere to put it. Either way there is no file here.
        let (Some(path), Some(text)) = (path, text) else { continue };
        if let Err(e) = std::fs::write(&path, text) {
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {path}: {e}");
            ok = false;
        }
    }
    ok
}

/// One line of `-time`, which is what a step was called and how long it took.
///
/// GCC's two numbers are the user and the system time of a subprocess it ran. This compiler runs
/// no subprocess for anything but the link, so what is measured here is the wall clock of the
/// step and the second column is always zero. The shape of the line is kept because a person
/// reading it next to gcc's should not have to work out which column is which.
fn say_time(name: &str, took: std::time::Duration, stderr: &mut impl std::io::Write) {
    let _ = writeln!(stderr, "# {name} {:.2} {:.2}", took.as_secs_f64(), 0.0);
}

/// Writes one job's result where the plan said it goes.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Returns the message to print, which names the file when there is one, because "permission
/// denied" on its own does not say which file was refused.
fn write_out(output: &Output, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<(), String> {
    match output {
        Output::Stdout => {
            let mut stdout = std::io::stdout().lock();
            stdout.write_all(bytes).map_err(|e| format!("writing to standard output: {e}"))
        }
        Output::File(path) | Output::Temporary(path) => {
            std::fs::write(path, bytes).map_err(|e| format!("{path}: {e}"))
        }
    }
}

/// Runs the driver and returns the process exit code.
///
/// `args` excludes the program name. Output goes to `stdout` and errors to `stderr`, which
/// is the one place in the compiler that is true.
pub fn run(args: &[String]) -> i32 {
    match parse_args(args) {
        Ok(Action::Help) => {
            print!("{USAGE}");
            0
        }
        Ok(Action::Version) => {
            println!("rucc {VERSION}");
            0
        }
        Ok(Action::Print(line)) => {
            println!("{line}");
            0
        }
        Ok(Action::PrintConfig(opts)) => {
            print!("{}", print_config(&opts));
            0
        }
        Ok(Action::PrintPipeline(opts)) => {
            print!("{}", print_pipeline(&opts));
            0
        }
        Ok(Action::PrintPlan { opts, plan, link }) => {
            print!("{}", plan.render());
            // The line as it would be typed, which is the half of `-###` that section 4.3 says
            // arrives with the link. It is printed even when the linker is not on this machine,
            // because what a build wants from `-###` is what the compiler would do.
            if let Some(job) = &plan.link {
                match link_line(&opts, &link, job) {
                    Ok(line) => println!("{line}"),
                    Err(why) => {
                        let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
                        let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {why}");
                        return 1;
                    }
                }
            }
            0
        }
        Ok(Action::Compile { opts, plan, link, jobs, verbose }) => {
            {
                let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
                if verbose {
                    let _ = write!(stderr, "{}", plan.render());
                    let _ = writeln!(stderr, "workers: {}", jobs.count());
                }
            }
            if opts.emit == EmitKind::Preprocessed {
                return preprocess_all(&opts, &plan);
            }
            if opts.emit != EmitKind::Executable {
                return compile_all(&opts, &plan);
            }
            link_all(&opts, &plan, &link, verbose)
        }
        Err(e) => {
            let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: error: {e}");
            let _ = writeln!(stderr, "rucc: note: run `rucc --help` for usage");
            1
        }
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use rucc_session::{GnucVersion, IncludeForm, OptLevel, Visibility};

    use super::*;

    fn args(s: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
        s.iter().map(|x| (*x).to_owned()).collect()
    }

    #[test]
    fn help_and_version_win_over_everything_else() {
        assert_eq!(parse_args(&args(&["-c", "--help", "x.c"])).unwrap(), Action::Help);
        assert_eq!(parse_args(&args(&["--version"])).unwrap(), Action::Version);
    }

    fn compile(s: &[&str]) -> (Box<Options>, Box<Plan>) {
        match parse_args(&args(s)).expect("expected a compilation") {
            Action::Compile { opts, plan, .. } => (opts, plan),
            other => panic!("expected a compilation, got {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    fn linking(s: &[&str]) -> (Box<LinkOptions>, Box<Plan>) {
        match parse_args(&args(s)).expect("expected a compilation") {
            Action::Compile { link, plan, .. } => (link, plan),
            other => panic!("expected a compilation, got {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn collects_inputs_and_flags() {
        let (opts, plan) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-g", "a.c", "b.c"]);
        let paths: Vec<&str> = plan.jobs.iter().map(|j| j.input.as_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(paths, vec!["a.c", "b.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_level, OptLevel::O2);
        assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Object);
        assert!(opts.debug_info);
    }

    /// The unstable options, which are spelled apart from everything else on purpose: what is
    /// under `-Z` promises nothing, and a build that reaches for one should have had to say so.
    #[test]
    fn an_unstable_option_is_taken_and_one_that_does_not_exist_is_refused() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-Zrule-coverage=/tmp/rules.cov", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.rule_coverage.as_deref(), Some("/tmp/rules.cov"));

        let (plain, _) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(plain.rule_coverage, None, "nothing is measured unless it was asked for");

        assert!(parse_args(&args(&["-Zrule-coverage=", "a.c"])).is_err(), "a file with no name");
        let unknown = parse_args(&args(&["-Zwhat", "a.c"])).expect_err("there is no such option");
        assert!(unknown.message.contains("4.11"), "{}", unknown.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_bare_dash_o_means_o1_the_way_gcc_reads_it() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-O", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_level, OptLevel::O1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_x_applies_to_later_inputs_only_and_none_stops_it() {
        let (_, plan) = compile(&["a.o", "-x", "c", "b.txt", "-x", "none", "c.o"]);
        assert_eq!(plan.jobs[0].kind, InputKind::LinkerInput);
        assert_eq!(plan.jobs[1].kind, InputKind::C);
        assert_eq!(plan.jobs[2].kind, InputKind::LinkerInput);
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_j_reaches_the_scheduler_and_defaults_to_the_machine() {
        let (_, _, jobs) = match parse_args(&args(&["-j4", "a.c"])).unwrap() {
            Action::Compile { opts, plan, jobs, .. } => (opts, plan, jobs),
            other => panic!("expected a compilation, got {other:?}"),
        };
        assert_eq!(jobs.count(), 4);

        let default = match parse_args(&args(&["a.c"])).unwrap() {
            Action::Compile { jobs, .. } => jobs,
            other => panic!("expected a compilation, got {other:?}"),
        };
        assert_eq!(default, Jobs::available());
        assert!(parse_args(&args(&["-j0", "a.c"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn triple_hash_prints_the_plan_and_runs_nothing() {
        let a = parse_args(&args(&["-###", "-c", "a.c"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPlan { plan, .. } = a else { panic!("expected a plan dump") };
        assert!(plan.render().contains("a.c: preprocess, compile, assemble -> a.o"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_flag_that_keeps_the_intermediate_files_has_three_spellings_and_two_meanings() {
        // The bare one is `=obj` and not `=cwd`. gcc's manual says the opposite and gcc 16 does
        // this, and following the compiler is what makes a build that reads either of them find
        // the files where they are.
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-c", "-save-temps", "a.c"]).0.save_temps, SaveTemps::Object);
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-c", "-save-temps=obj", "a.c"]).0.save_temps, SaveTemps::Object);
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-c", "-save-temps=cwd", "a.c"]).0.save_temps, SaveTemps::Cwd);
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-c", "a.c"]).0.save_temps, SaveTemps::No);
        // The last one on the line decides, the way it does for every other flag with an
        // argument, and a keyword that is neither is fatal rather than ignored: a run that kept
        // nothing and said nothing looks exactly like one where the files were not produced.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-save-temps", "-save-temps=cwd", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.save_temps, SaveTemps::Cwd);
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-c", "-save-temps=nowhere", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("accepted: cwd, obj"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_flag_that_times_each_step_reaches_the_options_and_changes_nothing_else() {
        let (opts, plan) = compile(&["-c", "-time", "a.c"]);
        let (plain, without) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.time);
        assert!(!plain.time);
        // Against the same line without the flag rather than against a spelling of the object's
        // name, since what the object is called is the host's business and this is not about that.
        assert_eq!(plan.jobs[0].output, without.jobs[0].output);
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_x_names_what_it_accepts_when_it_does_not_know_a_language() {
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-x", "fortran", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("assembler-with-cpp"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_flag_is_an_error_rather_than_a_shrug() {
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fno-such-thing", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("unknown option"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    /// `-fpermissive` and the flag that turns it back off, which a build writes beside it when
    /// one directory needs the older rules and the rest of the tree does not.
    #[test]
    fn permissive_reads_in_both_directions_and_the_last_one_wins() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.permissive, "off unless it is asked for");

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fpermissive", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.permissive);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fpermissive", "-fno-permissive", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.permissive);
    }

    #[test]
    fn asking_for_nested_functions_is_told_why_it_is_not_coming() {
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fnested-functions", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("trampoline"), "{}", e.message);
        assert!(parse_args(&args(&["-fno-nested-functions", "a.c"])).is_ok());
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_flag_every_configure_script_writes_is_taken() {
        // All four spellings, because a build writes whichever one its macros picked and a
        // compiler that takes three of them is a compiler that fails on the fourth.
        for flag in ["-fPIC", "-fpic", "-fPIE", "-fpie"] {
            let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", flag, "a.c"]);
            assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Object, "{flag}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_flags_that_describe_what_this_compiler_already_does_are_taken() {
        // Every one of these is on a real build line somewhere and every one of them was an
        // unknown option. What they have in common is that the answer rucc gives is the answer
        // they ask for, so there is nothing to implement and nothing to refuse.
        for flag in [
            "-fno-common",
            "-fstrict-aliasing",
            "-fno-strict-aliasing",
            "-pipe",
            "-fdiagnostics-color",
            "-fno-diagnostics-color",
            "-fdiagnostics-color=always",
            "-fdiagnostics-color=never",
            "-fdiagnostics-color=auto",
        ] {
            let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", flag, "a.c"]);
            assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Object, "{flag}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn asking_the_linker_to_merge_tentative_definitions_is_told_why_it_is_not_coming() {
        // The one of that family that is a request rather than a description, and it is a real
        // difference: two files each writing `int g;` link under it and do not without it.
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fcommon", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains(".bss"), "{}", e.message);
        assert!(e.message.contains("extern"), "the way out is worth saying: {}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn asking_for_position_dependent_code_is_told_why_it_is_not_coming() {
        for flag in ["-fno-pic", "-fno-pie"] {
            let e = parse_args(&args(&[flag, "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
            assert!(e.message.contains("global offset table"), "{flag}: {}", e.message);
            // The one it may have meant, since the two are a letter apart and one of them is
            // about linking and is taken.
            assert!(e.message.contains("-no-pie"), "{flag}: {}", e.message);
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unsupported_target_names_itself() {
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["--target=sparc64-linux-gnu", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("sparc64"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn no_inputs_is_an_error_but_print_config_needs_none() {
        assert!(parse_args(&args(&[])).is_err());
        assert!(matches!(parse_args(&args(&["--print-config"])), Ok(Action::PrintConfig(_))));
    }

    #[test]
    fn print_config_reports_the_target_it_was_given_not_the_host() {
        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-config", "--target=riscv64-linux-musl"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintConfig(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a configuration dump") };
        let text = print_config(&opts);
        assert!(text.contains("target: riscv64-unknown-linux-musl"), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("char-signed: false"), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("object-format: elf"), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("va-list: void-pointer"), "{text}");
        // RISC-V has a register file and this compiler has not written it down yet, and the
        // dump says which of those two it is rather than leaving the line out.
        assert!(text.contains("registers: none"), "{text}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn print_config_has_one_key_per_line_and_a_fixed_order() {
        let opts = Options::new("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".parse().unwrap());
        let text = print_config(&opts);
        let keys: Vec<&str> =
            text.lines().map(|l| l.split(':').next().unwrap_or_default()).collect();
        assert_eq!(keys[0], "version");
        assert_eq!(keys[1], "target");
        assert_eq!(keys.len(), 19);
        assert!(text.ends_with('\n'));
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_safety_tier_is_read_off_the_command_line_and_a_wrong_one_is_refused() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.safety, rucc_session::Safety::Off);

        for (flag, tier) in [
            ("-fsafety=detect", rucc_session::Safety::Detect),
            ("-fsafety=enforce", rucc_session::Safety::Enforce),
            ("-fsafety=kernel", rucc_session::Safety::Kernel),
            ("-fsafety=off", rucc_session::Safety::Off),
        ] {
            let (opts, _) = compile(&[flag, "a.c"]);
            assert_eq!(opts.safety, tier, "{flag}");
        }

        // The last one wins, the way every other repeated flag on this command line does.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-fsafety=enforce", "-fsafety=off", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.safety, rucc_session::Safety::Off);

        // A misspelled tier is refused rather than ignored. Silently compiling without the
        // monitor a build asked for is the one failure mode this feature cannot have.
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fsafety=on", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("is not a safety tier"), "{}", e.message);
        assert!(parse_args(&args(&["-fsafety", "a.c"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn print_pipeline_answers_with_the_passes_the_level_asked_for() {
        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-pipeline", "-O2"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        let text = print_pipeline(&opts);
        assert!(text.starts_with("level: -O2\n"), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("fold"), "{text}");

        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-pipeline"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        // One pass runs at `-O0` and it is the one that removes code nothing reaches, which is
        // not an optimization. See issue 359.
        assert!(print_pipeline(&opts).contains("1: simplify-cfg,"), "{}", print_pipeline(&opts));

        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-pipeline", "-fno-simplify-cfg"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        // And with that one turned off there is nothing left, which the dump says rather than
        // printing an empty list.
        assert!(print_pipeline(&opts).contains("no passes"), "{}", print_pipeline(&opts));
    }

    #[test]
    fn print_pipeline_takes_the_toggles_into_account() {
        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-pipeline", "-O2", "-fno-fold"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        let text = print_pipeline(&opts);
        // The one that was named is gone and the rest of the level is not, which is the whole
        // of what a toggle promises.
        assert!(!text.contains("fold"), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("dce"), "{text}");

        // Every pass the compiler has, named off. Built from the registry rather than written
        // out, so a pass added later is turned off here too and this keeps testing the thing it
        // is about, which is that the toggles can empty a level.
        let mut off = vec!["--print-pipeline".to_owned(), "-O2".to_owned()];
        off.extend(rucc_opt::PASSES.iter().map(|p| format!("-fno-{}", p.name())));
        let spelled: Vec<&str> = off.iter().map(String::as_str).collect();
        let a = parse_args(&args(&spelled)).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        assert!(print_pipeline(&opts).contains("no passes"), "{}", print_pipeline(&opts));
    }

    #[test]
    fn print_pipeline_says_when_a_budget_will_stop_the_run_short() {
        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-pipeline", "-O2"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        assert!(!print_pipeline(&opts).contains("global fuel"));

        let a = parse_args(&args(&["--print-pipeline", "-O2", "-fpass-fuel-global=4"])).unwrap();
        let Action::PrintPipeline(opts) = a else { panic!("expected a pipeline dump") };
        let text = print_pipeline(&opts);
        // Because the listing is the answer to what this compilation will do, and a run that
        // stops after four rewrites is not doing what the level says it does.
        assert!(text.contains("global fuel: 4"), "{text}");
    }

    /// A pass is turned on and off by its own name, and the order the flags were given in is
    /// kept, because the last spelling of a name is the one that decides.
    #[test]
    fn a_pass_is_named_by_dash_f_and_unnamed_by_dash_f_no() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O0", "-ffold", "-fno-fold", "-ffold", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(
            opts.passes,
            [("fold".to_owned(), true), ("fold".to_owned(), false), ("fold".to_owned(), true)]
        );

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fno-such-pass", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("unknown option"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn pass_fuel_names_a_pass_and_a_count_and_refuses_anything_else() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fpass-fuel=fold=3", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.pass_fuel, [("fold".to_owned(), 3)]);

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fpass-fuel=fold", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("<pass>=<count>"), "{}", e.message);
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fpass-fuel=nosuch=3", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("--print-pipeline"), "{}", e.message);
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fpass-fuel=fold=lots", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("not a number"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn global_pass_fuel_is_a_count_on_its_own_and_defaults_to_no_limit() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.pass_fuel_global, None);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fpass-fuel-global=12", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.pass_fuel_global, Some(12));
        // And it is not the per pass flag with a longer name, so neither spelling swallows the
        // other.
        assert!(opts.pass_fuel.is_empty());

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fpass-fuel-global=lots", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("not a number"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_gate_names_a_pass_and_optionally_the_functions_it_covers() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fdisable-fold", "-fenable-fold=2-4,main", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(
            opts.pass_gates,
            [(false, "fold".to_owned()), (true, "fold=2-4,main".to_owned())],
            "the order is what decides, so it has to survive the parse"
        );

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fdisable-nosuch", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("--print-pipeline"), "{}", e.message);
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fenable-fold=9-2", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("ends before it starts"), "{}", e.message);
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fdisable-fold=", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("is empty"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_pipeline_listing_says_which_passes_a_gate_touched() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fdisable-fold=main", "a.c"]);
        let text = print_pipeline(&opts);
        assert!(text.contains("fold, "), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("[off for main]"), "{text}");
    }

    /// The spelling is checked while the arguments are read, because a dump that names a pass
    /// this compiler does not have is a typo, and a typo found after the compilation has run is
    /// found too late to be any use.
    #[test]
    fn a_dump_is_checked_when_it_is_asked_for_rather_than_when_it_is_taken() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fdump-ir=all", "-fdump-ir=after-fold", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.dump_ir, ["all", "after-fold"]);

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fdump-ir=after-nosuch", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("nosuch"), "{}", e.message);
        assert!(parse_args(&args(&["-fdump-ir=sideways-fold", "a.c"])).is_err());
    }

    /// Every spelling `-fopt-info` takes, and the one it does not.
    ///
    /// The keywords are checked here for the same reason a dump's pass name is: a person who
    /// misspelled one gets no output, and no output is also what a compilation where nothing
    /// happened looks like. Telling those two apart is the entire reason to reach for this flag.
    #[test]
    fn opt_info_takes_kinds_and_a_file_and_refuses_a_kind_it_does_not_have() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fopt-info", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_info, [""], "a bare flag asks for the rewrites");
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_info_file, None, "and goes to standard error");

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fopt-info-missed-note", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_info, ["missed-note"]);

        // Two flags add up rather than the second replacing the first, and the file is the last
        // one that named a file, which is how GCC treats both.
        let (opts, _) =
            compile(&["-c", "-O2", "-fopt-info-missed=one.txt", "-fopt-info-all=two.txt", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_info, ["missed", "all"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.opt_info_file.as_deref(), Some("two.txt"));

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fopt-info-vectorized", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("vectorized"), "{}", e.message);
        assert!(e.message.contains("`missed`"), "{}", e.message);
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fopt-info-missed=", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("no file"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn verify_each_is_unstable_and_off_unless_it_was_asked_for() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-Zverify-each", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.verify_each);
        assert!(!USAGE.contains("verify-each"), "an unstable option stays out of the usage text");
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_o_needs_an_argument() {
        let e = parse_args(&args(&["a.c", "-o"])).unwrap_err();
        assert_eq!(e.message, "-o requires an argument");
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_d_and_dash_u_are_read_joined_or_separated_and_keep_their_order() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-DFOO=1", "-D", "BAR", "-UBAZ", "-U", "QUX", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.defines, ["FOO=1", "BAR"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.undefines, ["BAZ", "QUX"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_include_flags_land_on_the_chain_each_one_names() {
        // A sysroot with nothing under it, so that the library's own directories are the
        // same on every machine this test runs on, which is none of them.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&[
            "-Ii",
            "-iquote",
            "q",
            "-isystem",
            "sys",
            "-idirafter",
            "after",
            "--sysroot=/nowhere-at-all",
            "a.c",
        ]);
        let dirs: Vec<&str> = opts.search.dirs().iter().filter_map(|d| d.path.to_str()).collect();
        // The compiler's own headers sit after every `-isystem` and before `-idirafter`,
        // which is where GCC puts its own: a directory the user named outranks ours.
        assert_eq!(dirs, ["q", "i", "sys", runtime::DIR, "after"]);
        assert!(!opts.search.dirs()[1].is_system);
        assert!(opts.search.dirs()[2].is_system);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_librarys_headers_come_after_the_compilers_own_and_go_away_with_them() {
        // Which machine this runs on decides what is on the path, so the test is about the
        // order rather than about the names: ours is on it, the library's follow it, and
        // `-nostdinc` is the one flag that takes both halves of the pair off at once.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["a.c"]);
        let dirs = opts.search.dirs();
        let ours = dirs.iter().position(|d| d.path.to_str() == Some(runtime::DIR));
        assert_eq!(ours, Some(0), "{dirs:?}");
        assert!(dirs[1..].iter().all(|d| d.is_system), "{dirs:?}");
        let (bare, _) = compile(&["-nostdinc", "a.c"]);
        assert!(bare.search.dirs().is_empty(), "{:?}", bare.search.dirs());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_sysroot_moves_the_librarys_directories_and_nothing_else() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-isystem", "sys", "--sysroot=/nowhere-at-all", "a.c"]);
        let dirs: Vec<&str> = opts.search.dirs().iter().filter_map(|d| d.path.to_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(dirs, ["sys", runtime::DIR]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_i_dash_moves_the_bracket_directories_into_the_quoted_chain() {
        let (opts, _) =
            compile(&["-Iinc1", "-iquote", "inc2", "-I-", "-Iinc3", "-nostdinc", "a.c"]);
        let dirs: Vec<&str> = opts.search.dirs().iter().filter_map(|d| d.path.to_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(dirs, ["inc1", "inc2", "inc3"]);
        // An angled include sees only what came after the flag.
        assert_eq!(opts.search.start(IncludeForm::Angled), 2);
        assert!(!opts.search.searches_current_dir());
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_prefix_flags_stick_what_iprefix_said_on_the_front_of_what_follows_it() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&[
            "-iprefix",
            "/tools/",
            "-iwithprefix",
            "late",
            "-iwithprefixbefore",
            "early",
            "-iprefix",
            "/other/",
            "-iwithprefix",
            "last",
            "-nostdinc",
            "a.c",
        ]);
        let dirs: Vec<&str> = opts.search.dirs().iter().filter_map(|d| d.path.to_str()).collect();
        // `-iwithprefixbefore` is an `-I` and the other two are `-isystem`, which is where GCC
        // puts them rather than where its manual says it does.
        assert_eq!(dirs, ["/tools/early", "/tools/late", "/other/last"]);
        assert!(!opts.search.dirs()[0].is_system);
        assert!(opts.search.dirs()[1].is_system);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_files_named_on_the_command_line_keep_their_order_and_which_flag_named_them() {
        let (opts, _) =
            compile(&["-include", "one.h", "-imacros", "two.h", "-include", "3.h", "a.c"]);
        let names: Vec<&str> = opts.preincludes.iter().map(|p| p.name.as_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(names, ["one.h", "two.h", "3.h"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.preincludes.iter().filter(|p| p.macros_only).count(), 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn nostdinc_takes_the_compilers_own_headers_off_the_path() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-Ii", "-nostdinc", "a.c"]);
        let dirs: Vec<&str> = opts.search.dirs().iter().filter_map(|d| d.path.to_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(dirs, ["i"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_dialect_flags_set_the_language_and_the_extensions_separately() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-std=gnu11", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.std, Std::C11);
        assert!(opts.gnu_extensions);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-std=iso9899:1999", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.std, Std::C99);
        assert!(!opts.gnu_extensions);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-ansi", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.std, Std::C89);
        assert!(!opts.gnu_extensions);

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-std=c94jr", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("unknown dialect"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_dump_letters_are_a_family_and_everything_else_beginning_with_d_is_not() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-dM", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.dumps.macros);

        // Packed, the way GCC takes them, and a letter in the family we have not written yet
        // is accepted and does nothing rather than failing a build.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-dDM", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.dumps.macros);
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-dD", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.dumps.macros);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.dumps.any());

        // `-dumpversion` is a different flag that happens to start the same way, and it is read
        // as itself rather than as a dump of nothing.
        assert_eq!(printed(&["-dumpversion", "a.c"]), VERSION);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_gcc_version_claimed_is_a_flag_and_the_short_spellings_are_the_ones_people_write() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(
            opts.gnuc,
            GnucVersion { major: 7, minor: 0, patch: 0 },
            "the lowest claim a modern glibc gives its own declarations to"
        );

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-fgnuc-version=15.1.0", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.gnuc, GnucVersion { major: 15, minor: 1, patch: 0 });

        // A missing component is zero. `gcc -dumpversion` says `15` on a release with no
        // patchlevel and a harness that pastes that back has to be understood.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-fgnuc-version=15", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.gnuc, GnucVersion { major: 15, minor: 0, patch: 0 });

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-fgnuc-version=13.2", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.gnuc, GnucVersion { major: 13, minor: 2, patch: 0 });

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fgnuc-version=15.x", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("minor that is not a number"), "{}", e.message);

        let e = parse_args(&args(&["-fgnuc-version=1.2.3.4", "a.c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(e.message.contains("more than three"), "{}", e.message);
    }

    #[test]
    fn pedantic_has_two_spellings_and_is_not_the_same_knob_as_the_dialect() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-std=c17", "-pedantic", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.pedantic);
        assert_eq!(opts.std, Std::C17);

        // The `-W` family's name for it, which is what a build that groups its warning flags
        // tends to write.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-Wpedantic", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.pedantic);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-std=c17", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.pedantic, "a dialect on its own does not diagnose an extension");
    }

    #[test]
    fn dash_p_and_dash_ffreestanding_reach_the_options() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-E", "-P", "-ffreestanding", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.line_markers);
        assert!(!opts.hosted);
        assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Preprocessed);
    }

    /// The two ways a build says it means its own function by a name the C library also has.
    ///
    /// `-fno-builtin` is all of them and `-fno-builtin-<name>` is one, and the second is what a
    /// build writes when it means its own `memcpy` and the library's everything else. The name is
    /// kept as it was written and not checked against anything, because a program is allowed to
    /// mean something by a name this compiler has never heard of.
    #[test]
    fn the_builtin_flags_are_read_in_both_directions_and_one_name_at_a_time() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.builtins, "a library name means the library function by default");
        assert!(opts.no_builtin.is_empty());

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fno-builtin", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.builtins);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fno-builtin", "-fbuiltin", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.builtins, "the last mention decides");

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fno-builtin-memcpy", "-fno-builtin-nonesuch", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.builtins, "one name is not the family");
        assert_eq!(opts.no_builtin, vec!["memcpy".to_owned(), "nonesuch".to_owned()]);
    }

    /// `-fvisibility=`, which is on every cmake project that cares about which names it exports
    /// and which was refused as an unknown option until now.
    ///
    /// Four spellings and three answers. `internal` is hidden plus a promise about never taking
    /// the address across a component boundary, and nothing derives anything from that promise
    /// here, so it comes out as the weaker of the two rather than as a refusal that stops a build
    /// over a distinction this compiler does not make.
    #[test]
    fn visibility_takes_the_four_spellings_gcc_takes_and_refuses_the_rest() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.visibility, Visibility::Default, "exported unless something says not");

        for (written, wanted) in [
            ("default", Visibility::Default),
            ("hidden", Visibility::Hidden),
            ("internal", Visibility::Hidden),
            ("protected", Visibility::Protected),
        ] {
            let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", &format!("-fvisibility={written}"), "a.c"]);
            assert_eq!(opts.visibility, wanted, "{written}");
        }

        // The last mention decides, which is what every other flag of this shape does and what a
        // build that turns something off for one directory relies on.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fvisibility=hidden", "-fvisibility=default", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.visibility, Visibility::Default, "the last mention decides");

        // A spelling gcc does not take is refused rather than read as the default, because a
        // build that meant hidden and got exported is a library with the wrong interface and
        // nothing said about it anywhere.
        let failed = parse_args(&args(&["-fvisibility=none", "a.c"])).expect_err("refused");
        assert!(failed.to_string().contains("is not a visibility"), "{failed}");
    }

    /// `-fgnu89-inline`, which is off by default and is not implied by anything on the command
    /// line, since the dialect asks for GNU's reading further in rather than through this.
    #[test]
    fn gnu89_inline_is_off_until_it_is_asked_for_and_the_last_mention_decides() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.gnu89_inline, "C's reading of inline by default");

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fgnu89-inline", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.gnu89_inline);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fgnu89-inline", "-fno-gnu89-inline", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.gnu89_inline, "the last mention decides");

        // The C89 dialects are under GNU's reading whether this was written or not, so the flag
        // stays off there and the dialect is what the checker and the macro set both ask. That is
        // also why `-std=c89 -fno-gnu89-inline` needs no diagnostic: it asks for the reading the
        // dialect already has. gcc refuses that command line, which is measured in the issue.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-std=c89", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.gnu89_inline);
    }

    /// Both spellings of both frame flags, since a build that wants one usually writes the
    /// other beside it for the one file that has to be compiled the ordinary way.
    #[test]
    fn the_two_frame_flags_are_read_in_both_directions() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.frame_pointer, "gcc omits it above -O0 and so does this");
        assert!(opts.red_zone, "the psABI has one and nothing said not to use it");

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-c", "-fno-omit-frame-pointer", "-mno-red-zone", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.frame_pointer);
        assert!(!opts.red_zone);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&[
            "-c",
            "-fno-omit-frame-pointer",
            "-fomit-frame-pointer",
            "-mno-red-zone",
            "-mred-zone",
            "a.c",
        ]);
        assert!(!opts.frame_pointer, "the last one wins, as it does in gcc");
        assert!(opts.red_zone);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_link_flags_are_collected_apart_from_the_compilation() {
        let (link, _) = linking(&[
            "-static",
            "-nostartfiles",
            "-rdynamic",
            "-s",
            "-fuse-ld=mold",
            "-L/opt/lib",
            "-B",
            "/opt/tools",
            "a.c",
        ]);
        assert!(link.is_static);
        assert!(link.no_startfiles);
        assert!(link.export_dynamic);
        assert!(link.strip);
        assert_eq!(link.use_ld.as_deref(), Some("mold"));
        assert_eq!(link.search, vec![PathBuf::from("/opt/lib")]);
        assert_eq!(link.prefixes, vec![PathBuf::from("/opt/tools")]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_comma_in_dash_wl_separates_two_arguments() {
        let (link, _) = linking(&["-Wl,-rpath,/opt/lib", "-Xlinker", "--as-needed", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(link.passthrough, vec!["-rpath", "/opt/lib", "--as-needed"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_library_keeps_its_place_between_the_objects() {
        // Link order is semantic: `-lm` written between two files resolves for the one before
        // it and not for the one after, so a library cannot be collected into a list of its own.
        // The target is named because the suffix of an object is the target's and this asserts
        // on the names: the same command line on a Windows host plans two `.obj` files.
        let (_, plan) = linking(&["--target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "a.c", "-lm", "b.c"]);
        let link = plan.link.expect("expected a link step");
        assert_eq!(
            link.inputs,
            vec![
                link::Item::File("a.o".into()),
                link::Item::Library("m".into()),
                link::Item::File("b.o".into()),
            ]
        );
        // And it is not a job, because there is nothing to compile in a library.
        assert_eq!(plan.jobs.len(), 2);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_library_on_a_dash_c_line_is_a_note_rather_than_an_error() {
        let (_, plan) = linking(&["-c", "-lm", "a.c"]);
        assert!(plan.link.is_none());
        assert!(plan.notes.iter().any(|n| n.contains("-lm")), "{:?}", plan.notes);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_sysroot_reaches_the_linker_as_well_as_the_headers() {
        let (link, _) = linking(&["--sysroot=/opt/root", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(link.sysroot, Some(PathBuf::from("/opt/root")));
    }

    fn printed(s: &[&str]) -> String {
        match parse_args(&args(s)).expect("expected an answer") {
            Action::Print(line) => line,
            other => panic!("expected an answer, got {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    fn refused(s: &[&str]) -> String {
        parse_args(&args(s)).expect_err("expected a refusal").message
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_warning_flag_this_compiler_has_not_heard_of_is_taken_rather_than_refused() {
        // The rule in section 4.1, and the reason for it is autoconf: a configure script finds
        // out whether a warning flag exists by passing it and looking at the exit status, so a
        // compiler that refuses one it does not know fails a script written for a newer GCC.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-Wall", "-Wextra", "-Wno-format-truncation", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.warnings_are_errors);
        assert!(opts.warnings);
        // The two spellings that do mean something are still read.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-Werror", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.warnings_are_errors);
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-w", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.warnings);
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-pedantic-errors", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.pedantic && opts.warnings_are_errors);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_argument_for_a_separate_tool_is_refused_rather_than_dropped() {
        // Every one of these says something about the output, so the wrong answer is silence.
        assert!(refused(&["-Wa,--noexecstack", "-c", "a.c"]).contains("separate assembler"));
        assert!(refused(&["-Wp,-DX", "-c", "a.c"]).contains("separate assembler"));
        assert!(refused(&["-specs=/x", "a.c"]).contains("-specs= is not supported"));
        assert!(refused(&["-mcmodel=kernel", "-c", "a.c"]).contains("small code model"));
        assert!(refused(&["-gdwarf-4", "-c", "a.c"]).contains("DWARF 5"));
        assert!(refused(&["-Ofast", "-c", "a.c"]).contains("fast math"));
        // The word size the target does not have, which is a target this compiler was not asked
        // for rather than a flag it does not know.
        let no32 = refused(&["--target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "-m32", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(no32.contains("32 bit target"), "{no32}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_levels_gcc_spells_differently_are_the_levels_they_mean() {
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-O", "-c", "a.c"]).0.opt_level, OptLevel::O1);
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-Og", "-c", "a.c"]).0.opt_level, OptLevel::O1);
        assert_eq!(compile(&["-O2", "-c", "a.c"]).0.opt_level, OptLevel::O2);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_machine_flags_that_name_what_we_already_do_are_taken_and_the_rest_are_not() {
        let line = ["--target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "-m64", "-march=x86-64-v3"];
        let (opts, _) =
            compile(&[&line[..], &["-mtune=native", "-mabi=sysv", "-c", "a.c"]].concat());
        assert_eq!(opts.target.to_string(), "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu");
        let wrong = refused(&["--target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "-mabi=ms", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(wrong.contains("sysv convention"), "{wrong}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_thread_flag_is_a_macro_and_a_library_and_the_library_goes_last() {
        let (opts, plan) = compile(&["-pthread", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.defines.iter().any(|d| d == "_REENTRANT"));
        // After the input, because a static link takes what it needs from a library when it
        // reaches it and not afterwards.
        let names: Vec<&str> = plan.jobs.iter().map(|j| j.input.as_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(names, vec!["a.c"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_questions_a_build_system_asks_before_it_compiles_anything() {
        let target = "--target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu";
        assert_eq!(printed(&[target, "-dumpmachine"]), "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu");
        assert_eq!(printed(&[target, "-dumpversion"]), VERSION);
        assert_eq!(printed(&[target, "-dumpfullversion"]), VERSION);
        assert_eq!(printed(&[target, "-print-multiarch"]), "x86_64-linux-gnu");
        // A name nothing holds comes back unchanged, which is GCC's rule and is what makes the
        // answer safe to paste into a link line whether or not the file is there.
        assert_eq!(printed(&[target, "-print-file-name=no-such-library.a"]), "no-such-library.a");
        assert_eq!(printed(&[target, "-print-prog-name=ld"]), "ld");
        let dirs = printed(&[target, "-print-search-dirs"]);
        assert!(dirs.starts_with("install: "), "{dirs}");
        assert!(dirs.contains("\nlibraries: ="), "{dirs}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_two_dependency_flags_that_stop_after_the_rule_stop_after_the_rule() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-M", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.deps.emit && opts.deps.instead_of_compiling);
        assert!(opts.deps.system_headers, "plain -M lists them");
        assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Preprocessed);

        // Even where a later flag asked for something else, because the family is a mode and
        // the mode is what the run is for.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-M", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Preprocessed);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MM", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.deps.system_headers);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_two_that_end_in_d_leave_the_compilation_alone() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MD", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.deps.emit && !opts.deps.instead_of_compiling);
        assert!(opts.deps.system_headers);
        assert_eq!(opts.emit, EmitKind::Object);

        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MMD", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(opts.deps.emit && !opts.deps.instead_of_compiling);
        assert!(!opts.deps.system_headers);
    }

    #[test]
    fn nothing_puts_the_system_headers_back_once_a_flag_has_taken_them_out() {
        // GCC's rule, and not an oversight in it. The flag asking for fewer of them is read as
        // the answer, because the other one never asked the question.
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MM", "-M", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.deps.system_headers);
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MD", "-MMD", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.deps.system_headers);
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MMD", "-MD", "-c", "a.c"]);
        assert!(!opts.deps.system_headers);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_target_arrives_escaped_from_one_flag_and_untouched_from_the_other() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MM", "-MT", "a b.o", "-MQ", "a b.o", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.deps.targets, vec!["a b.o".to_owned(), "a\\ b.o".to_owned()]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_rest_of_the_family_is_a_file_and_a_switch() {
        let (opts, _) = compile(&["-MM", "-MF", "dep.d", "-MP", "a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(opts.deps.file.as_deref(), Some("dep.d"));
        assert!(opts.deps.phony);

        for flag in ["-MF", "-MT", "-MQ"] {
            let e = parse_args(&args(&[flag])).unwrap_err();
            assert!(e.message.contains("requires an argument"), "{}", e.message);
        }
    }

    /// A directory of sources for one test, removed when the test is done with it.
    struct TempTree(PathBuf);

    impl Drop for TempTree {
        fn drop(&mut self) {
            let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&self.0);
        }
    }

    impl TempTree {
        fn new(name: &str, files: &[(&str, &str)]) -> TempTree {
            let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("rucc-deps-{}-{name}", std::process::id()));
            let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
            std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("temporary directory should be writable");
            for (path, text) in files {
                let at = dir.join(path);
                if let Some(parent) = at.parent() {
                    std::fs::create_dir_all(parent).expect("creating a subdirectory should work");
                }
                std::fs::write(&at, text).expect("writing a temporary file should work");
            }
            TempTree(dir)
        }

        fn path(&self, name: &str) -> String {
            self.0.join(name).to_string_lossy().into_owned()
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_rule_names_what_the_includes_found_and_names_each_of_them_once() {
        // End to end, because the list comes from the preprocessor and the format comes from
        // somewhere else, and a test of either half on its own would pass with the two of them
        // wired up backwards.
        let tree = TempTree::new(
            "found",
            &[
                ("a.c", "#include \"one.h\"\n#include \"two.h\"\nint main(void) { return X; }\n"),
                ("one.h", "#define X 0\n"),
                ("two.h", "#include \"one.h\"\n"),
            ],
        );
        let out = tree.path("dep.d");
        let code = run(&args(&["-MM", "-MF", &out, "-o", &tree.path("a.i"), &tree.path("a.c")]));
        assert_eq!(code, 0);

        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&out).expect("the rule should have been written");
        let names: Vec<&str> = text.split_whitespace().collect();
        // The target, the source, and each header once however many times it was reached.
        assert_eq!(names.first(), Some(&"a.o:"), "{text}");
        assert_eq!(names.iter().filter(|n| n.ends_with("one.h")).count(), 1, "{text}");
        assert_eq!(names.iter().filter(|n| n.ends_with("two.h")).count(), 1, "{text}");
        // And the `-o` went to the file the rule replaced, which is left empty rather than
        // absent because a makefile that named it as a target will look for it.
        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(tree.path("a.i")).expect("the output should exist"), b"");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_header_that_is_only_reached_under_a_guard_is_still_a_dependency() {
        // The multiple-include optimization means the second reach never opens the file. It is
        // still a file this translation unit was built from, so it is still in the rule.
        let tree = TempTree::new(
            "guarded",
            &[
                ("a.c", "#include \"g.h\"\n#include \"g.h\"\nint main(void) { return 0; }\n"),
                ("g.h", "#ifndef G\n#define G\n#endif\n"),
            ],
        );
        let out = tree.path("dep.d");
        let code = run(&args(&["-MM", "-MF", &out, "-o", &tree.path("a.i"), &tree.path("a.c")]));
        assert_eq!(code, 0);
        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&out).expect("the rule should have been written");
        assert_eq!(text.split_whitespace().filter(|n| n.ends_with("g.h")).count(), 1, "{text}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn every_imacros_file_is_read_before_every_include_file_whatever_order_they_were_written() {
        // Measured against GCC rather than read: the two flags the other way round produce the
        // same output byte for byte, so the command line order between the two families does not
        // decide anything and the order within one does. The `-include` file here can only see
        // the definition if the `-imacros` file that was written after it ran first.
        let tree = TempTree::new(
            "preinclude",
            &[
                ("a.c", "int main(void) { return 0; }\n"),
                ("i.h", "#ifdef FROM_MACROS\nint saw_it;\n#else\nint missed_it;\n#endif\n"),
                ("m.h", "#define FROM_MACROS 1\nint macros_text;\n"),
            ],
        );
        let out = tree.path("a.i");
        let code = run(&args(&[
            "-E",
            "-include",
            &tree.path("i.h"),
            "-imacros",
            &tree.path("m.h"),
            "-o",
            &out,
            &tree.path("a.c"),
        ]));
        assert_eq!(code, 0);
        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&out).expect("the output should have been written");
        assert!(text.contains("saw_it"), "{text}");
        // And the text of the `-imacros` file is thrown away, which is the whole difference
        // between the two flags.
        assert!(!text.contains("macros_text"), "{text}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_file_the_command_line_named_is_a_prerequisite_the_same_as_one_a_directive_named() {
        let tree = TempTree::new(
            "preinclude-deps",
            &[
                ("a.c", "int main(void) { return 0; }\n"),
                ("i.h", "int from_include;\n"),
                ("m.h", "#define M 1\n"),
            ],
        );
        let out = tree.path("dep.d");
        let code = run(&args(&[
            "-MM",
            "-MF",
            &out,
            "-include",
            &tree.path("i.h"),
            "-imacros",
            &tree.path("m.h"),
            "-o",
            &tree.path("a.i"),
            &tree.path("a.c"),
        ]));
        assert_eq!(code, 0);
        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&out).expect("the rule should have been written");
        assert!(text.contains("i.h"), "{text}");
        assert!(text.contains("m.h"), "{text}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_command_line_include_that_is_nowhere_on_the_path_is_an_error_and_not_a_warning() {
        // Including the directory of the source file, which is not on the path for these: the
        // command line was not written there, so a name in it is relative to where the compiler
        // was run rather than to where the source sits.
        let tree = TempTree::new(
            "preinclude-missing",
            &[("sub/a.c", "int main(void) { return 0; }\n"), ("sub/beside.h", "int x;\n")],
        );
        let code = run(&args(&["-E", "-include", "beside.h", "-o", "-", &tree.path("sub/a.c")]));
        assert_eq!(code, 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_command_line_that_links_names_the_executable_and_not_the_object_it_went_through() {
        // The object a link goes through is in a temporary directory and is gone before `make`
        // reads any of this, so the rule that named it would be a rule for a file that is never
        // there. The target and the file are both the `-o`, which is the executable.
        let (opts, plan) = compile(&["-MD", "sub/a.c", "-o", "prog"]);
        assert_eq!(plan.output.as_deref(), Some("prog"));
        assert_eq!(deps::default_target("sub/a.c", deps_target_output(&opts, &plan)), "prog");
        assert_eq!(
            deps::default_file(&opts.deps, "sub/a.c", plan.output.as_deref()).as_deref(),
            Some("prog.d")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_plan_keeps_the_output_name_because_the_rule_is_written_from_it() {
        let (_, plan) = compile(&["-MMD", "-c", "sub/a.c", "-o", "obj/x.o"]);
        assert_eq!(plan.output.as_deref(), Some("obj/x.o"));
        let (_, plan) = compile(&["-MMD", "-c", "sub/a.c"]);
        assert_eq!(plan.output, None);
    }

    #[test]
    fn usage_fits_on_a_screen() {
        // Not a style preference. A help text that scrolls is one nobody reads, and this is
        // the cheapest way to keep it honest as flags accumulate. The number goes up only when
        // a family of flags arrives that has nowhere to share a line, which the two pass gates
        // were and which the two fuel flags and `-fsafety=` now are, and it goes up by exactly
        // the lines that family took. The four it went up by last are the flags a build system
        // passes without being asked to: how much to say, what machine to generate for, threads,
        // and the questions `configure` asks before it compiles anything. The one it went up by
        // last is the second line of `--emit`, whose kinds are a family that has now outgrown
        // one line and has nowhere else to go. The two it went up by last are the dependency
        // family, which is eight flags that share nothing with anything above them. The one it
        // went up by last is the four spellings of position independent code, which every
        // configure script writes and which could only have shared the link line, and that line
        // is already four characters short of the limit. The two it went up by last are the rest
        // of the include family, which is six more flags that change where a header is looked for
        // and two that name a header outright. The one it went up by last is the pair that keeps
        // the intermediate files and times the steps, which belong next to the two flags above
        // them that are also about watching a compilation rather than changing one.
        assert!(USAGE.lines().count() < 48, "usage text has grown past one screen");
    }
}