LTO-DUMP(1)

💅 LTO-DUMP(1) — the lto-dump manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to lto-dump, a GNU thing, section 1 of the manual 🎀 this is the whole page, no skips, no skimming, we're reading it together like it's the group chat 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

lto-dump — the tool for dumping LTO object files 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lto-dump [-list]
     [-demangle]
     [-defined-only]
     [-print-value]
     [-name-sort]
     [-size-sort]
     [-reverse-sort]
     [-no-sort]
     [-symbol=]
     [-objects]
     [-type-stats]
     [-tree-stats]
     [-gimple-stats]
     [-dump-level=]
     [-dump-body=]
     [-help] lto-dump

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so lto-dump is the lil tool you pull up alongside GCC when you wanna dump your link time optimization object files 👑 that's it, that's the whole job. it's giving sidekick energy and honestly? iconic.

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

every single flag, right here, no gatekeeping ✨

• -list — dumps you the list of details for the functions and the variables 💅 the whole roster, both kinds.
• -demangle — dumps the demangled output, so the names actually look like names instead of alphabet soup 😭
• -defined-only — dumps only the defined symbols, nothing else, we're being picky today 🎀
• -print-value — dumps the initial values of the variables 🍓 so you can see what they started out as.
• -name-sort — sorts the symbols alphabetically 🔤 abc order, very organized of you.
• -size-sort — sorts the symbols according to size 📏 lil guys first, or big guys first, depending.
• -reverse-sort — dumps the symbols in reverse order 🙃 the sort, but backwards.
• -no-sort — dumps the symbols in order of occurrence 🦋 no sorting, just vibes, exactly how they showed up.
• -symbol= — dumps the details of a specific symbol 🔍 you tell it which one.
• -objects — dumps the details of the LTO objects 👑
• -type-stats — dumps the statistics of tree types 🌳 numbers about types, go off.
• -tree-stats — dumps the statistics of trees 🌲 yes, a different tree thing.
• -tree-stats-adjacent but make it gimple: -gimple-stats — dumps the statistics of gimple statements 💀 gimple stats, slay.
• -dump-level= — for deciding the optimization level of body ⭐ you pass the level.
• -dump-body= — dumps the specific gimple body 🧚 you say which body.
• -help — displays the dump tool help 🫶 the classic. the moment we all need.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2017-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License" and "Funding Free Software", the Front-Cover texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the gfdl(7) man page. 📜

(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:

A GNU Manual

(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:

You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
software.  Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
funds for GNU development.

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and that's the page, bestie, you ate it 💖 this was gcc-12.5.0, dated 2025-07-11 — yeah it's the LTO-DUMP(1) one, we're done here, go dump something ✨🎀🦋