QBE(1)

💅 QBE — ok so bestie, let me tell you about qbe

No cap, this is the manual page for qbe, aka the small embeddable C compiler backend 👑. That's it, that's the whole NAME section energy. She's little, she's embeddable, she compiles C, and she's a backend — main character behaviour fr fr.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

qbe [-h] [-o file] [-t target] [-d flags] [file.ssa | -]

Like… that's the whole vibe check. One binary, a handful of flags, and a .ssa file (or a literal -, because she'll read from stdin too, no big deal 🫶).

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The options are as follows, and I'm gonna walk you through every single one because you deserve to know, bestie 💖:

• -h — prints the help message and then just… exits. Like, dips immediately. Iconic honestly. 💀
• -o file — output goes to file. That's where the goods land. Pick your destination, queen.
• -t target — generate for a target, and there's a whole little squad to choose from:
  • amd64_sysv — this one's the default, she's the moment ⭐
  • amd64_apple — amd64 but make it Apple 🍎
  • arm64
  • arm64_apple
  • riscv

Five targets, all valid, all valid choices. Pick your fighter 🦋

• -d flags — dump debug information. Yes she'll spill the tea, but only the debug kind 🙈

Just a heads up bestie: don't sleep on the defaults — if you don't pass -t, you're getting amd64_sysv whether you asked or not 💅

Okay and that's literally the whole page, no filler, no fluff, just a tiny compiler backend doing her little thing and absolutely eating 🔥

This edition of the QBE(1) manual page came to you from Debian, dated April 10, 2024 — shoutout to the Debian girlies for keeping the docs cute and current 💜🎀✨