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]]></code>
<p>Usage:</p>
<code type="none"><![CDATA[
- dialyzer [--help] [--version] [--shell] [--quiet] [--verbose]
- [-pa dir]* [--plt plt] [-Ddefine]* [-I include_dir]*
- [--output_plt file] [-Wwarn]* [--src]
- [-c applications] [-r applications] [-o outfile]
+ dialyzer [--help] [--version] [--shell] [--quiet] [--verbose]
+ [-pa dir]* [--plt plt] [--plts plt*] [-Ddefine]*
+ [-I include_dir]* [--output_plt file] [-Wwarn]*
+ [--src] [--gui | --wx] [files_or_dirs] [-r dirs]
+ [--apps applications] [-o outfile]
[--build_plt] [--add_to_plt] [--remove_from_plt]
[--check_plt] [--no_check_plt] [--plt_info] [--get_warnings]
+ [--no_native]
]]></code>
<p>Options:</p>
<taglist>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[-c applications]]></c>(or <c><![CDATA[--command-line applications]]></c>)</tag>
- <item>use Dialyzer from the command line (no GUI) to detect defects in the
- specified applications (directories or <c><![CDATA[.erl]]></c> or <c><![CDATA[.beam]]></c> files)</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[-r applications]]></c></tag>
- <item>same as <c><![CDATA[-c]]></c> only that directories are searched recursively for
- subdirectories containing <c><![CDATA[.erl]]></c> or <c><![CDATA[.beam]]></c> files (depending on the
- type of analysis)</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[-o outfile]]></c>(or <c><![CDATA[--output outfile]]></c>)</tag>
- <item>when using Dialyzer from the command line, send the analysis
- results in the specified <c><![CDATA[outfile]]></c> rather than in stdout</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--src]]></c></tag>
- <item>override the default, which is to analyze debug compiled BEAM
- bytecode, and analyze starting from Erlang source code instead</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[files_or_dirs]]></c> (for backwards compatibility also
+ as: <c><![CDATA[-c files_or_dirs]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Use Dialyzer from the command line to detect defects in the
+ specified files or directories containing <c><![CDATA[.erl]]></c> or
+ <c><![CDATA[.beam]]></c> files, depending on the type of the
+ analysis.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[-r dirs]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Same as the previous but the specified directories are searched
+ recursively for subdirectories containing <c><![CDATA[.erl]]></c> or
+ <c><![CDATA[.beam]]></c> files in them, depending on the type of
+ analysis.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--apps applications]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Option typically used when building or modifying a plt as in:
+ <code type="none"><![CDATA[
+ dialyzer --build_plt --apps erts kernel stdlib mnesia ...
+ ]]></code>
+ to conveniently refer to library applications corresponding to the
+ Erlang/OTP installation. However, the option is general and can also
+ be used during analysis in order to refer to Erlang/OTP applications.
+ In addition, file or directory names can also be included, as in:
+ <code type="none"><![CDATA[
+ dialyzer --apps inets ssl ./ebin ../other_lib/ebin/my_module.beam
+ ]]></code></item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[-o outfile]]></c> (or
+ <c><![CDATA[--output outfile]]></c>)</tag>
+ <item>When using Dialyzer from the command line, send the analysis
+ results to the specified outfile rather than to stdout.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--raw]]></c></tag>
<item>When using Dialyzer from the command line, output the raw analysis
- results (Erlang terms) instead of the formatted result.
- The raw format is easier to post-process (for instance, to filter
- warnings or to output HTML pages).</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[-Dname]]></c>(or <c><![CDATA[-Dname=value]]></c>)</tag>
- <item>when analyzing from source, pass the define to Dialyzer (**)</item>
+ results (Erlang terms) instead of the formatted result. The raw format
+ is easier to post-process (for instance, to filter warnings or to
+ output HTML pages).</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--src]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Override the default, which is to analyze BEAM files, and
+ analyze starting from Erlang source code instead.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[-Dname]]></c> (or <c><![CDATA[-Dname=value]]></c>)</tag>
+ <item>When analyzing from source, pass the define to Dialyzer. (**)</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-I include_dir]]></c></tag>
- <item>when analyzing from source, pass the <c><![CDATA[include_dir]]></c> to Dialyzer (**)</item>
+ <item>When analyzing from source, pass the <c><![CDATA[include_dir]]></c>
+ to Dialyzer. (**)</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-pa dir]]></c></tag>
- <item>Include <c><![CDATA[dir]]></c> in the path for Erlang. Useful when analyzing files
- that have <c><![CDATA[-include_lib()]]></c> directives.</item>
+ <item>Include <c><![CDATA[dir]]></c> in the path for Erlang (useful when
+ analyzing files that have <c><![CDATA['-include_lib()']]></c>
+ directives).</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--output_plt file]]></c></tag>
- <item>Store the PLT at the specified location after building it.</item>
+ <item>Store the plt at the specified file after building it.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--plt plt]]></c></tag>
- <item>Use the specified PLT as the initial persistent lookup table.</item>
+ <item>Use the specified plt as the initial plt (if the plt was built
+ during setup the files will be checked for consistency).</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--plts plt*]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Merge the specified plts to create the initial plt -- requires
+ that the plts are disjoint (i.e., do not have any module
+ appearing in more than one plt).
+ The plts are created in the usual way:
+ <code type="none"><![CDATA[
+ dialyzer --build_plt --output_plt plt_1 files_to_include
+ ...
+ dialyzer --build_plt --output_plt plt_n files_to_include
+ ]]></code>
+ and then can be used in either of the following ways:
+ <code type="none"><![CDATA[
+ dialyzer files_to_analyze --plts plt_1 ... plt_n
+ ]]></code>
+ or:
+ <code type="none"><![CDATA[
+ dialyzer --plts plt_1 ... plt_n -- files_to_analyze
+ ]]></code>
+ (Note the -- delimiter in the second case)</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wwarn]]></c></tag>
- <item>a family of options which selectively turn on/off warnings.
- (for help on the names of warnings use <c><![CDATA[dialyzer -Whelp]]></c>)</item>
+ <item>A family of options which selectively turn on/off warnings
+ (for help on the names of warnings use
+ <c><![CDATA[dialyzer -Whelp]]></c>).</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--shell]]></c></tag>
- <item>do not disable the Erlang shell while running the GUI</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--version (or -v)]]></c></tag>
- <item>prints the Dialyzer version and some more information and exits</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--help (or -h)]]></c></tag>
- <item>prints this message and exits</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--quiet (or -q)]]></c></tag>
- <item>makes Dialyzer a bit more quiet</item>
+ <item>Do not disable the Erlang shell while running the GUI.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--version]]></c> (or <c><![CDATA[-v]]></c>)</tag>
+ <item>Print the Dialyzer version and some more information and
+ exit.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--help]]></c> (or <c><![CDATA[-h]]></c>)</tag>
+ <item>Print this message and exit.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--quiet]]></c> (or <c><![CDATA[-q]]></c>)</tag>
+ <item>Make Dialyzer a bit more quiet.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--verbose]]></c></tag>
- <item>makes Dialyzer a bit more verbose</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--check_plt]]></c></tag>
- <item>Only checks if the initial PLT is up to date and rebuilds it if this is not the case</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--no_check_plt (or -n)]]></c></tag>
- <item>Skip the PLT integrity check when running Dialyzer.
- Useful when working with installed PLTs that never change.</item>
+ <item>Make Dialyzer a bit more verbose.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--build_plt]]></c></tag>
- <item>The analysis starts from an empty PLT and creates a new one from
- the files specified with -c and -r. Only works for beam files.
- Use --plt or --output_plt to override the default PLT location.</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[--add_to_plt]]></c></tag>
- <item> The PLT is extended to also include the files specified with
- -c and -r. Use --plt to specify which PLT to start from, and --output_plt
- to specify where to put the PLT. Note that the analysis might include
- files from the PLT if they depend on the new files.
- This option only works with beam files.</item>
+ <item>The analysis starts from an empty plt and creates a new one from
+ the files specified with <c><![CDATA[-c]]></c> and
+ <c><![CDATA[-r]]></c>. Only works for beam files. Use
+ <c><![CDATA[--plt]]></c> or <c><![CDATA[--output_plt]]></c> to
+ override the default plt location.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--add_to_plt]]></c></tag>
+ <item>The plt is extended to also include the files specified with
+ <c><![CDATA[-c]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[-r]]></c>. Use
+ <c><![CDATA[--plt]]></c> to specify which plt to start from,
+ and <c><![CDATA[--output_plt]]></c> to specify where to put the plt.
+ Note that the analysis might include files from the plt if they depend
+ on the new files. This option only works with beam files.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--remove_from_plt]]></c></tag>
- <item>The information from the files specified with -c and -r is removed
- from the PLT. Note that this may cause a re-analysis of the remaining
- dependent files.</item>
+ <item>The information from the files specified with
+ <c><![CDATA[-c]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[-r]]></c> is removed
+ from the plt. Note that this may cause a re-analysis of the remaining
+ dependent files.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--check_plt]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Check the plt for consistency and rebuild it if it is not
+ up-to-date.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--no_check_plt]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Skip the plt check when running Dialyzer. Useful when working with
+ installed plts that never change.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--plt_info]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Make Dialyzer print information about the plt and then quit. The
+ plt can be specified with <c><![CDATA[--plt(s)]]></c>.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[--get_warnings]]></c></tag>
- <item>Makes Dialyzer emit warnings even when manipulating the PLT. Only
- emits warnings for files that are actually analyzed. The default is to
- not emit any warnings when manipulating the PLT. This option has no
- effect when performing a normal analysis.</item>
+ <item>Make Dialyzer emit warnings even when manipulating the plt.
+ Warnings are only emitted for files that are actually analyzed.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--dump_callgraph file]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Dump the call graph into the specified file whose format is
+ determined by the file name extension. Supported extensions are: raw,
+ dot, and ps. If something else is used as file name extension, default
+ format '.raw' will be used.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--no_native]]></c> (or <c><![CDATA[-nn]]></c>)</tag>
+ <item>Bypass the native code compilation of some key files that Dialyzer
+ heuristically performs when dialyzing many files; this avoids the
+ compilation time but it may result in (much) longer analysis
+ time.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--gui]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Use the gs-based GUI.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[--wx]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Use the wx-based GUI..</item>
</taglist>
<note>
<p>* denotes that multiple occurrences of these options are possible.</p>
@@ -148,11 +211,14 @@
<p>Warning options:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_return]]></c></tag>
- <item>Suppress warnings for functions of no return.</item>
+ <item>Suppress warnings for functions that will never return a
+ value.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_unused]]></c></tag>
<item>Suppress warnings for unused functions.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_improper_lists]]></c></tag>
<item>Suppress warnings for construction of improper lists.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_tuple_as_fun]]></c></tag>
+ <item>Suppress warnings for using tuples instead of funs.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_fun_app]]></c></tag>
<item>Suppress warnings for fun applications that will fail.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_match]]></c></tag>
@@ -160,6 +226,10 @@
match.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wno_opaque]]></c></tag>
<item>Suppress warnings for violations of opaqueness of data types.</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[-Wunmatched_returns]]></c>***</tag>
+ <item>Include warnings for function calls which ignore a structured return
+ value or do not match against one of many possible return
+ value(s).</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Werror_handling]]></c>***</tag>
<item>Include warnings for functions that only return by means of an
exception.</item>
@@ -168,20 +238,22 @@
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wbehaviours]]></c>***</tag>
<item>Include warnings about behaviour callbacks which drift from the
published recommended interfaces.</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[-Wunmatched_returns]]></c>***</tag>
- <item>Include warnings for function calls which ignore a structured return
- value or do not match against one of many possible return value(s).</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wunderspecs]]></c>***</tag>
<item>Warn about underspecified functions
- (the -spec is strictly more allowing than the success typing)</item>
+ (the -spec is strictly more allowing than the success typing).</item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>The following options are also available but their use is not
+ recommended: (they are mostly for Dialyzer developers and internal
+ debugging)</p>
+ <taglist>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Woverspecs]]></c>***</tag>
<item>Warn about overspecified functions
- (the -spec is strictly less allowing than the success typing)</item>
+ (the -spec is strictly less allowing than the success typing).</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-Wspecdiffs]]></c>***</tag>
- <item>Warn when the -spec is different than the success typing</item>
+ <item>Warn when the -spec is different than the success typing.</item>
</taglist>
<note>
- <p>*** These are options that turn on warnings rather than
+ <p>*** Identifies options that turn on warnings rather than
turning them off.</p>
</note>
</section>
@@ -210,6 +282,7 @@ Option : {files, [Filename : string()]}
| {defines, [{Macro: atom(), Value : term()}]}
| {from, src_code | byte_code} %% Defaults to byte_code
| {init_plt, FileName : string()} %% If changed from default
+ | {plts, [FileName :: string()]} %% If changed from default
| {include_dirs, [DirName : string()]}
| {output_file, FileName : string()}
| {output_plt, FileName :: string()}
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