Merge pull request #3756 from henricm/named-pipe-alertable-on-windows

[mono.git] / man / mono.1

diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1
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--- a/man/mono.1
+++ b/man/mono.1
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .\" Author:
 .\"   Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org)
 .\"
 .\" Author:
 .\"   Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org)
 .\"

-.TH Mono "Mono 3.0"
+.TH Mono "Mono 4.7.0"

 .SH NAME
 mono \- Mono's ECMA-CLI native code generator (Just-in-Time and Ahead-of-Time)
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .SH NAME
 mono \- Mono's ECMA-CLI native code generator (Just-in-Time and Ahead-of-Time)
 .SH SYNOPSIS


@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ instead of going through the operating system symbol lookup operation.
 .I llvm-path=<PREFIX>
 Same for the llvm tools 'opt' and 'llc'.
 .TP
 .I llvm-path=<PREFIX>
 Same for the llvm tools 'opt' and 'llc'.
 .TP

-.I gen-seq-points-file=FILE.msym
+.I msym-dir=<PATH>

 Instructs the AOT compiler to generate offline sequence points .msym files.
 Instructs the AOT compiler to generate offline sequence points .msym files.

-The path is optional, if none is passed then a .msym file will be generated
-next to the input assembly.
+The generated .msym files will be stored into a subfolder of <PATH> named as the
+compilation AOTID.

 .TP
 .I mtriple=<TRIPLE>
 Use the GNU style target triple <TRIPLE> to determine some code generation options, i.e.
 .TP
 .I mtriple=<TRIPLE>
 Use the GNU style target triple <TRIPLE> to determine some code generation options, i.e.


@@ -332,6 +332,12 @@ Currently this merely ensures that you are running either the
 \fBMONO_ENV_OPTIONS\fR environment variable to force all of your child
 processes to use one particular kind of GC with the Mono runtime.
 .TP
 \fBMONO_ENV_OPTIONS\fR environment variable to force all of your child
 processes to use one particular kind of GC with the Mono runtime.
 .TP

+\fB--gc-debug=[options]\fR
+Command line equivalent of the \fBMONO_GC_DEBUG\fR environment variable.
+.TP
+\fB--gc-params=[options]\fR
+Command line equivalent of the \fBMONO_GC_PARAMS\fR environment variable.
+.TP

 \fB--arch=32\fR, \fB--arch=64\fR
 (Mac OS X only): Selects the bitness of the Mono binary used, if
 available. If the binary used is already for the selected bitness, nothing
 \fB--arch=32\fR, \fB--arch=64\fR
 (Mac OS X only): Selects the bitness of the Mono binary used, if
 available. If the binary used is already for the selected bitness, nothing


@@ -1100,7 +1106,7 @@ a Mono process through the environment.   This is useful for example
 to force all of your Mono processes to use LLVM or SGEN without having
 to modify any launch scripts.
 .TP
 to force all of your Mono processes to use LLVM or SGEN without having
 to modify any launch scripts.
 .TP

-\fBMONO_ENV_OPTIONS\fR
+\fBMONO_SDB_ENV_OPTIONS\fR

 Used to pass extra options to the debugger agent in the runtime, as they were passed
 using --debugger-agent=.
 .TP
 Used to pass extra options to the debugger agent in the runtime, as they were passed
 using --debugger-agent=.
 .TP


@@ -1302,12 +1308,12 @@ statistics when shutting down.
 .TP
 \fBcollect-before-allocs\fR
 .TP
 .TP
 \fBcollect-before-allocs\fR
 .TP

-\fBcheck-at-minor-collections\fR
-This performs a consistency check on minor collections and also clears
-the nursery at collection time, instead of the default, when buffers
-are allocated (clear-at-gc).   The consistency check ensures that
-there are no major to minor references that are not on the remembered
-sets. 
+\fBcheck-remset-consistency\fR
+This performs a remset consistency check at various opportunities, and
+also clears the nursery at collection time, instead of the default,
+when buffers are allocated (clear-at-gc).  The consistency check
+ensures that there are no major to minor references that are not on
+the remembered sets.

 .TP
 \fBmod-union-consistency-check\fR
 Checks that the mod-union cardtable is consistent before each
 .TP
 \fBmod-union-consistency-check\fR
 Checks that the mod-union cardtable is consistent before each


@@ -1652,11 +1658,11 @@ Automatically generates sequence points where the
 IL stack is empty.  These are places where the debugger can set a
 breakpoint.
 .TP
 IL stack is empty.  These are places where the debugger can set a
 breakpoint.
 .TP

-\fBgen-compact-seq-points\fR
-This option generates sequence points data that maps native offsets to
-IL offsets. Sequence point data is used to display IL offset in
-stacktraces. Stacktraces with IL offsets can be symbolicated using
-mono-symbolicate tool.
+\fBno-compact-seq-points\fR
+Unless the option is used, the runtime generates sequence points data that
+maps native offsets to IL offsets. Sequence point data is used to
+display IL offset in stacktraces. Stacktraces with IL offsets can be
+symbolicated using mono-symbolicate tool.

 .TP
 \fBhandle-sigint\fR
 Captures the interrupt signal (Control-C) and displays a stack trace
 .TP
 \fBhandle-sigint\fR
 Captures the interrupt signal (Control-C) and displays a stack trace


@@ -1732,6 +1738,16 @@ messages for a certain component. You can use multiple masks by comma
 separating them. For example to see config file messages and assembly loader
 messages set you mask to "asm,cfg".
 .TP
 separating them. For example to see config file messages and assembly loader
 messages set you mask to "asm,cfg".
 .TP

+\fBMONO_LOG_DEST\fR
+Controls where trace log messages are written. If not set then the messages go to stdout. 
+If set, the string either specifies a path to a file that will have messages appended to
+it, or the string "syslog" in which case the messages will be written to the system log.
+Under Windows, this is simulated by writing to a file called "mono.log". 
+\fBMONO_LOG_HEADER\fR
+Controls whether trace log messages not directed to syslog have the id, timestamp, and
+pid as the prefix to the log message. To enable a header this environment variable need
+just be non-null. 
+.TP

 \fBMONO_TRACE\fR
 Used for runtime tracing of method calls. The format of the comma separated
 trace options is:
 \fBMONO_TRACE\fR
 Used for runtime tracing of method calls. The format of the comma separated
 trace options is: