These options are available on all kaffe installations.

-help

Give a short usage message of all available options on your kaffe installation.

-version

Print the version number.

-fullversion

Same as -version plus compile date and flags, changelog head.

-ss size

Set the maximum stack size to size.

-mx size

Set the maximum heap size to size. Kilobytes are indicated by the letters k or K and megabytes by m or M.

-ms size

Set the initial heap size to size. Kilobytes are indicated by the letters k or K and megabytes by m or M.

-as size

Set the heap increment size to size

-classpath path

Set the path which is searched for compiled classes. This can be a list of directories and Jar-Files containing compiled classes. The entries in this list are separated by colons (:).

-addclasspath path

Appends the given path to the current classpath setting. Multiple instances of this flag may be given.

-Xbootclasspath: bootclasspath

Set the bootclasspath to the given path.

-Xbootclasspath/a: bootclasspath

Appends the given path to the bootclasspath.

-Xbootclasspath/p: bootclasspath

Prepends the given path to the bootclasspath.

-Dproperty=value

Set a property to a given value.

-verifyremote *

Verify all classes not loaded from the bootclasspath. This is the default behavior.

-verify *

Verify all classes.

-noverify

Do not verify any classes.

-noclassgc

Disable class garbage collection.

-verbosegc

Print message during garbage collection.

-v, -verbose

Enable verbose output.

-verbosemem

Print detailed memory allocation statistics.

-verbosejit

Print message during JIT code generation.

-verbosecall

Print detailed call flow information.

-nodeadlock

Disable deadlock detection.

-debug *

Trace method calls.

-noasyncgc *

Do not garbage collect asynchronously.

-cs, -checksource *

Check source against class files.

-oss * size

Maximum stack size.

-debug-fd descriptor

Descriptor to send debug info to.

-jar file

Executes a Java(tm) program which is provided by the given Jar-File file.

* Option currently ignored.

These options are provided for compatibility reasons with other Java(tm) runtime environments.

-Xss size

Maximum native stack size (see -ss).

-Xmx size

Maximum heap size (see -mx).

-Xms size

Initial heap size (see -ms).

-cp path

Set classpath (see -classpath).

Further options may be available based on the configuration of kaffe during compilation. To get a complete list of options available in your kaffe installation type kaffe --help on the commandline.

-ia32

Execute the ia32 version of Kaffe.

-prof

Enable profiling of methods.

-Xxprof

Enable cross language profiling.

-Xxprof_syms file

Name of the profiling symbols file [Default: kaffe-jit-symbols.s].

-Xxprof_gmon file

Base name for gmon files [Default: xgmon.out]

-Xxdebug_file file

Name of the debugging symbols file.

-Xfeedback

The file name to write feedback data to.

-vmstats flag{,flag}

Print VM statistics. Set flag=all for all

-Xnative-big-math

Use GMP for faster, native bignum calculations.

-vmdebug flag{,flag}

Enable VM debugging. Set flag=list for a list.

-Xkaffe-xlib-awt

Use Kaffe's Xlib AWT backend.

-Xkaffe-qt-awt

Use Kaffe's Qt2/3/Embedded AWT backend.

-Xkaffe-nanox-awt

Use Kaffe's Nano-X AWT backend.