Switch

Purpose

/Zi, /ZI
(highly recommended)

Intel® Parallel Inspector uses the symbols to associate addresses to source lines. 

Additionally using this setting is one of the ways in which leak detection is done.

/Od
(recommended for Initial analysis)

Allows Intel® Parallel Inspector to more easily associate errors to the correct source line.

Threading Error analysis can also analyze optimized binaries, but it is difficult for Intel® Parallel Inspector to pinpoint the source code location causing a problem in optimized assembly that does not have specific source lines.

Note: While it is easier to do analysis of binaries built with /Od, it is also important to check for memory errors in your "released" (not /Od) version of your binaries.

/RTC[su1]

It is likely you want to use this setting to detect memory errors in your program. It detects some memory errors which Intel® Parallel Inspector does not identify.

These settings initialize uninitialized memory with a bit pattern preventing memory error analysis in Intel® Parallel Inspector from identifying uninitialized memory errors in your code.

There is some duplication in the kinds of errors that memory error analysis will do at Level 4 with this switch.

Switch

Purpose

/Qtcheck
(do not use)

This setting is an alternative method of instrumentation for Intel® Thread Checker.  Intel® Parallel Inspector does not use this switch.

/Qtprofile

(do not use)

This setting is an alternative method of instrumentation for Intel® Thread Profiler.  Intel® Parallel Inspector does not use this switch.

/debug:parallel

(do not use)

This setting enables the Intel® Parallel Debugger Extension for the Intel® Parallel Composer.  It is not used for the Intel® Parallel Inspector

Switch

Purpose

/FIXED[:NO]

This setting which allows binaries to be instrumented and is not required for Intel® Parallel Inspector.  It is required for callgraph in Intel® VTune^TM Performance Analyzer, Intel® Thread Checker and Intel® Thread Profiler.

/MDd, MD, MT, MTd

This setting chooses which version of the C runtime to use.  This switch impacts Intel Parallel Amplifier and threading error analysis for Intel Parallel Inspector.  Memory error analysis in Intel Parallel Inspector works with all versions of the C Runtime.

/Qopenmp-link

This setting chooses which version of the OpenMP* runtime to use.  This switch impacts Intel® Parallel Amplifier and threading error analysis for Intel Parallel Inspector.  Memory error analysis in Intel Parallel Inspector works with all versions of the OpenMP* runtime.

/D "TBB_USE_THREADING_TOOLS"

This setting causes Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) be instrumented.  This switch impacts Intel® Parallel Amplifier and threading error analysis for Intel® Parallel Inspector.  But is not used for memory error analysis in Intel® Parallel Inspector.