It took me some thoughts to realize what you wanted to say, and you are incorrect: there is no single option `-f` in cc options! `-f` is just a common prefix of

It took me some thoughts to realize what you wanted to say, and you are incorrect: there is no single option `-f` in cc options! `-f` is just a common prefix of hundreds of independent options, like `-fsanitize=...` (which can't be used as `-f sanitize=...`). As I've iterated before, those prefixes mostly represent broad categories of options and not hard and fast rules: `-g` for debug, `-i` for directories, `-m` for target architectures, `-W` for warnings, and `-f` for virtually everything else.