add option to force usage of `GeneralPurposeAllocator`

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index 6f751404a6..f1676bdf23 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *Builder) !void {
     const tracy = b.option([]const u8, "tracy", "Enable Tracy integration. Supply path to Tracy source");
     const tracy_callstack = b.option(bool, "tracy-callstack", "Include callstack information with Tracy data. Does nothing if -Dtracy is not provided") orelse false;
     const tracy_allocation = b.option(bool, "tracy-allocation", "Include allocation information with Tracy data. Does nothing if -Dtracy is not provided") orelse false;
+    const force_gpa = b.option(bool, "force-gpa", "Force the compiler to use GeneralPurposeAllocator") orelse false;
     const link_libc = b.option(bool, "force-link-libc", "Force self-hosted compiler to link libc") orelse enable_llvm;
     const strip = b.option(bool, "strip", "Omit debug information") orelse false;
 
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *Builder) !void {
     exe_options.addOption(bool, "llvm_has_csky", llvm_has_csky);
     exe_options.addOption(bool, "llvm_has_ve", llvm_has_ve);
     exe_options.addOption(bool, "llvm_has_arc", llvm_has_arc);
+    exe_options.addOption(bool, "force_gpa", force_gpa);
 
     if (enable_llvm) {
         const cmake_cfg = if (static_llvm) null else findAndParseConfigH(b, config_h_path_option);