CLion 2024.1 Help

Assembly view for files

In CLion, you can explore the underlying assembly code without starting a debug session.

Open assembly for a file

  1. Select the run/debug configuration from which CLion will take the compiler settings.

  2. Open the file in the editor. Right-click inside it and select Show Assembly from the context menu:

    Show Assembly in the context menu

    Alternatively, press Ctrl+Shift+A to open the Find Action dialog, start typing Show Assembly and select the action from the list:

    The Show Assembly action
  3. When you invoke Show Assembly, CLion uses the compiler settings from the selected configuration to compile the code to assembly. In the preview, you can see which source code produces which assembly:

    Assembly view for a file

Change compiler arguments and refresh assembly

  • At the top of the assembly tab, you can find the compiler arguments field. If you change the flags, make sure to click to refresh the assembly view:

    Refresh assembly view with modified flags

View x86 assembly and raw output

  • Use the Options menu to switch to x86 assembly (Intel) syntax and/or view raw output with symbol names but without any specific syntax:

    the Use Intel Syntax and Show Raw Output options

Current limitations

  • Only the GCC, Clang, and Visual Studio C++ compilers are supported.

  • Show Assembly doesn't work for CUDA files.

Last modified: 16 April 2024