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wat-desugar(1)

parse .wat text form and print canonical flat format

NAME

wat-desugar – parse .wat text form and print canonical flat format

SYNOPSIS

wat-desugar [options] filename

DESCRIPTION

wat-desugar read a file in the wasm s-expression format and format it.

The options are as follows:

--help

Print this help message

--version

Print version information

-o, --output=FILE

Output file for the formatted file

-f, --fold-exprs

Write folded expressions where possible

--inline-exports

Write all exports inline

--inline-imports

Write all imports inline

--disable-exceptions

Disable Experimental exception handling

--disable-mutable-globals

Disable Import/export mutable globals

--disable-saturating-float-to-int

Disable Saturating float-to-int operators

--disable-sign-extension

Disable Sign-extension operators

--disable-simd

Disable SIMD support

--enable-threads

Enable Threading support

--enable-function-references

Enable Typed function references

--disable-multi-value

Disable Multi-value

--disable-tail-call

Disable Tail-call support

--disable-bulk-memory

Disable Bulk-memory operations

--disable-reference-types

Disable Reference types (externref)

--disable-annotations

Disable Custom annotation syntax

--enable-code-metadata

Enable Code metadata

--enable-gc

Enable Garbage collection

--disable-memory64

Disable 64-bit memory

--disable-multi-memory

Disable Multi-memory

--disable-extended-const

Disable Extended constant expressions

--disable-relaxed-simd

Disable Relaxed SIMD

--enable-custom-page-sizes

Enable Custom page sizes

--enable-compact-imports

Enable Compact import section

--enable-wide-arithmetic

Enable Wide arithmetic

--enable-all

Enable all features

EXAMPLES

write output to stdout

$ wat-desugar test.wat

write output to test2.wat

$ wat-desugar test.wat -o test2.wat

generate names for indexed variables

$ wat-desugar --generate-names test.wat

SEE ALSO

wasm-interp(1), wasm-objdump(1), wasm-stats(1), wasm-strip(1), wasm-validate(1), wasm2c(1), wasm2wat(1), wast2json(1), wat2wasm(1), spectest-interp(1)

BUGS

If you find a bug, please report it at
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues.

History

--disable-annotations since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-bulk-memory since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --disable-exceptions since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-extended-const since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-memory64 since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-multi-memory since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-multi-value since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --disable-reference-types since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --disable-relaxed-simd since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-saturating-float-to-int since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --disable-sign-extension since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --disable-simd since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --disable-tail-call since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --enable-all since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --enable-code-metadata since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --enable-compact-imports since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --enable-custom-page-sizes since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --enable-function-references since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --enable-gc since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --enable-wide-arithmetic since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --version since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

--debug-parser until Debian 13 (Trixie); --enable-annotations until Debian 13 (Trixie); --enable-exceptions until Debian 13 (Trixie); --enable-extended-const until Debian 13 (Trixie); --enable-memory64 until Debian 13 (Trixie); --enable-multi-memory until Debian 13 (Trixie); --enable-saturating-float-to-int until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --enable-sign-extension until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --enable-simd until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --enable-tail-call until Debian 13 (Trixie); --generate-names until Debian 13 (Trixie).