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SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  SPARC Assembler Syntax

2.  Executable and Linking Format

3.  Directives and Pseudo-Operations

4.  Creating Data in Assembler

5.  SPARC Code Models

6.  Writing Functions -- The SPARC ABI

7.  Assembler Inline Functions and __asm Code

A.  Using the Assembler Command Line

A.1 Assembler Command Line

A.2 Assembler Command Line Options

A.3 Disassembling Object Code

B.  A Sample Assembler Program

C.  SPARC Instruction Sets and Mnemonics

Index

A.1 Assembler Command Line

You invoke the assembler command line as follows:

as [options] [inputfile] ... 

Note - The Oracle Solaris Studio C, C++, and Fortran compilers (cc(1), CC(1), and f95(1)) invoke the assembler with the fbe command. You can use either the as or fbe command on a Oracle Solaris SPARC platform to invoke the SPARC assembler. (Note that the as or fbe command will invoke the x86 assembler on a Solaris x86 platform.)


The as command translates the assembly language source files, inputfile, into an executable object file, objfile. The SPARC assembler recognizes the filename argument hyphen (-) as the standard input. It accepts more than one file name on the command line. The input file is the concatenation of all the specified files. If an invalid option is given or the command line contains a syntax error, the SPARC assembler prints the error (including a synopsis of the command line syntax and options) to standard error output, and then terminates.

The SPARC assembler supports macros, #include files, and symbolic substitution through use of the C preprocessor cpp. The assembler invokes the preprocessor before assembly begins if it has been specified from the command line as an option. (See the -P option.)