AS(1)                INTERACTIVE UNIX System                AS(1)



          NAME
               as - common assembler

          SYNOPSIS
               as [options] file name

          DESCRIPTION
               The as command assembles the named file.  The following
               flags may be specified in any order:

               -o objfile    Put the output of the assembly in objfile.  By
                             default, the output file name is formed by
                             removing the .s suffix, if there is one, from
                             the input file name and appending a .o suffix.

               -n            Turn off long/short address optimization.  By
                             default, address optimization takes place.

               -m            Run the m4 macro processor on the input to the
                             assembler.

               -R            Remove (unlink) the input file after assembly
                             is completed.

               -dl           Do not produce line number information in the
                             object file.

               -V            Write the version number of the assembler
                             being run on the standard error output.

               -Y [md],dir   Find the m4 preprocessor (m) and/or the file
                             of predefined macros (d) in directory dir
                             instead of in the customary place.

          FILES
               TMPDIR/*              temporary files

               TMPDIR is usually /usr/tmp but can be redefined by setting
               the environment variable TMPDIR [see tempnam() in
               tmpnam(3S)].

          SEE ALSO
               cc(1), ld(1), m4(1), nm(1), strip(1), tmpnam(3S), a.out(4).

          NOTES
               Wherever possible, the assembler should be accessed through
               a compilation system interface program [such as cc(1)].

          WARNING
               If the -m (m4 macro processor invocation) option is used,
               keywords for m4 [see m4(1)] cannot be used as symbols (vari-
               ables, functions, labels) in the input file since m4 cannot
               determine which are assembler symbols and which are real m4


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               macros.

          BUGS
               The .align assembler directive may not work in the .text
               section when optimization is performed.

          CAVEATS
               Arithmetic expressions may only have one forward referenced
               symbol per expression.














































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