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AS(1) General Commands Manual AS(1) NAME as - assembler SYNOPSIS as [ option ... ] [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION As assembles the named files, or the standard input if no file name is specified. The options are: -dn Specifies the number of bytes n (1, 2, or 4) to be assembled for offsets which involve forward or external references, and which have sizes unspecified in the assembly language. Default is -d4. -L Save defined labels that begin with which are normally discarded to save space in the resultant symbol table. The compilers gen- erate such temporary labels. -V Use virtual memory for intermediate storage, rather than a tem- porary file. -W Do not complain about errors. -J Use long branches to resolve jumps when byte-displacement branches are insufficient. This must be used when a compiler- generated assembly contains branches of more than 32K bytes. -R Make initialized data segments read-only, by concatenating them to the text segments. This obviates the need to run editor scripts on assembly code to make initialized data read-only and shared. -t Specifies a directory to receive the temporary file, other than the default -oobj Place output in file obj. Default is All undefined symbols in the assembly are treated as global. FILES default temporary file default object file SEE ALSO ld(1), nm(1), adb(1), pi(9.1), a.out(5) J. F. Reiser and R. R. Henry `Assembler Reference Manual', Unix Pro- grammer's Manual, Seventh Edition, Virtual VAX-11 Version, 1980, Volume 2C (Berkeley) BUGS -J should be eliminated; the assembler should automatically choose among byte, word and long branches. AS(1)