man > as(1)

TLDR: as (tldr-pages)

Portable GNU assembler.

  • Assemble a file, writing the output to `a.out`
    as {{path/to/file.s}}
  • Assemble the output to a given file
    as {{path/to/file.s}} -o {{path/to/output_file.o}}
  • Generate output faster by skipping whitespace and comment preprocessing. (Should only be used for trusted compilers)
    as -f {{path/to/file.s}}
  • Include a given path to the list of directories to search for files specified in `.include` directives
    as -I {{path/to/directory}} {{path/to/file.s}}
AS(1)                                   GNU Development Tools                                  AS(1)

NAME
       AS - the portable GNU assembler.

SYNOPSIS
       as [-a[cdghilns][=file]]
        [--alternate]
        [--compress-debug-sections] [--nocompress-debug-sections]
        [-D]
        [--dump-config]
        [--debug-prefix-map old=new]
        [--defsym sym=val]
        [--elf-stt-common=[no|yes]]
        [--emulation=name]
        [-f]
        [-g] [--gstabs] [--gstabs+]
        [--gdwarf-<N>] [--gdwarf-sections]
        [--gdwarf-cie-version=VERSION]
        [--generate-missing-build-notes=[no|yes]]
        [--gsframe]
        [--hash-size=N]
        [--help] [--target-help]
        [-I dir]
        [-J]
        [-K]
        [--keep-locals]
        [-L]
        [--listing-lhs-width=NUM]
        [--listing-lhs-width2=NUM]
        [--listing-rhs-width=NUM]
        [--listing-cont-lines=NUM]
        [--multibyte-handling=[allow|warn|warn-sym-only]]
        [--no-pad-sections]
        [-o objfile] [-R]
        [--scfi=experimental]
        [--sectname-subst]
        [--size-check=[error|warning]]
        [--statistics]
        [-v] [-version] [--version]
        [-W] [--warn] [--fatal-warnings] [-w] [-x]
        [-Z] [@FILE]
        [target-options]
        [--|files ...]

TARGET
       Target AArch64 options:
          [-EB|-EL]
          [-mabi=ABI]

       Target Alpha options:
          [-mcpu]
          [-mdebug | -no-mdebug]
          [-replace | -noreplace]
          [-relax] [-g] [-Gsize]
          [-F] [-32addr]

       Target ARC options:
          [-mcpu=cpu]
          [-mA6|-mARC600|-mARC601|-mA7|-mARC700|-mEM|-mHS]
          [-mcode-density]
          [-mrelax]
          [-EB|-EL]

       Target ARM options:
          [-mcpu=processor[+extension...]]
          [-march=architecture[+extension...]]
          [-mfpu=floating-point-format]
          [-mfloat-abi=abi]
          [-meabi=ver]
          [-mthumb]
          [-EB|-EL]
          [-mapcs-32|-mapcs-26|-mapcs-float|
           -mapcs-reentrant]
          [-mthumb-interwork] [-k]

       Target Blackfin options:
          [-mcpu=processor[-sirevision]]
          [-mfdpic]
          [-mno-fdpic]
          [-mnopic]

       Target BPF options:
          [-EL] [-EB]

       Target CRIS options:
          [--underscore | --no-underscore]
          [--pic] [-N]
          [--emulation=criself | --emulation=crisaout]
          [--march=v0_v10 | --march=v10 | --march=v32 | --march=common_v10_v32]

       Target C-SKY options:
          [-march=arch] [-mcpu=cpu]
          [-EL] [-mlittle-endian] [-EB] [-mbig-endian]
          [-fpic] [-pic]
          [-mljump] [-mno-ljump]
          [-force2bsr] [-mforce2bsr] [-no-force2bsr] [-mno-force2bsr]
          [-jsri2bsr] [-mjsri2bsr] [-no-jsri2bsr ] [-mno-jsri2bsr]
          [-mnolrw ] [-mno-lrw]
          [-melrw] [-mno-elrw]
          [-mlaf ] [-mliterals-after-func]
          [-mno-laf] [-mno-literals-after-func]
          [-mlabr] [-mliterals-after-br]
          [-mno-labr] [-mnoliterals-after-br]
          [-mistack] [-mno-istack]
          [-mhard-float] [-mmp] [-mcp] [-mcache]
          [-msecurity] [-mtrust]
          [-mdsp] [-medsp] [-mvdsp]

       Target D10V options:
          [-O]

       Target D30V options:
          [-O|-n|-N]

       Target EPIPHANY options:
          [-mepiphany|-mepiphany16]

       Target H8/300 options:
          [-h-tick-hex]

       Target i386 options:
          [--32|--x32|--64] [-n]
          [-march=CPU[+EXTENSION...]] [-mtune=CPU]

       Target IA-64 options:
          [-mconstant-gp|-mauto-pic]
          [-milp32|-milp64|-mlp64|-mp64]
          [-mle|mbe]
          [-mtune=itanium1|-mtune=itanium2]
          [-munwind-check=warning|-munwind-check=error]
          [-mhint.b=ok|-mhint.b=warning|-mhint.b=error]
          [-x|-xexplicit] [-xauto] [-xdebug]

       Target IP2K options:
          [-mip2022|-mip2022ext]

       Target M32C options:
          [-m32c|-m16c] [-relax] [-h-tick-hex]

       Target M32R options:
          [--m32rx|--[no-]warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts|
          --W[n]p]

       Target M680X0 options:
          [-l] [-m68000|-m68010|-m68020|...]

       Target M68HC11 options:
          [-m68hc11|-m68hc12|-m68hcs12|-mm9s12x|-mm9s12xg]
          [-mshort|-mlong]
          [-mshort-double|-mlong-double]
          [--force-long-branches] [--short-branches]
          [--strict-direct-mode] [--print-insn-syntax]
          [--print-opcodes] [--generate-example]

       Target MCORE options:
          [-jsri2bsr] [-sifilter] [-relax]
          [-mcpu=[210|340]]

       Target Meta options:
          [-mcpu=cpu] [-mfpu=cpu] [-mdsp=cpu] Target MICROBLAZE options:
          [-mlittle-endian] [-mbig-endian]

       Target MIPS options:
          [-nocpp] [-EL] [-EB] [-O[optimization level]]
          [-g[debug level]] [-G num] [-KPIC] [-call_shared]
          [-non_shared] [-xgot [-mvxworks-pic]
          [-mabi=ABI] [-32] [-n32] [-64] [-mfp32] [-mgp32]
          [-mfp64] [-mgp64] [-mfpxx]
          [-modd-spreg] [-mno-odd-spreg]
          [-march=CPU] [-mtune=CPU] [-mips1] [-mips2]
          [-mips3] [-mips4] [-mips5] [-mips32] [-mips32r2]
          [-mips32r3] [-mips32r5] [-mips32r6] [-mips64] [-mips64r2]
          [-mips64r3] [-mips64r5] [-mips64r6]
          [-construct-floats] [-no-construct-floats]
          [-mignore-branch-isa] [-mno-ignore-branch-isa]
          [-mnan=encoding]
          [-trap] [-no-break] [-break] [-no-trap]
          [-mips16] [-no-mips16]
          [-mmips16e2] [-mno-mips16e2]
          [-mmicromips] [-mno-micromips]
          [-msmartmips] [-mno-smartmips]
          [-mips3d] [-no-mips3d]
          [-mdmx] [-no-mdmx]
          [-mdsp] [-mno-dsp]
          [-mdspr2] [-mno-dspr2]
          [-mdspr3] [-mno-dspr3]
          [-mmsa] [-mno-msa]
          [-mxpa] [-mno-xpa]
          [-mmt] [-mno-mt]
          [-mmcu] [-mno-mcu]
          [-mcrc] [-mno-crc]
          [-mginv] [-mno-ginv]
          [-mloongson-mmi] [-mno-loongson-mmi]
          [-mloongson-cam] [-mno-loongson-cam]
          [-mloongson-ext] [-mno-loongson-ext]
          [-mloongson-ext2] [-mno-loongson-ext2]
          [-minsn32] [-mno-insn32]
          [-mfix7000] [-mno-fix7000]
          [-mfix-rm7000] [-mno-fix-rm7000]
          [-mfix-vr4120] [-mno-fix-vr4120]
          [-mfix-vr4130] [-mno-fix-vr4130]
          [-mfix-r5900] [-mno-fix-r5900]
          [-mdebug] [-no-mdebug]
          [-mpdr] [-mno-pdr]

       Target MMIX options:
          [--fixed-special-register-names] [--globalize-symbols]
          [--gnu-syntax] [--relax] [--no-predefined-symbols]
          [--no-expand] [--no-merge-gregs] [-x]
          [--linker-allocated-gregs]

       Target Nios II options:
          [-relax-all] [-relax-section] [-no-relax]
          [-EB] [-EL]

       Target NDS32 options:
           [-EL] [-EB] [-O] [-Os] [-mcpu=cpu]
           [-misa=isa] [-mabi=abi] [-mall-ext]
           [-m[no-]16-bit]  [-m[no-]perf-ext] [-m[no-]perf2-ext]
           [-m[no-]string-ext] [-m[no-]dsp-ext] [-m[no-]mac] [-m[no-]div]
           [-m[no-]audio-isa-ext] [-m[no-]fpu-sp-ext] [-m[no-]fpu-dp-ext]
           [-m[no-]fpu-fma] [-mfpu-freg=FREG] [-mreduced-regs]
           [-mfull-regs] [-m[no-]dx-regs] [-mpic] [-mno-relax]
           [-mb2bb]

       Target PDP11 options:
          [-mpic|-mno-pic] [-mall] [-mno-extensions]
          [-mextension|-mno-extension]
          [-mcpu] [-mmachine]

       Target picoJava options:
          [-mb|-me]

       Target PowerPC options:
          [-a32|-a64]
          [-mpwrx|-mpwr2|-mpwr|-m601|-mppc|-mppc32|-m603|-m604|-m403|-m405|
           -m440|-m464|-m476|-m7400|-m7410|-m7450|-m7455|-m750cl|-mgekko|
           -mbroadway|-mppc64|-m620|-me500|-e500x2|-me500mc|-me500mc64|-me5500|
           -me6500|-mppc64bridge|-mbooke|-mpower4|-mpwr4|-mpower5|-mpwr5|-mpwr5x|
           -mpower6|-mpwr6|-mpower7|-mpwr7|-mpower8|-mpwr8|-mpower9|-mpwr9-ma2|
           -mcell|-mspe|-mspe2|-mtitan|-me300|-mcom]
          [-many] [-maltivec|-mvsx|-mhtm|-mvle]
          [-mregnames|-mno-regnames]
          [-mrelocatable|-mrelocatable-lib|-K PIC] [-memb]
          [-mlittle|-mlittle-endian|-le|-mbig|-mbig-endian|-be]
          [-msolaris|-mno-solaris]
          [-nops=count]

       Target PRU options:
          [-link-relax]
          [-mnolink-relax]
          [-mno-warn-regname-label]

       Target RISC-V options:
          [-fpic|-fPIC|-fno-pic]
          [-march=ISA]
          [-mabi=ABI]
          [-mlittle-endian|-mbig-endian]

       Target RL78 options:
          [-mg10]
          [-m32bit-doubles|-m64bit-doubles]

       Target RX options:
          [-mlittle-endian|-mbig-endian]
          [-m32bit-doubles|-m64bit-doubles]
          [-muse-conventional-section-names]
          [-msmall-data-limit]
          [-mpid]
          [-mrelax]
          [-mint-register=number]
          [-mgcc-abi|-mrx-abi]

       Target s390 options:
          [-m31|-m64] [-mesa|-mzarch] [-march=CPU]
          [-mregnames|-mno-regnames]
          [-mwarn-areg-zero]

       Target SCORE options:
          [-EB][-EL][-FIXDD][-NWARN]
          [-SCORE5][-SCORE5U][-SCORE7][-SCORE3]
          [-march=score7][-march=score3]
          [-USE_R1][-KPIC][-O0][-G num][-V]

       Target SPARC options:
          [-Av6|-Av7|-Av8|-Aleon|-Asparclet|-Asparclite
           -Av8plus|-Av8plusa|-Av8plusb|-Av8plusc|-Av8plusd
           -Av8plusv|-Av8plusm|-Av9|-Av9a|-Av9b|-Av9c
           -Av9d|-Av9e|-Av9v|-Av9m|-Asparc|-Asparcvis
           -Asparcvis2|-Asparcfmaf|-Asparcima|-Asparcvis3
           -Asparcvisr|-Asparc5]
          [-xarch=v8plus|-xarch=v8plusa]|-xarch=v8plusb|-xarch=v8plusc
           -xarch=v8plusd|-xarch=v8plusv|-xarch=v8plusm|-xarch=v9
           -xarch=v9a|-xarch=v9b|-xarch=v9c|-xarch=v9d|-xarch=v9e
           -xarch=v9v|-xarch=v9m|-xarch=sparc|-xarch=sparcvis
           -xarch=sparcvis2|-xarch=sparcfmaf|-xarch=sparcima
           -xarch=sparcvis3|-xarch=sparcvisr|-xarch=sparc5
           -bump]
          [-32|-64]
          [--enforce-aligned-data][--dcti-couples-detect]

       Target TIC54X options:
        [-mcpu=54[123589]|-mcpu=54[56]lp] [-mfar-mode|-mf]
        [-merrors-to-file <filename>|-me <filename>]

       Target TIC6X options:
          [-march=arch] [-mbig-endian|-mlittle-endian]
          [-mdsbt|-mno-dsbt] [-mpid=no|-mpid=near|-mpid=far]
          [-mpic|-mno-pic]

       Target TILE-Gx options:
          [-m32|-m64][-EB][-EL]

       Target Visium options:
          [-mtune=arch]

       Target Xtensa options:
        [--[no-]text-section-literals] [--[no-]auto-litpools]
        [--[no-]absolute-literals]
        [--[no-]target-align] [--[no-]longcalls]
        [--[no-]transform]
        [--rename-section oldname=newname]
        [--[no-]trampolines]
        [--abi-windowed|--abi-call0]

       Target Z80 options:
         [-march=CPU[-EXT][+EXT]]
         [-local-prefix=PREFIX]
         [-colonless]
         [-sdcc]
         [-fp-s=FORMAT]
         [-fp-d=FORMAT]

DESCRIPTION
       GNU as is really a family of assemblers.  If you use (or have used) the GNU assembler on one
       architecture, you should find a fairly similar environment when you use it on another
       architecture.  Each version has much in common with the others, including object file
       formats, most assembler directives (often called pseudo-ops) and assembler syntax.

       as is primarily intended to assemble the output of the GNU C compiler "gcc" for use by the
       linker "ld".  Nevertheless, we've tried to make as assemble correctly everything that other
       assemblers for the same machine would assemble.  Any exceptions are documented explicitly.
       This doesn't mean as always uses the same syntax as another assembler for the same
       architecture; for example, we know of several incompatible versions of 680x0 assembly
       language syntax.

       Each time you run as it assembles exactly one source program.  The source program is made up
       of one or more files.  (The standard input is also a file.)

       You give as a command line that has zero or more input file names.  The input files are read
       (from left file name to right).  A command-line argument (in any position) that has no
       special meaning is taken to be an input file name.

       If you give as no file names it attempts to read one input file from the as standard input,
       which is normally your terminal.  You may have to type ctl-D to tell as there is no more
       program to assemble.

       Use -- if you need to explicitly name the standard input file in your command line.

       If the source is empty, as produces a small, empty object file.

       as may write warnings and error messages to the standard error file (usually your terminal).
       This should not happen when  a compiler runs as automatically.  Warnings report an assumption
       made so that as could keep assembling a flawed program; errors report a grave problem that
       stops the assembly.

       If you are invoking as via the GNU C compiler, you can use the -Wa option to pass arguments
       through to the assembler.  The assembler arguments must be separated from each other (and the
       -Wa) by commas.  For example:

               gcc -c -g -O -Wa,-alh,-L file.c

       This passes two options to the assembler: -alh (emit a listing to standard output with high-
       level and assembly source) and -L (retain local symbols in the symbol table).

       Usually you do not need to use this -Wa mechanism, since many compiler command-line options
       are automatically passed to the assembler by the compiler.  (You can call the GNU compiler
       driver with the -v option to see precisely what options it passes to each compilation pass,
       including the assembler.)

OPTIONS
       @file
           Read  command-line  options  from  file.   The  options read are inserted in place of the
           original @file option.  If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the  option  will
           be treated literally, and not removed.

           Options  in  file are separated by whitespace.  A whitespace character may be included in
           an option by surrounding the entire option  in  either  single  or  double  quotes.   Any
           character  (including  a  backslash)  may  be  included  by prefixing the character to be
           included with a backslash.  The file may itself contain  additional  @file  options;  any
           such options will be processed recursively.

       -a[cdghilmns]
           Turn on listings, in any of a variety of ways:

           -ac omit false conditionals

           -ad omit debugging directives

           -ag include general information, like as version and options passed

           -ah include high-level source

           -al include assembly

           -ali
               include assembly with ginsn

           -am include macro expansions

           -an omit forms processing

           -as include symbols

           =file
               set the name of the listing file

           You  may  combine these options; for example, use -aln for assembly listing without forms
           processing.  The =file option, if used, must be the last one.  By itself, -a defaults  to
           -ahls.

       --alternate
           Begin in alternate macro mode.

       --compress-debug-sections
           Compress  DWARF  debug  sections  using  zlib  with SHF_COMPRESSED from the ELF ABI.  The
           resulting object file may not be compatible with older linkers and object file utilities.
           Note if compression would make a given section larger then it is not compressed.

       --compress-debug-sections=none
       --compress-debug-sections=zlib
       --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu
       --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gabi
       --compress-debug-sections=zstd
           These    options    control    how    DWARF    debug     sections     are     compressed.
           --compress-debug-sections=none     is    equivalent    to    --nocompress-debug-sections.
           --compress-debug-sections=zlib and --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gabi are equivalent  to
           --compress-debug-sections.   --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu  compresses  DWARF  debug
           sections using the obsoleted zlib-gnu format.  The debug sections are  renamed  to  begin
           with .zdebug.  --compress-debug-sections=zstd compresses DWARF debug sections using zstd.
           Note - if compression would actually make a section larger, then it is not compressed nor
           renamed.

       --nocompress-debug-sections
           Do not compress DWARF debug sections.  This is usually the default for all targets except
           the x86/x86_64, but a configure time option can be used to override this.

       -D  Enable  debugging in target specific backends, if supported.  Otherwise ignored.  Even if
           ignored, this option is accepted for script compatibility with calls to other assemblers.

       --debug-prefix-map old=new
           When assembling files in directory old, record debugging information describing  them  as
           in new instead.

       --defsym sym=value
           Define  the  symbol  sym  to be value before assembling the input file.  value must be an
           integer constant.  As in C, a leading 0x indicates a hexadecimal value, and a  leading  0
           indicates an octal value.  The value of the symbol can be overridden inside a source file
           via the use of a ".set" pseudo-op.

       --dump-config
           Displays how the assembler is configured and then exits.

       --elf-stt-common=no
       --elf-stt-common=yes
           These  options  control whether the ELF assembler should generate common symbols with the
           "STT_COMMON"  type.   The   default   can   be   controlled   by   a   configure   option
           --enable-elf-stt-common.

       --emulation=name
           If  the  assembler is configured to support multiple different target configurations then
           this option can be used to select the desired form.

       -f  "fast"---skip whitespace and comment preprocessing (assume source is compiler output).

       -g
       --gen-debug
           Generate debugging information for each  assembler  source  line  using  whichever  debug
           format  is  preferred by the target.  This currently means either STABS, ECOFF or DWARF2.
           When the debug format is DWARF then a ".debug_info" and  ".debug_line"  section  is  only
           emitted when the assembly file doesn't generate one itself.

       --gstabs
           Generate  stabs  debugging  information for each assembler line.  This may help debugging
           assembler code, if the debugger can handle it.

       --gstabs+
           Generate stabs debugging information for each assembler line, with  GNU  extensions  that
           probably only gdb can handle, and that could make other debuggers crash or refuse to read
           your  program.  This may help debugging assembler code.  Currently the only GNU extension
           is the location of the current working directory at assembling time.

       --gdwarf-2
           Generate DWARF2 debugging information for each assembler line.  This may  help  debugging
           assembler  code,  if the debugger can handle it.  Note---this option is only supported by
           some targets, not all of them.

       --gdwarf-3
           This option is the same  as  the  --gdwarf-2  option,  except  that  it  allows  for  the
           possibility  of  the  generation of extra debug information as per version 3 of the DWARF
           specification.  Note - enabling this option does not  guarantee  the  generation  of  any
           extra information, the choice to do so is on a per target basis.

       --gdwarf-4
           This  option  is  the  same  as  the  --gdwarf-2  option,  except  that it allows for the
           possibility of the generation of extra debug information as per version 4  of  the  DWARF
           specification.   Note  -  enabling  this  option does not guarantee the generation of any
           extra information, the choice to do so is on a per target basis.

       --gdwarf-5
           This option is the same  as  the  --gdwarf-2  option,  except  that  it  allows  for  the
           possibility  of  the  generation of extra debug information as per version 5 of the DWARF
           specification.  Note - enabling this option does not  guarantee  the  generation  of  any
           extra information, the choice to do so is on a per target basis.

       --gdwarf-sections
           Instead  of  creating  a .debug_line section, create a series of .debug_line.foo sections
           where foo is the name of the corresponding code section.   For  example  a  code  section
           called  .text.func  will  have  its  dwarf  line number information placed into a section
           called .debug_line.text.func.  If the code section is just called .text then  debug  line
           section will still be called just .debug_line without any suffix.

       --gdwarf-cie-version=version
           Control which version of DWARF Common Information Entries (CIEs) are produced.  When this
           flag  is  not  specified  the  default  is version 1, though some targets can modify this
           default.  Other possible values for version are 3 or 4.

       --generate-missing-build-notes=yes
       --generate-missing-build-notes=no
           These options control whether the ELF assembler should generate GNU Build attribute notes
           if none are present in  the  input  sources.   The  default  can  be  controlled  by  the
           --enable-generate-build-notes configure option.

       --gsframe
       --gsframe
           Create .sframe section from CFI directives.

       --hash-size N
           Ignored.  Supported for command line compatibility with other assemblers.

       --help
           Print a summary of the command-line options and exit.

       --target-help
           Print a summary of all target specific options and exit.

       -I dir
           Add directory dir to the search list for ".include" directives.

       -J  Don't warn about signed overflow.

       -K  Issue warnings when difference tables altered for long displacements.

       -L
       --keep-locals
           Keep (in the symbol table) local symbols.  These symbols start with system-specific local
           label prefixes, typically .L for ELF systems or L for traditional a.out systems.

       --listing-lhs-width=number
           Set  the  maximum  width, in words, of the output data column for an assembler listing to
           number.

       --listing-lhs-width2=number
           Set the maximum width, in words, of the output data column for continuation lines  in  an
           assembler listing to number.

       --listing-rhs-width=number
           Set  the  maximum  width  of  an  input source line, as displayed in a listing, to number
           bytes.

       --listing-cont-lines=number
           Set the maximum number of lines printed in a listing for a single line of input to number
           + 1.

       --multibyte-handling=allow
       --multibyte-handling=warn
       --multibyte-handling=warn-sym-only
       --multibyte-handling=warn_sym_only
           Controls how the assembler handles multibyte characters in the input.  The default (which
           can be restored by using  the  allow  argument)  is  to  allow  such  characters  without
           complaint.   Using  the  warn argument will make the assembler generate a warning message
           whenever any multibyte character is encountered.  Using the warn-sym-only  argument  will
           only  cause  a warning to be generated when a symbol is defined with a name that contains
           multibyte characters.  (References to undefined symbols will not generate a warning).

       --no-pad-sections
           Stop the assembler for padding the ends of output  sections  to  the  alignment  of  that
           section.   The  default  is  to pad the sections, but this can waste space which might be
           needed on targets which have tight memory constraints.

       -o objfile
           Name the object-file output from as objfile.

       -R  Fold the data section into the text section.

       --reduce-memory-overheads
           Ignored.  Supported for compatibility with tools that apss the same option  to  both  the
           assembler and the linker.

       --scfi=experimental
           This  option controls whether the assembler should synthesize CFI for hand-written input.
           If the input already contains some synthesizable CFI directives,  the  assembler  ignores
           them and emits a warning.  Note that "--scfi=experimental" is not intended to be used for
           compiler-generated code, including inline assembly.  This experimental support is work in
           progress.  Only System V AMD64 ABI is supported.

           Each input function in assembly must begin with the ".type" directive, and should ideally
           be closed off using a ".size" directive.  When using SCFI, each ".type" directive prompts
           GAS  to start a new FDE (a.k.a., Function Descriptor Entry).  This implies that with each
           ".type" directive, a previous block of instructions, if any, is finalised as  a  distinct
           FDE.

       --sectname-subst
           Honor substitution sequences in section names.

       --size-check=error
       --size-check=warning
           Issue an error or warning for invalid ELF .size directive.

       --statistics
           Print the maximum space (in bytes) and total time (in seconds) used by assembly.

       --strip-local-absolute
           Remove local absolute symbols from the outgoing symbol table.

       -v
       -version
           Print the as version.

       --version
           Print the as version and exit.

       -W
       --no-warn
           Suppress warning messages.

       --fatal-warnings
           Treat warnings as errors.

       --warn
           Don't suppress warning messages or treat them as errors.

       -w  Ignored.

       -x  Ignored.

       -Z  Generate an object file even after errors.

       -- | files ...
           Standard input, or source files to assemble.

       The  following  options  are  available  when as is configured for the 64-bit mode of the ARM
       Architecture (AArch64).

       -EB This option specifies that the output generated by the  assembler  should  be  marked  as
           being encoded for a big-endian processor.

       -EL This  option  specifies  that  the  output generated by the assembler should be marked as
           being encoded for a little-endian processor.

       -mabi=abi
           Specify which ABI the source code  uses.   The  recognized  arguments  are:  "ilp32"  and
           "lp64",  which  decides the generated object file in ELF32 and ELF64 format respectively.
           The default is "lp64".

       -mcpu=processor[+extension...]
           This option specifies the target processor.  The assembler will issue an error message if
           an attempt is made to assemble an instruction  which  will  not  execute  on  the  target
           processor.   The  following  processor  names are recognized: "cortex-a34", "cortex-a35",
           "cortex-a53", "cortex-a55",  "cortex-a57",  "cortex-a65",  "cortex-a65ae",  "cortex-a72",
           "cortex-a73",  "cortex-a75",  "cortex-a76",  "cortex-a76ae",  "cortex-a77", "cortex-a78",
           "cortex-a78ae",    "cortex-a78c",    "cortex-a510",     "cortex-a520",     "cortex-a710",
           "cortex-a720",    "ares",    "exynos-m1",    "falkor",    "neoverse-n1",   "neoverse-n2",
           "neoverse-e1",  "neoverse-v1",  "qdf24xx",  "saphira",  "thunderx",  "vulcan",   "xgene1"
           "xgene2",  "cortex-r82",  "cortex-x1",  "cortex-x2",  "cortex-x3",  and "cortex-x4".  The
           special name "all" may be used to allow the assembler to accept  instructions  valid  for
           any supported processor, including all optional extensions.

           In  addition  to  the  basic  instruction  set,  the  assembler can be told to accept, or
           restrict, various extension mnemonics that extend the processor.

           If some implementations of a particular processor can have an extension, then then  those
           extensions  are  automatically  enabled.   Consequently,  you  will  not normally have to
           specify any additional extensions.

       -march=architecture[+extension...]
           This option specifies the target architecture.  The assembler will issue an error message
           if an attempt is made to assemble an instruction which will not  execute  on  the  target
           architecture.   The  following architecture names are recognized: "armv8-a", "armv8.1-a",
           "armv8.2-a", "armv8.3-a", "armv8.4-a" "armv8.5-a", "armv8.6-a", "armv8.7-a", "armv8.8-a",
           "armv8.9-a", "armv8-r", "armv9-a", "armv9.1-a", "armv9.2-a", "armv9.3-a" and "armv9.4-a".

           If both -mcpu and -march are specified, the assembler will use the setting for -mcpu.  If
           neither are specified, the assembler will default to -mcpu=all.

           The architecture option can be extended with the same instruction set  extension  options
           as the -mcpu option.  Unlike -mcpu, extensions are not always enabled by default.

       -mverbose-error
           This  option  enables  verbose error messages for AArch64 gas.  This option is enabled by
           default.

       -mno-verbose-error
           This option disables verbose error messages in AArch64 gas.

       The following options are available when as is configured for an Alpha processor.

       -mcpu
           This option specifies the target processor.   If  an  attempt  is  made  to  assemble  an
           instruction  which  will  not  execute  on the target processor, the assembler may either
           expand the instruction as a macro or issue an error message.  This option  is  equivalent
           to the ".arch" directive.

           The  following  processor  names  are  recognized:  21064, "21064a", 21066, 21068, 21164,
           "21164a", "21164pc", 21264, "21264a", "21264b", "ev4",  "ev5",  "lca45",  "ev5",  "ev56",
           "pca56",  "ev6",  "ev67",  "ev68".   The  special  name  "all"  may  be used to allow the
           assembler to accept instructions valid for any Alpha processor.

           In order to support existing practice in OSF/1 with  respect  to  ".arch",  and  existing
           practice  within  MILO  (the  Linux  ARC  bootloader), the numbered processor names (e.g.
           21064) enable the processor-specific PALcode  instructions,  while  the  "electro-vlasic"
           names (e.g. "ev4") do not.

       -mdebug
       -no-mdebug
           Enables  or  disables  the generation of ".mdebug" encapsulation for stabs directives and
           procedure descriptors.  The default is to automatically enable ".mdebug" when  the  first
           stabs directive is seen.

       -relax
           This  option  forces  all  relocations  to be put into the object file, instead of saving
           space and resolving some relocations at assembly time.  Note that this  option  does  not
           propagate  all  symbol arithmetic into the object file, because not all symbol arithmetic
           can be represented.  However, the option can still be useful in specific applications.

       -replace
       -noreplace
           Enables or disables the optimization of procedure calls, both at assemblage and  at  link
           time.   These  options  are only available for VMS targets and "-replace" is the default.
           See section 1.4.1 of the OpenVMS Linker Utility Manual.

       -g  This option is used when the compiler generates debug information.   When  gcc  is  using
           mips-tfile  to  generate debug information for ECOFF, local labels must be passed through
           to the object file.  Otherwise this option has no effect.

       -Gsize
           A local common symbol larger than size is placed in ".bss",  while  smaller  symbols  are
           placed in ".sbss".

       -F
       -32addr
           These options are ignored for backward compatibility.

       The following options are available when as is configured for an ARC processor.

       -mcpu=cpu
           This option selects the core processor variant.

       -EB | -EL
           Select either big-endian (-EB) or little-endian (-EL) output.

       -mcode-density
           Enable Code Density extension instructions.

       The following options are available when as is configured for the ARM processor family.

       -mcpu=processor[+extension...]
           Specify which ARM processor variant is the target.

       -march=architecture[+extension...]
           Specify which ARM architecture variant is used by the target.

       -mfpu=floating-point-format
           Select which Floating Point architecture is the target.

       -mfloat-abi=abi
           Select which floating point ABI is in use.

       -mthumb
           Enable Thumb only instruction decoding.

       -mapcs-32 | -mapcs-26 | -mapcs-float | -mapcs-reentrant
           Select which procedure calling convention is in use.

       -EB | -EL
           Select either big-endian (-EB) or little-endian (-EL) output.

       -mthumb-interwork
           Specify  that the code has been generated with interworking between Thumb and ARM code in
           mind.

       -mccs
           Turns on CodeComposer Studio assembly syntax compatibility mode.

       -k  Specify that PIC code has been generated.

       The following options are available when as is configured for the Blackfin processor family.

       -mcpu=processor[-sirevision]
           This option specifies the target processor.  The  optional  sirevision  is  not  used  in
           assembler.   It's  here  such  that  GCC  can  easily pass down its "-mcpu=" option.  The
           assembler will issue an error message if an attempt is made to  assemble  an  instruction
           which  will  not  execute  on  the  target  processor.  The following processor names are
           recognized: "bf504", "bf506",  "bf512",  "bf514",  "bf516",  "bf518",  "bf522",  "bf523",
           "bf524",  "bf525",  "bf526",  "bf527",  "bf531",  "bf532", "bf533", "bf534", "bf535" (not
           implemented  yet),  "bf536",  "bf537",  "bf538",  "bf539",  "bf542",  "bf542m",  "bf544",
           "bf544m", "bf547", "bf547m", "bf548", "bf548m", "bf549", "bf549m", "bf561", and "bf592".

       -mfdpic
           Assemble for the FDPIC ABI.

       -mno-fdpic
       -mnopic
           Disable -mfdpic.

       The  following options are available when as is configured for the Linux kernel BPF processor
       family.

       @chapter BPF Dependent Features

   BPF Options
       -EB This option specifies that the assembler should emit big-endian eBPF.

       -EL This option specifies that the assembler should emit little-endian eBPF.

       -mdialect=dialect
           This option specifies the assembly language dialect to recognize while  assembling.   The
           assembler supports normal and pseudoc.

       -misa-spec=spec
           This option specifies the version of the BPF instruction set to use when assembling.  The
           BPF ISA versions supported are v1 v2, v3 and v4.

           The  value xbpf can be specified to recognize extra instructions that are used by GCC for
           testing purposes.  But beware this is not valid BPF.

       -mno-relax
           This option tells the assembler to not relax instructions.

       Note that if no endianness option is specified in the command line, the  host  endianness  is
       used.  See the info pages for documentation of the CRIS-specific options.

       The following options are available when as is configured for the C-SKY processor family.

       -march=archname
           Assemble for architecture archname.  The --help option lists valid values for archname.

       -mcpu=cpuname
           Assemble for architecture cpuname.  The --help option lists valid values for cpuname.

       -EL
       -mlittle-endian
           Generate little-endian output.

       -EB
       -mbig-endian
           Generate big-endian output.

       -fpic
       -pic
           Generate position-independent code.

       -mljump
       -mno-ljump
           Enable/disable transformation of the short branch instructions "jbf", "jbt", and "jbr" to
           "jmpi".   This  option  is  for  V2  processors  only.   It is ignored on CK801 and CK802
           targets, which do not support the "jmpi" instruction, and is enabled by default for other
           processors.

       -mbranch-stub
       -mno-branch-stub
           Pass through "R_CKCORE_PCREL_IMM26BY2" relocations for "bsr" instructions to the linker.

           This option is only available for bare-metal C-SKY V2 ELF targets, where it is enabled by
           default.  It cannot be used in code  that  will  be  dynamically  linked  against  shared
           libraries.

       -force2bsr
       -mforce2bsr
       -no-force2bsr
       -mno-force2bsr
           Enable/disable  transformation  of  "jbsr"  instructions to "bsr".  This option is always
           enabled (and -mno-force2bsr is ignored) for  CK801/CK802  targets.   It  is  also  always
           enabled when -mbranch-stub is in effect.

       -jsri2bsr
       -mjsri2bsr
       -no-jsri2bsr
       -mno-jsri2bsr
           Enable/disable transformation of "jsri" instructions to "bsr".  This option is enabled by
           default.

       -mnolrw
       -mno-lrw
           Enable/disable transformation of "lrw" instructions into a "movih"/"ori" pair.

       -melrw
       -mno-elrw
           Enable/disable  extended  "lrw"  instructions.   This  option  is  enabled by default for
           CK800-series processors.

       -mlaf
       -mliterals-after-func
       -mno-laf
       -mno-literals-after-func
           Enable/disable placement of literal pools after each function.

       -mlabr
       -mliterals-after-br
       -mno-labr
       -mnoliterals-after-br
           Enable/disable placement of literal pools after unconditional branches.  This  option  is
           enabled by default.

       -mistack
       -mno-istack
           Enable/disable interrupt stack instructions.  This option is enabled by default on CK801,
           CK802, and CK802 processors.

       The  following  options  explicitly enable certain optional instructions.  These features are
       also enabled implicitly by using "-mcpu=" to specify a processor that supports it.

       -mhard-float
           Enable hard float instructions.

       -mmp
           Enable multiprocessor instructions.

       -mcp
           Enable coprocessor instructions.

       -mcache
           Enable cache prefetch instruction.

       -msecurity
           Enable C-SKY security instructions.

       -mtrust
           Enable C-SKY trust instructions.

       -mdsp
           Enable DSP instructions.

       -medsp
           Enable enhanced DSP instructions.

       -mvdsp
           Enable vector DSP instructions.

       The following options are available when as is configured for an Epiphany processor.

       -mepiphany
           Specifies that the both 32 and 16 bit instructions are  allowed.   This  is  the  default
           behavior.

       -mepiphany16
           Restricts the permitted instructions to just the 16 bit set.

       The  following options are available when as is configured for an H8/300 processor.  @chapter
       H8/300 Dependent Features

   Options
       The Renesas H8/300 version of "as" has one machine-dependent option:

       -h-tick-hex
           Support H'00 style hex constants in addition to 0x00 style.

       -mach=name
           Sets the H8300 machine variant.  The following machine names  are  recognised:  "h8300h",
           "h8300hn", "h8300s", "h8300sn", "h8300sx" and "h8300sxn".

       The following options are available when as is configured for an i386 processor.

       --32 | --x32 | --64
           Select  the  word size, either 32 bits or 64 bits.  --32 implies Intel i386 architecture,
           while --x32 and --64 imply AMD  x86-64  architecture  with  32-bit  or  64-bit  word-size
           respectively.

           These  options  are  only available with the ELF object file format, and require that the
           necessary BFD  support  has  been  included  (on  a  32-bit  platform  you  have  to  add
           --enable-64-bit-bfd to configure enable 64-bit usage and use x86-64 as target platform).

       -n  By  default,  x86  GAS  replaces multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code
           sections with multi-byte nop instructions  such  as  leal  0(%esi,1),%esi.   This  switch
           disables the optimization if a single byte nop (0x90) is explicitly specified as the fill
           byte for alignment.

       --divide
           On SVR4-derived platforms, the character / is treated as a comment character, which means
           that  it  cannot  be  used  in  expressions.   The  --divide option turns / into a normal
           character.  This does not disable / at the beginning of a line  starting  a  comment,  or
           affect using # for starting a comment.

       -march=CPU[+EXTENSION...]
           This option specifies the target processor.  The assembler will issue an error message if
           an  attempt  is  made  to  assemble  an  instruction which will not execute on the target
           processor.  The following  processor  names  are  recognized:  "i8086",  "i186",  "i286",
           "i386",  "i486",  "i586",  "i686",  "pentium",  "pentiumpro",  "pentiumii", "pentiumiii",
           "pentium4", "prescott", "nocona",  "core",  "core2",  "corei7",  "iamcu",  "k6",  "k6_2",
           "athlon",  "opteron", "k8", "amdfam10", "bdver1", "bdver2", "bdver3", "bdver4", "znver1",
           "znver2", "znver3", "znver4", "znver5", "btver1", "btver2", "generic32" and "generic64".

           In addition to the basic instruction set, the assembler can be  told  to  accept  various
           extension mnemonics.  For example, "-march=i686+sse4+vmx" extends i686 with sse4 and vmx.
           The  following  extensions  are currently supported: 8087, 287, 387, 687, "cmov", "fxsr",
           "mmx", "sse", "sse2",  "sse3",  "sse4a",  "ssse3",  "sse4.1",  "sse4.2",  "sse4",  "avx",
           "avx2", "lahf_sahf", "monitor", "adx", "rdseed", "prfchw", "smap", "mpx", "sha", "rdpid",
           "ptwrite",  "cet",  "gfni",  "vaes",  "vpclmulqdq",  "prefetchwt1",  "clflushopt", "se1",
           "clwb",  "movdiri",  "movdir64b",  "enqcmd",  "serialize",  "tsxldtrk",  "kl",  "widekl",
           "hreset",   "avx512f",   "avx512cd",   "avx512er",  "avx512pf",  "avx512vl",  "avx512bw",
           "avx512dq",     "avx512ifma",     "avx512vbmi",     "avx512_4fmaps",     "avx512_4vnniw",
           "avx512_vpopcntdq",         "avx512_vbmi2",        "avx512_vnni",        "avx512_bitalg",
           "avx512_vp2intersect",  "tdx",  "avx512_bf16",  "avx_vnni",  "avx512_fp16",  "prefetchi",
           "avx_ifma",   "avx_vnni_int8",   "cmpccxadd",   "wrmsrns",  "msrlist",  "avx_ne_convert",
           "rao_int", "fred", "lkgs", "avx_vnni_int16", "sha512", "sm3", "sm4", "pbndkb", "avx10.1",
           "avx10.1/512", "avx10.1/256", "avx10.1/128", "user_msr", "apx_f", "amx_int8", "amx_bf16",
           "amx_fp16", "amx_complex",  "amx_tile",  "vmx",  "vmfunc",  "smx",  "xsave",  "xsaveopt",
           "xsavec", "xsaves", "aes", "pclmul", "fsgsbase", "rdrnd", "f16c", "bmi2", "fma", "movbe",
           "ept",  "lzcnt", "popcnt", "hle", "rtm", "tsx", "invpcid", "clflush", "mwaitx", "clzero",
           "wbnoinvd", "pconfig", "waitpkg",  "uintr",  "cldemote",  "rdpru",  "mcommit",  "sev_es",
           "lwp",  "fma4",  "xop",  "cx16", "syscall", "rdtscp", "3dnow", "3dnowa", "sse4a", "sse5",
           "snp", "invlpgb", "tlbsync", "svme" and "padlock".  Note that these  extension  mnemonics
           can  be  prefixed  with  "no" to revoke the respective (and any dependent) functionality.
           Note further that the suffixes permitted on "-march=avx10.<N>" enforce  a  vector  length
           restriction,  i.e. despite these otherwise being "enabling" options, using these suffixes
           will disable all insns with wider vector or mask register operands.

           When the ".arch"  directive  is  used  with  -march,  the  ".arch"  directive  will  take
           precedent.

       -mtune=CPU
           This  option  specifies  a  processor  to optimize for. When used in conjunction with the
           -march option, only instructions of the processor specified by the -march option will  be
           generated.

           Valid CPU values are identical to the processor list of -march=CPU.

       -msse2avx
           This option specifies that the assembler should encode SSE instructions with VEX prefix.

       -muse-unaligned-vector-move
           This  option  specifies that the assembler should encode aligned vector move as unaligned
           vector move.

       -msse-check=none
       -msse-check=warning
       -msse-check=error
           These options control if the assembler should check SSE  instructions.   -msse-check=none
           will  make  the  assembler  not  to  check  SSE  instructions,   which  is  the  default.
           -msse-check=warning will make the assembler issue a  warning  for  any  SSE  instruction.
           -msse-check=error will make the assembler issue an error for any SSE instruction.

       -mavxscalar=128
       -mavxscalar=256
           These   options  control  how  the  assembler  should  encode  scalar  AVX  instructions.
           -mavxscalar=128 will encode scalar AVX instructions with 128bit vector length,  which  is
           the  default.   -mavxscalar=256  will  encode  scalar AVX instructions with 256bit vector
           length.

           WARNING: Don't use this for production code - due to CPU errata the  resulting  code  may
           not work on certain models.

       -mvexwig=0
       -mvexwig=1
           These   options   control  how  the  assembler  should  encode  VEX.W-ignored  (WIG)  VEX
           instructions.  -mvexwig=0 will encode WIG VEX instructions with vex.w = 0, which  is  the
           default.  -mvexwig=1 will encode WIG EVEX instructions with vex.w = 1.

           WARNING:  Don't  use  this for production code - due to CPU errata the resulting code may
           not work on certain models.

       -mevexlig=128
       -mevexlig=256
       -mevexlig=512
           These  options  control  how  the  assembler  should  encode  length-ignored  (LIG)  EVEX
           instructions.  -mevexlig=128 will encode LIG EVEX instructions with 128bit vector length,
           which  is the default.  -mevexlig=256 and -mevexlig=512 will encode LIG EVEX instructions
           with 256bit and 512bit vector length, respectively.

       -mevexwig=0
       -mevexwig=1
           These options control how the assembler should encode w-ignored (WIG) EVEX  instructions.
           -mevexwig=0  will  encode  WIG  EVEX  instructions with evex.w = 0, which is the default.
           -mevexwig=1 will encode WIG EVEX instructions with evex.w = 1.

       -mmnemonic=att
       -mmnemonic=intel
           This  option   specifies   instruction   mnemonic   for   matching   instructions.    The
           ".att_mnemonic" and ".intel_mnemonic" directives will take precedent.

       -msyntax=att
       -msyntax=intel
           This option specifies instruction syntax when processing instructions.  The ".att_syntax"
           and ".intel_syntax" directives will take precedent.

       -mnaked-reg
           This  option  specifies  that  registers don't require a % prefix.  The ".att_syntax" and
           ".intel_syntax" directives will take precedent.

       -madd-bnd-prefix
           This option forces the assembler to add BND prefix to all branches, even if  such  prefix
           was not explicitly specified in the source code.

       -mno-shared
           On  ELF  target, the assembler normally optimizes out non-PLT relocations against defined
           non-weak global branch targets with default visibility.  The -mshared  option  tells  the
           assembler  to  generate code which may go into a shared library where all non-weak global
           branch targets with default visibility can be preempted.  The resulting code is  slightly
           bigger.  This option only affects the handling of branch instructions.

       -mbig-obj
           On PE/COFF target this option forces the use of big object file format, which allows more
           than 32768 sections.

       -momit-lock-prefix=no
       -momit-lock-prefix=yes
           These  options  control  how  the  assembler  should  encode lock prefix.  This option is
           intended as a workaround for processors, that fail on lock prefix. This option  can  only
           be safely used with single-core, single-thread computers -momit-lock-prefix=yes will omit
           all  lock prefixes.  -momit-lock-prefix=no will encode lock prefix as usual, which is the
           default.

       -mfence-as-lock-add=no
       -mfence-as-lock-add=yes
           These options control  how  the  assembler  should  encode  lfence,  mfence  and  sfence.
           -mfence-as-lock-add=yes  will  encode lfence, mfence and sfence as lock addl $0x0, (%rsp)
           in 64-bit mode and lock addl $0x0, (%esp) in 32-bit  mode.   -mfence-as-lock-add=no  will
           encode lfence, mfence and sfence as usual, which is the default.

       -mrelax-relocations=no
       -mrelax-relocations=yes
           These   options   control  whether  the  assembler  should  generate  relax  relocations,
           R_386_GOT32X, in 32-bit mode, or R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX and R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX, in 64-bit
           mode.  -mrelax-relocations=yes will generate relax  relocations.   -mrelax-relocations=no
           will not generate relax relocations.  The default can be controlled by a configure option
           --enable-x86-relax-relocations.

       -malign-branch-boundary=NUM
           This  option  controls  how  the assembler should align branches with segment prefixes or
           NOP.  NUM must be a power of 2.  It should be 0 or no less than  16.   Branches  will  be
           aligned  within  NUM  byte  boundary.   -malign-branch-boundary=0,  which is the default,
           doesn't align branches.

       -malign-branch=TYPE[+TYPE...]
           This option specifies types of branches to align.  TYPE  is  combination  of  jcc,  which
           aligns  conditional jumps, fused, which aligns fused conditional jumps, jmp, which aligns
           unconditional jumps, call which aligns calls, ret, which  aligns  rets,  indirect,  which
           aligns indirect jumps and calls.  The default is -malign-branch=jcc+fused+jmp.

       -malign-branch-prefix-size=NUM
           This option specifies the maximum number of prefixes on an instruction to align branches.
           NUM should be between 0 and 5.  The default NUM is 5.

       -mbranches-within-32B-boundaries
           This  option  aligns  conditional  jumps, fused conditional jumps and unconditional jumps
           within 32 byte boundary with  up  to  5  segment  prefixes  on  an  instruction.   It  is
           equivalent        to        -malign-branch-boundary=32       -malign-branch=jcc+fused+jmp
           -malign-branch-prefix-size=5.  The default doesn't align branches.

       -mlfence-after-load=no
       -mlfence-after-load=yes
           These  options  control  whether  the  assembler  should  generate  lfence   after   load
           instructions.  -mlfence-after-load=yes will generate lfence.  -mlfence-after-load=no will
           not generate lfence, which is the default.

       -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=none
       -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=all
       -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=register
       -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=memory
           These  options  control whether the assembler should generate lfence before indirect near
           branch instructions.  -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=all  will  generate  lfence  before
           indirect  near  branch  via  register and issue a warning before indirect near branch via
           memory.  It  also  implicitly  sets  -mlfence-before-ret=shl  when  there's  no  explicit
           -mlfence-before-ret=.    -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=register  will  generate  lfence
           before indirect near branch via  register.   -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=memory  will
           issue      a      warning     before     indirect     near     branch     via     memory.
           -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=none will not generate lfence nor issue warning, which is
           the default.  Note that lfence  won't  be  generated  before  indirect  near  branch  via
           register with -mlfence-after-load=yes since lfence will be generated after loading branch
           target register.

       -mlfence-before-ret=none
       -mlfence-before-ret=shl
       -mlfence-before-ret=or
       -mlfence-before-ret=yes
       -mlfence-before-ret=not
           These   options  control  whether  the  assembler  should  generate  lfence  before  ret.
           -mlfence-before-ret=or   will   generate   generate   or   instruction    with    lfence.
           -mlfence-before-ret=shl/yes     will    generate    shl    instruction    with    lfence.
           -mlfence-before-ret=not    will     generate     not     instruction     with     lfence.
           -mlfence-before-ret=none will not generate lfence, which is the default.

       -mx86-used-note=no
       -mx86-used-note=yes
           These  options  control whether the assembler should generate GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_USED
           and GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_2_USED GNU property notes.  The default can be controlled by
           the --enable-x86-used-note configure option.

       -mevexrcig=rne
       -mevexrcig=rd
       -mevexrcig=ru
       -mevexrcig=rz
           These options control  how  the  assembler  should  encode  SAE-only  EVEX  instructions.
           -mevexrcig=rne  will  encode  RC  bits of EVEX instruction with 00, which is the default.
           -mevexrcig=rd, -mevexrcig=ru and -mevexrcig=rz will  encode  SAE-only  EVEX  instructions
           with 01, 10 and 11 RC bits, respectively.

       -mamd64
       -mintel64
           This  option  specifies  that  the  assembler  should accept only AMD64 or Intel64 ISA in
           64-bit mode.  The default is to accept common, Intel64 only and AMD64 ISAs.

       -O0 | -O | -O1 | -O2 | -Os
           Optimize instruction encoding with smaller instruction size.  -O and  -O1  encode  64-bit
           register  load  instructions  with  64-bit immediate as 32-bit register load instructions
           with 31-bit or 32-bits immediates, encode  64-bit  register  clearing  instructions  with
           32-bit  register  clearing  instructions, encode 256-bit/512-bit VEX/EVEX vector register
           clearing instructions with 128-bit VEX  vector  register  clearing  instructions,  encode
           128-bit/256-bit  EVEX  vector  register  load/store instructions with VEX vector register
           load/store  instructions,  and  encode  128-bit/256-bit  EVEX  packed   integer   logical
           instructions with 128-bit/256-bit VEX packed integer logical.

           -O2  includes -O1 optimization plus encodes 256-bit/512-bit EVEX vector register clearing
           instructions with 128-bit EVEX vector register clearing instructions.  In 64-bit mode VEX
           encoded instructions with  commutative  source  operands  will  also  have  their  source
           operands  swapped  if  this allows using the 2-byte VEX prefix form instead of the 3-byte
           one.  Certain forms of AND as well as OR with the same (register) operand specified twice
           will also be changed to TEST.

           -Os includes -O2 optimization plus encodes 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit register tests  with
           immediate as 8-bit register test with immediate.  -O0 turns off this optimization.

       The following options are available when as is configured for the Ubicom IP2K series.

       -mip2022ext
           Specifies that the extended IP2022 instructions are allowed.

       -mip2022
           Restores  the  default  behaviour, which restricts the permitted instructions to just the
           basic IP2022 ones.

       The following options are available when as is configured  for  the  Renesas  M32C  and  M16C
       processors.

       -m32c
           Assemble M32C instructions.

       -m16c
           Assemble M16C instructions (the default).

       -relax
           Enable support for link-time relaxations.

       -h-tick-hex
           Support H'00 style hex constants in addition to 0x00 style.

       The  following  options  are  available  when as is configured for the Renesas M32R (formerly
       Mitsubishi M32R) series.

       --m32rx
           Specify which processor in the M32R family is the target.  The default  is  normally  the
           M32R, but this option changes it to the M32RX.

       --warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts or --Wp
           Produce warning messages when questionable parallel constructs are encountered.

       --no-warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts or --Wnp
           Do not produce warning messages when questionable parallel constructs are encountered.

       The following options are available when as is configured for the Motorola 68000 series.

       -l  Shorten references to undefined symbols, to one word instead of two.

       -m68000 | -m68008 | -m68010 | -m68020 | -m68030
       | -m68040 | -m68060 | -m68302 | -m68331 | -m68332
       | -m68333 | -m68340 | -mcpu32 | -m5200
           Specify  what  processor  in the 68000 family is the target.  The default is normally the
           68020, but this can be changed at configuration time.

       -m68881 | -m68882 | -mno-68881 | -mno-68882
           The target machine does (or does not) have a floating-point coprocessor.  The default  is
           to  assume  a  coprocessor  for 68020, 68030, and cpu32.  Although the basic 68000 is not
           compatible with the 68881, a combination of the two can be specified, since it's possible
           to do emulation of the coprocessor instructions with the main processor.

       -m68851 | -mno-68851
           The target machine does (or does not) have a  memory-management  unit  coprocessor.   The
           default is to assume an MMU for 68020 and up.

       The following options are available when as is configured for an Altera Nios II processor.

       -relax-section
           Replace  identified out-of-range branches with PC-relative "jmp" sequences when possible.
           The generated code sequences are suitable for use in position-independent code, but there
           is a practical limit on the extended branch range because of the length of the sequences.
           This option is the default.

       -relax-all
           Replace branch instructions not determinable to be in range  and  all  call  instructions
           with  "jmp"  and  "callr"  sequences  (respectively).   This  option  generates  absolute
           relocations against the target symbols and is not  appropriate  for  position-independent
           code.

       -no-relax
           Do not replace any branches or calls.

       -EB Generate big-endian output.

       -EL Generate little-endian output.  This is the default.

       -march=architecture
           This  option specifies the target architecture.  The assembler issues an error message if
           an attempt is made to assemble an instruction  which  will  not  execute  on  the  target
           architecture.   The following architecture names are recognized: "r1", "r2".  The default
           is "r1".

       The following options are available when as is configured for a PRU processor.

       -mlink-relax
           Assume that LD would optimize LDI32 instructions by checking the upper  16  bits  of  the
           expression.  If  they  are  all  zeros,  then LD would shorten the LDI32 instruction to a
           single LDI. In such case "as" will output DIFF relocations for diff expressions.

       -mno-link-relax
           Assume that LD would not optimize LDI32 instructions. As a consequence, DIFF  relocations
           will not be emitted.

       -mno-warn-regname-label
           Do  not  warn if a label name matches a register name. Usually assembler programmers will
           want this warning to be emitted. C compilers may want to turn this off.

       The following options are available when as is configured for a MIPS processor.

       -G num
           This option sets the largest size of an object that can be referenced implicitly with the
           "gp" register.  It is only accepted  for  targets  that  use  ECOFF  format,  such  as  a
           DECstation running Ultrix.  The default value is 8.

       -EB Generate "big endian" format output.

       -EL Generate "little endian" format output.

       -mips1
       -mips2
       -mips3
       -mips4
       -mips5
       -mips32
       -mips32r2
       -mips32r3
       -mips32r5
       -mips32r6
       -mips64
       -mips64r2
       -mips64r3
       -mips64r5
       -mips64r6
           Generate  code  for  a  particular MIPS Instruction Set Architecture level.  -mips1 is an
           alias for -march=r3000, -mips2 is an alias for  -march=r6000,  -mips3  is  an  alias  for
           -march=r4000  and  -mips4  is  an  alias  for  -march=r8000.  -mips5, -mips32, -mips32r2,
           -mips32r3, -mips32r5, -mips32r6, -mips64, -mips64r2, -mips64r3, -mips64r5, and  -mips64r6
           correspond  to generic MIPS V, MIPS32, MIPS32 Release 2, MIPS32 Release 3, MIPS32 Release
           5, MIPS32 Release 6, MIPS64, MIPS64 Release 2, MIPS64 Release 3, MIPS64  Release  5,  and
           MIPS64 Release 6 ISA processors, respectively.

       -march=cpu
           Generate code for a particular MIPS CPU.

       -mtune=cpu
           Schedule and tune for a particular MIPS CPU.

       -mfix7000
       -mno-fix7000
           Cause  nops  to  be  inserted  if the read of the destination register of an mfhi or mflo
           instruction occurs in the following two instructions.

       -mfix-rm7000
       -mno-fix-rm7000
           Cause nops to be inserted if a  dmult  or  dmultu  instruction  is  followed  by  a  load
           instruction.

       -mfix-r5900
       -mno-fix-r5900
           Do  not  attempt  to  schedule  the preceding instruction into the delay slot of a branch
           instruction placed at the end of a short loop of six instructions  or  fewer  and  always
           schedule  a "nop" instruction there instead.  The short loop bug under certain conditions
           causes loops to execute only once or twice, due to a hardware bug in the R5900 chip.

       -mdebug
       -no-mdebug
           Cause stabs-style debugging output to go into an ECOFF-style .mdebug section  instead  of
           the standard ELF .stabs sections.

       -mpdr
       -mno-pdr
           Control generation of ".pdr" sections.

       -mgp32
       -mfp32
           The  register  sizes  are normally inferred from the ISA and ABI, but these flags force a
           certain group of registers to be treated as 32 bits wide at all times.   -mgp32  controls
           the  size  of  general-purpose  registers  and -mfp32 controls the size of floating-point
           registers.

       -mgp64
       -mfp64
           The register sizes are normally inferred from the ISA and ABI, but these  flags  force  a
           certain  group  of registers to be treated as 64 bits wide at all times.  -mgp64 controls
           the size of general-purpose registers and -mfp64  controls  the  size  of  floating-point
           registers.

       -mfpxx
           The  register  sizes  are  normally inferred from the ISA and ABI, but using this flag in
           combination with -mabi=32 enables an  ABI  variant  which  will  operate  correctly  with
           floating-point registers which are 32 or 64 bits wide.

       -modd-spreg
       -mno-odd-spreg
           Enable  use  of floating-point operations on odd-numbered single-precision registers when
           supported  by  the  ISA.   -mfpxx  implies  -mno-odd-spreg,  otherwise  the  default   is
           -modd-spreg.

       -mips16
       -no-mips16
           Generate  code for the MIPS 16 processor.  This is equivalent to putting ".module mips16"
           at the start of the assembly file.  -no-mips16 turns off this option.

       -mmips16e2
       -mno-mips16e2
           Enable the use of MIPS16e2 instructions in MIPS16 mode.  This is  equivalent  to  putting
           ".module  mips16e2"  at  the  start  of  the assembly file.  -mno-mips16e2 turns off this
           option.

       -mmicromips
       -mno-micromips
           Generate code for the microMIPS  processor.   This  is  equivalent  to  putting  ".module
           micromips"  at  the  start  of  the assembly file.  -mno-micromips turns off this option.
           This is equivalent to putting ".module nomicromips" at the start of the assembly file.

       -msmartmips
       -mno-smartmips
           Enables the SmartMIPS extension to the MIPS32 instruction set.   This  is  equivalent  to
           putting  ".module smartmips" at the start of the assembly file.  -mno-smartmips turns off
           this option.

       -mips3d
       -no-mips3d
           Generate code for the MIPS-3D Application Specific Extension.  This tells  the  assembler
           to accept MIPS-3D instructions.  -no-mips3d turns off this option.

       -mdmx
       -no-mdmx
           Generate  code  for the MDMX Application Specific Extension.  This tells the assembler to
           accept MDMX instructions.  -no-mdmx turns off this option.

       -mdsp
       -mno-dsp
           Generate code for the DSP Release 1  Application  Specific  Extension.   This  tells  the
           assembler to accept DSP Release 1 instructions.  -mno-dsp turns off this option.

       -mdspr2
       -mno-dspr2
           Generate  code for the DSP Release 2 Application Specific Extension.  This option implies
           -mdsp.  This tells the assembler to accept DSP Release 2 instructions.  -mno-dspr2  turns
           off this option.

       -mdspr3
       -mno-dspr3
           Generate  code for the DSP Release 3 Application Specific Extension.  This option implies
           -mdsp and -mdspr2.  This tells the  assembler  to  accept  DSP  Release  3  instructions.
           -mno-dspr3 turns off this option.

       -mmsa
       -mno-msa
           Generate  code  for  the  MIPS  SIMD Architecture Extension.  This tells the assembler to
           accept MSA instructions.  -mno-msa turns off this option.

       -mxpa
       -mno-xpa
           Generate code for the MIPS eXtended Physical Address (XPA)  Extension.   This  tells  the
           assembler to accept XPA instructions.  -mno-xpa turns off this option.

       -mmt
       -mno-mt
           Generate  code  for  the  MT Application Specific Extension.  This tells the assembler to
           accept MT instructions.  -mno-mt turns off this option.

       -mmcu
       -mno-mcu
           Generate code for the MCU Application Specific Extension.  This tells  the  assembler  to
           accept MCU instructions.  -mno-mcu turns off this option.

       -mcrc
       -mno-crc
           Generate  code for the MIPS cyclic redundancy check (CRC) Application Specific Extension.
           This tells the assembler to accept CRC instructions.  -mno-crc turns off this option.

       -mginv
       -mno-ginv
           Generate code for the Global INValidate  (GINV)  Application  Specific  Extension.   This
           tells the assembler to accept GINV instructions.  -mno-ginv turns off this option.

       -mloongson-mmi
       -mno-loongson-mmi
           Generate  code  for  the  Loongson  MultiMedia  extensions Instructions (MMI) Application
           Specific  Extension.   This   tells   the   assembler   to   accept   MMI   instructions.
           -mno-loongson-mmi turns off this option.

       -mloongson-cam
       -mno-loongson-cam
           Generate code for the Loongson Content Address Memory (CAM) instructions.  This tells the
           assembler to accept Loongson CAM instructions.  -mno-loongson-cam turns off this option.

       -mloongson-ext
       -mno-loongson-ext
           Generate  code  for the Loongson EXTensions (EXT) instructions.  This tells the assembler
           to accept Loongson EXT instructions.  -mno-loongson-ext turns off this option.

       -mloongson-ext2
       -mno-loongson-ext2
           Generate code for the Loongson EXTensions R2 (EXT2) instructions.   This  option  implies
           -mloongson-ext.    This  tells  the  assembler  to  accept  Loongson  EXT2  instructions.
           -mno-loongson-ext2 turns off this option.

       -minsn32
       -mno-insn32
           Only use 32-bit instruction encodings when generating code for the  microMIPS  processor.
           This  option  inhibits the use of any 16-bit instructions.  This is equivalent to putting
           ".set insn32" at the start of the assembly file.   -mno-insn32  turns  off  this  option.
           This  is  equivalent  to  putting  ".set noinsn32" at the start of the assembly file.  By
           default -mno-insn32 is selected, allowing all instructions to be used.

       --construct-floats
       --no-construct-floats
           The --no-construct-floats option disables the construction of double width floating point
           constants by loading the two halves of the value into the two single width floating point
           registers that make up the double  width  register.   By  default  --construct-floats  is
           selected, allowing construction of these floating point constants.

       --relax-branch
       --no-relax-branch
           The  --relax-branch  option  enables the relaxation of out-of-range branches.  By default
           --no-relax-branch is selected, causing any out-of-range branches to produce an error.

       -mignore-branch-isa
       -mno-ignore-branch-isa
           Ignore branch checks for  invalid  transitions  between  ISA  modes.   The  semantics  of
           branches  does not provide for an ISA mode switch, so in most cases the ISA mode a branch
           has been encoded for has to be the same as the ISA mode of  the  branch's  target  label.
           Therefore  GAS  has  checks  implemented  that verify in branch assembly that the two ISA
           modes    match.     -mignore-branch-isa    disables    these    checks.     By    default
           -mno-ignore-branch-isa  is  selected,  causing  any invalid branch requiring a transition
           between ISA modes to produce an error.

       -mnan=encoding
           Select between the IEEE 754-2008 (-mnan=2008) or the legacy (-mnan=legacy)  NaN  encoding
           format.  The latter is the default.

       --emulation=name
           This option was formerly used to switch between ELF and ECOFF output on targets like IRIX
           5  that  supported  both.   MIPS ECOFF support was removed in GAS 2.24, so the option now
           serves little purpose.  It is retained for backwards compatibility.

           The available configuration names are: mipself, mipslelf and mipsbelf.  Choosing  mipself
           now  has no effect, since the output is always ELF.  mipslelf and mipsbelf select little-
           and big-endian output respectively, but  -EL  and  -EB  are  now  the  preferred  options
           instead.

       -nocpp
           as ignores this option.  It is accepted for compatibility with the native tools.

       --trap
       --no-trap
       --break
       --no-break
           Control  how  to  deal  with  multiplication  overflow  and  division by zero.  --trap or
           --no-break (which are synonyms) take a trap exception (and only work for Instruction  Set
           Architecture  level  2 and higher); --break or --no-trap (also synonyms, and the default)
           take a break exception.

       -n  When this option is used, as  will  issue  a  warning  every  time  it  generates  a  nop
           instruction from a macro.

       The following options are available when as is configured for a LoongArch processor.

       -fpic
       -fPIC
           Generate position-independent code

       -fno-pic
           Don't generate position-independent code (default)

       The following options are available when as is configured for a Meta processor.

       "-mcpu=metac11"
           Generate code for Meta 1.1.

       "-mcpu=metac12"
           Generate code for Meta 1.2.

       "-mcpu=metac21"
           Generate code for Meta 2.1.

       "-mfpu=metac21"
           Allow code to use FPU hardware of Meta 2.1.

       See the info pages for documentation of the MMIX-specific options.

       The following options are available when as is configured for a NDS32 processor.

       "-O1"
           Optimize for performance.

       "-Os"
           Optimize for space.

       "-EL"
           Produce little endian data output.

       "-EB"
           Produce little endian data output.

       "-mpic"
           Generate PIC.

       "-mno-fp-as-gp-relax"
           Suppress fp-as-gp relaxation for this file.

       "-mb2bb-relax"
           Back-to-back branch optimization.

       "-mno-all-relax"
           Suppress all relaxation for this file.

       "-march=<arch name>"
           Assemble  for  architecture  <arch  name> which could be v3, v3j, v3m, v3f, v3s, v2, v2j,
           v2f, v2s.

       "-mbaseline=<baseline>"
           Assemble for baseline <baseline> which could be v2, v3, v3m.

       "-mfpu-freg=FREG"
           Specify a FPU configuration.

           "0      8 SP /  4 DP registers"
           "1     16 SP /  8 DP registers"
           "2     32 SP / 16 DP registers"
           "3     32 SP / 32 DP registers"
       "-mabi=abi"
           Specify a abi version <abi> could be v1, v2, v2fp, v2fpp.

       "-m[no-]mac"
           Enable/Disable Multiply instructions support.

       "-m[no-]div"
           Enable/Disable Divide instructions support.

       "-m[no-]16bit-ext"
           Enable/Disable 16-bit extension

       "-m[no-]dx-regs"
           Enable/Disable d0/d1 registers

       "-m[no-]perf-ext"
           Enable/Disable Performance extension

       "-m[no-]perf2-ext"
           Enable/Disable Performance extension 2

       "-m[no-]string-ext"
           Enable/Disable String extension

       "-m[no-]reduced-regs"
           Enable/Disable Reduced Register configuration (GPR16) option

       "-m[no-]audio-isa-ext"
           Enable/Disable AUDIO ISA extension

       "-m[no-]fpu-sp-ext"
           Enable/Disable FPU SP extension

       "-m[no-]fpu-dp-ext"
           Enable/Disable FPU DP extension

       "-m[no-]fpu-fma"
           Enable/Disable FPU fused-multiply-add instructions

       "-mall-ext"
           Turn on all extensions and instructions support

       The following options are available when as is configured for a PowerPC processor.

       -a32
           Generate ELF32 or XCOFF32.

       -a64
           Generate ELF64 or XCOFF64.

       -K PIC
           Set EF_PPC_RELOCATABLE_LIB in ELF flags.

       -mpwrx | -mpwr2
           Generate code for POWER/2 (RIOS2).

       -mpwr
           Generate code for POWER (RIOS1)

       -m601
           Generate code for PowerPC 601.

       -mppc, -mppc32, -m603, -m604
           Generate code for PowerPC 603/604.

       -m403, -m405
           Generate code for PowerPC 403/405.

       -m440
           Generate code for PowerPC 440.  BookE and some 405 instructions.

       -m464
           Generate code for PowerPC 464.

       -m476
           Generate code for PowerPC 476.

       -m7400, -m7410, -m7450, -m7455
           Generate code for PowerPC 7400/7410/7450/7455.

       -m750cl, -mgekko, -mbroadway
           Generate code for PowerPC 750CL/Gekko/Broadway.

       -m821, -m850, -m860
           Generate code for PowerPC 821/850/860.

       -mppc64, -m620
           Generate code for PowerPC 620/625/630.

       -me200z2, -me200z4
           Generate code for e200 variants, e200z2 with LSP, e200z4 with SPE.

       -me300
           Generate code for PowerPC e300 family.

       -me500, -me500x2
           Generate code for Motorola e500 core complex.

       -me500mc
           Generate code for Freescale e500mc core complex.

       -me500mc64
           Generate code for Freescale e500mc64 core complex.

       -me5500
           Generate code for Freescale e5500 core complex.

       -me6500
           Generate code for Freescale e6500 core complex.

       -mlsp
           Enable LSP instructions.  (Disables SPE and SPE2.)

       -mspe
           Generate code for Motorola SPE instructions.  (Disables LSP.)

       -mspe2
           Generate code for Freescale SPE2 instructions.  (Disables LSP.)

       -mtitan
           Generate code for AppliedMicro Titan core complex.

       -mppc64bridge
           Generate code for PowerPC 64, including bridge insns.

       -mbooke
           Generate code for 32-bit BookE.

       -ma2
           Generate code for A2 architecture.

       -maltivec
           Generate code for processors with AltiVec instructions.

       -mvle
           Generate code for Freescale PowerPC VLE instructions.

       -mvsx
           Generate code for processors with Vector-Scalar (VSX) instructions.

       -mhtm
           Generate code for processors with Hardware Transactional Memory instructions.

       -mpower4, -mpwr4
           Generate code for Power4 architecture.

       -mpower5, -mpwr5, -mpwr5x
           Generate code for Power5 architecture.

       -mpower6, -mpwr6
           Generate code for Power6 architecture.

       -mpower7, -mpwr7
           Generate code for Power7 architecture.

       -mpower8, -mpwr8
           Generate code for Power8 architecture.

       -mpower9, -mpwr9
           Generate code for Power9 architecture.

       -mpower10, -mpwr10
           Generate code for Power10 architecture.

       -mpower11, -mpwr11
           Generate code for Power11 architecture.

       -mfuture
           Generate code for 'future' architecture.

       -mcell
       -mcell
           Generate code for Cell Broadband Engine architecture.

       -mcom
           Generate code Power/PowerPC common instructions.

       -many
           Generate code for any architecture (PWR/PWRX/PPC).

       -mregnames
           Allow symbolic names for registers.

       -mno-regnames
           Do not allow symbolic names for registers.

       -mrelocatable
           Support for GCC's -mrelocatable option.

       -mrelocatable-lib
           Support for GCC's -mrelocatable-lib option.

       -memb
           Set PPC_EMB bit in ELF flags.

       -mlittle, -mlittle-endian, -le
           Generate code for a little endian machine.

       -mbig, -mbig-endian, -be
           Generate code for a big endian machine.

       -msolaris
           Generate code for Solaris.

       -mno-solaris
           Do not generate code for Solaris.

       -nops=count
           If an alignment directive inserts more than count nops, put a branch at the beginning  to
           skip execution of the nops.

       The following options are available when as is configured for a RISC-V processor.

       -fpic
       -fPIC
           Generate position-independent code

       -fno-pic
           Don't generate position-independent code (default)

       -march=ISA
           Select  the  base  isa, as specified by ISA.  For example -march=rv32ima.  If this option
           and the architecture attributes  aren't  set,  then  assembler  will  check  the  default
           configure setting --with-arch=ISA.

       -misa-spec=ISAspec
           Select  the  default  isa  spec version.  If the version of ISA isn't set by -march, then
           assembler helps to set the version according to the default chosen spec.  If this  option
           isn't    set,    then    assembler    will    check   the   default   configure   setting
           --with-isa-spec=ISAspec.

       -mpriv-spec=PRIVspec
           Select the privileged spec version.  We can decide  whether  the  CSR  is  valid  or  not
           according  to  the  chosen spec.  If this option and the privilege attributes aren't set,
           then assembler will check the default configure setting --with-priv-spec=PRIVspec.

       -mabi=ABI
           Selects the ABI, which is either "ilp32" or "lp64", optionally followed by "f",  "d",  or
           "q"  to  indicate  single-precision,  double-precision,  or quad-precision floating-point
           calling convention, or none or "e" to indicate the  soft-float  calling  convention  ("e"
           indicates a soft-float RVE ABI).

       -mrelax
           Take  advantage  of  linker  relaxations to reduce the number of instructions required to
           materialize symbol addresses. (default)

       -mno-relax
           Don't do linker relaxations.

       -march-attr
           Generate the default contents for the riscv  elf  attribute  section  if  the  .attribute
           directives  are not set.  This section is used to record the information that a linker or
           runtime loader needs to check compatibility.  This information includes ISA string, stack
           alignment requirement, unaligned memory accesses,  and  the  major,  minor  and  revision
           version of privileged specification.

       -mno-arch-attr
           Don't  generate  the default riscv elf attribute section if the .attribute directives are
           not set.

       -mcsr-check
           Enable the CSR checking for the ISA-dependent  CRS  and  the  read-only  CSR.   The  ISA-
           dependent  CSR are only valid when the specific ISA is set.  The read-only CSR can not be
           written by the CSR instructions.

       -mno-csr-check
           Don't do CSR checking.

       -mlittle-endian
           Generate code for a little endian machine.

       -mbig-endian
           Generate code for a big endian machine.

       See the info pages for documentation of the RX-specific options.

       The following options are available when as is configured for the s390 processor family.

       -m31
       -m64
           Select the word size, either 31/32 bits or 64 bits.

       -mesa
       -mzarch
           Select the architecture mode, either the Enterprise  System  Architecture  (esa)  or  the
           z/Architecture mode (zarch).

       -march=processor
           Specify  which  s390 processor variant is the target, g5 (or arch3), g6, z900 (or arch5),
           z990 (or arch6), z9-109, z9-ec (or arch7), z10 (or arch8), z196  (or  arch9),  zEC12  (or
           arch10),  z13  (or arch11), z14 (or arch12), z15 (or arch13), z16 (or arch14), or z17 (or
           arch15).

       -mregnames
       -mno-regnames
           Allow or disallow symbolic names for registers.

       -mwarn-areg-zero
           Warn whenever the operand for a base or index register has been specified  but  evaluates
           to zero.

       The following options are available when as is configured for a TMS320C6000 processor.

       -march=arch
           Enable  (only)  instructions  from  architecture  arch.  By default, all instructions are
           permitted.

           The following values of arch are accepted:  "c62x",  "c64x",  "c64x+",  "c67x",  "c67x+",
           "c674x".

       -mdsbt
       -mno-dsbt
           The  -mdsbt  option  causes the assembler to generate the "Tag_ABI_DSBT" attribute with a
           value of 1, indicating that the code is using DSBT addressing.  The -mno-dsbt option, the
           default, causes the tag to have a value of 0, indicating that the code does not use  DSBT
           addressing.   The  linker will emit a warning if objects of different type (DSBT and non-
           DSBT) are linked together.

       -mpid=no
       -mpid=near
       -mpid=far
           The -mpid= option causes the assembler to generate the  "Tag_ABI_PID"  attribute  with  a
           value  indicating  the  form of data addressing used by the code.  -mpid=no, the default,
           indicates position-dependent data addressing, -mpid=near  indicates  position-independent
           addressing  with GOT accesses using near DP addressing, and -mpid=far indicates position-
           independent addressing with GOT accesses using far DP addressing.  The linker will emit a
           warning if objects built with different settings of this option are linked together.

       -mpic
       -mno-pic
           The -mpic option causes the assembler to generate  the  "Tag_ABI_PIC"  attribute  with  a
           value  of 1, indicating that the code is using position-independent code addressing,  The
           "-mno-pic" option, the default, causes the tag to have a value of 0, indicating position-
           dependent code addressing.  The linker will emit a warning if objects of  different  type
           (position-dependent and position-independent) are linked together.

       -mbig-endian
       -mlittle-endian
           Generate code for the specified endianness.  The default is little-endian.

       The following options are available when as is configured for a TILE-Gx processor.

       -m32 | -m64
           Select the word size, either 32 bits or 64 bits.

       -EB | -EL
           Select the endianness, either big-endian (-EB) or little-endian (-EL).

       The following option is available when as is configured for a Visium processor.

       -mtune=arch
           This  option  specifies  the  target  architecture.  If an attempt is made to assemble an
           instruction that will not execute on the target architecture, the assembler will issue an
           error message.

           The following names are recognized: "mcm24" "mcm" "gr5" "gr6"

       The following options are available when as is configured for an Xtensa processor.

       --text-section-literals | --no-text-section-literals
           Control the treatment of literal pools.  The default is --no-text-section-literals, which
           places literals in separate sections in the output file.  This allows the literal pool to
           be placed in a data RAM/ROM.  With --text-section-literals, the literals are interspersed
           in the text section in order to keep them as close as possible to their references.  This
           may be necessary for large assembly files, where the literals would otherwise be  out  of
           range  of  the  "L32R" instructions in the text section.  Literals are grouped into pools
           following  ".literal_position"  directives  or  preceding  "ENTRY"  instructions.   These
           options only affect literals referenced via PC-relative "L32R" instructions; literals for
           absolute mode "L32R" instructions are handled separately.

       --auto-litpools | --no-auto-litpools
           Control  the treatment of literal pools.  The default is --no-auto-litpools, which in the
           absence of --text-section-literals places literals in separate  sections  in  the  output
           file.    This   allows   the  literal  pool  to  be  placed  in  a  data  RAM/ROM.   With
           --auto-litpools, the literals are interspersed in the text section in order to keep  them
           as close as possible to their references, explicit ".literal_position" directives are not
           required.   This  may be necessary for very large functions, where single literal pool at
           the beginning of the function may not be reachable by "L32R"  instructions  at  the  end.
           These  options  only  affect  literals  referenced  via  PC-relative "L32R" instructions;
           literals for absolute  mode  "L32R"  instructions  are  handled  separately.   When  used
           together with --text-section-literals, --auto-litpools takes precedence.

       --absolute-literals | --no-absolute-literals
           Indicate  to  the  assembler  whether  "L32R"  instructions  use  absolute or PC-relative
           addressing.  If the processor includes the absolute addressing option, the default is  to
           use  absolute "L32R" relocations.  Otherwise, only the PC-relative "L32R" relocations can
           be used.

       --target-align | --no-target-align
           Enable or disable automatic alignment to reduce branch penalties at some expense in  code
           size.     This  optimization  is enabled by default.  Note that the assembler will always
           align instructions like "LOOP" that have fixed alignment requirements.

       --longcalls | --no-longcalls
           Enable or disable transformation of call instructions to allow  calls  across  a  greater
           range  of  addresses.     This option should be used when call targets can potentially be
           out of range.  It may degrade  both  code  size  and  performance,  but  the  linker  can
           generally  optimize  away the unnecessary overhead when a call ends up within range.  The
           default is --no-longcalls.

       --transform | --no-transform
           Enable or disable all assembler transformations of Xtensa  instructions,  including  both
           relaxation  and  optimization.  The default is --transform; --no-transform should only be
           used in the rare cases when the instructions must be exactly as specified in the assembly
           source.  Using --no-transform causes out of range instruction operands to be errors.

       --rename-section oldname=newname
           Rename the oldname section to newname.  This option can be used multiple times to  rename
           multiple sections.

       --trampolines | --no-trampolines
           Enable  or  disable  transformation  of jump instructions to allow jumps across a greater
           range of addresses.    This option should be used when jump targets  can  potentially  be
           out  of  range.   In  the  absence of such jumps this option does not affect code size or
           performance.  The default is --trampolines.

       --abi-windowed | --abi-call0
           Choose ABI tag written to the ".xtensa.info" section.   ABI  tag  indicates  ABI  of  the
           assembly code.  A warning is issued by the linker on an attempt to link object files with
           inconsistent ABI tags.  Default ABI is chosen by the Xtensa core configuration.

       The following options are available when as is configured for an Z80 processor.

       @chapter Z80 Dependent Features

   Command-line Options
       -march=CPU[-EXT...][+EXT...]
           This  option specifies the target processor. The assembler will issue an error message if
           an attempt is made to assemble an instruction  which  will  not  execute  on  the  target
           processor.  The following processor names are recognized: "z80", "z180", "ez80", "gbz80",
           "z80n", "r800".  In addition to the basic instruction set, the assembler can be  told  to
           accept  some  extension  mnemonics. For example, "-march=z180+sli+infc" extends z180 with
           SLI instructions and IN F,(C). The following extensions are currently  supported:  "full"
           (all  known instructions), "adl" (ADL CPU mode by default, eZ80 only), "sli" (instruction
           known as SLI, SLL or SL1), "xyhl" (instructions with halves of index registers: IXL, IXH,
           IYL, IYH), "xdcb"  (instructions  like  RotOp  (II+d),R  and  BitOp  n,(II+d),R),  "infc"
           (instruction IN F,(C) or IN (C)), "outc0" (instruction OUT (C),0).  Note that rather than
           extending  a  basic instruction set, the extension mnemonics starting with "-" revoke the
           respective functionality: "-march=z80-full+xyhl" first removes all default extensions and
           adds support for index registers halves only.

           If this option is not specified then "-march=z80+xyhl+infc" is assumed.

       -local-prefix=prefix
           Mark all labels with specified prefix as local. But  such  label  can  be  marked  global
           explicitly  in the code. This option do not change default local label prefix ".L", it is
           just adds new one.

       -colonless
           Accept colonless labels. All symbols at line begin are treated as labels.

       -sdcc
           Accept assembler code produced by SDCC.

       -fp-s=FORMAT
           Single precision floating point numbers format. Default: ieee754 (32 bit).

       -fp-d=FORMAT
           Double precision floating point numbers format. Default: ieee754 (64 bit).

SEE ALSO
       gcc(1), ld(1), and the Info entries for binutils and ld.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1991-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of  the
       GNU  Free  Documentation  License,  Version  1.3  or  any later version published by the Free
       Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-
       Cover Texts.  A  copy  of  the  license  is  included  in  the  section  entitled  "GNU  Free
       Documentation License".

binutils-2.42                                2026-02-09                                        AS(1)
as(1)
NAME SYNOPSIS TARGET DESCRIPTION
-Wa) by commas. For example:
OPTIONS
-a[cdghilmns] --alternate --compress-debug-sections --compress-debug-sections=none --compress-debug-sections=zlib --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gabi --compress-debug-sections=zstd --nocompress-debug-sections -D Enable debugging in target specific backends, if supported. Otherwise ignored. Even if --dump-config --elf-stt-common=no --elf-stt-common=yes -f "fast"---skip whitespace and comment preprocessing (assume source is compiler output). -g --gen-debug --gstabs --gstabs+ --gdwarf-2 --gdwarf-3 --gdwarf-4 --gdwarf-5 --gdwarf-sections --generate-missing-build-notes=yes --generate-missing-build-notes=no --gsframe --gsframe --help --target-help -I dir -J Don't warn about signed overflow. -K Issue warnings when difference tables altered for long displacements. -L --keep-locals --multibyte-handling=allow --multibyte-handling=warn --multibyte-handling=warn-sym-only --multibyte-handling=warn_sym_only --no-pad-sections -o objfile -R Fold the data section into the text section. --reduce-memory-overheads --scfi=experimental --sectname-subst --size-check=error --size-check=warning --statistics --strip-local-absolute -v -version --version -W --no-warn --fatal-warnings --warn -w Ignored. -x Ignored. -Z Generate an object file even after errors. -EB This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as -EL This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as -mabi=abi -mcpu=processor[+extension...] -march=architecture[+extension...] -mverbose-error -mno-verbose-error -mcpu -mdebug -no-mdebug -relax -replace -noreplace -g This option is used when the compiler generates debug information. When gcc is using -Gsize -F -32addr -mcpu=cpu -EB | -EL -mcode-density -mcpu=processor[+extension...] -march=architecture[+extension...] -mfpu=floating-point-format -mfloat-abi=abi -mthumb -mapcs-32 | -mapcs-26 | -mapcs-float | -mapcs-reentrant -EB | -EL -mthumb-interwork -mccs -k Specify that PIC code has been generated. -mcpu=processor[-sirevision] -mfdpic -mno-fdpic -mnopic BPF Options -EB This option specifies that the assembler should emit big-endian eBPF. -EL This option specifies that the assembler should emit little-endian eBPF. -mdialect=dialect -misa-spec=spec -mno-relax -march=archname -mcpu=cpuname -EL -mlittle-endian -EB -mbig-endian -fpic -pic -mljump -mno-ljump -mbranch-stub -mno-branch-stub -force2bsr -mforce2bsr -no-force2bsr -mno-force2bsr -jsri2bsr -mjsri2bsr -no-jsri2bsr -mno-jsri2bsr -mnolrw -mno-lrw -melrw -mno-elrw -mlaf -mliterals-after-func -mno-laf -mno-literals-after-func -mlabr -mliterals-after-br -mno-labr -mnoliterals-after-br -mistack -mno-istack -mhard-float -mmp -mcp -mcache -msecurity -mtrust -mdsp -medsp -mvdsp -mepiphany -mepiphany16 Options -h-tick-hex -mach=name --32 | --x32 | --64 -n By default, x86 GAS replaces multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code --divide -march=CPU[+EXTENSION...] -mtune=CPU -msse2avx -muse-unaligned-vector-move -msse-check=none -msse-check=warning -msse-check=error -mavxscalar=128 -mavxscalar=256 -mvexwig=0 -mvexwig=1 -mevexlig=128 -mevexlig=256 -mevexlig=512 -mevexwig=0 -mevexwig=1 -mmnemonic=att -mmnemonic=intel -msyntax=att -msyntax=intel -mnaked-reg -madd-bnd-prefix -mno-shared -mbig-obj -momit-lock-prefix=no -momit-lock-prefix=yes -mfence-as-lock-add=no -mfence-as-lock-add=yes -mrelax-relocations=no -mrelax-relocations=yes -malign-branch-boundary=NUM -malign-branch=TYPE[+TYPE...] -malign-branch-prefix-size=NUM -mbranches-within-32B-boundaries -mlfence-after-load=no -mlfence-after-load=yes -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=none -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=all -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=register -mlfence-before-indirect-branch=memory -mlfence-before-ret=none -mlfence-before-ret=shl -mlfence-before-ret=or -mlfence-before-ret=yes -mlfence-before-ret=not -mx86-used-note=no -mx86-used-note=yes -mevexrcig=rne -mevexrcig=rd -mevexrcig=ru -mevexrcig=rz -mamd64 -mintel64 -O0 | -O | -O1 | -O2 | -Os -mip2022ext -mip2022 -m32c -m16c -relax -h-tick-hex --m32rx --warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts or --Wp --no-warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts or --Wnp -l Shorten references to undefined symbols, to one word instead of two. -m68000 | -m68008 | -m68010 | -m68020 | -m68030 | -m68040 | -m68060 | -m68302 | -m68331 | -m68332 | -m68333 | -m68340 | -mcpu32 | -m5200 -m68881 | -m68882 | -mno-68881 | -mno-68882 -m68851 | -mno-68851 -relax-section -relax-all -no-relax -EB Generate big-endian output. -EL Generate little-endian output. This is the default. -march=architecture -mlink-relax -mno-link-relax -mno-warn-regname-label -G num -EB Generate "big endian" format output. -EL Generate "little endian" format output. -mips1 -mips2 -mips3 -mips4 -mips5 -mips32 -mips32r2 -mips32r3 -mips32r5 -mips32r6 -mips64 -mips64r2 -mips64r3 -mips64r5 -mips64r6 -march=cpu -mtune=cpu -mfix7000 -mno-fix7000 -mfix-rm7000 -mno-fix-rm7000 -mfix-r5900 -mno-fix-r5900 -mdebug -no-mdebug -mpdr -mno-pdr -mgp32 -mfp32 -mgp64 -mfp64 -mfpxx -modd-spreg -mno-odd-spreg -mips16 -no-mips16 -mmips16e2 -mno-mips16e2 -mmicromips -mno-micromips -msmartmips -mno-smartmips -mips3d -no-mips3d -mdmx -no-mdmx -mdsp -mno-dsp -mdspr2 -mno-dspr2 -mdspr3 -mno-dspr3 -mmsa -mno-msa -mxpa -mno-xpa -mmt -mno-mt -mmcu -mno-mcu -mcrc -mno-crc -mginv -mno-ginv -mloongson-mmi -mno-loongson-mmi -mloongson-cam -mno-loongson-cam -mloongson-ext -mno-loongson-ext -mloongson-ext2 -mno-loongson-ext2 -minsn32 -mno-insn32 --construct-floats --no-construct-floats --relax-branch --no-relax-branch -mignore-branch-isa -mno-ignore-branch-isa -mnan=encoding -nocpp --trap --no-trap --break --no-break -n When this option is used, as will issue a warning every time it generates a nop -fpic -fPIC -fno-pic -a32 -a64 -K PIC -mpwrx | -mpwr2 -mpwr -m601 -mppc, -mppc32, -m603, -m604 -m403, -m405 -m440 -m464 -m476 -m7400, -m7410, -m7450, -m7455 -m750cl, -mgekko, -mbroadway -m821, -m850, -m860 -mppc64, -m620 -me200z2, -me200z4 -me300 -me500, -me500x2 -me500mc -me500mc64 -me5500 -me6500 -mlsp -mspe -mspe2 -mtitan -mppc64bridge -mbooke -ma2 -maltivec -mvle -mvsx -mhtm -mpower4, -mpwr4 -mpower5, -mpwr5, -mpwr5x -mpower6, -mpwr6 -mpower7, -mpwr7 -mpower8, -mpwr8 -mpower9, -mpwr9 -mpower10, -mpwr10 -mpower11, -mpwr11 -mfuture -mcell -mcell -mcom -many -mregnames -mno-regnames -mrelocatable -mrelocatable-lib -memb -mlittle, -mlittle-endian, -le -mbig, -mbig-endian, -be -msolaris -mno-solaris -nops=count -fpic -fPIC -fno-pic -march=ISA -misa-spec=ISAspec -mpriv-spec=PRIVspec -mabi=ABI -mrelax -mno-relax -march-attr -mno-arch-attr -mcsr-check -mno-csr-check -mlittle-endian -mbig-endian -m31 -m64 -mesa -mzarch -march=processor -mregnames -mno-regnames -mwarn-areg-zero -march=arch -mdsbt -mno-dsbt -mpid=no -mpid=near -mpid=far -mpic -mno-pic -mbig-endian -mlittle-endian -m32 | -m64 -EB | -EL -mtune=arch --text-section-literals | --no-text-section-literals --auto-litpools | --no-auto-litpools --absolute-literals | --no-absolute-literals --target-align | --no-target-align --longcalls | --no-longcalls --transform | --no-transform --trampolines | --no-trampolines --abi-windowed | --abi-call0 Command-line Options -march=CPU[-EXT...][+EXT...] -local-prefix=prefix -colonless -sdcc -fp-s=FORMAT -fp-d=FORMAT
SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT

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