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authorKen Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus>1992-12-08 09:37:22 +0000
committerKen Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus>1992-12-08 09:37:22 +0000
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@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Here is a brief summary of how to invoke @code{as}. For details,
@c am29k has no machine-dependent assembler options
@c h8/300 has no machine-dependent assembler options
@c Z8000 has no machine-dependent assembler options
-@c see md_parse_option in i960.c
+@c see md_parse_option in tc-i960.c
[ -ACA | -ACA_A | -ACB | -ACC | -AKA | -AKB | -AKC | -AMC ]
[ -b ] [ -norelax ]
[ -l ] [ -mc68000 | -mc68010 | -mc68020 ]
@@ -184,29 +184,50 @@ Announce @code{as} version
@item -W
Suppress warning messages
+@item -- | @var{files} @dots{}
+Standard input, or source files to assemble.
+
+@end table
+
+The following options are available when as is configured for the
+Intel 80960 processor.
+
+@table @code
@item -ACA | -ACA_A | -ACB | -ACC | -AKA | -AKB | -AKC | -AMC
-(When configured for Intel 960).
Specify which variant of the 960 architecture is the target.
@item -b
-(When configured for Intel 960).
Add code to collect statistics about branches taken.
@item -norelax
-(When configured for Intel 960).
Do not alter compare-and-branch instructions for long displacements;
error if necessary.
+@end table
+
+The following options are available when as is configured for the
+Motorola 68000 series.
+
+@table @code
+
@item -l
-(When configured for Motorola 68000).
-Shorten references to undefined symbols, to one word instead of two
+Shorten references to undefined symbols, to one word instead of two.
-@item -mc68000 | -mc68010 | -mc68020
-(When configured for Motorola 68000).
-Specify what processor in the 68000 family is the target (default 68020)
+@item -m68000 | -m68008 | -m68010 | -m68020 | -m68030 | -m68040 | -mcpu32
+Specify what processor in the 68000 family is the target. The default
+is normally the 68020, but this can be changed at configuration time.
+
+@item -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.
+
+@item -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.
-@item -- | @var{files} @dots{}
-Standard input, or source files to assemble
@end table
@menu
@@ -275,7 +296,7 @@ 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
-@dfn{pseudo-ops)} and assembler syntax.@refill
+@dfn{pseudo-ops}) and assembler syntax.@refill
@cindex purpose of @sc{gnu} @code{as}
@code{as} is primarily intended to assemble the output of the GNU C
@@ -395,13 +416,17 @@ source is itself synthesized from other files.
@kindex .o
Every time you run @code{as} it produces an output file, which is
your assembly language program translated into numbers. This file
-is the object file, named @code{a.out} unless you tell @code{as} to
+is the object file, named
+@code{b.out},
+if @code{as} is configured for the Intel 80960, or
+unless you tell @code{as} to
give it another name by using the @code{-o} option. Conventionally,
object file names end with @file{.o}. The default name of
@file{a.out} is used for historical reasons: older assemblers were
capable of assembling self-contained programs directly into a
runnable program.
-@c This may still work, but hasn't been tested.
+(For some formats, this isn't currently possible, but it can be done for
+@code{a.out} format.)
@cindex linker
@kindex ld
@@ -435,7 +460,8 @@ file_name:@b{NNN}:Warning Message Text
@noindent
@cindex line numbers, in warnings/errors
(where @b{NNN} is a line number). If a logical file name has
-been given (@pxref{App-File,,@code{.app-file}}) it is used for the filename, otherwise the
+been given (@pxref{App-File,,@code{.app-file}}) it is used for the
+filename, otherwise the
name of the current input file is used. If a logical line number was
given
(@pxref{Ln,,@code{.ln}})
@@ -550,7 +576,10 @@ in the object file. Usually if you do this you also tell the linker
@cindex naming object file
@cindex object file name
There is always one object file output when you run @code{as}. By
-default it has the name @file{a.out}. You use this option (which
+default it has the name
+@file{a.out} or @file{b.out}, depending on the target for which
+@code{as} is configured.
+You use this option (which
takes exactly one filename) to give the object file a different name.
Whatever the object file is called, @code{as} will overwrite any
@@ -567,7 +596,7 @@ existing file of the same name.
data-section data lives in the text section. This is only done at
the very last moment: your binary data are the same, but data
section parts are relocated differently. The data section part of
-your object file is zero bytes long because all it bytes are
+your object file is zero bytes long because all its bytes are
appended to the text section. (@xref{Sections,,Sections and Relocation}.)
When you specify @code{-R} it would be possible to generate shorter
@@ -610,7 +639,7 @@ still reported.
@cindex syntax, machine-independent
This chapter describes the machine-independent syntax allowed in a
source file. @code{as} syntax is similar to what many other assemblers
-use; it is inspired in BSD 4.2
+use; it is inspired by the BSD 4.2
assembler, except that @code{as} does not assemble Vax bit-fields.
@menu
@@ -694,12 +723,13 @@ Anything from the @dfn{line comment} character to the next newline
is considered a comment and is ignored. The line comment character is
@samp{#} on the Vax;
@samp{#} on the i960;
+@samp{!} on the SPARC;
@samp{|} on the 680x0;
@samp{;} for the AMD 29K family;
-@samp{;} for the machine specific family;
+@samp{;} for the H8/300 family;
@samp{!} for the Z8000;
see @ref{Machine Dependent}. @refill
-@c FIXME: fill in SPARC line comment char
+@c FIXME What about i386, m88k, i860?
On some machines there are two different line comment characters. One
will only begin a comment if it is the first non-whitespace character on