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1. 141 1960 floating point EFFE 140 1960 machine d rectives eeu 140 1960 opcodes 0 6 eee eee ee eee 141 1960 option 139 1960 Support EIERE EE Regnis 139 IA 64 line comment character 144 IA 64 line separator ss eeseeeeeeese 144 TA 64 option 143 IA 64 Processor status Register bit names 144 TA 64 registers esses 144 IA 64 support 143 I 64 Syntax iii oP edd et ep R eR RR a 144 ident directe 51 identifiers ARM 88 identifiers MSP 430 luuuseeesus 179 3f directie coctis pr POL Dem AERE Res 51 TED directive s 29i gx Ad ed yc IR ER 52 ifc direGblve Loss ae Ra EE EO enn 52 ifdef dire tive ir EE En dees 52 ifeq directive riscos ia ie 52 ifege directive 52 ifge directive isse cessas e rr niit 52 ifgt directive iis iei chide t er EEN 52 ifle directive 00 io sages tea e EN 52 TELE directive siriene a uc SS E EE 52 ifub dwective EE wa eed ee e NEEN 52 ifnc directive we eee ee eee 52 ifndef directive e a oe eee 52 ifne directe 52 ifnes directive 0 e cece eee eee eee 53 ifnotdef directives 0 eee eee ee eee 52 immediate character ARM 88 immediate character M680x0 159 immediate character VAX 2 216 immediate fields relaxation 227 immediate operands i386 129 immediate operands x86 64 129 imul instruction 1386 oooo ooooooo o 136 im
2. 2 0000ee eee 215 9 346 VAX Operands 0 occoccoccoccocncncrrr rr 216 9 34 7 Not Supported on VAX 000 e cece eee 217 9 35 v850 Dependent Features 000 cece cece teen eee 217 9 35 1 OptlOns AE haan dee wea cis 217 9 35 2 MA eeh iecore EE Are 217 9 35 2 1 Special Characters ooooooooorrmommo 217 9 35 2 2 Register Names 0c e eee eee ee tiva 218 9 35 3 Floating Pont 220 Using as 9 35 4 V850 Machine Directive 220 9 30 0 Opeodes cuisine Degen ane 220 9 36 Xtensa Dependent Features o oooocooororroorrmoo 223 9 36 1 Command Line Ontons 00 eee e ee eee 223 9 36 2 Assembler Syntax iaa didas 224 9 36 2 1 Opcode Name 224 9 36 2 2 Register Nameg iu seek eer hh hh 225 9 36 3 Xtensa Optimizations 0 0 c cece eee ee 225 9 36 3 1 Using Density InstructionS 0ooooooooo 225 9 36 3 2 Automatic Instruction Alignment 225 9 36 4 Xtensa Belasation 0 cee ee eee eee eee 226 9 36 4 1 Conditional Branch Relaxation 226 9 36 4 2 Function Call Relaxation o oo ooooooooooo 221 9 36 4 3 Other Immediate Field Relaxation 227 9 36 09 Directiy g ie abut Ae 228 9 36 5 1 Schedule it ene de 229 9 36 0 2 longe llg eere Ente tte edes etr RR ERE Es 229 9 36 5 8 transform useeulseeseee ene 229 9 30 54 literal ERU 229 9 36 5 5 literal_position 0 aiaei a DE a Aa 230
3. 67 str ct directive Loss lei np a 68 struct directive TIC54X 205 structure debugging COFF 69 sub instruction ordering D10V 110 sub instruction ordering D30V 113 sub instructions DIN 109 sub instructions D30V sescsicicsrecirecsrsns 113 subexpressions sees 39 subsection directive esses sese 68 subsym builtins TIC AX ooo o 206 subtitles for listings 000 63 subtraction permitted arguments 40 Using as summary of options eee eee eee 1 SUPPOTE rossi ri a wale we Dia em 120 supporting files including 53 suppressing warnings eene 22 cuu EMT 212 symbol attributes 000000 3T symbol attributes a out 3T symbol attributes COFF o ooooocccccccccc 38 symbol attributes SON 38 symbol descriptor COFF o 48 symbol modifiers auaaeaaea 95 147 162 symbol MAMES enee tieri EEN nde 35 symbol names in 110 114 190 193 symbol names Jocal sessiles 35 symbol names temporary eeseuss 36 symbol storage class COFF 63 syr bol type siii ri E 3T symbol type COFF eesessssss 69 symbol type ELE scere rrr rema 69 Symbol valide iecit the etes 3T symbol value setting 65 symbol values assigning ssursuuurene 35 symbol versioning eee 68 symbo
4. 228 relaxation of branch instructions 226 relaxation of call instructions 227 relaxation of immediate fields 227 relaxation of L16S1 instructions 227 relaxation of L16UI instructions 227 relaxation of L321I instructions 227 relaxation of L8UI instructions 227 relaxation of MOVI instructions 227 reloc directe 62 PelOCaMON ua ois Rodda es e pra Pace abr da 29 relocation example esses 31 relocations Alpha 00000e eee 77 repeat prefixes i3886 0 00 0 e eee eee 181 reporting bugs in assembler 233 rept directive 0 eee saie nii kiije 62 req directive ARM 91 reserve directive DARC 197 return instructions 280 129 return instructions x86 64 129 REX prefixes i886 0 cess ee eee 131 EE EE 212 sblock directive TIC54X 204 sbttl directe 63 schedule directe 229 scl GENEE Iu Pee ene pe ees 63 sdaoff pseudo op VR 221 search path for include ss 18 secrel32 directive ARM 91 sect directive MSP A0 180 sect directive TICE 204 section directive COFF version 63 section directive ELF version 64 section directive V n0 220 section override prefixes 1386 131 Section Stack 60 61 62 64 68 section relative addressing
5. omitted in the list below Every symbol use in code or a read only section must therefore have a PIC suffix to enable a useful shared library to be created Usually these constructs must not be used with an additive constant offset as is usually allowed i e no 4 as in symbol 4 is allowed This restriction is checked at link time not at assembly time GOT Attaching this suffix to a symbol in an instruction causes the symbol to be entered into the global offset table The value is a 32 bit index for that sym bol into the global offset table The name of the corresponding relocation is R_CRIS_32_GOT Example move d rO extsym GOT r9 GOT16 Same as for GOT but the value is a 16 bit index into the global offset ta ble The corresponding relocation is R_CRIS_16_GOT Example move d rO asymbol G0T16 r10 PLT This suffix is used for function symbols It causes a procedure linkage table an array of code stubs to be created at the time the shared object is created or linked against together with a global offset table entry The value is a pc relative offset to the corresponding stub code in the procedure linkage table This arrangement causes the run time symbol resolver to be called to look up and set the value of the symbol the first time the function is called at latest depending environment variables It is only safe to leave the symbol unresolved this way if all references are function calls T
6. ssluuu 30 SECORS asa ras ec Y abr pu m AE 29 sections in messages internal 31 sections 1386 does pid E RR a ER 129 sections named sese nn 30 259 sections x86 64 lesen 129 seg directive SPARC co 197 SEPM cius Ee Gea ueer er LE SEG Y ME here 212 set directive oia ee ur rea aem Roe es 65 set directive TIC54X 000000 204 SH addressing mode 191 SH floating point DEET 191 SH line comment character 190 SH line separator 00 e eee eee ees 190 SH machine directe 191 SH opcode summary sseeeeeeesss 192 SH options cn aaa 190 SH registers rig ep EPOR ta po 190 SH Supports nc 3d pes Peer ER 190 SH64 ABI options ees 193 SH64 addressing mode 194 SH64 ISA Options 0 cece eee eee eee 193 SH64 line comment character 193 SH64 line separater 193 SH64 machine directives ssseuuus 194 SH64 opcode summary 0 195 SHOA options 00 nadia k aa d ai eee 193 SH64 registers 2 00 0 cee eee acii 193 SH64 support 193 shigh directive M32R oooooooooommmmo 149 short directive 0 cece eee eee ee 65 short directive AR 85 short directive TIC54X 00 203 IR DEE 134 SIMD x86 64 ee eee ee 134 single character constant 000 26 single directive NEEN n n E 66 single directive i386 005 133 sing
7. 161 M68HC11 and M68HC12 support 160 M68HC11 assembler directive far 163 M68HC11 assembler directive interrupt 163 M68HC11 assembler directive mode 163 M68HC11 assembler directive relax 163 M68HC11 assembler directive xrefb 163 M68HC11 assembler directives aaaa 163 M68HC11 branch improvement 164 M68HC11 floating pont 163 M68HC11 modifterz srecesassreis riken sepes 162 M68HC11 opcodes 00 ee eee eee 164 M68HC11 option 160 M68HC11 pseudo opcodes ssluuss 164 M68HC11 swvntazs 0 eee eee 161 M68HC12 assembler directives 163 machine dependencies eee 75 machine directives ARC 82 machine directives ARM 89 machine directives H8 300 none 119 machine directives 1800 137 machine directives 9000 140 machine directives MSP 430 180 machine directives SH 00 00 eee 191 machine directives HO 194 machine directives SPARC a n nannaaannn 197 machine directives TIC54X 201 machine directives V b 220 machine directives MAX 214 machine independent directives 43 machine instructions not covered 14 machine independent syntax 23 macro directive 00 0 eee eee ee eee eee 56 macro directive TIC54X 04 204 ACTOS ici SIE EN ata Ra Ren eee ewe 56 macros count e
8. 217 V850 floating point IEEE isses 220 V850 line comment character 217 V850 machine directives uuu 220 V850 opcodes cose diebus rt eese ee 220 V850 options none 217 V850 register namen 218 V850 support e MEINT ed ied see E das 217 val directive 2 cece cece eee eee 70 value attribute COFF 0ooocccccccccoooo o 70 value of a symbol 00 0000 e ee 37 var directive TIC54X 2 000 206 VAX bitfields not supported 217 VAX branch improvement 215 VAX command line options ignored 213 261 VAX displacement sizing character 216 VAX floating pont 214 VAX immediate character 216 VAX indirect character 216 VAX machine drechen 214 VAX opcode mnemonics 22 214 VAX operand natation 216 VAX register mamen 216 VAX SUPPOrt EEN 213 Vax 11 C compatiblts 213 VAX VMS options seseeeee eee eee 213 version directe 70 version directive TIC54X 206 version of assembler 0 0000 ee eee ee 21 versions of symbols 2 0000 68 VISIDIIES ii na neds abr RO Re Eb ER 51 53 61 VMS VAX option 213 vtable entry drective essel 70 vtable inherit directe 70 W warning directive 0222 eee eee 71 warning for altered difference tables 18 Warning menage 16 warnings causing error eese 22 warnings M32R iisssas ee eme 150 w
9. eese eese 172 9 23 2 Instruction expansi n lessen nn nnn 173 9 23 9 Di aed tei deen ds 173 Using as 9 23 3 1 Special Characters s ersi 000 g a 173 9 23 3 2 b s retardada eh ee dns 174 9 23 3 3 Register nam s i2 e rre y ye E ER eaae 174 9 23 3 4 Assembler Directives 0ooooooooooooooooooo 175 9 23 4 Differences to mmizal lee 177 9 24 MSP 430 Dependent Features 0000 c cece eee ee 179 9 24 1 OptiOnSss sse a a ERE a ER ERR AN 179 Q 24 2 Syrnl x i e A RE 179 9 24 231 MaS ii nea bee X ete eden ii v dieci 179 9 24 2 2 Special Characterg elei elles 179 9 24 2 3 Register Names lessen 179 9 24 2 4 Assembler Extensions oooooooooooooo 179 9 24 3 Floating Point EE awed eens geeks eee as 180 9 24 4 MSP 430 Machine Directives 00oooocooocooooo 180 9 24 5 OpGOd Ss esce Leber eter er mad ee eed 181 9 24 6 Profiling Capabillty 0 00 cece eee ee eee 181 9 25 PDP 11 Dependent Features 183 9 25 1 OptlonS c late ERO SRI ECC ERE E Ede quen 183 9 25 1 1 Code Generation Ontons sssssuussssenuuss 183 9 25 1 2 Instruction Set Extension Options 183 9 25 1 3 CPU Model Ont ons 00 0 e ee eee 184 9 25 1 4 Machine Model Options 0oooooccoooccccoo oo 184 9 25 2 Assembler Directives 000s cece eee eee 185 9 25 3 PDP 11 Assembly Language Syntax 185 9 25 4 Instruction Nammg eee ee 185 9 25 5 Synthetic Instructions lle esses eee 186
10. esses 21 SALAS O Mirra A 223 underscore command line option CRIS 104 WAM m 22 1 option VAXIVMS e eee 214 32addr command line option Alpha 76 o o daa de A Options 1000 dox RR eek hs 139 FAG pr pa rc E P PA HR e YR A Ea ogg 17 A LEERE TEEL ETETE ELTEL TEETE 17 T EEEE RA A EE 17 a AAA AAA 17 ER e Pak a E aos 17 EE 17 shspatclet ee Sadia ae edie ada Ee 196 SASPATC EE 196 zo Pm 196 PAV Sina MEC 196 e EE 196 SNE 196 b option 1000 139 big option M32R sce es 148 QM s 17 D ignored On VAX vii ea esee e e ees 213 Td VAK eem EAR REES A AE dE 213 eabi command line option ARM 8T EB command line option ARC 82 EB command line option ARM 8T EB option MI 165 Using as EB option M32R sssssesssuuuuss 148 EL command line option ARC 82 EL command line option ARM 8T EL option MIDI 165 EL option M 2R eee eee 148 o MH 18 F command line option Alpha 76 g command line option Alpha 76 G command line option Alpha 76 Q option MIPR cece eee ee eee 165 h option VAXZINNMS 00 eee eee 213 H option VAXZINNMS 0c eee eee 214 ee DE EE 18 ignore parallel conflicts option M32RX Dad ped A HRCRERRIRPRPICEI DAEIRALS 149 Ip option M32RX eee eee 149 J ignored on VAN 213 EE eg 18 k command line option ARM
11. 0 0 eee eee eee aia 53 integers binary 0 0 0 0 ee eee eee 26 integers decimal ooo 26 integers hexadecimal 2204 26 integers OCball wisi cs cereo e Dee ehe dene 26 integers one byte 0 eee ee eee eee ee 44 intel syntax pseudo op i886 129 intel syntax pseudo op x86 64 129 internal assembler sections 31 internal directe 53 invalid input EE 283 invocation summary sse 1 IP2K architecture options 146 IPIK options eene 146 IP2K support ENEE 146 AFP direchive EEN 53 irpe CILeCtiVe eier beh ve eegal 54 ISA options SH64 0 e eee eee 193 J joining text and data sections 21 jump instructions 1280 130 jump instructions x86 64 00 0 130 jump optimization 280 133 jump optimization x86 64 133 Appendix A AS Index jump call operands i886 129 jump call operands x86 64 129 L L16SI instructions relaxation 227 L16UI instructions relaxation 227 L321 instructions relaxation 227 L8UI instructions relaxation 227 INDEM 25 label directive TIC54X 000 203 label 158 neret er Poder e reda ep E 35 lcomm directive 0 2 cece eese 54 SE WEE EE 15 ldouble directive M tt 157 ldouble directive M68HC11 na
12. 000005 121 hword directive 51 I 1970 SUPPOLt o cer niei RR p v Phe ens 125 1386 16 bit code iioi IEEE 134 1386 arch directive o ooooooooooooooo 135 1386 att syntax pseudo op 129 1386 conversion instructions 130 1386 floating pont 133 1386 immediate operands 129 1386 instruction naming 005 129 1386 instruction Drees 131 1386 intel syntax pseudo op 129 1386 jump optimization s essees aaannua 133 1386 jump call return 129 1386 jump call operands 0 129 1386 memory references 22 00 132 1386 mnemonic compatibility 130 254 1386 mul imul instructions 136 1386 oplions EEN n nn aes 128 1386 register operands 0 129 1380 registers cion e aem c ek ced 130 1386 sectJons nsus der abr der RR Rh 129 1386 size suffixes 0 0 eee 129 1386 source destination operands 129 1386 suppOort ssicesemx udehzuns perdas 128 1386 syntax compatibility 129 180306 support verene ierit eniten ene eee 128 i860 machine directives 2 0000 137 1860 opcodes 138 1860 S DDO i ciiecsesceiguec mem eR A 137 1960 architecture option 139 1960 branch recording 2005 139 1960 callj pseudo opcode ooooccoccccoo 141 1960 compare and jump expansions 141 1960 compare branch instructions
13. 176 MMIX assembler directive ESPEC dar MMIX assembler directive GREG 175 MMIX assembler directive IS 175 MMIX assembler directive LOC 175 MMIX assembler directive LOCAL 175 MMIX assembler directive OCTA 176 MMIX assembler directive PREFIX 176 MMIX assembler directive TETRA 176 MMIX assembler directive WYDE 176 MMIX assembler directives lusus 175 MMIX line comment characters 173 MMIX options seeeeee eese 172 MMIX pseudo op BSPEC 177 MMIX pseudo op BYTE 176 MMIX pseudo op ESPEC 177 MMIX pseudo op GRO 175 MMIX pseudo op Ip 175 MMIX pseudo op LO 175 MMIX pseudo op LOOAT 175 MMIX pseudo op OCTA 5 176 MMIX pseudo op PREFIX 176 MMIX pseudo op TETRA 176 MMIX pseudo op WYDE 176 MMIX pseudo ops 2c e eee ee eee 175 MMIX register namen 174 MMIX support E 172 mmixal differences 00 eee nini 177 mmregs directive TIC54X 204 mmsg directive TIC54X ooooooommmmmmo o 202 MMX 18D nia ida A aid 134 MMX x86 04 EEN der m e 134 mnemonic compatibility 1386 130 mnemonic suffixes 80 129 mnemonic suffixes x86 64 000 129 Appendix A AS Index mnemonics for opcodes VAX 214 mnemonics A
14. 87 KPIC option M32R ses mesisie isanos inei is 148 KPIC option MIPS 200000 165 ains Pe asado 18 1 option M68OXO ee 152 little option M32R ooooccccccccccoc oo 148 e EE 19 m no 168851 command line option M680x0 T 152 m no 168881 command line option M680x0 EE 152 m no div command line option M680x0 152 m no emac command line option M680x0 152 m no float command line option M680x0 EE 152 m no mac command line option M680x0 152 m no usp command line option M680x0 152 11 08 EE 184 mid 04 incsieiva eic eb p bs cee ees 184 m11 08 inre eee eet ae x aaa TR FEST 185 Aml1 10 ine je Ee Thi eR chads des 185 Ol od a seu pee pad eer E DRE 185 SW 20 Eege ip dare re Ra ecd 185 Ent 21 ise erasa e e ER 185 SUB EE 185 SEL pui E IRR Eu 185 MV BA ere en have E Rte ep he had 185 Suus ER 185 SMUT Em 185 Geh 185 epnild 44 o ues rece ederet REH 185 emll 45 e lace eeerdneekewreweras og edi 185 ANI OO ciere erre PER eT 185 AMI ls px neris e d ra Red 185 MIO eins a bem v ERA eee tr 185 A ev etit ee d escrEY 185 Sub ri mE 185 junio PEE 185 SW PHP 185 A EE EE EE ue 185 Appendix A AS Index EE EE 185 MILO EE 185 m16c option MIO 147 m32c option M 147 m32r option M32R ee 148 m32rx option M 148 m32rx option M32RX 00 148 m68000 and related options
15. jump label A polymorph instruction which is jmp label or br label 9 24 3 Floating Point The MSP 430 family uses IEEE 32 bit floating point numbers 9 24 4 MSP 430 Machine Directives file This directive is ignored it is accepted for compatibility with other MSP 430 assemblers Warning in other versions of the GNU assembler file is used for the directive called app file in the MSP 430 support Line This directive is ignored it is accepted for compatibility with other MSP 430 assemblers arch Currently this directive is ignored it is accepted for compatibility with other MSP 430 assemblers profiler This directive instructs assembler to add new profile entry to the object file Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 181 9 24 5 Opcodes as implements all the standard MSP 430 opcodes No additional pseudo instructions are needed on this family For information on the 430 machine instruction set see MSP430 User s Manual docu ment slau049d Texas Instrument Inc 9 24 6 Profiling Capability It is a performance hit to use gcc s profiling approach for this tiny target Even more jtag hardware facility does not perform any profiling functions However we ve got gdb s built in simulator where we can do anything We define new section profiler which holds all profiling information We define new pseudo operation profiler which will instruct assembler to add new profile entry to the o
16. phi bec bls bcs bmi bvs bvs bra into an absolute branch when the offset is out of the 128 127 range In that case the bsr instruction is translated into a jsr the bra instruction is translated into a jmp and the conditional branches instructions are inverted and followed by a jmp This option disables these translations and as will generate an error if a relative branch is out of range This option does not affect the optimization associated to the jbra jbsr and jbXX pseudo opcodes Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 161 force long branches The force long branches option forces the translation of relative branches into absolute branches This option does not affect the optimization associated to the jbra jbsr and jbXX pseudo opcodes print insn syntax You can use the print insn syntax option to obtain the syntax description of the instruction when an error is detected print opcodes The print opcodes option prints the list of all the instructions with their syntax The first item of each line represents the instruction name and the rest of the line indicates the possible operands for that instruction The list is printed in alphabetical order Once the list is printed as exits generate example The generate example option is similar to print opcodes but it gen erates a
17. tlsgd tlsgd N Used with an lda instruction to load the address of a TLS descriptor for a symbol in the GOT The sequence number N is optional and if present it used to pair the descriptor load with both the literal loading the address of the __t1s_get_addr function and the lituse_tlsgd marking the call to that function For proper relaxation both the tlsgd literal and lituse relocations must be in the same extended basic block That is the relocation with the lowest address must be executed first at runtime t1sldm tlsldm NV Used with an 1da instruction to load the address of a TLS descriptor for the current module in the GOT Similar in other respects to t1sgd gotdtprel Used with an 1dq instruction to load the offset of the TLS symbol within its module s thread local storage block Also known as the dynamic thread pointer offset or dtp relative offset dtprelhi dtprello dtprel Like gprel relocations except they compute dtp relative offsets gottprel Used with an 1dq instruction to load the offset of the TLS symbol from the thread pointer Also known as the tp relative offset tprelhi tprello tprel Like gprel relocations except they compute tp relative offsets 9 1 4 Floating Point The Alpha family uses both IEEE and VAX floating point numbers 9 1 5 Alpha Assembler Directives as for the Alpha supports many additional directives for compatibility with the native assembler This section describes them
18. 64 option 1380 128 64 option 86 84 128 absolute literals esses 223 allow reg prefix sssssssie es 190 alternate geli a ar disei Eiaa ERE 17 base size default 16 153 base size default 32 4 153 nan PE 190 bitwise or option M680x0 152 construct floats lees eee 168 disp size default 16 ss 153 disp size default 32 153 divide option 1280 128 mac ll PrEMR D Lm 190 emulation crisaout command line option ORIS cer Ix ERE AMA PETI 104 emulation criself command line option GRID eue see m e p Ede EE Kuen ans 104 enforce aligned data 196 fatal warnings erriren cee ri eae n d 22 fix v4bx command line option ARM 88 fixed special register names command line option MMIX eee eee 172 force long branches 160 generate etample sss 161 globalize symbols command line option MIMI Rm 172 gnu syntax command line option MMIX 172 hash size number eee ee eee 5 linker allocated gregs command line option MMIX eee eee 172 lListing cont Lines sess 19 c listing lhs width ie 4080 EES E 18 listing lhs width2 sss 18 lListing che vidth errepor ei teot tinds 19 SEET e E EE EN 190 TEE 223 march architecture command line op
19. 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 See Section 7 76 altmacro page 58 D 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 describ ing 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 Ox 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 f fast skip whitespace and comment preprocessing assume source is compiler output 78 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 gstabs Generate stabs debugging information for each assembler line This may help debugging assembler code if the debugger can handle it Chapter 1 Overview 5 gstabs Generate stabs debugging information for each assembler line with GNU exten sions that probably only gdb can handle and that could make other debuggers crash or refuse to read your program This
20. isa all Enable sh1 sh2 sh2e sh3 sh3e sh4 sh4a and sh dsp insn sets 9 28 2 Syntax 9 28 2 1 Special Characters 1 is the line comment character You can use instead of a newline to separate statements Since has no special meaning you may use it in symbol names 9 28 2 2 Register Names You can use the predefined symbols ro ri r2 r3 r4 r5 rO TT r8 r9 r10 rit r12 r13 r14 and r15 to refer to the SH registers The SH also has these control registers pr procedure register holds return address pc program counter mach macl high and low multiply accumulator registers sr status register gbr global base register vbr vector base register for interrupt vectors Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 191 9 28 2 3 Addressing Modes as understands the following addressing modes for the SH Rn in the following refers to any of the numbered registers but not the control registers Rn Register direct Rn Register indirect Rn Register indirect with pre decrement Rn Register indirect with post increment disp Rn Register indirect with displacement RO Rn Register indexed disp GBR GBR offset Q RO GBR GBR indexed addr disp PC PC relative address for branch or for addressing memory The as implemen tation allows you to use the simpler form addr anywhere a PC relative
21. 153 m68hc1li EE 160 E EE 160 em68hes12 erter Sas ee dy exe eR a ie Bates 160 Sur e TI 183 mall extensions seseeeeeees eee 183 mall opcodes command line option AVR 94 mapcs command line option ARM 8T mapcs float command line option ARM 8T mapcs reentrant command line option ARM EE 87 marc 51 61 7 8 command line option ARC 82 march command line option ARM 86 march command line option M680x0 152 march option 1386 o ooo oooooooo 128 march option zB0D D4 ea 128 matpcs command line option ARM 8T Dor DEDERIT 183 mconstant gp command line option L 64 143 mcpu command line option Alpha 76 mcpu option cp 198 mcpu command line option ARM 86 mcpu command line option M680x0 152 SMCS O O 183 mdebug command line option Alpha 76 me option stderr redirect sss 198 mo p ERE 183 merrors to file option stderr redirect 198 mf option for mode oo 198 A Mads d faa aida gad e 184 mfar mode option far mode 198 SWING tires El cis lion dad 183 mfloat abi command line option ARM 87 Amped M 183 ATED EE 183 AMP DET 183 mfpu command line option ARM 86 mip2022 option DD3k nunna 146 mip2022ext option IP2022 146 SUD WEE 184 e UC RRE 184 Ste Dd us Sege aere dee EE cate E 184 kd
22. 9 36 5 6 literal orebz ee eee eee eee 231 9 36 5 7 abaolute Dteraks ee eee ee 231 10 Reporting Bugs m ici 233 10 1 Have You Found a Duef 233 10 2 How to Report Bugs 233 11 Acknowledgements o oooooooo o o o 237 Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License Scr re Cee AAN 239 ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents 244 xi xii Using as Chapter 1 Overview 1 1 Overview This manual is a user guide to the GNU assembler as Here is a brief summary of how to invoke as For details see Chapter 2 Command Line Options page 17 as a cdhlns file alternate D debug prefix map old new defsym sym val L I g gstabs gstabs gdwarf2 help I dir J K EL isting Ihs width NUM listing lhs width2 NUM listing rhs width NUM listing cont lines NUM keep locals La objfile R reduce memory overheads statistics v L version version W warn fatal warnings w x Z FILE target help target options files Target Alpha options mcpu mdebug no mdebug relax g Gsize F 32addr Target ARC options marc 516 7 18 1 EB EL Target ARM options mcpu processor textension march architecture textension mfpu floating point format mfloat abi abi meabi ver mthumb EB EL mapcs 32 mapcs 26 mapcs float mapcs reentrant mthu
23. The code and data areas are each contiguous Sparse programs with far away LOC directives will take up the same amount of space as a contiguous program with zeros filled in the gaps between the LOC directives If you need sparse programs you might try and get the wanted effect with a linker script and splitting up the code parts into sections see Section 7 94 Section page 63 Assembly code for this to be compatible with mmixal would look something like if 0 LOC away_expression else Section away ax fi as will not execute the LOC directive and mmixal ignores the lines with This construct can be used generally to help compatibility Symbols can t be defined twice not even to the same value Instruction mnemonics are recognized case insensitive though the IS and GREG pseudo operations must be specified in upper case characters There s no unicode support The following is a list of programs in mmix tar gz available at http www cs faculty stanford edu knuth mmix news html last checked with the version dated 2001 08 25 md5sum c393470cfc86fac040487d22d2bf0172 that assemble with mmixal but do not assemble with as silly mms LOC to a previous address sim mms Redefines symbol Done test mms Uses the serial operator amp Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 179 9 24 MSP 430 Dependent Features 9 24 1 Options m select the mpu arch Currently has no effect mP enables p
24. and r71 are valid register names You can also use the eight predefined symbols rn to refer to the H8 300 registers as 16 bit registers you must use this form for addressing On the H8 300H you can also use the eight predefined symbols ern er0 er7 to refer to the 32 bit general purpose registers The two control registers are called pc program counter a 16 bit register except on the H8 300H where it is 24 bits and ccr condition code register an 8 bit register r7 is used as the stack pointer and can also be called sp 9 10 2 3 Addressing Modes as understands the following addressing modes for the H8 300 rn Register direct Orn Register indirect d rn d 16 rn d 24 rn Register indirect 16 bit or 24 bit displacement d from register n 24 bit dis placements are only meaningful on the H8 300H Orn Register indirect with post increment rn Register indirect with pre decrement aa aa 8 aa 16 Caa 24 Absolute address aa The address size 24 only makes sense on the H8 300H 118 Using as Hxx xx 8 Hxx 16 Hxx 32 Immediate data xx You may specify the 8 16 or 32 for clarity if you wish but as neither requires this nor uses it the data size required is taken from context Q aa Q aa 8 Memory indirect You may specify the 8 for clarity if you wish but as neither requires this nor uses it 9 10 3 Floating Point
25. as DEC writes it The letter preceding may have either case G is not understood but all other letters b i 1 s w are understood Register names understood are rO ri r2 r15 ap fp sp pc Upper and lower case letters are equivalent For instance tstb w 4 r5b Any expression is permitted in an operand Operands are comma separated Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 217 9 34 7 Not Supported on VAX Vax bit fields can not be assembled with as Someone can add the required code if they really need it 9 35 v850 Dependent Features 9 35 1 Options as supports the following additional command line options for the V850 processor family wsigned overflow Causes warnings to be produced when signed immediate values overflow the space available for then within their opcodes By default this option is disabled as it is possible to receive spurious warnings due to using exact bit patterns as immediate constants wunsigned overflow mv850 mv850e mv850e1 mv850any mrelax Causes warnings to be produced when unsigned immediate values overflow the space available for then within their opcodes By default this option is disabled as it is possible to receive spurious warnings due to using exact bit patterns as immediate constants Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850 processor This allows the linker to detect attempts to link such code with code assemble
26. m68020 m68ec020 Assemble for the 68020 This is normally the default m68030 m68ec030 Assemble for the 68030 m68040 m68ec040 Assemble for the 68040 m68060 m68ec060 Assemble for the 68060 mcpu32 m68330 m68331 m68332 m68333 m68334 m68336 m68340 m68341 m68349 m68360 Assemble for the CPU32 family of chips m5200 m5202 m5204 m5206 m5206e m521x m5249 m5 28x m5307 m5407 m547x m548x mcfv4 mcfv4e Assemble for the ColdFire family of chips Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features m6888 1 155 m68882 Assemble 68881 floating point instructions This is the default for the 68020 68030 and the CPU32 The 68040 and 68060 always support floating point instructions mno 6888 1 Do not assemble 68881 floating point instructions This is the de fault for 68000 and the 68010 The 68040 and 68060 always support floating point instructions even if this option is used m68851 Assemble 68851 MMU instructions This is the default for the 68020 68030 and 68060 The 68040 accepts a somewhat different set of MMU instructions m68851 and m68040 should not be used together mno 6885 1 Do not assemble 68851 MMU instructions This is the default for the 68000 68010 and the
27. 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 mips64 and mips64r2 correspond to generic MIPS V MIPS32 MIPS32 Release 2 MIPS64 and MIPS64 Release 2 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 mdebug no mdebug Cause stabs style debugging output to go into an ECOFF style mdebug section instead of the standard ELF stabs sections Chapter 1 Overview 11 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 mipsi6 no mipsi6 Generate code for the MIPS 16 processor This is equivalent to putting set mips16 at the start of the assembly file no mips16 turns off this option msmartmips mno smartmips Enables the SmartMIPS extension to the MIPS32 instruction set This is equ
28. Also can be useful for loading 32 bit constants hlo8 Synonym of hh8 hhi8 This modifier allows you to use bits 24 through 31 of an expression as 8 bit expression This is useful with for example the AVR ldi instruction and 108 hi8 hlo8 hhi8 modifier For example ldi r26 108 285774925 ldi r27 hi8 285774925 ldi r28 hlo8 285774925 ldi r29 hhi8 285774925 r29 r28 r27 r26 285774925 96 Using as pm_108 This modifier allows you to use bits 0 through 7 of an address expression as 8 bit relocatable expression This modifier useful for addressing data or code from Flash Program memory The using of pm_108 similar to 108 pm hi8 This modifier allows you to use bits 8 through 15 of an address expression as 8 bit relocatable expression This modifier useful for addressing data or code from Flash Program memory pm hh8 This modifier allows you to use bits 15 through 23 of an address expression as 8 bit relocatable expression This modifier useful for addressing data or code from Flash Program memory 9 4 3 Opcodes For detailed information on the AVR machine instruction set see www atmel com products AVR as implements all the standard AVR opcodes The following table summarizes the AVR opcodes and their arguments Legend r any register Idi register r16 r31 movw even register r0 r2 r28 r30 fmul register r16 r23 adiw register
29. For example addi lo here there r5 r6 computes the difference between the address of labels here and there takes the lower 16 bits of this difference and adds it to register 5 putting the result into register 6 Computes the higher 16 bits of the given expression and then adds the value of the most significant bit of the lower 16 bits of the expression and stores the result into the immediate operand field of the given instruction For example the following code can be used to compute the address of the label here and store it into register 6 movhi hi here r0 r6 movea lo here r6 r6 The reason for this special behaviour is that movea performs a sign exten sion on its immediate operand So for example if the address of here was OxFFFFFFFF then without the special behaviour of the hi pseudo op the movhi instruction would put OxFFFF0000 into r6 then the movea instruc tion would takes its immediate operand OxFFFF sign extend it to 32 bits OxFFFFFFFF and then add it into r6 giving OXFFFEFFFF which is wrong the fifth nibble is E With the hi pseudo op adding in the top bit of the lo pseudo op the movhi instruction actually stores 0 into r6 OxFFFF 1 0x0000 so that the movea instruction stores OXFFFFFFFF into r6 the right value Computes the 32 bit value of the given expression and stores it into the imme diate operand field of the given instruction which must be a mov instruct
30. OX4a J J All the same value ascii Ring the bell 7 A string constant octa 0x123456789abcdef0123456789ABCDEFO A bignum float 0f 314159265358979323846264338327N 95028841971 693993751E 40 pi a flonum 3 6 1 Character Constants There are two kinds of character constants A character stands for one character in one byte and its value may be used in numeric expressions String constants properly called string literals are potentially many bytes and their values may not be used in arithmetic expressions 3 6 1 1 Strings A string is written between double quotes It may contain double quotes or null characters The way to get special characters into a string is to escape these characters precede them with a backslash character For example represents one backslash the first is an escape which tells as to interpret the second character literally as a backslash which prevents as from recognizing the second as an escape character The complete list of escapes follows b Mnemonic for backspace for ASCII this is octal code 010 f Mnemonic for FormFeed for ASCII this is octal code 014 n Mnemonic for newline for ASCII this is octal code 012 r Mnemonic for carriage Return for ASCII this is octal code 015 t Mnemonic for horizontal Tab for ASCII this is octal code 011 26 Using as digit digit digit An octal character code The numeric code is 3 octal digits For compatibility with
31. TIC54X 202 C54XDSP_DIR environment variable TIC54X EE 198 call instructions 1280 130 call instructions relaxation 227 call instructions x86 64 ooocoooooooooo 130 callj i960 pseudo opcode 141 carriage return D 25 case sensitivity Z80 lisse 209 cfi endproc directe 45 cfi startproc directive 45 char directive TIC54X 0 202 character constant 280 208 character Constant 25 character escape codes 000s e eee 25 character escapes 280 208 character single 26 characters used in symbols 24 clink directive TIC54X 202 code directive ARM 89 code16 directive i3886 eee eee 134 codel6gcc directive 1386 o o o o oooo 134 code32 directive 1386 ooo oooooomoooo 134 code64 directive 1386 ooo oooooommooo 134 code64 directive 80 04 134 COFF auxiliary symbol information 48 Appendix A AS Index COFF structure debugging 69 COFF symbol attributes 38 COFF symbol descriptor 0 48 COFF symbol storage class 63 COFF symbol type 00 69 COFF symbols debugging 48 COFF value attribute unuuseaueunnanae 70 ER RRE KEE 55 comm directe 44 command line conventions sessees 14 command
32. The H8 300 family has no hardware floating point but the float directive generates IEEE floating point numbers for compatibility with other development tools Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 119 9 10 4 H8 300 Machine Directives as has the following machine dependent directives for the H8 300 h8300h Recognize and emit additional instructions for the H8 300H variant and also make int emit 32 bit numbers rather than the usual 16 bit for the H8 300 family h8300s Recognize and emit additional instructions for the H8S variant and also make int emit 32 bit numbers rather than the usual 16 bit for the H8 300 family h8300hn Recognize and emit additional instructions for the H8 300H variant in normal mode and also make int emit 32 bit numbers rather than the usual 16 bit for the H8 300 family h8300sn Recognize and emit additional instructions for the H8S variant in normal mode and also make int emit 32 bit numbers rather than the usual 16 bit for the H8 300 family On the H8 300 family including the H8 300H word directives generate 16 bit num bers 9 10 5 Opcodes For detailed information on the H8 300 machine instruction set see H8 300 Series Program ming Manual For information specific to the H8 300H see H8 300H Series Programming Manual Renesas as implements all the standard H8 300 opcodes No additional pseudo instructions are needed on this family Four H8 300 instructions add cmp mo
33. 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 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 32addr These options are ignored for backward compatibility 9 1 3 Syntax The assembler syntax closely follow the Alpha Reference Manual assembler directives and general syntax closely follow the OSF 1 and OpenVMS syntax with a few differences for ELF 9 1 3 1 Special Characters i is the line comment character Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 77 can be used instead of a newline to separate statements 9 1 3 2 Register Names The 32 integer registers are referred to as n or rn In addition registers 15 28 29 and 30 may be referred to by the symbols fp at gp and sp respectively The
34. The state of the option after the end reverts to what it was before the begin A nested begin end region can further change the state of the directive without having to be aware of its outer state For example consider begin no transform L add a0 ai a2 begin transform M add a0 al a2 end transform N add a0 al a2 end no transform The ADD opcodes at L and N in the outer no transform region both result in ADD machine instructions but the assembler selects an ADD N instruction for the ADD at M in the inner transform region The advantage of this style is that it works well inside macros which can preserve the context of their callers The following directives are available Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 229 9 36 5 1 schedule The schedule directive is recognized only for compatibility with Tensilica s assembler begin no schedule end no schedule This directive is ignored and has no effect on as 9 36 5 2 longcalls The longcalls directive enables or disables function call relaxation See Section 9 36 4 2 Function Call Relaxation page 227 begin no longcalls end no longcalls Call relaxation is disabled by default unless the longcalls command line option is specified The longcalls directive overrides the default determined by the command line options 9 36 5 3 transform This directive enables or disables all assembler transformation including relaxation see Section 9 3
35. This directive differs from 1comm only in that it permits you to specify an alignment See Section 7 67 1comm page 54 extended flonums extended expects zero or more flonums separated by commas for each flonum extended emits an IEEE extended format 80 bit floating point number leafproc call lab bal lab You can use the leafproc directive in conjunction with the optimized call instruction to enable faster calls of leaf procedures If a procedure is known to call no other procedures you may define an entry point that skips procedure prolog code and that does not depend on system supplied saved context and declare it as the bal lab using leafproc If the procedure also has an entry point that goes through the normal prolog you can specify that entry point as call lab A leafproc declaration is meant for use in conjunction with the optimized call instruction callj the directive records the data needed later to choose between converting the callj into a bal or a call call lab is optional if only one argument is present or if the two arguments are identical the single argument is assumed to be the bal entry point Sysproc name index The sysproc directive defines a name for a system procedure After you define it using sysproc you can use name to refer to the system procedure identified by index when calling procedures with the optimized call instruction ca
36. Unconditional branch byte displacement DYD word displacement brw long displacement jmp COND may be any one of the conditional branches neq nequ eql eqlu gtr geq Les gtru lequ vc vs gequ cc 1ssu cs COND may also be one of the bit tests bs bc bss bcs bsc bcc bssi bcci lbs 1bc NOTCOND is the opposite condition to COND byte displacement bCOND word displacement bNOTCOND foo brw foo long displacement bNOTCOND foo jmp foo X may be one ofb df ghilw word displacement OPCODE long displacement OPCODE foo brb bar foo jmp bar YYY may be one of 1ss leq 216 Using as jsobZZZ ZZZ may be one of geq gtr byte displacement OPCODE word displacement OPCODE foo brb bar foo brw destination bar long displacement OPCODE foo brb bar foo jmp destination bar aobleq aoblss sobgeq sobgtr byte displacement OPCODE word displacement OPCODE foo brb bar foo brw destination bar long displacement OPCODE foo brb bar foo jmp destination bar 9 34 6 VAX Operands The immediate character is for Unix compatibility not as DEC writes it The indirect character is for Unix compatibility not as DEC writes it The displacement sizing character is an accent grave for Unix compatibility not
37. and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and or dedications given therein L Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document unaltered in their text and in their titles Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles M Delete any section entitled Endorsements Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version N Do not retitle any existing section as Endorsements or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section If the Modified Version includes new front matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied from the Document you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as invariant To do this add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version s license notice These titles must be distinct from any other section titles You may add a section entitled Endorsements provided it contains nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various parties Jor example statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front Cover Text and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back Cover Text to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version Only one passage of Front Cover Text and one of Back Cover Text
38. apc number onumber register size scale The onumber or the register but not both may be omitted Preindex apc number register size scale onumber The number may be omitted Omitting the register produces the Postindex addressing mode Absolute symbol or digits optionally followed by b w or 1 9 20 3 Motorola Syntax The standard Motorola syntax for this chip differs from the syntax already discussed see Section 9 20 2 Syntax page 155 as can accept Motorola syntax for operands even if MIT syntax is used for other operands in the same instruction The two kinds of syntax are fully compatible In the following table apc stands for any of the address registers a0 through ja the program counter Apc the zero address relative to the program counter Azpe or a suppressed address register 4za0 through za7 The use of size means one of w or 1 and it may always be omitted along with the leading dot The use of scale means one of 1 2 4 or 8 and it may always be omitted along with the leading asterisk The following additional addressing modes are understood Address Register Indirect 4a0 through a7 Aar is also known as Asp i e the Stack Pointer a6 is also known as Afp the Frame Pointer Address Register Postincrement 4a0 through a7 Address Register Predecre
39. as does not place symbols in the object file in the same order they were declared This may break some debuggers 5 1 Labels A label is written as a symbol immediately followed by a colon The symbol then represents the current value of the active location counter and is for example a suitable instruction operand You are warned if you use the same symbol to represent two different locations the first definition overrides any other definitions On the HPPA the usual form for a label need not be immediately followed by a colon but instead must start in column zero Only one label may be defined on a single line To work around this the HPPA version of as also provides a special directive Label for defining labels more flexibly 5 2 Giving Symbols Other Values A symbol can be given an arbitrary value by writing a symbol followed by an equals sign followed by an expression see Chapter 6 Expressions page 39 This is equivalent to using the set directive See Section 7 95 set page 65 In the same way using a double equals sign here represents an equivalent of the eqv directive See Section 7 45 eqv page 49 5 3 Symbol Names Symbol names begin with a letter or with one of _ On most machines you can also use in symbol names exceptions are noted in Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 That character may be followed by any string of digits letters dollar signs unless otherwise n
40. crisnous page 107 Register names are Case insensitive 9 7 4 4 Assembler Directives There are a few CRIS specific pseudo directives in addition to the generic ones See Chap ter 7 Pseudo Ops page 43 Constants emitted by pseudo directives are in little endian order for CRIS There is no support for floating point specific directives for CRIS dword EXPRESSIONS The dword directive is a synonym for int expecting zero or more EXPRES SIONS separated by commas For each expression a 32 bit little endian con stant is emitted Syntax ARGUMENT The syntax directive takes as ARGUMENT one of the following case sensitive choices no_register_prefix The syntax no_register_prefix directive makes a character prefix on all registers optional It overrides a previous setting in cluding the corresponding effect of the option no underscore If this directive is used when ordinary symbols do not have a _ character prefix care must be taken to avoid ambiguities whether an operand is a register or a symbol using symbols with names the same as general or special registers then invoke undefined behavior 108 Using as register_prefix This directive makes a character prefix on all registers manda tory It overrides a previous setting including the corresponding effect of the option underscore leading_underscore This is an assertion directive emitting an error if the no underscore opti
41. e Any patches you may have applied to the as source e The type of machine you are using and the operating system name and version number e What compiler and its version was used to compile as e g gcc 2 7 e The command arguments you gave the assembler to assemble your example and observe the bug To guarantee you will not omit something important list them all A copy of the Makefile or the output from make is sufficient If we were to try to guess the arguments we would probably guess wrong and then we might not encounter the bug e A complete input file that will reproduce the bug If the bug is observed when the assembler is invoked via a compiler send the assembler source not the high level language source Most compilers will produce the assembler source when run with the S option If you are using gcc use the options v save temps this will save the assembler source in a file with an extension of s and also show you exactly how as is being run e A description of what behavior you observe that you believe is incorrect For example It gets a fatal signal Of course if the bug is that as gets a fatal signal then we will certainly notice it But if the bug is incorrect output we might not notice unless it is glaringly wrong You might as well not give us a chance to make a mistake Even if the problem you experience is a fatal signal you should still say so explicitly Suppose somethin
42. equ can be used to the same effect ltorg Dump the literal pool accumulated so far begin a new literal pool The literal pool will be written in the current section in order to generate correct assembly a using must have been previously specified in the same section using expr regno Use regno as the base register for all subsequent RX RS and SS form instruc tions The expr will be evaluated to obtain the base address usually expr will merely be This assembler allows two using directives to be simultaneously outstanding one in the text section and one in another section typically the data section This feature allows dynamically loaded objects to be implemented in a relatively straightforward way A using directive must always be specified in the text section this will specify the base register that will be used for branches in the text section A second using may be specified in another section this will specify the base register that is used for non label address literals When a second using is specified then the subsequent 1torg must be put in the same section otherwise an error will result Thus for example the following code uses r3 to address branch targets and r4 to address the literal pool which has been written to the data section The Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 127 is the constants A some_routine H 42 and E 3 1416 will all appear in the data section data
43. make whether you use the no relax option and whether you use a Compare and Branch instruction or a Compare and Jump instruction The Jump instructions are always expanded if necessary the Branch instructions are expanded when necessary un less you specify no relax in which case as gives an error instead These are the Compare and Branch instructions their Jump variants and the instruc tion pairs they may expand into Compare and Branch Jump Expanded to bbc chkbit bno bbs chkbit bo cmpibe cmpije cmpi be cmpibg cmpijg cmpi bg cmpibge cmpijge cmpi bge cmpibl cmpijl cmpi bl cmpible cmpijle cmpi ble cmpibno cmpijno cmpi bno cmpibne cmpijne cmpi bne cmpibo cmpijo cmpi bo cmpobe cmpoje cmpo be cmpobg cmpojg cmpo bg cmpobge cmpojge cmpo bge cmpobl cmpojl cmpo bl cmpoble cmpojle cmpo ble 142 Using as cmpobne cmpojne cmpo bne Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 143 9 16 IA 64 Dependent Features 9 16 1 Options mconstant gp This option instructs the assembler to mark the resulting object file as using the constant GP model With this model it is assumed that the entire program uses a single global pointer GP value Note that this option does not in any fashion affect the machine code emitted by the assembler All it does is turn on the EF_IA_64_CONS_GP flag in the ELF file header mauto pic This option instructs the assembler to mark th
44. mapcs 26132 This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as supporting the indicated version of the Arm Procedure Calling Standard matpcs This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as supporting the Arm Thumb Procedure Calling Standard If enabled this option will cause the assembler to create an empty debugging section in the object file called arm atpcs Debuggers can use this to determine the ABI being used by mapcs float This indicates the floating point variant of the APCS should be used In this variant floating point arguments are passed in FP registers rather than integer registers mapcs reentrant This indicates that the reentrant variant of the APCS should be used This variant supports position independent code mfloat abi abi This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as using specified floating point ABI The following values are recog nized soft softfp and hard meabi ver This option specifies which EABI version the produced object files should con form to The following values are recognized gnu 4 and 5 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 88 Using as k Th
45. msyntax option x86 64 128 EE 184 mthumb command line option ARM 87 mthumb interwork command line option ARM EE 87 mtune option 1386 lisse 0 eee eee 128 mtune option x86 64 000 128 mv850 command line option V850 217 mv850any command line option V850 217 mv850e command line option V850 217 mv850e1 command line option V850 217 mvxworks pic option MIPS 165 mwarn deprecated command line option ARM EID 88 N command line option CRIS 104 nip option MI2RX 0 eee eee 149 no bitinst M 148 no ignore parallel conflicts option M32RX EE E ear ee gue esta teeing dare lo p 149 248 no mdebug command line option Alpha 76 no parallel option M32RX 148 no relax option i960 0 139 no warn explicit parallel conflicts option e EEN 149 no warn unmat ched high option M32R 149 nocpp ignored MIDI 168 Pia ias AS 21 0 option M32RX lessen 148 parallel option M32RX 148 I rm 21 r800 command line option Z80 208 relax command line option Alpha 76 8 ignored on VAN 213 t ignored on VAN 213 T ignored on VAN 213 n cd chet e ea nd es ups e AP oe ndo s 21 V redundant on MAX 213 e EE 21 SW WEE 22 warn explicit parallel conflicts opti
46. offset have 32 bit values For example Set sym32 dla 4 sym lw 4 sym 16 sw 4 sym 0x8000 4 will cause the assembler to treat sym sym 16 and sym 0x8000 as 32 bit values The handling of non symbolic addresses is not affected The directive set nosym32 ends a set sym32 block and reverts to the normal behavior It is also possible to change the symbol size using the command line options msym32 and mno sym32 These options and directives are always accepted but at present they have no effect for anything other than n64 9 22 5 Directives to override the ISA level GNU as supports an additional directive to change the MIPS Instruction Set Architecture level on the fly set mipsn n should be a number from 0 to 5 or 32 32r2 64 or 64r2 The values other than 0 make the assembler accept instructions for the corresponding ISA level from that point on in the assembly set mipsn affects not only which instructions are permitted but also how certain macros are expanded set mipsO restores the ISA level to its original level either the level you selected with command line options or the default for your configuration You can use this feature to permit specific MIPS3 instructions while assembling in 32 bit mode Use this directive with care The set arch cpu directive provides even finer control It changes the effective CPU target and allows the assembler to use instructions specific to a particular CPU A
47. psize direcblv sss er vx E Y 61 PSR bibs 2e ec ey tid Pa day ea o va 144 pstring directive TIC54X 204 psi register V800 Loci eue eee e e nnn 219 purgem directive ee EE e ne eee 62 purpose of GNU assembler 14 pushsection directe 62 Q quad directe 62 quad directive 90 133 quad directive 80 04 133 R real mode code i886 00 eee eee 134 ref directive TIC54X 0 203 register directive SPARC 197 register names Alpha TI register names AR 82 register names ARM 88 register names AND 95 register names CHRIS 107 register names HS 200 117 register names TA 64 0 oooococcccocooooo 144 register names MMIX 05 174 register names MSP 430 179 register names N n 218 Appendix A AS Index register names MAX 216 register names Xtensa 00 000 225 register names A80 0 00 c eee ee eee 209 register operands i386 ooooo oooooo ooo 129 register operands x86 64 004 129 registers DIOV ooo ci 110 registers DUNN EE beet tee ee 115 registers 43280 occo ce cee aga eae hee innii 130 registers SH Loisir rtm NEE 190 registers SH64 2 ee eee ee eee 193 registers TIC54X memory mapped 207 registers AGO DA cocer eerte te wate 130 registers SU utet metae v eo hte d 211 rel xabiO SEENEN ad 226 relaxation of ADDI instructions
48. r24 r26 r28 r30 pointer registers X Y Z base pointer register and displacement YZ disp Z pointer register for ellpm Rd Z immediate value from 0 to 255 immediate value from 0 to 255 n 2 M Relocation impossible immediate value from 0 to 7 Port address value from 0 to 63 in out Port address value from 0 to 31 cbi sbi sbic sbis immediate value from 0 to 63 used in adiw sbiw immediate value signed pc relative offset from 64 to 63 signed pc relative offset from 2048 to 2047 absolute code address call jmp immediate value from 0 to 7 S s lt lt 4 use this opcode entry if no parameters else use next opcode entry NNFrreY Gm VHA D SH CG o gp d OG 1001010010001000 clc 1001010011011000 clh 1001010011111000 cli 1001010010101000 cln 1001010011001000 cls 1001010011101000 clt 1001010010111000 clv 1001010010011000 clz 1001010000001000 sec 1001010001011000 seh 1001010001111000 sei 1001010000101000 sen 1001010001001000 ses 1001010001101000 1001010000111000 1001010000011000 100101001SSS1000 100101000SSS1000 1001010100001001 1001010000001001 1001010111001000 1001000ddddd010 1001010111011000 1001000ddddd011 0000000000000000 1001010100001000 1001010100011000 1001010110001000 1001010110011000 1001010110101000 1001010111101000 000111rdddddrrrr 000011rdddddrrrr 001000rdddddrrrr 000101rdddddrrrr 000001rdddddrrrr 000100rdddddrrrr 001001rdddddrrrr 001011rdddddrrrr 100111rdddddrrrr 001
49. should be a newline An empty statement is allowed and may include whitespace It is ignored A statement begins with zero or more labels optionally followed by a key symbol which determines what kind of statement it is The key symbol determines the syntax of the rest Chapter 3 Syntax 25 of the statement If the symbol begins with a dot then the statement is an assembler directive typically valid for any computer If the symbol begins with a letter the statement is an assembly language instruction it assembles into a machine language instruction Different versions of as for different computers recognize different instructions In fact the same symbol may represent a different instruction in a different computer s assembly language A label is a symbol immediately followed by a colon Whitespace before a label or after a colon is permitted but you may not have whitespace between a label s symbol and its colon See Section 5 1 Labels page 35 For HPPA targets labels need not be immediately followed by a colon but the definition of a label must begin in column zero This also implies that only one label may be defined on each line label directive followed by something another label This is an empty statement instruction operand 1 operand_2 3 6 Constants A constant is a number written so that its value is known by inspection without knowing any context Like this byte 74 0112 092 Ox4A
50. specify a CPU other than i486 then shift by one instructions such as sarl 1 eax will automatically use a two byte opcode sequence The larger three byte opcode sequence is used on the 486 and when no architecture is specified because it executes faster on the 486 Note that you can explicitly request the two byte opcode by writing sarl eax Secondly if you specify 18086 1186 or i286 and code16 or codel6gcc then byte offset conditional jumps will be promoted when necessary to a two instruction sequence consisting of a conditional jump of the opposite sense around an unconditional jump to the target Following the CPU architecture but not a sub architecture which are those starting with a dot you may specify jumps or nojumps to control automatic promotion of conditional jumps jumps is the default and enables jump promotion All external jumps will be of the long variety and file local jumps will be promoted as necessary see Section 9 13 8 i386 Jumps page 133 nojumps leaves external conditional jumps as byte offset jumps and warns about file local conditional jumps that as promotes Unconditional jumps are treated as for jumps For example arch i8086 nojumps 136 Using as 9 13 14 Notes There is some trickery concerning the mul and imul instructions that deserves mention The 16 32 64 and 128 bit expanding multiplies base opcode
51. target that is out of range Branch relaxation is enabled by default It can be disabled by using underscore prefixes see Section 9 36 2 1 Opcode Names page 224 the no transform command line op tion see Section 9 36 1 Command Line Options page 223 or the no transform directive see Section 9 36 5 3 transform page 229 Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 227 9 36 4 2 Function Call Relaxation Function calls may require relaxation because the Xtensa immediate call instructions CALLO CALL4 CALL8 and CALL12 provide a PC relative offset of only 512 Kbytes in either direction For larger programs it may be necessary to use indirect calls CALLXO CALLX4 CALLX8 and CALLX12 where the target address is specified in a register The Xtensa assembler can automatically relax immediate call instructions into indirect call instructions This relaxation is done by loading the address of the called function into the callee s return address register and then using a CALLX instruction So for example call8 func might be relaxed to literal L1 func 132r a8 L1 callx8 a8 Because the addresses of targets of function calls are not generally known until link time the assembler must assume the worst and relax all the calls to functions in other source files not just those that really will be out of range The linker can recognize calls that were unnecessarily relaxed and it will remove the overhead introduced by the assembl
52. two hyphens by itself names the standard input file explicitly as one of the files for as to assemble Except for any command line argument that begins with a hyphen is an option Each option changes the behavior of as No option changes the way another option works Chapter 1 Overview 15 An option is a followed by one or more letters the case of the letter is important All options are optional Some options expect exactly one file name to follow them The file name may either immediately follow the option s letter compatible with older assemblers or it may be the next command argument GNU standard These two command lines are equivalent as o my object file o mumble s as omy object file o mumble s 1 5 Input Files We use the phrase source program abbreviated source to describe the program input to one run of as The program may be in one or more files how the source is partitioned into files doesn t change the meaning of the source The source program is a concatenation of the text in all the files in the order specified 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
53. via PC relative L32R instructions literals for absolute mode L32R instructions are handled separately absolute literals no absolute literals Indicate to the assembler whether L32R instructions use absolute or P C relative addressing The default is to assume absolute addressing if the Xtensa processor includes the absolute L32R addressing option Otherwise only the PC relative L32R mode can be used target align no target align Enable or disable automatic alignment to reduce branch penalties at the expense of some code density The default is target align longcalls no longcalls Enable or disable transformation of call instructions to allow calls across a greater range of addresses The default is no longcalls transform no transform Enable or disable all assembler transformations of Xtensa instructions The default is transform no transform should be used only in the rare cases when the instructions must be exactly as specified in the assembly source rename section oldname newname When generating output sections rename the oldname section to newname The following options are available when as is configured for a Z80 family processor z80 Assemble for Z80 processor r800 Assemble for R800 processor ignore undocumented instructions Wnud Assemble undocumented Z80 instructions that also work on R800 without warn ing ignore unportable instructions Wnup Assemble
54. 0000 e eee eee 26 def directive ee og isa eee dene EE RENEA 48 def directive TIC54X 0000 203 density instructions lees eese 225 dependency tracking 000 eee 21 deprecated directe 72 desc directive 0 cee eee eee 48 descriptor of a out symbol 38 dfloat directive MAN 214 difference tables altered 2 0005 T1 difference tables warning sunsunnrno 18 differences mmiscal 00 000 nne Jee dim directive iiis AER Ec 48 directives and instructions csssssu 24 directives for Dowerbi 189 directives BFIN ssssesseeesse eese 101 directives M 2n 0 ccc eee eee ee eee 149 directives M680x0 00 eee eee ee 157 directives machine independent 43 directives Kiemen 228 directives Z8000 0 0 cece eee eee 212 displacement sizing character VAX 216 dn and qn directives ARM 89 dollar local symbols selle 37 dot 8ysmbol ic conos reset pia carpas 37 double directe 48 double directive 1386 ooooooooo oooo 133 double directive M 157 double directive M68HC11 163 double directive TIC54X 0 202 double directive MAX 214 double directive z p D4 133 doublequote Am 26 drlist directive TIC54X 0 202 drnolist directive TIC54X 202 dual directive 1800 137 E ECOFF sections 169 eer regi
55. 1 and h selectors 9 14 2 i860 Command line Options 9 14 2 1 SVR4 compatibility options V Print assembler version Qy Ignored Qn Ignored 9 14 2 2 Other options EL Select little endian output this is the default EB Select big endian output Note that the i860 always reads instructions as little endian data so this option only effects data and not instructions mwarn expand Emit a warning message if any pseudo instruction expansions occurred For ex ample a or instruction with an immediate larger than 16 bits will be expanded into two instructions This is a very undesirable feature to rely on so this flag can help detect any code where it happens One use of it for instance has been to find and eliminate any place where gcc may emit these pseudo instructions mxp Enable support for the 1860XP instructions and control registers By default this option is disabled so that only the base instruction set De i860XR is supported mintel syntax The i860 assembler defaults to AT amp T SVRA syntax This option enables the Intel syntax 9 14 3 1860 Machine Directives dual Enter dual instruction mode While this directive is supported the preferred way to use dual instruction mode is to explicitly code the dual bit with the d prefix 138 Using as enddual Exit dual instruction mode While this directive is supported the preferred way to use dual instruction mode is to explicitly code the dual bit with the
56. 16 through 23 of a 24 bit address into an 8 bit register This is useful with for example the M16C smovf instruction which expects a 20 bit address in rih and a0 Example mov b hi8 sym rih mov w 1016 sym a0 smovf b 41016 Likewise this modifier allows you to load bits 0 through 15 of a 24 bit address into a 16 bit register 4hii6 This modifier allows you to load bits 16 through 31 of a 32 bit address into a 16 bit register While the M32C family only has 24 bits of address space it does support addresses in pairs of 16 bit registers like a1a0 for the lde instruction This modifier is for loading the upper half in such cases Example mov w hi16 sym al mov w 1016 sym a0 lde w ala0 r1 148 Using as 9 19 M32R Dependent Features 9 19 1 M32R Options The Renease M32R version of as has a few machine dependent options m32rx m32r2 m32r little EL big EB KPIC parallel as can assemble code for several different members of the Renesas M32R fam ily Normally the default is to assemble code for the M32R microprocessor This option may be used to change the default to the M32RX microprocessor which adds some more instructions to the basic M32R instruction set and some additional parameters to some of the original instructions This option changes the target processor to the the M32R2 microprocessor This option can be used to restore the assembler s default b
57. 32 floating point registers are referred to as fn 9 1 3 3 Relocations Some of these relocations are available for ECOFF but mostly only for ELF They are modeled after the relocation format introduced in Digital Unix 4 0 but there are additions The format is tag or tag number where tag is the name of the relocation In some cases number is used to relate specific instructions The relocation is placed at the end of the instruction like so ldah 0 a 29 gprelhigh lda 0 a 0 gprellow ldq 1 b 29 literal 100 Lal 2 0 1 lituse_base 100 literal literal N Used with an 1dq instruction to load the address of a symbol from the GOT A sequence number N is optional and if present is used to pair lituse relo cations with this literal relocation The lituse relocations are used by the linker to optimize the code based on the final location of the symbol Note that these optimizations are dependent on the data flow of the program Therefore if any lituse is paired with a literal relocation then all uses of the register set by the literal instruction must also be marked with lituse relocations This is because the original literal instruction may be deleted or transformed into another instruction Also note that there may be a one to many relationship between literal and lituse but not a many to one That is if there are two code paths that load up the same address and feed the value to a singl
58. 9 26 picoJava Dependent Features e 187 9 20 1 Tee 187 9 27 PowerPC Dependent beatures essen 188 926 1 ODpUlODS sce esee es rra REDE ca Ua tei acre e ao na 188 9 27 2 PowerPC Assembler Directives ess 189 9 28 Renesas SuperH SH Dependent Features 190 9 28 1 Options ex a ER RR REOR E XD dened aban 190 928 2 E ice EE Cet ebur PEE 190 9 28 2 1 Special Characters ooooooooocoomommo 190 9 28 2 2 Register Names foceroir a dE EES EE SEN 190 9 28 2 Addressing Modes sde KEN e 191 9 28 3 Floating Poll cresterea baad tada waded eee 191 9 28 4 SH Machine Dmectnvesg esee elis eene 191 928 0 OpCOdes ics Deriniai eer iaa 192 9 29 SuperH SH64 Dependent Features o oooooooooooo 193 9 20 Options cui sens eot phe eaten aie toad ees 193 9 20 2 BY DG ved tng Haak EE reegt Deeg tu AS oye pni 193 9 29 2 1 Special Oharacterg 000 c cece eee eee ees 193 9 29 2 2 Register Names 00 c cee eee eee eee 193 9 20 23 Addressing Modes cosconiido eR RARO eR ren 194 9 29 3 SH64 Machine Dmecttwes elei ee eee ee 194 9 20 4 OpCod S oes sederet en rare dene ied ad 195 9 30 SPARC Dependent Features 0 00 cece eee eee 196 030s Tee 196 9 30 2 Enforcing aligned data 196 9 30 3 Floating Pot 197 9 30 4 Sparc Machine Directives oooooooooooooooo 197 9 31 TIC54X Dependent Features 0000 c cece eee eee 198 9 31 1 OPON Kee ERR RAE EORR RR added Shans 198 931 2 Blocking coi eee eR d y ERE
59. Always keep branches PC relative In the M680x0 architecture all branches are defined as PC relative However on some processors they are limited to word displacements maximum When as needs a long branch that is not available it normally emits an absolute jump instead This option disables this substitu tion When this option is given and no long branches are available only word branches will be emitted An error message will be generated if a word branch cannot reach its target This option has no effect on 68020 and other processors that have long branches see Section 9 20 6 1 Branch Improvement page 158 m68000 as can assemble code for several different members of the Motorola 680x0 family The default depends upon how as was configured when it was built normally the default is to assemble code for the 68020 microprocessor The following options may be used to change the default These options control which in structions and addressing modes are permitted The members of the 680x0 family are very similar For detailed information about the differences see the Motorola manuals m68000 m68ec000 m68hc000 m68hc001 m68008 m68302 m68306 m68307 m68322 m68356 Assemble for the 68000 m68008 m68302 and so on are syn onyms for m68000 since the chips are the same from the point of view of the assembler 154 Using as m68010 Assemble for the 68010
60. Base Address the 16 or 24 bit register is added to the 16 bit sign extended immediate displacement to produce the final address in memory of the operand rn rm rrn rm Base Index the 16 or 24 bit register rn or rrn is added to the sign extended 16 bit index register rm to produce the final address in memory of the operand Hxx Immediate data xx 9 33 3 Assembler Directives for the Z8000 The 28000 port of as includes additional assembler directives for compatibility with other 48000 assemblers These do not begin with unlike the ordinary as directives segm z8001 Generate code for the segmented Z8001 unsegm 28002 Generate code for the unsegmented 78002 name Synonym for file global Synonym for global wval Synonym for word lval Synonym for 1ong bval Synonym for byte sval Assemble a string sval expects one string literal delimited by single quotes It assembles each byte of the string into consecutive addresses You can use the escape sequence Axx where xx represents a two digit hexadecimal number to represent the character whose ASCII value is xx Use this feature to describe single quote and other characters that may not appear in string literals as themselves For example the C statement char a he said it s 50 offV is represented in Z8000 assembly language shown with the assembler output in hex at the left as 68652073 sval he said 22it 27s 50 25 of f 22 00 61696420 226
61. CPU32 The 68040 accepts a somewhat different set of MMU instructions 9 20 2 Syntax This syntax for the Motorola 680x0 was developed at MIT The 680x0 version of as uses instructions names and syntax compatible with the Sun assembler Intervening periods are ignored for example movl is equivalent to mov 1 In the following table apc stands for any of the address registers a0 through ja the program counter Apc the zero address relative to the program counter zpc a suppressed address register 4za0 through Mear or it may be omitted entirely The use of size means one of w or 1 and it may be omitted along with the leading colon unless a scale is also specified The use of scale means one of 1 2 4 or 8 and it may always be omitted along with the leading colon The following addressing modes are understood Immediate number Data Register 440 through 4d7 Address Register ap through a7 Aar is also known as Asp i e the Stack Pointer the Frame Pointer Address Register Indirect 20 through a7 Address Register Postincrement 200 through 4a7 Address Register Predecrement fa00 through 4a7 ha6 is also known as fp 156 Using as Indirect Plus Offset apcO number Index apcO number register size scale The number may be omitted Postindex
62. 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 m7400 m7410 m7450 m7455 Generate code for PowerPC 7400 7410 7450 7455 m750c1 Generate code for PowerPC 750CL mppc64 m620 Generate code for PowerPC 620 625 630 me500 me500x2 Generate code for Motorola e500 core complex mspe Generate code for Motorola SPE instructions mppc64bridge Generate code for PowerPC 64 including bridge insns mbooke64 Generate code for 64 bit BookE mbooke mbooke32 Generate code for 32 bit BookE me300 Generate code for PowerPC e300 family maltivec Generate code for processors with AltiVec instructions mpower4 Generate code for Power4 architecture mpower5 Generate code for Power5 architecture mpower6 Generate code for Power6 architecture mcell Generate code for Cell Broadband Engine architecture Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 189 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 mrelocata
63. The rest of the line if any should be whitespace If the first non whitespace characters on the line are not numeric the line is ignored Just like a comment This is an ordinary comment 42 6 new_file_name New logical file name This is logical line 36 This feature is deprecated and may disappear from future versions of as 3 4 Symbols A symbol is one or more characters chosen from the set of all letters both upper and lower case digits and the three characters _ On most machines you can also use in symbol names exceptions are noted in Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 No symbol may begin with a digit Case is significant There is no length limit all characters are significant Symbols are delimited by characters not in that set or by the beginning of a file since the source program must end with a newline the end of a file is not a possible symbol delimiter See Chapter 5 Symbols page 35 3 5 Statements A statement ends at a newline character n or line separator character The line separa tor is usually unless this conflicts with the comment character see Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 The newline or separator character is considered part of the pre ceding statement Newlines and separators within character constants are an exception they do not end statements It is an error to end any statement with end of file the last character of any input file
64. This is a shorter synonym for the warn unmatched high option Wnuh This is a shorter synonym for the no warn unmatched high option 9 19 2 M32R Directives The Renease M32R version of as has a few architecture specific directives low expression The low directive computes the value of its expression and places the lower 16 bits of the result into the immediate field of the instruction For example or3 r0 rO low 0x12345678 compute r0 rO 0x5678 add3 r0 rO low fred compute r0 r0 low 16 bits of address of fred high expression The high directive computes the value of its expression and places the upper 16 bits of the result into the immediate field of the instruction For example seth rO high 0x12345678 compute rO 0x12340000 seth r0 high fred compute rO upper 16 bits of address of fred shigh expression The shigh directive is very similar to the high directive It also computes the value of its expression and places the upper 16 bits of the result into the immediate field of the instruction The difference is that shigh also checks to see if the lower 16 bits could be interpreted as a signed number and if so it assumes that a borrow will occur from the upper 16 bits To compensate for this the shigh directive pre biases the upper 16 bit value by adding one to it For example For example 150 m32r m32rx m32r2 little big Using as 0x12340000 0x00010000 seth r0 shigh
65. This option switches the assembler in the M68HCS12 mode This mode is similar to m68hc12 but specifies to assemble for the 68HCS12 series The only difference is on the assembling of the movb and movw instruction when a PC relative operand is used This option controls the ABI and indicates to use a 16 bit integer ABI It has no effect on the assembled instructions This is the default This option controls the ABI and indicates to use a 32 bit integer ABI mshort double This option controls the ABI and indicates to use a 32 bit float ABI This is the default mlong double This option controls the ABI and indicates to use a 64 bit float ABI strict direct mode You can use the strict direct mode option to disable the automatic trans lation of direct page mode addressing into extended mode when the instruction does not support direct mode For example the clr instruction does not sup port direct page mode addressing When it is used with the direct page mode as will ignore it and generate an absolute addressing This option prevents as from doing this and the wrong usage of the direct page mode will raise an error short branches The short branches option turns off the translation of relative branches into absolute branches when the branch offset is out of range By default as transforms the relative branch bsr bgt bge beq bne ble blt
66. address is called for the alternate form is supported for compatibility with other as semblers imm Immediate data 9 28 3 Floating Point SH2E SH3E and SH4 groups have on chip floating point unit FPU Other SH groups can use float directive to generate IEEE floating point numbers SH2E and SH3E support single precision floating point calculations as well as entirely PCAPI compatible emulation of double precision floating point calculations SH2E and SH3E instructions are a subset of the floating point calculations conforming to the IEEE754 standard In addition to single precision and double precision floating point operation capability the on chip FPU of SH4 has a 128 bit graphic engine that enables 32 bit floating point data to be processed 128 bits at a time It also supports 4 4 array operations and inner product operations Also a superscalar architecture is employed that enables simultaneous execution of two instructions including FPU instructions providing performance of up to twice that of conventional architectures at the same frequency 9 28 4 SH Machine Directives uaword ualong as will issue a warning when a misaligned word or long directive is used You may use uaword or ualong to indicate that the value is intentionally misaligned 192 Using as 9 28 5 Opcodes For detailed information on the SH machine instruction set see SH Microcomputer User s Manual Renesas or SH 4 32 bit CPU Core Architecture
67. all undocumented Z80 instructions without warning warn undocumented instructions Wud Issue a warning for undocumented Z80 instructions that also work on R800 warn unportable instructions Wup Issue a warning for undocumented Z80 instructions that do not work on R800 forbid undocumented instructions Fud Treat all undocumented instructions as errors 14 Using as forbid unportable instructions Fup Treat undocumented Z80 instructions that do not work on R800 as errors 1 1 Structure of this Manual This manual is intended to describe what you need to know to use GNU as We cover the syntax expected in source files including notation for symbols constants and expressions the directives that as understands and of course how to invoke as This manual also describes some of the machine dependent features of various flavors of the assembler On the other hand this manual is not intended as an introduction to programming in assembly language let alone programming in general In a similar vein we make no attempt to introduce the machine architecture we do not describe the instruction set standard mnemonics registers or addressing modes that are standard to a particular archi tecture You may want to consult the manufacturer s machine architecture manual for this information 1 2 The GNU Assembler GNU as is really a family of assemblers If you use or have used the GNU assembler on one architecture you should find
68. are also using dwarf2 CFI directives gprel32 expression Computes the difference between the address in expression and the GP for the current object file and stores it in 4 bytes In addition to being smaller than a Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 81 full 8 byte address this also does not require a dynamic relocation when used in a shared library t_floating expression Stores expression as an IEEE double precision value s_floating expression Stores expression as an IEEE single precision value f floating expression Stores expression as a V X F format value g_floating expression Stores expression as a V X G format value d floating expression Stores expression as a V X D format value Set feature Enables or disables various assembler features Using the positive name of the feature enables while using nofeature disables at Indicates that macro expansions may clobber the assembler tem porary at or 28 register Some macros may not be expanded without this and will generate an error message if noat is in effect When at is in effect a warning will be generated if at is used by the programmer macro Enables the expansion of macro instructions Note that variants of real instructions such as br label vs br 31 1abel are considered alternate forms and not macros move reorder volatile These control whether and how the assembler may re order instruc tions Accepted for compatibility with th
69. arguments in expressions lesse 39 arithmetic functions sees eees siiis 39 arithmetic operands 0c e eee eee 39 ARM data relocations naunan anaana anne 88 arm directive ARM 89 ARM floating point IEEE 0 88 ARM identifiers 0 00 0 eee eee eee 88 ARM immediate character 88 ARM line comment character 88 ARM line separater 88 ARM machine directives 2 4 89 ARM opeoden sere eere IARE ea 93 ARM options none sesseeeseeeeeee 86 ARM register namen 88 ARM Support 44 34 escn eke oe ee ert b d Ey A 86 ascii CITECHVE sos cess iie eek a ad e a ies 44 asciz direttive 6 eee eee eee 44 asg directive TIC54X o oooooooooooo ooo 201 assembler bugs reporting 233 assembler cash 233 250 assembler directive arch CRIS 108 assembler directive dword CRIS 107 assembler directive far M68HC11 163 assembler directive interrupt M68HC11 163 assembler directive mode M68HC11 163 assembler directive relax M68HC11 163 assembler directive syntax CRIS 107 assembler directive xrefb M68HC11 163 assembler directive BSPEC MMIX er assembler directive BYTE MMIX 176 assembler directive ESPEC MMIX Lr assembler directive GREG MMIX 175 assembler directive IS MMIX 175 assembler directive L
70. byte to word wl from word to long bq from byte to quadruple word wq from word to quadruple word and 1q from long to quadruple word The Intel syntax conversion instructions e chu sign extend byte in hal to word in fax e cwde sign extend word in fax to long in eax e cwd sign extend word in ax to long in dx Zax e cdq sign extend dword in eax to quad in fedx Zeax e cdge sign extend dword in 4eax to quad in rax x86 64 only e cqo sign extend quad in 4rax to octuple in 4rdx 4rax x86 64 only are called cbtw cwtl cwtd cltd cltq and cqto in AT amp T naming as accepts either naming for these instructions Far call jump instructions are 1ca11 and 1jmp in AT amp T syntax but are call far and jump far in Intel convention 9 13 4 AT amp T Mnemonic versus Intel Mnemonic as supports assembly using Intel mnemonic intel_mnemonic selects Intel mnemonic with Intel syntax and att_mnemonic switches back to the usual AT amp T mnemonic with AT amp T syntax for compatibility with the output of gcc Several x87 instructions fadd fdiv fdivp fdivr fdivrp fmul fsub fsubp fsubr and fsubrp are implemented in AT amp T System V 386 assembler with different mnemonics from th
71. control the search paths used with the I command line option see Chapter 2 Command Line Op tions page 17 Quotation marks are required around file The skip argument skips a number of bytes from the start of the file The count argument indicates the maximum number of bytes to read Note that the data is not aligned in any way so it is the user s responsibility to make sure that proper alignment is provided both before and after the incbin directive 7 62 include file This directive provides a way to include supporting files at specified points in your source program The code from file is assembled as if it followed the point of the include when the end of the included file is reached assembly of the original file continues You can control the search paths used with the I command line option see Chapter 2 Command Line Options page 17 Quotation marks are required around file 7 63 int expressions Expect zero or more expressions of any section separated by commas For each expression emit a number that at run time is the value of that expression The byte order and bit size of the number depends on what kind of target the assembly is for 7 64 internal names This is one of the ELF visibility directives The other two are hidden see Section 7 57 hidden page 51 and protected see Section 7 85 protected page 61 This directive overrides the named symbols default visibility which is set b
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73. d prefix atmp Change the temporary register used when expanding pseudo operations The default register is r31 The dual enddual and atmp directives are available only in the Intel syntax mode Both syntaxes allow for the standard align directive However the Intel syntax addi tionally allows keywords for the alignment parameter align type where type is one of short Long quad single double representing alignments of 2 4 16 4 and 8 respectively 9 14 4 1860 Opcodes All of the Intel i860XR and i860XP machine instructions are supported Please see either 1860 Microprocessor Programmer s Reference Manual or i860 Microprocessor Architecture for more information 9 14 4 1 Other instruction support pseudo instructions For compatibility with some other i860 assemblers a number of pseudo instructions are supported While these are supported they are a very undesirable feature that should be avoided in particular when they result in an expansion to multiple actual i860 instructions Below are the pseudo instructions that result in expansions e Load large immediate into general register The pseudo instruction mov imm rn where the immediate does not fit within a signed 16 bit field will be expanded into orh large_immCh r0 rn or large_immCl rn rn e Load store with relocatable address expression For example the pseudo instruction 1d b addr exp Arx Arn will be expanded into orh addr_exp
74. directives are variants of the p2align directive The p2alignw directive treats the fill pattern as a two byte word value The p2alignl di rectives treats the fill pattern as a four byte longword value For example p2alignw 2 0x368d will align to a multiple of 4 If it skips two bytes they will be filled in with the value 0x368d the exact placement of the bytes depends upon the endianness of the processor If it skips 1 or 3 bytes the fill value is undefined 7 82 previous This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives The others are section see Section 7 94 Section page 63 subsection see Section 7 105 SubSection page 68 pushsection see Section 7 88 PushSection page 62 and popsection see Section 7 83 PopSection page 61 This directive swaps the current section and subsection with most recently referenced section subsection pair prior to this one Multiple previous directives in a row will flip between two sections and their subsections For example Section A subsection 1 word 0x1234 subsection 2 word 0x5678 previous word Ox9abc Will place 0x1234 and Ox9abc into subsection 1 and 0x5678 into subsection 2 of section A Whilst Section A subsection 1 Now in section A subsection 1 word 0x1234 Section B subsection 0 Now in section B subsection 0 Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 61 word 0x5678 subsection 1 Now in section B subsection 1 word Ox9abc
75. e a ce ecd 198 9 31 3 Environment Settings ene 198 9 31 4 Constants Gentax n 198 9 31 5 String Substitution 0 00 eee eee 198 9 31 6 Local Labels ae SEENEN emm 199 9 31 Math Bualtauns ceca iaa ee Mee 199 9 31 8 Extended Addressing 2 eee ee eee e eee 201 931 9 Directives co imitar AN ed ee es 201 9 91 10 MACOS anii eder ote a iE ad yeh 206 9 31 11 Memory mapped Registers esses eese 207 9 32 Z80 Dependent Features 208 9 32 1 OPUS c2 uteri eet aya dace CER Re URS e ate Re hdi d 208 0 32 2 Mid 208 9 32 2 1 Special Oharacterg 0 000 c cece eee eens 208 9 32 2 2 Register Names 00 c cee eee eee eee 209 9 32 2 3 Case Sensitivity 2 eee ee eee eee o 209 9 32 3 Floating Pot 209 9 32 4 Z80 Assembler Directmves cee ee eee 209 9132 50 OPCOdES mii elaine nar P RE UR 210 9 33 Z8000 Dependent Features 211 dee e Tee 211 0 39 2 OYDA ee EE Re Rep aga 211 9 33 2 1 Special Characterg 000 c cece eee eens 211 9 33 2 2 Register Names sese eee 211 9 33 2 3 Addressing Modes eer emet 211 9 33 3 Assembler Directives for the vZ 000 212 9 33 4 Optcod s ioi socer eer a 213 9 34 VAX Dependent Features 0 000 enon ennnen 213 9 34 1 VAX Command Line Options 213 9 342 VAX Floating Point 0 00 cece eee eee 214 9 34 3 Vax Machine Directives 0 00 cece eee eee 214 9 344 VAX Cedies paraa ER eedem 214 9 34 5 VAX Branch Improvement
76. eee eee 198 options 28000 211 org directive issues a me o Ree ne 59 other attribute of a out symbol 38 output EEN 15 P p2align directive ee ENNEN e en ne 60 p2alignl directive oi oi sic inca re een 60 p2alignw directive eese eee 60 packed directive ARM 90 padding the location counter 43 padding the location counter given a power of two Penge Succus hae v pRPq qupd iq iet 60 padding the location counter given number of A ehe Ip AY RE C p dad 44 page in listings scorer tars tu ni n mer E e 48 paper size for listings liess eese 61 paths for nclugde 00 0 ee eae 18 patterns writing in memory 50 PDP 11 c minents 2 2 3 gk ene es 185 PDP 11 floating point register syntax 185 PDP 11 general purpose register syntax 185 PDP 11 instruction naming ass 44420 185 PDP 11 support n REI ene a 183 PDP 11 Syntax vg geb hr Reserves 185 PIC code generation for ARM 87 PIC code generation for M32R 148 PIC selection MIDD 165 PJ encdianuess 22 err re EE d EE d 8 PJ Options 2 25 28 gas EE awed ARE ERE 187 PT SUDDOEb 25 crede en eR Ue xs 187 plus permitted argument 40 popsection directe 61 Position independent code CRIS 104 Position independent code symbols in CRIS 106 PowerPC architectures 000005 188 PowerPC directives 0 00 0 eee eee 189 PowerPC option
77. efi def cfa offset offset s sss gn 46 7 16 7 17 7 18 7 19 7 20 7 21 7 22 7 23 7 24 7 25 7 26 1 27 7 28 7 29 7 30 7 31 7 32 7 33 7 34 1 35 1 36 7 37 7 38 7 39 7 40 7 41 7 42 7 43 7 44 7 45 7 46 7 47 7 48 7 49 7 50 7 51 7 52 7 53 7 04 1 55 1 56 7 57 7 58 7 59 7 60 7 61 7 62 7 63 cfi adjust cfa offset offser mo 46 cfi offset register offset ccc sss 46 cfi rel offset register offset esses 46 cfi register registerl register2 46 cfi restore register sees 46 cfi undefined register ccc ee 46 cfi same value register seen 46 Cfi remember atate enn 46 cfi return column register eese 46 cfi signal frame ies e ricas 46 CET windOW SAVE 6 6 fs m EE ACEN aeu bs AT CHA escape expression Jare eek hrs AT file fileno filename ccc eese 47 loc fileno lineno column Ioptzonsl 47 loc_mark_labels enable eee eee 47 data su bsectiOn ia ii ee 48 OA acta g ANIE PE athe Beas e dane argidng ER gd 48 desc symbol abs expression 0 cece cee 48 Nk A EE 48 double flonumsS oo RR RR RA Rae 48 CO OCU ee geed ehe atte hand IM feed eae os Pee ees 48 AA bt peer dd EENS EE EE dog Gees 48 A cok cba Gad etiee ised ate E Pe RR RR LH ERD LERRA 48 end COCO RE O E ee ee ec 48 MO ici sata ie peda A EELER gl 49 ONAL UNG ce aia sees sa e ek chee eR qood ep o e ee Be
78. eld 49 endYf ai RE ace ae dia 49 equ symbol expression ese een 49 equiv symbol expression seen 49 eqv symbol ezpresgsgion nen 49 OLY 49 error SLIDE 2125 esed sre da oe e 49 OXICM othe shld iR ERR nb ek REA med haba E ERRARE 50 EE 50 fall expresslOn caida dede va ead Pattee 50 flle string EE 50 fill repeat size value l l esee 50 float flonums oe lesse Ee ases ed eS 50 func name l Label linia ee eR te RA RC wie NG 50 global symbol globl smembol sees 51 gnu attribute tag value s l 51 hidden names nera reb rante ace ba dades 51 hword expressions esses nen 51 S Iden oobis tui deat abu ute ie fuut dus 51 if absolute erpresgsgion sees 51 incbin file ekip ecomntll ianen 53 Include EE 53 Ant expressTOnS ees read eae eet oad te d Aa 53 iii 7 64 internal names esses eee 53 4 050 pp symbol valedesse e ep reser eed EE 53 00 irpc symbol valueS vei eb dE AE ee 54 7 67 lcomm symbol jJenerh eese 54 TOS EIER Aere tete dere E d St e dris 54 1 00 Line Iine n mber Ed ge dou RERO a ak aang Saeed 54 TU slinkonce type Ee qute Re eR AES RES Ee 55 G 1n line number esses eee 55 CAL Vir Val ais ek ae en ee BS Siegen AE NEE EE ni 55 E DEE 55 GIA long expressiO0nS 2000 ee etn ee Ra E PUE 56 trs SMACTO ir e REENEN ee EE Eh a gh 56 CAD saltmacrO oni Eer EE e RE a iaa 58 GUE ADOS CM
79. example the ARM port uses the character If flags contains the M symbol then the type argument must be specified as well as an extra argument entsize like this Section name flags M type entsize Sections with the M flag but not S flag must contain fixed size constants each entsize octets long Sections with both M and S must contain zero terminated strings where each character is entsize bytes long The linker may remove duplicates within sections with the same name same entity size and same flags entsize must be an absolute expression If flags contains the G symbol then the type argument must be present along with an additional field like this Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 65 Section name flags G type GroupName linkage The GroupName field specifies the name of the section group to which this particular section belongs The optional linkage field can contain comdat indicates that only one copy of this section should be retained gnu linkonce an alias for comdat Note if both the M and G flags are present then the fields for the Merge flag should come first like this Section name flags MG Qtype entsize GroupName linkage If no flags are specified the default flags depend upon the section name If the section name is not recognized the default will be for the section to have none of the above flags it will not be allocated in memory nor writable nor executable The section will contain
80. file The bss section was invented to eliminate those explicit zeros from object files Chapter 4 Sections and Relocation 31 absolute section Address 0 of this section is always relocated to runtime address 0 This is useful if you want to refer to an address that 1d must not change when relocating In this sense we speak of absolute addresses being unrelocatable they do not change during relocation undefined section This section is a catch all for address references to objects not in the preceding sections An idealized example of three relocatable sections follows The example uses the tradi tional section names text and data Memory addresses are on the horizontal axis Partial program 1 text data bss ttttt daaa o0 Partial program 2 text data bss TTT pw 000 linked program text data bss TTT on aaa ppp 00000 addresses D 4 3 Assembler Internal Sections These sections are meant only for the internal use of as They have no meaning at run time You do not really need to know about these sections for most purposes but they can be mentioned in as warning messages so it might be helpful to have an idea of their meanings to as These sections are used to permit the value of every expression in your assembly language program to be a section relative address ASSEMBLER INTERNAL LOGIC ERROR An internal assembler logic error has been
81. floating point formats generated by directives are these float double extend ldouble Single precision floating point constants Double precision floating point constants Extended precision 1ong double floating point constants 9 20 5 680x0 Machine Directives In order to be compatible with the Sun assembler the 680x0 assembler understands the following directives datal data2 even Skip arch name cpu name This directive is identical to a data 1 directive This directive is identical to a data 2 directive This directive is a special case of the align directive it aligns the output to an even byte boundary This directive is identical to a space directive Select the target architecture and extension features Valid values for name are the same as for the march command line option This directive cannot be specified after any instructions have been assembled If it is given multiple times or in conjunction with the march option all uses must be for the same architecture and extension set Select the target cpu Valid valuse for name are the same as for the mcpw command line option This directive cannot be specified after any instructions have been assembled If it is given multiple times or in conjunction with the mopt option all uses must be for the same cpu 158 Using as 9 20 6 Opcodes 9 20 6 1 Branch Improvement Certain pseudo opcodes are
82. found This means there is a bug in the assembler expr section The assembler stores complex expression internally as combinations of symbols When it needs to represent an expression as a symbol it puts it in the expr section 4 4 Sub Sections Assembled bytes conventionally fall into two sections text and data You may have separate groups of data in named sections that you want to end up near to each other in the object file even though they are not contiguous in the assembler source as allows you to use subsections for this purpose Within each section there can be numbered subsections with values from 0 to 8192 Objects assembled into the same subsection go into the object file 32 Using as together with other objects in the same subsection For example a compiler might want to store constants in the text section but might not want to have them interspersed with the program being assembled In this case the compiler could issue a text 0 before each section of code being output and a text 1 before each group of constants being output Subsections are optional If you do not use subsections everything goes in subsection number zero Each subsection is zero padded up to a multiple of four bytes Subsections may be padded a different amount on different flavors of as Subsections appear in your object file in numeric order lowest numbered to highest All this to be compatible with other people s assemblers
83. have a consistent behavior across all architectures but are specific to GAS 44 Using as T 4 ascii string ascii expects zero or more string literals see Section 3 6 1 1 Strings page 25 separated by commas It assembles each string with no automatic trailing zero byte into consecutive addresses fed asciz string OTA asciz is just like ascii but each string is followed by a zero byte The z in asciz stands for zero 7 6 balign wl abs expr abs expr abs expr Pad the location counter in the current subsection to a particular storage boundary The first expression which must be absolute is the alignment request in bytes For example balign 8 advances the location counter until it is a multiple of 8 If the location counter is already a multiple of 8 no change is needed The second expression also absolute gives the fill value to be stored in the padding bytes It and the comma may be omitted If it is omitted the padding bytes are normally zero However on some systems if the section is marked as containing code and the fill value is omitted the space is filled with no op instructions The third expression is also absolute and is also optional If it is present it is the maximum number of bytes that should be skipped by this alignment directive If doing the alignment would require skipping more bytes than the specified maximum then the alignment is not done at all You c
84. hp general register 3 r3 Sp general register 4 r gp general register 5 r5 tp general register 6 r6 general register 7 r7 general register 8 r8 general register 9 r9 general register 10 r10 general register 11 rli general register 12 r12 general register 13 r13 general register 14 r14 general register 15 r15 general register 16 r16 general register 17 rl7 Using as Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features general register 18 r18 general register 19 r19 general register 20 r20 general register 21 r21 general register 22 r22 general register 23 r23 general register 24 r24 general register 25 r25 general register 26 r26 general register 27 127 general register 28 r28 general register 29 r29 general register 30 r30 ep general register 31 r31 Ip system register 0 eipc System register 1 eipsw System register 2 fepc System register 3 fepsw System register 4 ecr 219 220 Using as system register 5 psw system register 16 ctpc system register 17 ctpsw system register 18 dbpc system register 19 dbpsw system register 20 ctbp 9 35 3 Floating Point The V850 family uses IEEE floating point numbers 9 35 4 V850 Machine Directives offset expression Moves the offset into the current section to the specified amount Section name type v850 v850e v850e1 This is an extension to the
85. in bits bes size in bits Reserve the given number of bits in the current section and zero fill them If a label is used with space it points to the first word reserved With bes the label points to the last word reserved Sslist ssnolist Controls the inclusion of subsym replacement in the listing output Ignored Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 205 String string string n pstring string L string 00 Place 8 bit characters from string into the current section string zero fills the upper 8 bits of each word while pstring puts two characters into each word filling the most significant bits first Unused space is zero filled If a label is used it points to the first word initialized stag struct offset name 1 element count 1 name 2 element count 2 tname tag stagx tcount name n element count n ssize endstruct label tag stag tab Assign symbolic offsets to the elements of a structure stag defines a symbol to use to reference the structure offset indicates a starting value to use for the first element encountered otherwise it defaults to zero Each element can have a named offset name which is a symbol assigned the value of the element s offset into the structure If stag is missing these become global symbols count adjusts the offset that many times as if element were an array element may be one of byte word Long float or any equivalent of those and t
86. instruction NI When this option is used as will issue a warning if it needs to insert a nop after a 32 bit multiply before a load or 16 bit multiply instruction 9 9 2 Syntax The D30V syntax is based on the syntax in Mitsubishi s D30V architecture manual The differences are detailed below 9 9 2 1 Size Modifiers The D30V version of as uses the instruction names in the D30V Architecture Manual However the names in the manual are sometimes ambiguous There are instruction names that can assemble to a short or long form opcode How does the assembler pick the correct form as will always pick the smallest form if it can When dealing with a symbol that is not defined yet when a line is being assembled it will always use the long form If you need to force the assembler to use either the short or long form of the instruction you can append either s short or 1 long to it For example if you are writing an assembly program and you want to do a branch to a symbol that is defined later in your program you can write bra s foo Objdump and GDB will always append s or 1 to instructions which have both short and long forms 9 9 2 2 Sub Instructions The D30V assembler takes as input a series of instructions either one per line or in the special two per line format described in the next section Some of these instructions will be short form or sub instructions These sub instructions can be packed into a s
87. is also absolute and is also optional If it is present it is the maximum number of bytes that should be skipped by this alignment directive If doing the alignment would require skipping more bytes than the specified maximum then the alignment is not done at all You can omit the fill value the second argument entirely by simply using two commas after the required alignment this can be useful if you want the alignment to be filled with no op instructions when appropriate The way the required alignment is specified varies from system to system For the arc hppa 1386 using ELF i860 iq2000 m68k or32 s390 sparc tic4x tic80 and xtensa the first expression is the alignment request in bytes For example align 8 advances the location counter until it is a multiple of 8 If the location counter is already a multiple of 8 no change is needed For the tic54x the first expression is the alignment request in words For other systems including the 1386 using a out format and the arm and strongarm it is the number of low order zero bits the location counter must have after advancement For example align 3 advances the location counter until it a multiple of 8 If the location counter is already a multiple of 8 no change is needed This inconsistency is due to the different behaviors of the various native assemblers for these systems which GAS must emulate GAS also provides balign and p2align directives described later which
88. linker will attempt to shorten this code sequence if name is within a 22bit offset of the jump Only valid if the mrelax command line switch has been enabled For information on the V850 instruction set see V850 Family 32 16 Bit single Chip Microcontroller Architecture Manual from NEC Ltd Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 223 9 36 Xtensa Dependent Features This chapter covers features of the GNU assembler that are specific to the Xtensa architec ture For details about the Xtensa instruction set please consult the Xtensa Instruction Set Architecture ISA Reference Manual 9 36 1 Command Line Options The Xtensa version of the GNU assembler supports these special options 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 These options only affect literals referenced via PC relative L32R instructions literals for absolute mode L32R instructions are handled separately See Section 9 36 5 4 literal page 229 H absolut
89. m 20 bits movd instructions Displacement Operand S 8 bits m 16 bits g 24 bits For example 1 movw _myfun c ri This loads the address of _myfun shifted right by 1 into rl 2 movd _myfun c r2 r1 This loads the address of _myfun shifted right by 1 into register pair r2 ri 3 _myfun_ptr Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 103 long _myfun c loadd _myfun_ptr ri r0 jal r1 r0 This long directive the address of _myfunc shifted right by 1 at link time 104 Using as 9 7 CRIS Dependent Features 9 7 1 Command line Options The CRIS version of as has these machine dependent command line options The format of the generated object files can be either ELF or a out specified by the command line options emulation crisaout and emulation criself The default is ELF criself unless as has been configured specifically for a out by using the configura tion name cris axis aout There are two different link incompatible ELF object file variants for CRIS for use in environments where symbols are expected to be prefixed by a leading _ character and for environments without such a symbol prefix The variant used for GNU Linux port has no symbol prefix Which variant to produce is specified by either of the options underscore and no underscore The default is underscore Since symbols in CRIS a out objects are expected to have a _ prefix
90. many other machines xword On the Sparc V9 processor the xword directive produces 64 bit values 198 Using as 9 31 TIC54X Dependent Features 9 31 1 Options The TMS320C54X version of as has a few machine dependent options You can use the mfar mode option to enable extended addressing mode All addresses will be assumed to be gt 16 bits and the appropriate relocation types will be used This option is equivalent to using the far_mode directive in the assembly code If you do not use the mfar mode option all references will be assumed to be 16 bits This option may be abbreviated to mf You can use the mcpu option to specify a particular CPU This option is equivalent to using the version directive in the assembly code For recognized CPU codes see See Section 9 31 9 version page 201 The default CPU version is 542 You can use the merrors to file option to redirect error output to a file this pro vided for those deficient environments which don t provide adequate output redirection This option may be abbreviated to me 9 31 2 Blocking A blocked section or memory block is guaranteed not to cross the blocking boundary usually a page or 128 words if it is smaller than the blocking size or to start on a page boundary if it is larger than the blocking size 9 31 3 Environment Settings C54XDSP_DIR and A_DIR are semicolon separated paths which ar
91. no longcalls directive oooooooooooo 229 no schedule directive cece eee 229 no transform d rectve 000 0 lun 229 nolsst directive istud une eR EPA 59 nolist directive TIC54X 203 NOP pseudo op ARM 93 notes for Alpha 76 null terminated sting 44 number constants 000 c annann nnn 26 number of macros ezecuted naana naa 58 numbered subsections o oooooocoooooooo 31 numbers J G but 00 eee eee ee eee eee 51 numeric values eee 39 nword directive SPARC ooo 197 257 O object attributes 2 re ek irr t orare 73 object files tacna eee CR EE 15 object file format 14 object file name 21 object file after errors o oooooooooooooo 22 obsolescent directives 0 000 e eee eee 72 octa direcbive isses e hb ea dee XE REA 59 octal character code Add 25 Octal EE 26 offset directive VS 220 opcode mnemonics MAX 214 opcode names Kitenge 224 opcode summary AN 96 opcode summary DION oo 112 opcode summary DIO V eee 116 opcode summary HS 200 iussus 119 opcode summary SH 192 opcode summary SHG o 195 opcode summary 28000 213 opcodes for ARC 85 opcodes for ARM 93 opcodes for MSP 4920 181 opcodes for V850 0 eee eee eee eee 220 opcodes 1800 138 opcodes 8000 e a SEN bee eee 141 opcodes M tt 158 opcodes M68HC11 2 164 operand delimiters 2080 129 operand delimiters x86 64 129 operand notation MA
92. not modify the gp register 9 22 3 Directives for debugging information MIPS ECOFF as supports several directives used for generating debugging information which are not support by traditional MIPS assemblers These are def endef dim file scl size tag type val stabd stabn and stabs The debugging information generated by the three stab directives can only be read by GDB not by traditional MIPS debuggers this enhancement is required to fully support C debugging These directives are primarily used by compilers not assembly language programmers 9 22 4 Directives to override the size of symbols The n64 ABI allows symbols to have any 64 bit value Although this provides a great deal of flexibility it means that some macros have much longer expansions than their 32 bit counterparts For example the non PIC expansion of dla 4 sym is usually lui 4 highest sym lui 1 hi sym daddiu 4 4 higher sym daddiu 1 1 10 sym ds1132 4 4 0 daddu 4 4 1 whereas the 32 bit expansion is simply 170 Using as lui 4 hi sym daddiu 4 4 1lo sym n64 code is sometimes constructed in such a way that all symbolic constants are known to have 32 bit values and in such cases it s preferable to use the 32 bit expansion instead of the 64 bit expansion You can use the set sym32 directive to tell the assembler that from this point on all expressions of the form symbol or symbol
93. of the load is different than the source address register For example 132i ai a0 2040 is translated to literal L1 2040 132r a1 L1 add ai a0 al 132i al ai O 228 Using as If the load destination and source address register are the same an out of range offset causes an error The Xtensa ADDI instruction only allows immediate operands in the range from 128 to 127 There are a number of alternate instruction sequences for the ADDI operation First if the immediate is 0 the ADDI will be turned into a MOV N instruction or the equivalent OR instruction if the code density option is not available If the ADDI immediate is outside of the range 128 to 127 but inside the range 32896 to 32639 an ADDMI instruction or ADDMI ADDI sequence will be used Finally if the immediate is outside of this range and a free register is available an L32R ADD sequence will be used with a literal allocated from the literal pool For example addi ab a6 0 addi ab a6 512 addi ab a6 513 addi ab a6 50000 is assembled into the following literal L1 50000 mov n ab a6 addmi ab a6 0x200 addmi ab a6 0x200 addi ab ab 1 132r ab L1 add ab a6 ab 9 36 5 Directives The Xtensa assembler supports a region based directive syntax begin directive options and directive All the Xtensa specific directives that apply to a region of code use this syntax The directive applies to code between the begin and the end
94. offset is not specified then it is assumed to be zero object_arch name Override the architecture recorded in the EABI object attribute section Valid values for name are the same as for the arch directive Typically this is useful when code uses runtime detection of CPU features Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 91 packed expression expression This directive writes 12 byte packed floating point values to the output section These are not compatible with current ARM processors or ABIs pad count Generate unwinder annotations for a stack adjustment of count bytes A posi tive value indicates the function prologue allocated stack space by decrementing the stack pointer personality name Sets the personality routine for the current function to name personalityindex index Sets the personality routine for the current function to the EABI standard routine number index pool This is a synonym for ltorg name req register name This creates an alias for register name called name For example foo req rO Save reglist Generate unwinder annotations to restore the registers in reglist The format of reglist is the same as the corresponding store multiple instruction core registers save r4 r5 r6 lr stmfd sp r4 rb r6 lr FPA registers save f4 2 sfmfd f4 2 sp VFP registers save d8 d9 d10 fstmdx sp d8 d9 d10 iWMM Xt registers save wriO wrii wstrd wr11 sp 8 wstrd wriO
95. one of the two arguments 42 Using as Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 43 7 Assembler Directives All assembler directives have names that begin with a period The rest of the name is letters usually in lower case This chapter discusses directives that are available regardless of the target machine configuration for the GNU assembler Some machine configurations provide additional di rectives See Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 7 1 abort This directive stops the assembly immediately It is for compatibility with other assemblers The original idea was that the assembly language source would be piped into the assembler If the sender of the source quit it could use this directive tells as to quit also One day abort will not be supported 7 2 ABORT COFF When producing COFF output as accepts this directive as a synonym for abort 7 3 align abs expr abs expr abs expr Pad the location counter in the current subsection to a particular storage boundary The first expression which must be absolute is the alignment required as described below The second expression also absolute gives the fill value to be stored in the padding bytes It and the comma may be omitted If it is omitted the padding bytes are normally zero However on some systems if the section is marked as containing code and the fill value is omitted the space is filled with no op instructions The third expression
96. only available if you select alternate macro syntax with alternate or altmacro See Section 7 76 altmacro page 58 altmacro Enable alternate macro mode enabling LOCAL name One additional directive LOCAL is available It is used to generate a string replacement for each of the name arguments and replace any instances of name in each macro expansion The replacement string is unique in the assembly and different for each separate macro expansion LOCAL allows you to write macros that define symbols without fear of conflict between separate macro expansions String delimiters You can write strings delimited in these other ways besides string string You can delimit strings with single quote characters Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 59 lt string gt You can delimit strings with matching angle brackets single character string escape To include any single character literally in a string even if the character would otherwise have some special meaning you can prefix the character with an exclamation mark For example you can write lt 4 3 gt 5 4 gt to get the literal text 4 3 gt 5 42 Expression results as strings You can write Aexpr to evaluate the expression expr and use the result as a string 7 7 noaltmacro Disable alternate macro mode See Section 7 76 Altmacro page 58 7 78 nolist Control in conjunction with the list directive whether
97. other Unix systems 8 and 9 are accepted as digits for example 008 has the value 010 and 009 the value 011 x hex digits A hex character code All trailing hex digits are combined Either upper or lower case x works Represents one character M Represents one character Needed in strings to represent this character because an unescaped would end the string Y anything else Any other character when escaped by gives a warning but assembles as if the was not present The idea is that if you used an escape sequence you clearly didn t want the literal interpretation of the following character However as has no other interpretation so as knows it is giving you the wrong code and warns you of the fact Which characters are escapable and what those escapes represent varies widely among assemblers The current set is what we think the BSD 4 2 assembler recognizes and is a subset of what most C compilers recognize If you are in doubt do not use an escape sequence 3 6 1 2 Characters A single character may be written as a single quote immediately followed by that character The same escapes apply to characters as to strings So if you want to write the character backslash you must write XX where the first escapes the second As you can see the quote is an acute accent not a grave accent A newline immediately following an acute accent is taken as a literal character and does not count as
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99. permitted for branch instructions They expand to the shortest branch instruction that reach the target Generally these mnemonics are made by substi tuting j for b at the start of a Motorola mnemonic The following table summarizes the pseudo operations A flags cases that are more fully described after the table jbsr jra 20 Displacement AA A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A a A A A a A A A a A A A A A A A A A A A e AA re 68020 68000 10 not PC relative OK Pseudo Op BYTE WORD LONG ABSOLUTE LONG JUMP LEI AA A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A a A A A A A A A A A A A A e A e re jbsr bsrs bsrw bsrl jsr jra bras braw bral jmp jXX IbXXs bXXw bXX1 bNXs jmp dbXX N A dbXXw dbXX bras bral dbXX bras jmp fjXX N A fbXXw fbXX1 N A condition NX negative of condition XX see full description below this expansion mode is disallowed by pcrel These are the simplest jump pseudo operations they always map to one partic ular machine instruction depending on the displacement to the branch target This instruction will be a byte or word branch is that is sufficient Otherwise a long branch will be emitted if available If no long branches are available and the pcrel option is not given an absolute long jump will be emitted instead If no long branches are available the pcrel option is given and a word branch cannot reach the targe
100. quotes ifge absolute expression Assembles the following section of code if the argument is greater than or equal to zero ifgt absolute expression Assembles the following section of code if the argument is greater than zero ifle absolute expression Assembles the following section of code if the argument is less than or equal to Zero iflt absolute expression Assembles the following section of code if the argument is less than zero ifnb text Like ifb but the sense of the test is reversed this assembles the following section of code if the operand is non blank non empty ifnc stringl string2 Like ifc but the sense of the test is reversed this assembles the following section of code if the two strings are not the same ifndef symbol ifnotdef symbol Assembles the following section of code if the specified symbol has not been defined Both spelling variants are equivalent Note a symbol which has been referenced but not yet defined is considered to be undefined Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 53 ifne absolute expression Assembles the following section of code if the argument is not equal to zero in other words this is equivalent to if ifnes stringi string2 Like ifeqs but the sense of the test is reversed this assembles the following section of code if the two strings are not the same 7 61 incbin file skip count The incbin directive includes file verbatim at the current location You can
101. saved in the current stack frame The mask and offset parameters are interpreted as with mask frame framereg frameoffset retreg argoffset Describes the shape of the stack frame The frame pointer in use is framereg normally this is either fp or sp The frame pointer is frameoffset bytes below the CFA The return address is initially located in retreg until it is saved as indicated in mask For compatibility with OSF 1 an optional argoffset parameter is accepted and ignored It is believed to indicate the offset from the CFA to the saved argument registers prologue n Indicate that the stack frame is set up and all registers have been spilled The argument n indicates whether and how the function uses the incoming procedure vector the address of the called function in 27 0 indicates that 27 is not used 1 indicates that the first two instructions of the function use 27 to perform a load of the GP register 2 indicates that 27 is used in some non standard way and so the linker cannot elide the load of the procedure vector during relaxation usepv function which Used to indicate the use of the 27 register similar to prologue but without the other semantics of needing to be inside an open ent end block The which argument should be either no indicating that 27 is not used or Std indicating that the first two instructions of the function perform a GP load One might use this directive instead of prologue if you
102. section and set the section offset to expression which must be an absolute expression You might use this as follows struct 0 field struct fieldl 4 field2 struct field2 4 field3 This would define the symbol field1 to have the value 0 the symbol field2 to have the value 4 and the symbol field3 to have the value 8 Assembly would be left in the absolute section and you would need to use a section directive of some sort to change to some other section before further assembly 7 105 subsection name This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives The others are section see Section 7 94 Section page 63 pushsection see Section 7 88 PushSection page 62 popsection see Section 7 83 PopSection page 61 and previous see Section 7 82 Previous page 60 This directive replaces the current subsection with name The current section is not changed The replaced subsection is put onto the section stack in place of the then current top of stack subsection 7 106 symver Use the symver directive to bind symbols to specific version nodes within a source file This is only supported on ELF platforms and is typically used when assembling files to be linked into a shared library There are cases where it may make sense to use this in objects to be bound into an application itself so as to override a versioned symbol from a shared library For ELF targets the symver directive can be used like thi
103. sp 8 or save writ wstrd wri1 sp 8 save wr10 wstrd wriO sp 8 Setfp fpreg spreg offset Make all unwinder annotations relative to a frame pointer Without this the unwinder will use offsets from the stack pointer The syntax of this directive is the same as the sub or mov instruction used to set the frame pointer spreg must be either sp or mentioned in a previous movsp directive movsp ip mov ip sp set p fp ip 4 sub fp ip 4 92 Using as Secrel32 expression expression thumb This directive emits relocations that evaluate to the section relative offset of each expression s symbol This directive is only supported for PE targets This performs the same action as code 16 thumb func thumb set This directive specifies that the following symbol is the name of a Thumb en coded function This information is necessary in order to allow the assembler and linker to generate correct code for interworking between Arm and Thumb instructions and should be used even if interworking is not going to be per formed The presence of this directive also implies thumb This directive is not neccessary when generating EABI objects On these targets the encoding is implicit when generating Thumb code This performs the equivalent of a set directive in that it creates a symbol which is an alias for another symbol possibly not yet defined This directive also has the added property i
104. specifying no underscore when generating a out objects is an error Besides the object format difference the effect of this option is to parse register names differently see crisnous page 107 The no underscore option makes a register prefix mandatory The option pic must be passed to as in order to recognize the symbol syntax used for ELF SVR4 PIC position independent code see crispic page 106 This will also affect expansion of instructions The expansion with pic will use PC relative rather than slightly faster absolute addresses in those expansions The option march architecture specifies the recognized instruction set and recog nized register names It also controls the architecture type of the object file Valid values for architecture are vO v10 All instructions and register names for any architecture variant in the set v0 v10 are recognized This is the default if the target is configured as cris v10 Only instructions and register names for CRIS v10 as found in ETRAX 100 LX are recognized This is the default if the target is configured as crisv10 v32 Only instructions and register names for CRIS v32 code name Guinness are recognized This is the default if the target is configured as crisv32 This value implies no mul bug abort A subsequent mul bug abort will turn it back on common_v10_v32 Only instructions with register names and addr
105. standard section directive It sets the current section to be type and creates an alias for this section called name Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850 processor This allows the linker to detect attempts to link such code with code assembled for other processors Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850E processor This allows the linker to detect attempts to link such code with code assembled for other processors Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850E1 processor This allows the linker to detect attempts to link such code with code assembled for other processors 9 35 5 Opcodes as implements all the standard V850 opcodes as also implements the following pseudo ops hid Computes the higher 16 bits of the given expression and stores it into the immediate operand field of the given instruction For example mulhi hiO here there r5 r6 computes the difference between the address of labels here and there takes the upper 16 bits of this difference shifts it down 16 bits and then multiplies it by the lower 16 bits in register 5 putting the result into register 6 Chapter 9 Lo hiQ hilo sdaoff tdaoff Machine Dependent Features 221 Computes the lower 16 bits of the given expression and stores it into the im mediate operand field of the given instruction
106. strongarmii00 strongarmii110 arm9 arm920 arm920t arm922t arm940t arm9tdmi arme arm926e arm926ej s arm946e rO arm946e arm946e s arm966e rO arm966e arm966e s arm968e s armiOt armiOtdmi armi0e armi020 armi020t armi020e armi022e armi026ej s armii36j s armii36jf s armiib6t2 s armiib6t2f s armii76jz s armii76jzf s mpcore mpcorenovfp cortex a8 cortex a9 cortex r4 cortex m3 ep9312 ARM920 with Cirrus Maverick coprocessor 180200 Intel XScale processor iwmmxt Intel r XScale processor with Wireless MMX tm technology coprocessor and xscale The special name all may be used to allow the assembler to accept instructions valid for any ARM processor In addition to the basic instruction set the assembler can be told to ac cept various extension mnemonics that extend the processor using the co processor instruction space For example mcpu arm920 maverick is equiv alent to specifying mcpu ep9312 The following extensions are currently sup ported maverick iwmmxt and xscale march architecture extension This option specifies the target architecture The assembler will issue an er ror message if an attempt is made to assemble an instruction which will not execute on the target architecture The following architecture names are recog nized armvi armv2 armv2a armv2s armv3 armv3m armv4 armv4xm armv4t armv4txm armv5 armv5t armv5txm armv5te armv5texp armv6 armv6j armv6k armv6z armv6zk ar
107. supported in future releases EBCDIC strings EBCDIC strings are not supported packed binary coded decimal Packed binary coded decimal is not supported This means that the DC P and DCB P pseudo ops are not supported FEQU pseudo op The m68k FEQU pseudo op is not supported NOOBJ pseudo op The m68k NOOBJ pseudo op is not supported OPT branch control options The m68k OPT branch control options B BRS BRB BRL and BRW are ignored as automatically relaxes all branches whether forward or backward to an appropriate size so these options serve no purpose OPT list control options The following m68k OPT list control options are ignored C CEX CL CRE E G I M MEX MC MD X other OPT options The following m68k OPT options are ignored NEST 0 OLD OP P PCO PCR PCS R OPT D option is default The m68k OPT D option is the default unlike the MRI assembler OPT NOD may be used to turn it off XREF pseudo op The m68k XREF pseudo op is ignored debug pseudo op The 1960 debug pseudo op is not supported extended pseudo op The 1960 extended pseudo op is not supported list pseudo op The various options of the 1960 1ist pseudo op are not supported optimize pseudo op The 1960 optimize pseudo op is not supported output pseudo op The 1960 output pseudo op is not supported Setreal pseudo op The 1960 setreal pseudo op is not supported Chapter 2 Command Line Options 21 2 10 Depen
108. symbol is in a memory expansion part its page number is computed by the linker as a number used to map the page containing the symbol in the memory bank window If the symbol is not in a memory expansion part the page number is 0 This modifier indicates to use the 8 bit high part of the physical address of the symbol This modifier indicates to use the 8 bit low part of the physical address of the symbol For example a 68HC12 call to a function foo_example stored in memory expansion part could be written as follows Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 163 call addr foo example page foo_example and this is equivalent to call foo example And for 68HC11 it could be written as follows ldab page foo_example stab page switch jsr addr foo_example 9 21 4 Assembler Directives The 68HC11 and 68HC12 version of as have the following specific assembler directives relax The relax directive is used by the GNU Compiler to emit a specific relocation to mark a group of instructions for linker relaxation The sequence of instruc tions within the group must be known to the linker so that relaxation can be performed mode mshort mlong mshort double mlong double This directive specifies the ABI It overrides the mshort mlong mshort double and mlong double options far symbol This directive marks the symbol as a far symbol meaning that it uses a call rtc calling
109. the end of a statement The value of a character constant in a numeric expression is the machine s byte wide code for that character as assumes your character code is ASCII 4 means 65 B means 66 and so on 3 6 2 Number Constants as distinguishes three kinds of numbers according to how they are stored in the target machine Integers are numbers that would fit into an int in the C language Bignums are integers but they are stored in more than 32 bits Flonums are floating point numbers described below 3 6 2 1 Integers A binary integer is Ob or OB followed by zero or more of the binary digits 01 An octal integer is 0 followed by zero or more of the octal digits 01234567 A decimal integer starts with a non zero digit followed by zero or more digits 0123456789 A hexadecimal integer is Ox or 0X followed by one or more hexadecimal digits chosen from 0123456789abcdefABCDEF Chapter 3 Syntax 27 Integers have the usual values To denote a negative integer use the prefix operator discussed under expressions see Section 6 2 3 Prefix Operators page 39 3 6 2 2 Bignums A bignum has the same syntax and semantics as an integer except that the number or its negative takes more than 32 bits to represent in binary The distinction is made because in some places integers are permitted while bignums are not 3 6 2 3 Flonums A flonum represents a floating point numbe
110. the final executable See MMIX loc page 175 9 23 3 3 Register names Local and global registers are specified as 0 to 255 The recognized special register names are rJ rA TB rO rD rE rF rO rH TT rk rL rM rN r0 rP TQ rR IS rT rU rv rW rX rY rZ rBB rTT TWW rXX rYY and rZZ AE A leading is optional for special register names Local and global symbols can be equated to register names and used in place of ordinary registers Similarly for special registers local and global symbols can be used Also symbols equated from numbers and constant expressions are allowed in place of a special reg ister except when either of the options no predefined syms and fixed special register names are specified Then only the special register names above are allowed for the instructions having a special register operand GET and PUT Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 175 9 23 3 4 Assembler Directives LOC LOCAL IS GREG The LOC directive sets the current location to the value of the operand field which may include changing sections If the operand is a constant the section is set to either data if the value is 0x2000000000000000 or larger else it is set to text Within a section the current location may only be changed
111. to as there is no concept of a subsection location counter There is no way to directly manipulate a location counter but the align directive changes it and any label definition captures its current value The location counter of the section where statements are being assembled is said to be the active location counter 4 5 bss Section The bss section is used for local common variable storage You may allocate address space in the bss section but you may not dictate data to load into it before your program executes When your program starts running all the contents of the bss section are zeroed bytes The 1comm pseudo op defines a symbol in the bss section see Section 7 67 1comm page 54 The comm pseudo op may be used to declare a common symbol which is another form of uninitialized symbol see Section 7 8 comm page 44 When assembling for a target which supports multiple sections such as ELF or COFF you may switch into the bss section and define symbols as usual see Section 7 94 Chapter 4 Sections and Relocation 33 section page 63 You may only assemble zero values into the section Typically the section will only contain symbol definitions and skip directives see Section 7 100 skip page 66 34 Using as Chapter 5 Symbols 35 5 Symbols Symbols are a central concept the programmer uses symbols to name things the linker uses symbols to link and the debugger uses symbols to debug Warning
112. to collect statistics about branches taken no relax Do not alter compare and branch instructions for long displacements error if necessary 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 mi6c Assemble M16C instructions the default 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 nor mally the M32R but this option changes it to the M32RX warn explicit parallel conflicts or Wp Produce warning messages when questionable parallel constructs are encoun tered 8 Using as 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 1 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 proc
113. use block as a substitute See HP9000 Series 800 Assembly Language Reference Manual HP 92432 90001 for the meaning of the space directive See Sec tion 9 11 5 HPPA Assembler Directives page 120 for a summary 7 102 stabd stabn stabs There are three directives that begin stab All emit symbols see Chapter 5 Symbols page 35 for use by symbolic debuggers The symbols are not entered in the as hash table they cannot be referenced elsewhere in the source file Up to five fields are required Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 67 string This is the symbol s name It may contain any character except 000 so is more general than ordinary symbol names Some debuggers used to code arbitrarily complex structures into symbol names using this field type An absolute expression The symbol s type is set to the low 8 bits of this expression Any bit pattern is permitted but 1d and debuggers choke on silly bit patterns other An absolute expression The symbol s other attribute is set to the low 8 bits of this expression desc An absolute expression The symbol s descriptor is set to the low 16 bits of this expression value An absolute expression which becomes the symbol s value If a warning is detected while reading a stabd stabn or stabs statement the symbol has probably already been created you get a half formed symbol in your object file This is compatible with earlier assemblers stabd t
114. with the base literal or 1it4 name For example for literals defined in a section named gnu linkonce t func the literal section will be gnu linkonce literal func or gnu linkonce lit4 func 3 If the current section name or literal prefix value ends with text the literal section name is formed by replacing that suffix with the base literal or 1it4 name For example for literals defined in a section named iram0 text the literal section will be iram0 literal or iram0 1it4 4 If none of the preceding conditions apply the literal section name is formed by adding the base literal or 1it4 name as a suffix to the current section name or literal prefix value 9 36 5 5 literal_position When using text section literals to place literals inline in the section being as sembled the 1iteral position directive can be used to mark a potential location for a literal pool literal position The literal position directive is ignored when the text section literals op tion is not used or when L32R instructions use the absolute addressing mode The assembler will automatically place text section literal pools before ENTRY instruc tions so the literal position directive is only needed to specify some other location for a literal pool You may need to add an explicit jump instruction to skip over an inline literal pool For example an interrupt vector does not begin with an ENTRY instruction so the as sembler w
115. 00 cece eee eee ee 76 Alpha registers 0 eee e cece eee ee eee 77 Alpha relocations lsssses eese 77 Alpha support 76 Alpha Syntax 00 cece eee eee eee 76 Alpha only directives 0 0 0 e eee 79 altered difference table 71 alternate syntax for the 680x0 156 ARC floating point DEER 82 ARC machine directives oooooccococccccoo 82 ARG OpCodes eese copre oe ea Ne Eua eae 85 ARC options none 82 ARC register namen 82 ARC special characters ess 82 ARG SUDDO terere tartar her ME ek rd 82 arcb Ar65D ARO ria zer E HERE PER EPOR 82 arco arco ARG oreet EE TREES E das 82 ACT areh ARG copiar Eer EGRE Y 82 arc8 arc8 AR 82 arch directive i3886 00 eee eee eee 135 arch directive Mo ttt 157 arch directive x86 64 00 00 eee eee 135 architecture options i960 5 139 architecture options IP2022 146 architecture options IP2K 146 architecture options M16C 147 architecture options M32C 147 architecture options M32R 148 architecture options M32R2 148 architecture options M32RX 148 architecture options M680x0 153 Architecture variant option CRIS 104 architectures Power 188 architectures DARC 196 arguments for addition 40 arguments for subtraction 40
116. 01010rrrrr0101 1001010rrrrr0000 1001010rrrrr1010 1001010rrrrr0011 1001010rrrrr0110 1001010rrrrr0001 1001000rrrrr1111 1001001rrrrr1111 1001010rrrrr0111 1001010rrrrr0010 00000001ddddrrrr 00000010ddddrrrr 000000110ddd0rrr 000000110dddirrr 000000111dddOrrr 000000111dddirrr 1001001ddddd0000 1001000ddddd0000 1000000dddddbooo 100 000dddddee 1000001rrrrrbooo 100 001rrrrree 1001010100011001 1001010000011001 brge brhc brhs brid brie brlo brlt brmi brne brpl brsh brtc brts brvc brvs brbc brbs rcall rjmp call jmp asr com dec inc lsr neg pop push ror swap movw muls mulsu fmul fmuls fmulsu sts lds ldd ld std st eicall eijmp v v v v IM v v v v v D CH HHH D PMMA A HHH HHH HHH D EPP D i H PRP i i H ii i kd 9 HH OG CG HH Dm Dm D D D d Using as Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 99 9 5 Blackfin Dependent Features 9 5 1 Syntax Special Characters Assembler input is free format and may appear anywhere on the line One instruction may extend across multiple lines or more than one instruction may appear on the same line White space space tab comments or newline may appear anywhere between tokens A token must not have embedded spaces Tokens include numbers register names keywords user identifiers and also some multicharacter special symbols like or Instruction Delimiting A semicolon must terminate every instruction Sometimes a complete instr
117. 010rdddddrrrr 000010rdddddrrrr 000110rdddddrrrr 001001rdddddrrrr 000011rdddddrrrr 000111rdddddrrrr 001000rdddddrrrr 0111KKKKddddKKKK 0111KKKKddddKKKK 1110KKKKddddKKKK 11101111dddd1111 0110KKKKddddKKKK 0110KKKKddddKKKK 0011KKKKddddKKKK 0100KKKKddddKKKK 0101KKKKddddKKKK 1111110rrrrr0sss 1111111irrrrr0sss 1111100dddddOsss 1111101dddddOsss 10110PPdddddPPPP 10111PPrrrrrPPPP 10010110KKddKKKK 10010111KKddKKKK 10011000pppppsss 10011010pppppsss 10011001pppppsss 10011011pppppsss 1111011111111000 1111001111111000 1111001111111001 set sev sez bclr bset icall ijmp lpm lpm elpm elpm nop ret reti sleep break wdr spm adc add and cp cpc cpse eor mov mul or sbc sub elr lsl rol tst andi cbr 1di ser ori sbr cpi sbci subi sbrc sbrs bld bst in out adiw sbiw cbi sbi sbic sbis brcc brcs breq Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features H 39H c3 e e H HH HHH HH HHH H e Le D e I v v v v v v 9 v v we v9 v mm uu au om mn nn ss e e e e ii ihm sg sg UR HHH H OG GO OG GD BH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH 97 98 1111011111111100 1111011111111101 1111001111111101 1111011111111111 1111001111111111 1111001111111000 1111001111111100 1111001111111010 1111011111111001 1111011111111010 1111011111111000 1111011111111110 1111001111111110 1111011111111011 1111001111111011 1111011111111sss 1111001111111sss 1101LLLLLLLLLLLL 1100LLLLLLLLLLLL 1001010hhhhh111h 1001010hhhhh110h 10
118. 0x12345678 compute rO seth r0 shigh 0x00008000 compute rO In the second example the lower 16 bits are 0x8000 If these are treated as a signed value and sign extended to 32 bits then the value becomes Oxffff8000 If this value is then added to 0x00010000 then the result is 0x00008000 This behaviour is to allow for the different semantics of the or3 and add3 instructions The or3 instruction treats its 16 bit immediate argument as un signed whereas the add3 treats its 16 bit immediate as a signed value So for example seth r0 shigh 0x00008000 add3 r0 rO f1ow 0x00008000 Produces the correct result in r0 whereas seth r0 shigh 0x00008000 or3 rO rO ttlow 0x00008000 Stores Oxffff8000 into r0 Note the shigh directive does not know where in the assembly source code the lower 16 bits of the value are going set so it cannot check to make sure that an or3 instruction is being used rather than an add3 instruction It is up to the programmer to make sure that correct directives are used The directive performs a similar thing as the m32r command line option It tells the assembler to only accept M32R instructions from now on An instruc tions from later M32R architectures are refused The directive performs a similar thing as the m32rx command line option It tells the assembler to start accepting the extra instructions in the M32RX ISA as well as the ordinary M32R ISA The directive performs a similar thing as the
119. 1 9 2 ARC Dependent Features 00 00 ccc ce cece es 82 9 21 Options ios i 3 Er eed eg dO ee ald cele 82 IS A ec Seed ee te ri Me date tes 82 9 2 2 1 Special Characters sees sees 82 9 2 2 2 Register Names sss esses nn ei e 82 9 2 3 Floating Pomii Ike ee RR ENER a 82 9 2 4 ARC Machine Directives 0 00020 82 H OPCOdES censados ra ended eds 85 9 3 ARM Dependent Features 86 9 3 1 Opt 2 EELER te a sewed cece aaa 86 93 2 OYNAR ein thas pee See Ale bre ped eee sca ees 88 9 3 2 1 Special Character 88 9 3 2 2 Register Names avr iaa 88 9 3 3 Floating Point cc 88 9 3 3 1 ARM relocation generation 88 9 3 4 ARM Machine Dmectwes lessen 89 9 3 5 Opcodes oet RR ERRARE DERE ERE RD ENEE 93 9 3 6 Mapping Symbols 0 0 cee eee 93 9 4 AVR Dependent Features 94 vi GAA Options eer rore eet erret EE e CR PR edd 94 9 4 2 OYNAK iei eut Pee petere b esee SEAN ee 94 9 4 2 1 Special Characters 0c cece eee eee ee 94 9 4 2 2 Register Name 95 9 4 2 3 Relocatable Expression Modifiers 95 04 3 OpGOdeS c ccce at ra Ree Ga E 96 9 5 Blackfin Dependent Features 99 9 5 1 SYMAX sa cn du obe ee OP Mid bay eek A 99 9 5 2 Durectiveso ido aide a ede da id 101 9 6 CR16 Dependent Features 102 9 6 1 CR16 Operand Qualifiers 0 0 cee eee eee 102 9 7 CRIS Dependent Features 104 9 7 1 Command line Options 00 cee eee eee 104 9 7 2 Instruction expansi
120. 1 floating point instructions FADD FDIV FMUL and FSUB mfpp mfpu mfp 11 mno fpp mno fpu mno fp 11 Enable or disable the use of FP 11 floating point instructions ABSF ADDF CFCC CLRF CMPF DIVF LDCFF LDCIF LDEXP LDF LDFPS MODF MULF NEGF SETD SETF SETI SETL STCFF STCFI STEXP STF STFPS STST SUBF and TSTF 184 Using as mlimited eis mno limited eis Enable or disable the use of the limited extended instruction set MARK RTT SOB SXT and XOR The mno limited eis options also implies mno eis mmfpt mno mfpt Enable or disable the use of the MFPT instruction mmultiproc mno multiproc Enable or disable the use of multiprocessor instructions TSTSET and WRTLCK mmxps mno mxps Enable or disable the use of the MFPS and MTPS instructions mspl mno spl Enable or disable the use of the SPL instruction Enable or disable the use of the microcode instructions LDUB MED and XFC 9 25 1 3 CPU Model Options These options enable the instruction set extensions supported by a particular CPU and disables all other extensions mkaii KA11 CPU Base line instruction set only mkb11 KB11 CPU Enable extended instruction set and SPL mkdiia KD11 A CPU Enable limited extended instruction set mkdiib KD11 B CPU Base line instruction set only mkdiid KD11 D CPU Base line instruction set only mkdiie KD11 E CPU Enable extended instruction set MFPS and MTP
121. 188 PowerPC oupport eee eee eee eee 188 precedence of operators 00 0 eee ee 40 precision floating point 27 prefix operators esee 39 prefixes 1380 cb ck vL un ER Or RE TED 131 Using as preprocessing esses n nnn 23 preprocessing turning on and off 23 previous directe 60 primary attributes COFF symbols 38 print directive corrio dos da 61 proc directive SPARO oo 197 profiler directive MSP 430 180 profiling capability for MSP 430 181 protected directive o oooooccccccooccccoo o 61 pseudo op arch CRIS 000 000 108 pseudo op dword CRIS oo 107 pseudo op syntax CRIS 0 107 pseudo op BSPEC MMIX DIT pseudo op BYTE MMIX ass asasssnnansuue 176 pseudo op ESPEC MMIX 177 pseudo op GREG MMIX 175 pseudo op IS MMIX 002 175 pseudo op LOC MMIX 175 pseudo op LOCAL MMIX 175 pseudo op OCTA MMIX ssssssss 176 pseudo op PREFIX MMIX 176 pseudo op TETRA MMIX sssese 176 pseudo op WYDE MMIX 176 pseudo opcodes M tt 158 pseudo opcodes M68HC11 164 pseudo ops for branch VAX 215 pseudo ops CRIS 2 cess eee eee ee 107 pseudo ops machine independent 43 pseudo ops MMIX 00002 esee 175
122. 2 makes the assembler accept instructions from the DSP Release 2 Application Specific Extension from that point on in the assembly This dirctive implies set dsp The set nodspr2 directive prevents DSP Release 2 instructions from being accepted The directive set mt makes the assembler accept instructions from the MT Application Specific Extension from that point on in the assembly The set nomt directive prevents MT instructions from being accepted Traditional MIPS assemblers do not support these directives 172 Using as 9 23 MMIX Dependent Features 9 23 1 Command line Options The MMIX version of as has some machine dependent options When fixed special register names is specified only the register names speci fied in Section 9 23 3 3 MMIX Regs page 174 are recognized in the instructions PUT and GET You can use the globalize symbols to make all symbols global This option is useful when splitting up a mmixal program into several files H The gnu syntax turns off most syntax compatibility with mmixal Its usability is currently doubtful The relax option is not fully supported but will eventually make the object file prepared for linker relaxation If you want to avoid inadvertently calling a predefined symbol and would rather get an error for example when using as with a compiler or other machine generated code specify no predefined syms This turns off built in predefined defini
123. 2022 instructions but it will only do so if this is specifically allowed via this command line option mip2022 This option restores the assembler s default behaviour of not permitting the extended IP2022 instructions to be assembled Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 147 9 18 M32C Dependent Features as can assemble code for several different members of the Renesas M32C family Normally the default is to assemble code for the M16C microprocessor The m32c option may be used to change the default to the M32C microprocessor 9 18 1 M32C Options The Renesas M32C version of as has two machine dependent options m32c Assemble M32C instructions mi6c Assemble M16C instructions default 9 18 2 Symbolic Operand Modifiers The assembler supports several modifiers when using symbol addresses in M32C instruction operands The general syntax is the following modifier symbol dsp8 dspi6 These modifiers override the assembler s assumptions about how big a sym bol s address is Normally when it sees an operand like sym a0 it assumes sym may require the widest displacement field 16 bits for m16c 24 bits for m32c These modifiers tell it to assume the address will fit in an 8 or 16 bit respectively unsigned displacement Note that of course if it doesn t actually fit you will get linker errors Example mov w dsp8 sym a0 r1 mov b 0 dsp8 sym a0 hi8 This modifier allows you to load bits
124. 2r2 mips64 and mips64r2 correspond to generic MIPS V MIPS32 MIPS32 RELEASE 2 MIPS64 and MIPS64 RELEASE 2 ISA processors respectively You can also switch instruction sets during the assembly see Section 9 22 5 MIPS ISA page 170 mgp32 mfp32 Some macros have different expansions for 32 bit and 64 bit registers 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 166 Using as controls the size of general purpose registers and mfp32 controls the size of floating point registers The set gp 32 and set fp 32 directives allow the size of registers to be changed for parts of an object The default value is restored by set gp default and set fp default On some MIPS variants there is a 32 bit mode flag when this flag is set 64 bit instructions generate a trap Also some 32 bit OSes only save the 32 bit registers on a context switch so it is essential never to use the 64 bit registers mgp64 mfp64 Assume that 64 bit registers are available This is provided in the interests of symmetry with mgp32 and mfp32 The set gp 64 and set fp 64 directives allow the size of registers to be changed for parts of an object The default value is restored by set gp default and set fp default mipsi6 no mipsi6 Generate code for the MIPS 16 processor This is equivalent to putt
125. 30 1 Options The SPARC chip family includes several successive levels using the same core instruction set but including a few additional instructions at each level There are exceptions to this however For details on what instructions each variant supports please see the chip s architecture reference manual By default as assumes the core instruction set SPARC v6 but bumps the archi tecture level as needed it switches to successively higher architectures as it encounters instructions that only exist in the higher levels If not configured for SPARC v9 sparc64 GAS will not bump passed sparclite by default an option must be passed to enable the v9 instructions GAS treats sparclite as being compatible with v8 unless an architecture is explicitly requested SPARC v9 is always incompatible with sparclite Av6 Av7 Av8 Asparclet Asparclite Av8plus Av8plusa Av9 Av9a Use one of the A options to select one of the SPARC architectures explicitly If you select an architecture explicitly as reports a fatal error if it encounters an instruction or feature requiring an incompatible or higher level Av8plus and Av8plusa select a 32 bit environment Av9 and Av9a select a 64 bit environment and are not available unless GAS is explicitly configured with 64 bit environment support Av8plusa and Av9a enable the SPARC V9 instruction set with Ultra SPARC extensions
126. 6 4 Xtensa Relaxation page 226 and optimization see Section 9 36 3 Xtensa Optimizations page 225 begin no transform end no transform Transformations are enabled by default unless the no transform option is used The transform directive overrides the default determined by the command line options An underscore opcode prefix disabling transformation of that opcode always takes precedence over both directives and command line flags 9 36 5 4 literal The literal directive is used to define literal pool data i e read only 32 bit data accessed via L32R instructions literal label value value This directive is similar to the standard word directive except that the actual location of the literal data is determined by the assembler and linker not by the position of the literal directive Using this directive gives the assembler freedom to locate the literal data in the most appropriate place and possibly to combine identical literals For example the code entry sp 40 literal L1 sym 132r as L1 can be used to load a pointer to the symbol sym into register a4 The value of sym will not be placed between the ENTRY and L32R instructions instead the assembler puts the data in a literal pool Literal pools are placed by default in separate literal sections however when using the text section literals option see Section 9 36 1 Command Line Options page 223 the literal pools for PC rel
127. 64 mfp32 mgp32 march CPU mtune CPU mips1 mips2 mips3 mips4 mips5 mips32 mips32r2 mips64 mips64r2 construct floats no construct floats trap no break break no trap mfix7000 mno fix 7000 mfix ice9a mno fix ice9a mips16 no mips16 msmartmips mno smartmips mips3d no mips3d mdmx no mdmx mdsp mno dsp mdspr2 mno dspr2 mmt mno mt mdebug no mdebug Using as Chapter 1 Overview 3 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 PDP11 options mpic mno pic mall mno extensions mextension mno extension mcpu mmachine Target picoJava options mb me Target PowerPC options mpwrx mpwr2 mpwr m601 mppc mppc32 m603 m604 m403 m405 mppc64 m620 mppc64bridge mbooke mbooke32 mbooke64 mcom many maltivec memb mregnames mno regnames mrelocatable mrelocatable lib mlittle mlittle endian mbig mbig endian msolaris mno solaris Target SPARC options A v6 Av7 Av8 Asparclet Asparclite Av8plus Av8plusa Av9 Av9a xarch v8plus xarch v8plusa bump 32 64 Target TIC54X options mcpu 54 123589 mcpu 54 56 Ip mfar mode mf merror
128. 9 10 23 Addressing Modes 3 ve EEN re KEEN EEN 117 Using as 9 10 3 Floating Pot 118 9 10 4 H8 300 Machine Directives eee eee 119 9 10 b SOpPCOdES i cence se cane AEN ae EUER eee we ae 119 9 11 HPPA Dependent Features 0 0002 eee 120 Oleh Te 120 9 112 ele 120 LES Made 120 9 11 4 Floating Pont 120 9 11 5 HPPA Assembler Directives 0ooooooocoocooooooo 120 9 11 60 OBCOdeS musicas BEE ete ede tad SE rebar 124 9 12 ESA 390 Dependent Features 125 9 195b Nole dites caged Lent dee 125 9 12 2 e le 125 9 12 3 Synlaxi chert O bebe ope 125 9 12 4 Floating Polti i Lente meer hebes 126 9 12 5 ESA 390 Assembler Directives usussusrurreeuna 126 9 12 0 OpcOdes at eate EELER aaa 127 9 13 80386 Dependent Features 000 0 cece cece eee 128 dE HN ele 128 9 13 2 AT amp T Syntax versus Intel Syntax 129 9 13 3 Instruction Nammg eee eee 129 9 134 AT amp T Mnemonic versus Intel Mnemonic 130 9 13 5 Register Naming ci SEENEN rmt ERR ANE ANE 130 9 13 6 Instruction Preise 131 9 13 7 Memory References 00 c eee e eee ene 132 9 13 8 Handling of Jump Instructions 0 133 9 13 9 Floating Pot 133 9 13 10 Inte s MMX and AMD s 3DNow SIMD Operations 134 9 13 11 Writing 16 bit Code 134 9 13 12 AT amp T Syntax EE 135 9 13 13 Specifying CPU Architecture 004 135 EI Notes de tasted tue S ELE Ri pea Pee 136 9 14 Intel 1860 Depend
129. 9 13 10 Intel s MMX and AMD s 3DNow SIMD Operations as supports Intel s MMX instruction set SIMD instructions for integer data available on Intel s Pentium MMX processors and Pentium II processors AMD s K6 and K6 2 proces sors Cyrix M2 processor and probably others It also supports AMD s 3DNow instruction set SIMD instructions for 32 bit floating point data available on AMD s K6 2 processor and possibly others in the future Currently as does not support Intel s floating point SIMD Katmai KNI The eight 64 bit MMX operands also used by 3DNow are called mg mmt mt They contain eight 8 bit integers four 16 bit integers two 32 bit integers one 64 bit integer or two 32 bit floating point values The MMX registers cannot be used at the same time as the floating point stack See Intel and AMD documentation keeping in mind that the operand order in instruc tions is reversed from the Intel syntax 9 13 11 Writing 16 bit Code While as normally writes only pure 32 bit 1386 code or 64 bit x86 64 code depending on the default configuration it also supports writing code to run in real mode or in 16 bit protected mode code segments To do this put a code16 or code16gcc directive before the assembly language instructions to be run in 16 bit mode You can switch as back to writing normal 32 bit code with the code32 directive code16gcc provides experimental support for
130. 97427 73203530 25206F66 662200 rsect synonym for section block synonym for space even special case of align aligns output to even byte boundary Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 213 9 33 4 Opcodes For detailed information on the Z8000 machine instruction set see Z8000 Technical Manual 9 34 VAX Dependent Features 9 34 1 VAX Command Line Options The Vax version of as accepts any of the following options gives a warning message that the option was ignored and proceeds These options are for compatibility with scripts designed for other people s assemblers D Debug S Symbol Table T Token Trace These are obsolete options used to debug old assemblers d Displacement size for JUMPs This option expects a number following the d Like options that expect file names the number may immediately follow the d old standard or constitute the whole of the command line argument that follows d GNU standard V Virtualize Interpass Temporary File Some other assemblers use a temporary file This option commanded them to keep the information in active memory rather than in a disk file as always does this so this option is redundant J JUMPify Longer Branches Many 32 bit computers permit a variety of branch instructions to do the same job Some of these instructions are short and fast but have a limited range others are long and slow but can branch anywhere in virtual memory Often the
131. A brief description is provided here comdat provides a form of linkonce support It is useful for both code and data subspaces A comdat subspace has a key symbol marked by the is_comdat flag or ST_COMDAT Only the first subspace for any given key is selected The key symbol becomes universal in shared links This is similar to the behavior of secondary_def symbols common provides Fortran named common support It is only useful for data subspaces Symbols with the flag is_common retain this flag in shared links Referencing a is_common symbol in a shared library from outside the library doesn t work Thus is_common symbols must be output whenever they are needed common and dup_comm together provide Cobol common support The sub spaces in this case must all be the same length Otherwise this support is similar to the Fortran common support dup_comm by itself provides a type of one only support for code Only the first dup_comm subspace is selected There is a rather complex algorithm to compare subspaces Code symbols marked with the dup_common flag are hidden This support was intended for C duplicate inlines A simplified technique is used to mark the flags of symbols based on the flags of their subspace A symbol with the scope SS_ UNIVERSAL and type ST_ENTRY ST_CODE or ST_DATA is marked with the corresponding set tings of comdat commo
132. A e Be tos 4 DR peach as hae eh o race eeh 59 LIS NOLMSt SEENEN pad peed pa d eae es 59 GOO Octa bigen ms omitido 59 CSL org peche y fill acto d kukiki nii 59 7 81 p2align wl abs expr abs expr abs expr 60 1 82 previous oes e er b Ra eder A ade EUR E Re FUR et 60 ZE JpOpSeCtiORh ever ap eee P c Rn REI ds 61 81 sprint String n das Rex uia X eer HEU eI 61 7 85 protected names ees 61 1 80 psize lines columns rk sebid diid NS AE A 61 GSI EE 62 7 88 pushsection name subsection flags EE EE 62 1 50 quad bignums elg al sade SE acetate Rp ER Ee 62 7 90 reloc offset reloc name expression 62 COL stept co nto a canton we nhc EG EE Rendons alae pales noo 62 1 902 sbttl subheading secs isses geben nhi Rake 63 1 99 SCT Sii eh oe A a abro Paci serio dete 63 T94 section NAME EEN Aa OO RR ncs 63 7 95 sert symbol expreSSion 0 cece ee eee 65 7 96 short expressions esses 65 TIT single LLIOMUMS oce eee ad kb don eaten d 66 CIS LL pm 66 G99 Slebi28 CXpressiONs EE REELLE been sae eee ERE wees 66 100 skip size fill eg tae oS SNE 66 LOL Space Size fill 2 5e 2er be i tea dn 66 7 102 stabd stabn stabgs eese ee 66 7 103 string str string8 str atringl 67 7 104 struct ezpresgion eee 68 7 105 subsection name sees es 68 MU A uper e rotten tena acne 68 7 107 Jtag structname sssssss nnn 69 LOS es
133. Cha rx r31 1d 1 addr_exp 1 r31 rn The analogous expansions apply to 1d x st x fld x pfld x fst x and pst x as well e Signed large immediate with add subtract If any of the arithmetic operations adds addu subs subu are used with an im mediate larger than 16 bits signed then they will be expanded For instance the pseudo instruction adds large_imm Arx rn expands to orh large_immCh r0 r31 or large imm0l r31 r31 adds r31 rx rn e Unsigned large immediate with logical operations Logical operations or andnot or xor also result in expansions The pseudo instruction or large imm rx Arn results in orh large_immCh rx r31 or large imm0l r31 rn Similarly for the others except for and which expands to andnot 1 large imm Qh Arx Ar31 andnot 1 large_imm 1 r31 rn Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 139 9 15 Intel 80960 Dependent Features 9 15 1 1960 Command line Options ACA ACA_A ACB ACC AKA AKB AKC AMC Select the 80960 architecture Instructions or features not supported by the selected architecture cause fatal errors ACA is equivalent to ACA_A AKC is equivalent to AMC Synonyms are provided for compatibility with other tools If you do not specify any of these options as generates code for any instruction or feature that is supported by some version of the 960 even if this means mix ing architectures In principle as attempts to d
134. Document on account of their being thus compiled if they are not themselves derivative works of the Document If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these copies of the Document then if the Document is less than one quarter of the entire aggregate the Document s Cover Texts may be placed on covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate 8 TRANSLATION Translation is considered a kind of modification so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections You may include a translation of this License provided that you also include the original English version of this License In case of a disagreement 244 10 Using as between the translation and the original English version of this License the original English version will prevail TERMINATION You may not copy modify sublicense or distribute the Document except as expressly provided for under this License Any other attempt to copy modify sublicense or distribute the Document is void and will automatically terminate your rights under this License However parties who have received copies or rights from you under th
135. EG bufferi LDOU 42 tmpreg buffer2 buffer1 Global registers allocated with this directive are allocated in order higher to lower within a file Other than that the exact order of register allocation and elimination is undefined For example the order is undefined when more than one file with such directives are linked together With the options x and linker allocated gregs GREG directives for two operand cases like the one mentioned above can be omitted Sufficient global registers will then be allocated by the linker The BYTE directive takes a series of operands separated by a comma If an operand is a string see Section 3 6 1 1 Strings page 25 each character of that string is emitted as a byte Other operands must be constant expres sions without forward references in the range 0 255 If you need operands having expressions with forward references use byte see Section 7 7 Byte page 44 An operand can be omitted defaulting to a zero value The directives WYDE TETRA and OCTA emit constants of two four and eight bytes size respectively Before anything else happens for the directive the current location is aligned to the respective constant size boundary If a label is defined at the beginning of the line its value will be that after the alignment A single operand can be omitted defaulting to a zero value emitted for the directive Operands can be expressed as strings s
136. ENRE ERE a E E 18 2 5 include Search Path path 18 2 6 Difference Tables KI 18 2 7 Include Local Symbols ct 18 2 8 Configuring listing output Listing 18 2 9 Assemble in MRI Compatibility Mode M 19 2 10 Dependency Tracking o 21 2 11 Name the Object File Zei 21 2 12 Join Data and Text Sections Ri 21 2 13 Display Assembly Statistics statistics 21 2 14 Compatible Output traditional format 21 2 15 Announce Version Zeg 21 2 16 Control Warnings W warn no warn SP abel EE 22 2 17 Generate Object File in Spite of Errors i 22 anii p E dg 23 3 1 Preprocessig esos eee knee y e e SEELEN es 23 3 2 Whitespace de ne ese uiris grad Ks wale Di Rer Ee die 23 9 9 COMME la A E E a er 23 BA Symbols et EEN ts 24 KEE 24 S EE e EE 25 3 6 1 Character Constanta 0 cece eee eee eee eee 25 2 02 1 ONES e oad hdd edet edt aia 2 25 3 0 1 2 Characters armado pd taa 26 3 6 2 Number Constautsa 0 000 e eee centres 26 3 6 2 1 Integers m rema rte ye See 26 2 0 2 2 EE 27 3 0 2 3 blemer ee eege E din 27 ii Using as 4 Sections and Relocation 29 Al Barker veses RR rene a E E EE 29 4 2 Linker Sections 20 ic AA a E eee dae g 30 4 3 Assembler Internal Sections operta ERR ri aaa 31 44 SUD SCCHONS dese Re tata la GEDA 31 4 5 bes Section EIERE d A dd 32 5 OVO cases ete sehen ERAN ADA 35 ON WEE 35 5 2 G
137. IX_ FLAG esyntaxclass Determines the syntax class for the instruction It can have the following values SYNTAX_20P 2 Operand Instruction SYNTAX_30P 3 Operand Instruction In addition there could be modifiers for the syntax class as described below Syntax Class Modifiers are OP1_MUST_BE_IMM Modifies syntax class SYNTAX_30P specifying that the first operand of a three operand instruction must be an immediate i e the result is discarded OP1 MUST BE IMM is used by bitwise ORing it with SYNTAX 3OP as given in the example below This could usually be used to set the flags using specific instructions and not retain results OP1_IMM_IMPLIED Modifies syntax class SYNTAX_20P it specifies that there is an implied immediate destination operand which does not appear in the syntax For example if the source code contains an instruction like inst r1 r2 it really means that the first argument is an implied immediate that is the result is discarded This is the same as though the source code were inst 0 r1 r2 You use OP1_IMM_IMPLIED by bitwise ORing it with SYNTAX_20P For example defining 64 bit multiplier with immediate operands extInstruction mp64 0x14 0x0 SUFFIX_COND SUFFIX_FLAG SYNTAX_30P 0P1_MUST_BE_IMM Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 85 The above specifies an extension instruction called mp64 which has 3 operands sets the flags can be used with a condition code for which the first op
138. N 96 mnemonics DIOV eoa nee 112 mnemonics D30V 2 5 e der Red 116 mnemonics HS 200 a nus asauasurrnunu 119 mnemonics DH 192 mnemonics SHOL 0000 e eee eee 195 mnemonics Z8000 0 000 eee ee eee 213 mnolist directive TIC54X 204 Motorola syntax for the 680x0 156 MOVI instructions relaxation 227 MOVW and MOVT relocations ARM 88 MRI compatibility mode 19 mri GITECHIVE tir feed es eck eee ves 55 MRI mode temporarily 0 55 MSP 430 floating point IEEE 180 MSP 430 identifiers llllseleellesssees 179 MSP 430 line comment character 179 MSP 430 machine directives 180 MSP 430 MACTOS 000 eee ee ee eee ee 179 MSP 430 opcodes eee ee eee eee 181 MSP 430 options none 179 MSP 430 profiling capability 181 MSP 430 register namen 179 MSP 430 eupport eridi nnii eee eee eee eee 179 MSP430 Assembler Extensions 179 mul instruction 12380 136 mul instruction zH0 D4 136 NAMEN EELER e d EE dia SES 212 named secthon 0 6 cee eee 63 named sections llle 30 names symbol 2 2 c rade 35 naming object Die 21 new page in listings 48 newblock directive TIC54X 204 newline Xn st cereis eer Meee E RH REIR dee 25 newline required at file end 24 no absolute literals directive 231
139. OC MMIX 175 assembler directive LOCAL MMIX 175 assembler directive OCTA MMIX 176 assembler directive PREFIX MMIX 176 assembler directive TETRA MMIX 176 assembler directive WYDE MMIX 176 assembler directives CRIS 107 assembler directives M68HC11 163 assembler directives M68HC12 163 assembler directives MMIX 175 assembler internal logic error 31 assembler version 21 assembler and linker n s anuuuennannnnn nne 29 assembly listings enabling 17 assigning values to symbols 35 49 atmp directive i860 0 2000 138 att syntax pseudo op 1386 129 att syntax pseudo op x86 64 129 attributes symbol 05 3T auxiliary attributes COFF symbols 38 auxiliary symbol information COFF 48 deer Ee 196 AVR line comment character 95 AVR line separater 95 AVR modifiers 000 cece eee eee eee 95 AVR opcode summary 0e eee eee 96 AVR options none 94 AVR register namen 95 AVR support 94 B backslash NX e eee pe ri E YE ss 26 backspace Dh 25 balign directive iiie e 44 balignl directive eeeeeeeeee 44 balignw directive ooooooooooooommmooo 44 bes directive TICBAX 0 ooccoccccooccocooo 204 BEIN dire
140. Oxf6 extension 4 for mul and 5 for imul can be output only in the one operand form Thus imul ebx eax does not select the expanding multiply the expanding multiply would clobber the Ledx register and this would confuse gcc output Use imul ebx to get the 64 bit product in fedx heax We have added a two operand form of imul when the first operand is an immediate mode expression and the second operand is a register This is just a shorthand so that multiplying 4eax by 69 for example can be done with imul 69 eax rather than imul 69 feax feax Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 137 9 14 Intel i860 Dependent Features 9 14 1 i860 Notes This is a fairly complete i860 assembler which is compatible with the UNIX System V 860 Release 4 assembler However it does not currently support SVR4 PIC De GOT OGOTOFF PLT Like the SVR4 860 assembler the output object format is ELF32 Currently this is the only supported object format If there is sufficient interest other formats such as COFF may be implemented Both the Intel and AT amp T SVRA syntaxes are supported with the latter being the default One difference is that AT amp T syntax requires the prefix on register names while Intel syntax does not Another difference is in the specification of relocatable expressions The Intel syntax is hafexpression whereas the SVR4 syntax is expression Cha and similarly for the
141. P or PC Auto Pre Increment Pre Decrement Post Increment Post Decrement number reg number reg number reg number reg The number must be in the range 8 8 and must not be 0 The register can be either X Y SP or PC Accumulator Offset acc reg The accumulator register can be either A B or D The register can be either Y Y SP or PC Accumulator D offset indexed indirect D reg The register can be either X Y SP or PC For example ldab 1024 sp ldd 10 x orab 3 x stab 2 y ldx a pc sty d sp 9 21 3 Symbolic Operand Modifiers The assembler supports several modifiers when using symbol addresses in 68HC11 and 68HC12 instruction operands The general syntax is the following addr page hi lo modifier symbol This modifier indicates to the assembler and linker to use the 16 bit physical address corresponding to the symbol This is intended to be used on memory window systems to map a symbol in the memory bank window If the symbol is in a memory expansion part the physical address corresponds to the symbol address within the memory bank window If the symbol is not in a memory ex pansion part this is the symbol address using or not using the addr modifier has no effect in that case This modifier indicates to use the memory page number corresponding to the symbol If the
142. S mkdiif mkdiih mkdiiq KD11 F KD11 H or KD11 Q CPU Enable limited extended instruction set MFPS and MTPS mkdiik KD11 K CPU Enable extended instruction set LDUB MED MFPS MFPT MTPS and XFC mkdiiz KD11 Z CPU Enable extended instruction set CSM MFPS MFPT MTPS and SPL mfi1 F11 CPU Enable extended instruction set MFPS MFPT and MTPS mjii J11 CPU Enable extended instruction set CSM MFPS MFPT MTPS SPL TSTSET and WRTLCK mt 11 T11 CPU Enable limited extended instruction set MFPS and MTPS 9 25 1 4 Machine Model Options These options enable the instruction set extensions supported by a particular machine model and disables all other extensions m11 03 Same as mkd11f Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 185 m11 04 Same as mkd11d m11 05 m11 10 Same as mkd11b m11 15 m11 20 Same as mka11 m11 21 Same as mt11 m11 23 m11 24 Same as mf11 m11 34 Same as mkd11e m11 34a Ame as mkdiie mfpp m11 35 m11 40 Same as mkdi11a m11 44 Same as mkd11z m11 45 mi1 50 m11 55 m11 70 Same as mkb11 m11 53 m11 73 m11 83 m11 84 m11 93 m11 94 Same as mj11 m11 60 Same as mkd11k 9 25 2 Assembler Directives The PDP 11 version of as has a few machine dependent assembler directives bas Switch to the bss section even Align the location counter to an even number 9 25 3 PDP 11 Assembly Language Syntax as sup
143. S Pierina to ceed 170 SOU ol AAA ES 170 SOG ASP EE 171 E oo icc dice cdeed as cies 171 set MEME 2 spon dee s ieira bisaa ages eas 171 EE E BEER 171 EE EE 170 EE 171 Set noautoextend ee eee eee 170 SO nodBp ir EE na Bet nodspr2 i ia teens e RES 171 Bot nomdmx EES 171 Set nomips3d senos rr e rena 171 Set nomt icoucasaces dete das med guerres 171 Bet nosmartmilps iiieegneee i Tiii iiis s 171 SODOM Lit a dana o 169 Bet POP isis intend SE Se SE 171 iBet push ere H wien tube we Pattee deans ahs 171 E TEE 171 E ue EE 169 setfp directive ARM 91 unwind raw directive ARM 92 v850 directive V850 22 0000 220 v850e directive V n0 esses 220 v850e1 directive V 220 vsave directive ARM 92 Z800 derer dew eter eate date arate gs 212 ZOO Di EA 212 label nite S dvi viet babe pees 25 word modifier DIO V ooooo ccoooo o o 112 opcode PLA cui a 224 V doublequote character 26 XN IN character AEN EELER etes 26 Vb backspace character 25 ddd octal character code 25 f formfeed character 0 0000 25 n newline character 25 Vr carriage return character 25 Nt hab EE 25 KE E Appendix A AS Index 1 16 bit code 1386s ER eae ee ns 134 2 2byte directive AR 82 2byte directive ARM 89 3 3byte directive AR 82 BDNow EE 134 3DNow 80604 134 4 430
144. SPARC architecture Av8plus and Av8plusa select a 32 bit environment Av9 and Av9a select a 64 bit environment Av8plusa and Av9a enable the SPARC V9 instruction set with Ultra SPARC extensions xarch v8plus xarch v8plusa For compatibility with the Solaris v9 assembler These options are equivalent to Av8plus and Av8plusa respectively bump Warn when the assembler switches to another architecture The following options are available when as is configured for the c54x architecture 10 Using as mfar mode Enable extended addressing mode All addresses and relocations will assume extended addressing usually 23 bits mcpu CPU VERSION Sets the CPU version being compiled for merrors to file FILENAME Redirect error output to a file for broken systems which don t support such behaviour in the shell 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 mipsi mips2 mips3 mips4 mips5 mips32 mips32r2 mips64 mips64r2 Generate code for a particular MIPS Instruction Set Architecture level mips1 is an alias for
145. SUPPOLE cic ence sea dea deena Se EEN 179 4byte directive AR 82 4byte directive ARM 89 8 8byte directive ARM 89 AGOUG sse kia va Par eee eG RU de EE PES ad 15 a out symbol attributes ssssarseeseue 37 A_DIR environment variable TIC54X 198 ABI options SH64 0 eee eee 193 abort directive 0 eee eee eee 43 ABORT directe 43 absolute section 30 absolute literals directive 231 ADDI instructions relaxation 228 addition permitted arguments 40 ele 0s shies qu rp Cep LEE ESE Dee ETE S 39 addresses format of 30 addressing modes DIN T11 addressing modes D 116 addressing modes HS 200 Bad addressing modes M tt 155 addressing modes M68HC11 161 addressing modes SH 191 addressing modes GDH6 194 addressing modes 29000 211 ADR reg lt label gt pseudo op ARM 93 ADRL reg lt label gt pseudo op ARM 93 advancing location counter 59 align d rgebiwe cs rarere eiee e Re nE ee a 43 align directive ARM 89 align directive BDARC 197 align directive TICBAX 0 201 alignment of branch targets 225 alignment of LOOP instructions 225 Alpha floating point EFFE 79 Alpha line comment character 76 249 Alpha line separator sssse essel 76 Alpha notes 76 Alpha options 0
146. SuperH and SuperH SH 64 Bit RISC Series SuperH as implements all the standard SH opcodes No additional pseudo instructions are needed on this family Note however that because as supports a simpler form of PC relative addressing you may simply write for example mov l bar r0 where other assemblers might require an explicit displacement to bar from the program counter mov l disp PC Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 193 9 29 SuperH SH64 Dependent Features 9 29 1 Options isa sh4 sh4a Specify the sh4 or sh4a instruction set isa dsp Enable sh dsp insns and disable sh3e sh4 insns isa fp Enable sh2e sh3e sh4 and sh4a insn sets isa all Enable shl sh2 sh2e sh3 sh3e sh4 sh4a and sh dsp insn sets isa shmedia isa shcompact Specify the default instruction set SHmedia specifies the 32 bit opcodes and SHcompact specifies the 16 bit opcodes compatible with previous SH families The default depends on the ABI selected the default for the 64 bit ABI is SHmedia and the default for the 32 bit ABI is SHcompact If neither the ABI nor the ISA is specified the default is 32 bit SHcompact Note that the mode pseudo op is not permitted if the ISA is not specified on the command line abi 32 abi 64 Specify the default ABI If the ISA is specified and the ABI is not the default ABI depends on the ISA with SHmedia defaulting to 64 bit and SHcompact defaulting to 32 bit Note that the abi pseudo op
147. The object file contains no representation of subsections 1d and other programs that manipulate object files see no trace of them They just see all your text subsections as a text section and all your data subsections as a data section To specify which subsection you want subsequent statements assembled into use a nu meric argument to specify it in a text expression or a data expression statement When generating COFF output you can also use an extra subsection argument with arbi trary named sections section name expression When generating ELF output you can also use the subsection directive see Section 7 105 SubSection page 68 to specify a subsection subsection expression Expression should be an absolute expression see Chapter 6 Expressions page 39 If you just say text then text 0 is assumed Likewise data means data 0 Assembly begins in text 0 For instance tert 0 The default subsection is text 0 anyway ascii This lives in the first text subsection text 1 ascii But this lives in the second text subsection data 0 ascii This lives in the data section ascii in the first data subsection text O ascii This lives in the first text section ascii immediately following the asterisk Each section has a location counter incremented by one for every byte assembled into that section Because subsections are merely a convenience restricted
148. The only way to include a newline Wn in a comment is to use this sort of comment This sort of comment does not nest 24 Using as Anything from the line comment character to the next newline is considered a comment and is ignored The line comment character is on the ARC on the ARM for the H8 300 family for the HPPA on the i386 and x86 64 on the 1960 for the PDP 11 for picoJava i for Motorola PowerPC for the Renesas SuperH SH on the SPARC on the ip2k on the m32c on the m32r on the 680x0 on the 68HC11 and 68HC12 on the Vax for the Z80 for the Z8000 t on the V850 4 for Xtensa systems see Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 On some machines there are two different line comment characters One character only begins a comment if it is the first non whitespace character on a line while the other always begins a comment The V850 assembler also supports a double dash as starting a comment that extends to the end of the line To be compatible with past assemblers lines that begin with have a special inter pretation Following the should be an absolute expression see Chapter 6 Expressions page 39 the logical line number of the nert line Then a string see Section 3 6 1 1 Strings page 25 is allowed if present it is a new logical file name
149. Using as The GNU Assembler Sourcery G Lite 2008q3 67 Version 2 18 50 The Free Software Foundation Inc thanks The Nice Computer Company of Australia for loaning Dean Elsner to write the first Vax version of as for Project GNU The proprietors management and staff of TNCCA thank FSF for distracting the boss while they got some work done Dean Elsner Jay Fenlason amp friends Using as Edited by Cygnus Support Copyright 1991 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2006 2007 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 1 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 Table of Contents 1 OVO PVIOW 4664585545 RR Bee Re Eden es ee 1 1 1 Structure of this Mama 14 1 2 The GNU Assembler 000 cece cece ee 14 1 3 Object File Formate 0 c cece cece eee ENRETE 14 1 4 Command Line eror vad eebe aee 14 1 5 Input Pies keneI a E ee eege RES 15 1 6 tee Object E Ee Seege eege Eege maces 15 1 7 Error and Warning Messagen 16 Command Line Options 17 2 1 Enable Listings atcdbinsl eee 17 2 3 alternate EE 17 e EE 17 2 4 Work Faster Cfi ras inite aig iip eP
150. X 216 operands in expressions 39 operator precedence 0 eee eee eee 40 operators in expressions esee ees 39 operators permitted arguments 40 optimization DIN T optimization DOUM Y optimizations lee 225 option directive ARC 85 option directive TIC54X 204 option summary sseee n 1 options for Alpha isssss selle 76 options for ARC none ssessesssse 82 options for ARM none 86 options for AVR none 94 options for i386 0 eee eee eee 128 options for IA 64 0 0002 143 options for MSP430 none 179 options for PDP 183 options for Power 188 options for SPARC 00000000 196 options for V850 none 217 options for VAXIVMS 213 options for x86 64 1 0 0 0 0 cece eee eee ee 128 options for 290 208 options all versions of assembler I7 options command line 0000 14 options CRIS dran Rr e 104 208 options D IOV co ra x 109 options D30V eee eee ee eee 113 options H8 300 Inone di options 2000 139 options IP2K curra arre eR 146 options Mai iussus cde ago ea rb d E ee 147 options MR EELER ee SES nea wa 148 options M n 152 options MoSHCH eese 160 options MUMEX ue ett or ngon 172 options PI ENEE dE da bed 187 options ODE EEN 190 options SH64 0 0 eee eee eee 193 options TIC54X 0 ee
151. 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 1d Nevertheless we ve tried to make as assemble correctly everything that other assemblers for the same machine would assemble Any exceptions are documented explicitly see Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 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 Unlike older assemblers as is designed to assemble a source program in one pass of the source file This has a subtle impact on the org directive see Section 7 80 org page 59 1 3 Object File Formats The GNU assembler can be configured to produce several alternative object file formats For the most part this does not affect how you write assembly language programs but direc tives for debugging symbols are typically different in different file formats See Section 5 5 Symbol Attributes page 37 1 4 Command Line After the program name as the command line may contain options and file names Options may appear in any order and may be before after or between file names The order of file names is significant
152. ables the optimization 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 7 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 ex ecute on the target processor The following processor names are recognized 18086 1186 1286 1386 i486 1586 1686 pentium pentiumpro pentiumii pentiumiii pentium4 prescott nocona core core2 k6 k6 2 athlon sledgehammer opteron k8 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 mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 sse4 1 sse4 2 sse4 vmx smx xsave 3dnow 3dnowa sse4a sse5 svme abm and padlock 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 va
153. acts If you are not sure whether to state a fact or leave it out state 16 Often people omit facts because they think they know what causes the problem and assume that some details do not matter Thus you might assume that the name of a symbol you use in an example does not matter Well probably it does not but one cannot be sure Perhaps the bug is a stray memory reference which happens to fetch from the location where that name is stored in memory perhaps if the name were different the contents of that location would fool the assembler into doing the right thing despite the bug Play it safe and give a specific complete example That is the easiest thing for you to do and the most helpful Keep in mind that the purpose of a bug report is to enable us to fix the bug if it is new to us Therefore always write your bug reports on the assumption that the bug has not been reported previously Sometimes people give a few sketchy facts and ask Does this ring a bell This cannot help us fix a bug so it is basically useless We respond by asking for enough details to 234 Using as enable us to investigate You might as well expedite matters by sending them to begin with To enable us to fix the bug you should include all these things e The version of as as announces it if you start it with the version argument Without this we will not know whether there is any point in looking for the bug in the current version of as
154. age 16 formfeed ME serie rere ER ERERRRIG ERG 25 func directive 0 cece eee eee 50 functions in expressions seeesee ees 39 253 G gbr960 1960 postprocessor 139 gfloat directive VAX 0 000000 214 EE 212 global directive iia dee oes 51 global directive TIC54X ooooooooooo o 203 gp register MIPS sonare faves bees 169 gp register V850 2 0 0 sauces eed 218 grouping data iiis o e E karen 31 H H8 300 addressing mode 117 H8 300 floating point IEEE 118 H8 300 line comment character 117 H8 300 line separater 117 H8 300 machine directives none 119 H8 300 opcode summary 04 119 H8 300 options none kb H8 300 regieterz esses 117 H8 300 size SU IXeS oooococccccccccccoo 119 H8 300 support 117 H8 300H assembling Ier 119 half directive AR 85 half directive DARC 197 half directive TIC54X 000000 203 hex character code az 26 hexadecimal integers 005 26 hexadecimal prefix 290 208 hfloat directive NA 214 hi pseudo op N he 221 hi0 pseudo op V 220 hidden directive 0 0 0 e ee ee eee 51 high directive M32R eee 149 hilo pseudo op V n0 00 e ee eee 221 HPPA directives not supported 120 HPPA floating point IEEE 120 APPA Syttax secs pesca eed EE kp ha eas 120 HPPA only directives
155. align command line option see Section 9 36 1 Command Line Options page 223 The target alignment optimization is done without adding instructions that could in crease the execution time of the program If there are density instructions in the code 226 Using as preceding a target the assembler can change the target alignment by widening some of those instructions to the equivalent 24 bit instructions Extra bytes of padding can be in serted immediately following unconditional jump and return instructions This approach is usually successful in aligning many but not all branch targets The LOOP family of instructions must be aligned such that the first instruction in the loop body does not cross an instruction fetch boundary e g with a 32 bit fetch width a LOOP instruction must be on either a 1 or 2 mod 4 byte boundary The assembler knows about this restriction and inserts the minimal number of 2 or 3 byte no op instructions to satisfy it When no op instructions are added any label immediately preceding the original loop will be moved in order to refer to the loop instruction not the newly generated no op instruction To preserve binary compatibility across processors with different fetch widths the assembler conservatively assumes a 32 bit fetch width when aligning LOOP instructions except if the first instruction in the loop is a 64 bit instruction Previous versions of the assembler automatically aligned ENTRY instructions
156. all the options which are controlled by set The set push directive saves the current settings on a stack The set pop directive pops the stack and restores the settings These directives can be useful inside an macro which must change an option such as the ISA level or instruction reordering but does not want to change the state of the code which invoked the macro Traditional MIPS assemblers do not support these directives 9 22 9 Directives to control generation of MIPS ASE instructions The directive set mips3d makes the assembler accept instructions from the MIPS 3D Application Specific Extension from that point on in the assembly The set nomips3d directive prevents MIPS 3D instructions from being accepted The directive set smartmips makes the assembler accept instructions from the Smart MIPS Application Specific Extension to the MIPS32 ISA from that point on in the assembly The set nosmartmips directive prevents SmartMIPS instructions from being accepted The directive set mdmx makes the assembler accept instructions from the MDMX Ap plication Specific Extension from that point on in the assembly The set nomdmx directive prevents MDMX instructions from being accepted The directive set dsp makes the assembler accept instructions from the DSP Release 1 Application Specific Extension from that point on in the assembly The set nodsp directive prevents DSP Release 1 instructions from being accepted The directive set dspr
157. an 8 byte integer If the bignum won t fit in 8 bytes it prints a warning message and just takes the lowest order 8 bytes of the bignum The term quad comes from contexts in which a word is two bytes hence quad word for 8 bytes 7 90 reloc offset reloc name expression Generate a relocation at offset of type reloc name with value expression If offset is a number the relocation is generated in the current section If offset is an expression that resolves to a symbol plus offset the relocation is generated in the given symbol s section expression if present must resolve to a symbol plus addend or to an absolute value but note that not all targets support an addend e g ELF REL targets such as 1386 store an addend in the section contents rather than in the relocation This low level interface does not support addends stored in the section 7 91 rept count Repeat the sequence of lines between the rept directive and the next endr directive count times For example assembling rept 3 Long 0 endr is equivalent to assembling long 0 Long 0 Long 0 Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 63 7 92 sbttl subheading Use subheading as the title third line immediately after the title line when generating assembly listings This directive affects subsequent pages as well as the current page if it appears within ten lines of the top of a page 7 93 scl class Set the storage class value for a symbol T
158. an error when an unwind directive check fails 144 Using as mhint b ok mhint b warning mhint b error These options control what the assembler will do when the hint b instruction is used mhint b ok will make the assembler accept hint b mint b warning will make the assembler issue a warning when hint b is used mhint b error will make the assembler treat hint b as an error which is the default cy xexplicit These options turn on dependency violation checking xauto This option instructs the assembler to automatically insert stop bits where necessary to remove dependency violations This is the default mode xnone This option turns off dependency violation checking xdebug This turns on debug output intended to help tracking down bugs in the depen dency violation checker xdebugn This is a shortcut for xnone xdebug xdebugx This is a shortcut for xexplicit xdebug 9 16 2 Syntax The assembler syntax closely follows the IA 64 Assembly Language Reference Guide 9 16 2 1 Special Characters is the line comment token can be used instead of a newline to separate statements 9 16 2 2 Register Names The 128 integer registers are referred to as rn The 128 floating point registers are referred to as fn The 128 application registers are referred to as arn The 128 control registers are referred to
159. an omit the fill value the second argument entirely by simply using two commas after the required alignment this can be useful if you want the alignment to be filled with no op instructions when appropriate The balignw and balignl directives are variants of the balign directive The balignw directive treats the fill pattern as a two byte word value The balignl directives treats the fill pattern as a four byte longword value For example balignw 4 0x368d will align to a multiple of 4 If it skips two bytes they will be filled in with the value 0x368d the exact placement of the bytes depends upon the endianness of the processor If it skips 1 or 3 bytes the fill value is undefined 7 7 byte expressions byte expects zero or more expressions separated by commas Each expression is assembled into the next byte 7 8 comm symbol length comm declares a common symbol named symbol When linking a common symbol in one object file may be merged with a defined or common symbol of the same name in another object file If 1d does not see a definition for the symbol just one or more common symbols then it will allocate length bytes of uninitialized memory length must be an absolute expression If 1d sees multiple common symbols with the same name and they do not all have the same size it will allocate space using the largest size When using ELF the comm directive takes an optional third argument This is the desired alignment of
160. anual assembler directives and general syntax are loosely based on the prevailing AT amp T SVR4 ELF Solaris style notation HLASM style directives are not supported for the most part with the exception of those described herein A leading dot in front of directives is optional and the case of directives is ignored thus for example using and USING have the same effect A colon may immediately follow a label definition This is simply for compatibility with how most assembly language programmers write code is the line comment character can be used instead of a newline to separate statements Since has no special meaning you may use it in symbol names Registers can be given the symbolic names r0 r15 fp0 fp2 fp4 fp6 By using thesse symbolic names as can detect simple syntax errors The name rarg or r arg is a synonym for r11 rtca or r tca for r12 sp rap dsa r dsa for r13 lr or r lr for r14 rbase or r base for r3 and rpgt or r pgt for 14 is the current location counter Unlike it is always relative to the last USING di rective Note that this means that expressions cannot use multiplication as any occurrence of will be interpreted as a location counter All labels are relative to the last USING Thus branches to a label always imply the use of base displacement Many of the usual forms of address constants address literals are supported Thus using r3 L ri5 A some rout
161. arnings suppressing sese 22 warnings switching on 22 weak directive 0 0 cece eects 71 weakref directive 0 0 0 cece eee eee ee 71 W INIESPACO curia SEMESTER EE 23 whitespace removed by preprocessor 23 wide floating point directives VAX 214 width directive TIC54X 203 Width of continuation lines of disassembly output ps ado Te gd 18 Width of first line disassembly output 18 Width of source line output 19 wmsg directive TIC5AX ooooooommmmmmo o 202 word directive EEN Fal word directive ARD 85 word directive H8 300 205 119 word directive 080 133 word directive DARC 197 word directive TIC54X 0 000000 203 word directive 80 64 133 writing patterns in memory 50 A EE 212 262 A x86 64 arch directe 135 x86 64 att syntax pseudo op 129 x86 64 conversion instructions 130 x86 64 floating pont 133 x86 64 immediate operands ssssuuuecue 129 x86 64 instruction naming 129 x86 64 intel syntax pseudo op 129 x86 64 jump optimization lesse 133 x86 64 jump call return 129 x86 64 jump call operands 129 x86 64 memory references 00 132 x86 64 option 128 x86 64 register operands 129 x86 64 registers icis eee esee
162. as crn The 64 one bit predicate registers are referred to as pn The 8 branch registers are referred to as bn In addition the assembler defines a number of aliases gp r1 sp r12 rp b0 reto r8 rett r9 ret r10 ret3 r9 fargn f8 n and fretn f8 n For convenience the assembler also defines aliases for all named application and con trol registers For example ar bsp refers to the register backing store pointer ar17 Similarly cr eoi refers to the end of interrupt register cr67 9 16 2 3 IA 64 Processor Status Register PSR Bit Names The assembler defines bit masks for each of the bits in the TA 64 processor status register For example psr ic corresponds to a value of 0x2000 These masks are primarily intended for use with the ssm sum and rsm rum instructions but they can be used anywhere else where an integer constant is expected Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 145 9 16 3 Opcodes For detailed information on the IA 64 machine instruction set see the IA 64 Assembly Language Reference Guide available at http developer intel com design itanium arch_spec htm 146 Using as 9 17 IP2K Dependent Features 9 17 1 IP2K Options The Ubicom IP2K version of as has a few machine dependent options mip2022ext as can assemble the extended IP
163. ative mode L32R instructions are placed in the 230 Using as current section These text section literal pools are created automatically before ENTRY instructions and manually after literal_position directives see Section 9 36 5 5 literal position page 230 If there are no preceding ENTRY instructions explicit literal position directives must be used to place the text section literal pools otherwise as will report an error When literals are placed in separate sections the literal section names are derived from the names of the sections where the literals are defined The base literal section names are literal for PC relative mode L32R instructions and 1it4 for absolute mode L32R in structions see Section 9 36 5 7 absolute literals page 231 These base names are used for literals defined in the default text section For literals defined in other sections or within the scope of a literal prefix directive see Section 9 36 5 6 literal prefix page 231 the following rules determine the literal section name 1 If the current section is a member of a section group the literal section name includes the group name as a suffix to the base literal or lit4 name with a period to separate the base name and group name The literal section is also made a member of the group 2 If the current section name or literal prefix value begins with gnu linkonce kind the literal section name is formed by replacing kind
164. ator SH 190 line separator SH64 oocccooccccocccco o 193 line separator 28000 211 lines starting with 8 24 icum MEE 15 linker and asgembler 29 linkonce directe 55 list directive cece doe rr dae A eG 55 255 list directive TICBAX 0 203 listing control turning off 59 listing control turning on 55 listing control new page 04 48 listing control paper size 61 listing control subtitle oo 63 listing control title line 69 listings enabling oo oooooooooo I7 literal directe 229 literal position directive 230 literal prefix directive 231 little endian output MIPS 10 little endian output PI 8 little endian output MIPS 165 l directive EE ond RRE eee nae 55 lo pseudo op Va 220 Locsdirective curvas r ai olas 47 loc_mark_labels directive 47 local common symbols oooocccccccoccococ 54 local labels 4 ANE tas 36 local symbol names 00000000 35 local symbols retaining in output 18 location counter 00 cee ee eee nne 37 location counter advancing 59 location counter 280 208 logical file name 0 0 0 00 eee eee 50 logical line number 54 logical line numbers 00 eeeeee 24 Long directive i isis seii has e E 56 lo
165. based on the sign of expr sin expr Returns the floating point sine of expr sinh expr Returns the floating point hyperbolic sine of expr sqrt expr Returns the floating point square root of expr tan expr Returns the floating point tangent of expr tanh expr Returns the floating point hyperbolic tangent of expr trunc expr Returns the integer value of expr truncated towards zero as floating point 9 31 8 Extended Addressing The LDX pseudo op is provided for loading the extended addressing bits of a label or address For example if an address _label resides in extended program memory the value of Label may be loaded as follows ldx SZ label 16 a loads extended bits of label or _label a loads lower 16 bits of label bacc a full address is in accumulator A 9 31 9 Directives align size even Align the section program counter on the next boundary based on size size may be any power of 2 even is equivalent to align with a size of 2 1 Align SPC to word boundary 2 Align SPC to longword boundary same as even 128 Align SPC to page boundary asg string name Assign name the string string String replacement is performed on string before assignment eval string name Evaluate the contents of string string and assign the result as a string to the subsym name String replacement is performed on string before assignment bes symbol size blocking flag alignment_flag Reserve space for sy
166. because many of them aren t supposed to happen Chapter 2 Command Line Options 17 2 Command Line Options This chapter describes command line options available in all versions of the GNU assembler see Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 for options specific to particular machine architectures 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 0 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 2 1 Enable Listings a cdhlns These options enable listing output from the assembler By itself a requests high level assembly and symbols listing You can use other letters to select specific options for the list ah requests a high level language listing al requests an output program assembly listing and as requests a symbol table listing High level listings require
167. bizarre behavior is compatible with other people s assemblers size and value are optional If the second comma and value are absent value is assumed zero If the first comma and following tokens are absent size is assumed to be 1 7 53 float flonums This directive assembles zero or more flonums separated by commas It has the same effect as single The exact kind of floating point numbers emitted depends on how as is configured See Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 7 54 func name label func emits debugging information to denote function name and is ignored unless the file is assembled with debugging enabled Only gstabs is currently supported label is the entry point of the function and if omitted name prepended with the leading char is used leading char is usually _ or nothing depending on the target All functions Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 51 are currently defined to have void return type The function must be terminated with endfunc 7 55 global symbol globl symbol global makes the symbol visible to 1d If you define symbol in your partial program its value is made available to other partial programs that are linked with it Otherwise symbol takes its attributes from a symbol of the same name from another file linked into the same program Both spellings globl and global are accepted for compatibility with other as semblers On the HPPA global is n
168. bject file Profile should take place at the present address Pseudo operation format profiler flags function_to_profile cycle corrector extra where flags is a combination of the following characters s function entry x function exit i function is in init section f function is in fini section 1 library call c libc standard call d stack value demand I interrupt service routine P prologue start p prologue end E epilogue start e epilogue end j long jump sjlj unwind a an arbitrary code fragment t extra parameter saved a constant value like frame size function_to_profile a function address cycle_corrector a value which should be added to the cycle counter zero if omitted extra any extra parameter zero if omitted 182 Using as For example global fxx type fxx function fxx LFrameOffset_fxx 0x08 profiler scdP fxx function entry we also demand stack value to be saved push rii push ri0 push r9 push r8 profiler cdpt fxx 0 LFrameOffset_fxx check stack value at this point this is a prologue end note that spare var filled with the farme size mov r b5 r8 profiler cdE fxx check stack pop r8 pop r9 pop r10 pop r11 profiler xcde fxx 3 exit adds 3 to the cycle counter ret cause ret insn takes 3 cycles Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 183 9 25 PDP 11 Dependent Features 9 25 1 Options The PDP 11 version of as has a rich set o
169. ble lib option memb Set PPC EMB bit in ELF flags mlittle mlittle endian Generate code for a little endian machine mbig mbig endian Generate code for a big endian machine msolaris Generate code for Solaris mno solaris Do not generate code for Solaris 9 27 2 PowerPC Assembler Directives A number of assembler directives are available for PowerPC The following table is far from complete machine string This directive allows you to change the machine for which code is generated string may be any of the m cpu selection options without the m enclosed in double quotes push or pop machine push saves the currently se lected cpu which may be restored with machine pop 190 Using as 9 28 Renesas SuperH SH Dependent Features 9 28 1 Options as has following command line options for the Renesas formerly Hitachi SuperH SH family little Generate little endian code big Generate big endian code relax Alter jump instructions for long displacements small Align sections to 4 byte boundaries not 16 dsp Enable sh dsp insns and disable sh3e sh4 insns renesas Disable optimization with section symbol for compatibility with Renesas as sembler allow reg prefix Allow as a register name prefix isa sh4 sh4a Specify the sh4 or sh4a instruction set isa dsp Enable sh dsp insns and disable sh3e sh4 insns isa fp Enable sh2e sh3e sh4 and sh4a insn sets
170. bugging because they are intended for the use of programs like compilers that compose assembler programs not for your notice Normally both as and 1d discard such symbols so you do not normally debug with them This option tells as to retain those local symbols in the object file Usually if you do this you also tell the linker 1d to preserve those symbols 2 8 Configuring listing output listing The listing feature of the assembler can be enabled via the command line switch a see Section 2 1 a page 17 This feature combines the input source file s with a hex dump of the corresponding locations in the output object file and displays them as a listing file The format of this listing can be controlled by directives inside the assembler source i e list see Section 7 73 List page 55 title see Section 7 109 Title page 69 sbtt1 see Section 7 92 Sbttl page 63 psize see Section 7 86 Psize page 61 and eject see Section 7 36 Eject page 48 and also by the following switches listing lhs width number Sets the maximum width in words of the first line of the hex byte dump This dump appears on the left hand side of the listing output listing lhs width2 number Sets the maximum width in words of any further lines of the hex byte dump for a given input source line If this value is not specified it defaults to being Chapter 2 Command Line Options 19 the same as the value spec
171. ckfin Opcodes For detailed information on the Blackfin machine instruction set see the Black fin r Processor Instruction Set Reference 9 5 2 Directives The following directives are provided for compatibility with the VDSP assembler byte2 Initializes a four byte data object byte4 Initializes a two byte data object db TBD dd TBD dw TBD var Define and initialize a 32 bit data object 102 Using as 9 6 CR16 Dependent Features 9 6 1 CR16 Operand Qualifiers The National Semiconductor CR16 target of as has a few machine dependent operand qualifiers Operand expression type qualifier is an optional field in the instruction operand to deter mines the type of the expression field of an operand The is required CR16 architecture uses one of the following expression qualifiers S Specifies expression operand type as small m Specifies expression operand type as medium Specifies expression operand type as large e Specifies the CR16 Assembler generates a relocation entry for the operand where pc has implied bit the expression is adjusted accordingly The linker uses the relocation entry to update the operand address at link time CR16 target operand qualifiers and its size in bits Immediate Operand S 4 bits dl m 16 bits for movb and movw instructions m 20 bits movd instructions a 32 bits Absolute Operand s Illegal specifier for this operand i
172. ckwards and the f stands for forwards There is no restriction on how you can use these labels and you can reuse them too So that it is possible to repeatedly define the same local label using the same number N although you can only refer to the most recently defined local label of that number for a backwards reference or the next definition of a specific local label for a forward reference It is also worth noting that the first 10 local labels 0 9 are implemented in a slightly more efficient manner than the others Here is an example 1 branch 1f 2 branch 1b 1 branch 2f 2 branch 1b Which is the equivalent of label 1 branch label 3 label 2 branch label 1 label 3 branch label 4 label 4 branch label 3 Local label names are only a notational device They are immediately transformed into more conventional symbol names before the assembler uses them The symbol names are stored in the symbol table appear in error messages and are optionally emitted to the object file The names are constructed using these parts local label prefix All local symbols begin with the system specific local label prefix Normally both as and 1d forget symbols that start with the local label prefix These labels are used for symbols you are never intended to see If you use the L option then as retains these symbols in the object file If you also instruct 1d to retain these symbols you may use the
173. compute the address of the thread local storage variable whose descriptor was loaded with tlsgd N lituse tlsldm N Used with a register branch format instruction to indicate that the literal is the call to __t1s_get_addr used to compute the address of the base of the thread local storage block for the current module The descriptor for the module must have been loaded with t1sldm N gpdisp N Used with 1dah and 1da to load the GP from the current address a la the 1dgp macro The source register for the 1dah instruction must contain the address of the 1dah instruction There must be exactly one 1da instruction paired with the 1dah instruction though it may appear anywhere in the instruction stream The immediate operands must be zero bsr 26 foo ldah 29 0 26 gpdisp i lda 29 0 29 gpdisp i gprelhigh Used with an 1dah instruction to add the high 16 bits of a 32 bit displacement from the GP gprellow Used with any memory format instruction to add the low 16 bits of a 32 bit displacement from the GP gprel Used with any memory format instruction to add a 16 bit displacement from the GP samegp Used with any branch format instruction to skip the GP load at the target address The referenced symbol must have the same GP as the source object file and it must be declared to either not use 27 or perform a standard GP load in the first two instructions via the prologue directive Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 79
174. contains a fixed address set to the address of the label called __ep This can either be set up automatically by the linker or specifically set by using the defsym __ep lt value gt command line option Computes the offset of the named variable from address 0 and stores the result as a 16 bit signed value in the immediate operand field of the given instruction For example movea zdaoff _a_variable zero r6 puts the address of the label _a_variable into register 6 assuming that the label is somewhere within the first 32K of memory Strictly speaking it also possible to access the last 32K of memory as well as the offsets are signed Computes the offset of the named variable from the start of the Call Table Area whoes address is helg in system register 20 the CTBP register and stores the result a 6 or 16 bit unsigned value in the immediate field of then given instruction or piece of data For example callt ctoff table funci will put the call the function whoes address is held in the call table at the location labeled table func1 longcall name Indicates that the following sequence of instructions is a long call to function name The linker will attempt to shorten this call sequence if name is within a 22bit offset of the call Only valid if the mrelax command line switch has been enabled longjump name Indicates that the following sequence of instructions is a long jump to label name The
175. convention as opposed to jsr rts During a final link the linker will identify references to the far symbol and will verify the proper calling convention interrupt symbol This directive marks the symbol as an interrupt entry point This information is then used by the debugger to correctly unwind the frame across interrupts xrefb symbol This directive is defined for compatibility with the Specification for Motorola 8 and 16 Bit Assembly Language Input Standard and is ignored 9 21 5 Floating Point Packed decimal P format floating literals are not supported Feel free to add the code The floating point formats generated by directives are these float Single precision floating point constants double Double precision floating point constants extend ldouble Extended precision long double floating point constants 164 Using as 9 21 6 Opcodes 9 21 6 1 Branch Improvement Certain pseudo opcodes are permitted for branch instructions They expand to the shortest branch instruction that reach the target Generally these mnemonics are made by prepend ing j to the start of Motorola mnemonic These pseudo opcodes are not affected by the short branches or force long branches options The following table summarizes the pseudo operations jbsr jbra jbxx Displacement Width 4 Options short branches force l
176. counter and fpscr for the floating point status and control register You can also refer to the control registers by the mnemonics sr ssr pssr intevt expevt pexpevt tra spc pspce resvec vbr tea der kcr0 keri ecto and usr 9 29 2 3 Addressing Modes SH64 operands consist of either a register or immediate value The immediate value can be a constant or label reference or portion of a label reference as in this example movi 4 r2 pt function tr4 movi function gt gt 16 amp 65535 r0 shori function amp 65535 rO 1d 1 r0 4 r0 Instruction label references can reference labels in either SHmedia or SHcompact To differentiate between the two labels in SHmedia sections will always have the least signifi cant bit set ie they will be odd which SHcompact labels will have the least significant bit reset i e they will be even If you need to reference the actual address of a label you can use the datalabel modifier as in this example long function long datalabel function In that example the first longword may or may not have the least significant bit set depending on whether the label is an SHmedia label or an SHcompact label The second longword will be the actual address of the label regardless of what type of label it is 9 29 3 SH64 Machine Directives In addition to the SH directives the SH64 provides the f
177. cter which means that it can not be used in expressions The bitwise or option turns into a Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 153 normal character In this mode you must either use C style comments or start comments with a character at the beginning of a line base size default 16 base size default 32 If you use an addressing mode with a base register without specifying the size as will normally use the full 32 bit value For example the addressing mode a0 d0 is equivalent to a0 d0 1 You may use the base size default 16 option to tell as to default to using the 16 bit value In this case a0 d0 is equivalent to 4a09 4d0 w You may use the base size default 32 option to restore the default behaviour disp size default 16 disp size default 32 If you use an addressing mode with a displacement and the value of the dis placement is not known as will normally assume that the value is 32 bits For example if the symbol disp has not been defined as will assemble the ad dressing mode a0 disp d0 as though disp is a 32 bit value You may use the disp size default 16 option to tell as to instead assume that the displacement is 16 bits In this case as will assemble a0 disp d0 as though disp is a 16 bit value You may use the disp size default 32 option to restore the default behaviour pcrel
178. ctives ss eese nn 101 BEIN Syntax ikke dae onere b 09 big endian output MIPS 10 big endian output PI 8 big endian output MIPS 165 Ier EE 27 binary constants TIC54X 0 198 Using as binary files including 000 53 binary integers sees nn 26 bit names TAGA cece eee eee 144 bitfields not supported on VAX 217 Blackfin support 99 block ie cad gene brass Haken a UE 212 branch improvement M680x0 158 branch improvement M68HC11 164 branch improvement VAX 215 branch instructions relaxation 226 branch recording 1960 220 139 branch statistics table 1960 139 branch target alignment 0 225 break directive TIC54X 0 203 BSD Syta k veer avs onset EE E Ee 185 bss directive ARM 89 bss directive 1960 00 cee eee eee 140 bss directive TICBAX 0 000 201 bss section 30 32 ed oir RE 233 bug reports eee eee iad aiad eee 233 bugs in assembler oo 233 Built in symbols CHRIS 105 builtin math functions TIC54X 199 builtin subsym functions TIC54X 206 bus lock prefixes 1386 oooooooooo oo 131 eat ee E Reg da des 212 byte directive ua NEE giana Enn 44 byte directive TIC54X 0 202 C c mode directive
179. d but not required to be followed by a as with many other assembly formats The character in an expression is a synonym for the current location In addition to the common forward and backward local symbol formats see Section 5 3 Symbol Names page 35 they can be specified with upper case B and F as in 8B and 9F A local label defined for the current position is written with a H appended to the number 3H LDB 0 1 2 This and traditional local label formats cannot be mixed a label must be defined and referred to using the same format There s a minor caveat just as for the ordinary local symbols the local symbols are translated into ordinary symbols using control characters are to hide the ordinal number of the symbol Unfortunately these symbols are not translated back in error messages Thus you may see confusing error messages when local symbols are used Control charac ters 003 control C and 004 control D are used for the MMIX specific local symbol syntax The symbol Main is handled specially it is always global By defining the symbols __ MMIX start text and __ MMIX start data the ad dress of respectively the text and data segments of the final program can be defined though when linking more than one object file the code or data in the object file containing the symbol is not guaranteed to be start at that position just
180. d for other processors Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850E processor This allows the linker to detect attempts to link such code with code assembled for other processors Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850E1 processor This allows the linker to detect attempts to link such code with code assembled for other processors Specifies that the assembled code should be marked as being targeted at the V850 processor but support instructions that are specific to the extended vari ants of the process This allows the production of binaries that contain target specific code but which are also intended to be used in a generic fashion For example libgcc a contains generic routines used by the code produced by GCC for all versions of the v850 architecture together with support routines only used by the V850E architecture Enables relaxation This allows the longcall and longjump pseudo ops to be used in the assembler source code These ops label sections of code which are either a long function call or a long branch The assembler will then flag these sections of code and the linker will attempt to relax them 9 35 2 Syntax 9 35 2 1 Special Characters is the line comment character 218 9 35 2 2 Register Names as supports the following names for registers general register 0 r0 zero general register 1 rl general register 2 r2
181. d if warnings for explicit parallel conflicts have been enabled It indicates that the assembler has encountered a parallel in struction in which the destination register of the right hand instruction is used as an input register in the left hand instruction For example in this code fragment mv ri r2 neg r2 r register r2 is the destination of the neg instruction and the input to the move instruction instruction is for the M32RX only This message is produced when the assembler encounters an instruction which is only supported by the M32Rx processor and the m32rx command line flag has not been specified to allow assembly of such instructions unknown instruction This message is produced when the assembler encounters an instruction which it does not recognize only the NOP instruction can be issued in parallel on the m32r This message is produced when the assembler encounters a parallel instruction which does not involve a NOP instruction and the m32rx command line flag has not been specified Only the M32Rx processor is able to execute two instructions in parallel instruction cannot be executed in parallel This message is produced when the assembler encounters a parallel instruction which is made up of one or two instructions which cannot be executed in parallel Instructions share the same execution pipeline This message is produced when the assembler encounters a parallel instructi
182. d in code it can have a suffix modifying its value for use in position independent code See Section 9 7 4 2 CRIS Pic page 106 9 7 4 Syntax There are different aspects of the CRIS assembly syntax 106 Using as 9 7 4 1 Special Characters The character is a line comment character It starts a comment if and only if it is placed at the beginning of a line A character starts a comment anywhere on the line causing all characters up to the end of the line to be ignored A character is handled as a line separator equivalent to a logical new line character except in a comment so separate instructions can be specified on a single line 9 7 4 2 Symbols in position independent code When generating position independent code SVR4 PIC for use in cris axis linux gnu or crisv32 axis linux gnu shared libraries symbol suffixes are used to specify what kind of run time symbol lookup will be used expressed in the object as different relocation types Usually all absolute symbol values must be located in a table the global offset table leaving the code position independent independent of values of global symbols and independent of the address of the code The suffix modifies the value of the symbol into for example an index into the global offset table where the real symbol value is entered or a PC relative value or a value relative to the start of the global offset table All symbol suffixes start with the character
183. data For ELF targets the assembler supports another type of section directive for compat ibility with the Solaris assembler section name flags Note that the section name is quoted There may be a sequence of comma separated flags alloc section is allocatable write section is writable execinstr section is executable tls section is used for thread local storage This directive replaces the current section and subsection See the contents of the gas testsuite directory gas testsuite gas elf for some examples of how this directive and the other section stack directives work 7 95 set symbol expression Set the value of symbol to expression This changes symbol s value and type to conform to expression If symbol was flagged as external it remains flagged see Section 5 5 Symbol Attributes page 37 You may set a symbol many times in the same assembly If you set a global symbol the value stored in the object file is the last value stored into it The syntax for set on the HPPA is symbol set expression On Z80 set is a real instruction use symbol defl expression instead 7 96 short expressions Short is normally the same as word See Section 7 119 word page 71 In some configurations however short and word generate numbers of different lengths See Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 66 Using as 7 97 single flonums This directive assembles zero or more flo
184. dency Tracking MD as can generate a dependency file for the file it creates This file consists of a single rule suitable for make describing the dependencies of the main source file The rule is written to the file named in its argument This feature is used in the automatic updating of makefiles 2 11 Name the Object File o There is always one object file output when you run as By default it has the name a out or b out for Intel 960 targets only You use this option which takes exactly one filename to give the object file a different name Whatever the object file is called as overwrites any existing file of the same name 2 12 Join Data and Text Sections R R tells as to write the object file as if all 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 its bytes are appended to the text section See Chapter 4 Sections and Relocation page 29 When you specify R it would be possible to generate shorter address displacements because we do not have to cross between text and data section We refrain from doing this simply for compatibility with older versions of as In future R may work this way When as is configured for COFF or ELF output this option is only useful if you use
185. denotes the most significant High portion L denotes the least significant portion The subdivisions of the 40 bit registers are described later Accumulators The set of 40 bit registers Al and AO that normally contain data that is being manipulated Each accumulator can be accessed in four ways one 40 bit register The register will be referred to as Al or AO 100 Using as one 32 bit register The registers are designated as A1 W or A0 W two 16 bit registers The registers are designated as A1 H A1 L AO H or AO L one 8 bit register The registers are designated as A1 X or AO X for the bits that extend beyond bit 31 Data Registers The set of 32 bit registers RO R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 and R7 that normally contain data for manipulation These are abbreviated as D register or Dreg Data registers can be accessed as 32 bit registers or as two independent 16 bit registers The least significant 16 bits of each register is called the low half and is designated with L following the register name The most significant 16 bits are called the high half and is designated with H following the name R7 L r2 h r4 L RO H Pointer Registers The set of 32 bit registers PO P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 SP and FP that normally contain byte addresses of data structures These are abbreviated as P register or Preg p2 pd fp sp Stack Pointer SP The stack pointer contains the 32 bit address of the last occupied byte location in
186. deprecated 8 ARM PLT32 relocation Relocations for MOVW and MOVT instructions can be generated by prefixing the value with lower16 and upper16 respectively For example to load the 32 bit address of foo into r0 MOVW rO lower16 foo MOVT rO upper16 foo Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 89 9 3 4 ARM Machine Directives 2byte expression expression Abyte expression expression 8byte expression expression These directives write 2 4 or 8 byte values to the output section align expression expression This is the generic align directive For the ARM however if the first argument is zero ie no alignment is needed the assembler will behave as if the argument had been 2 ie pad to the next four byte boundary This is for compatibility with ARM s own assembler arch name Select the target architecture Valid values for name are the same as for the march commandline option arm This performs the same action as code 32 bss This directive switches to the bss section cantunwind Prevents unwinding through the current function No personality routine or exception table data is required or permitted code 16132 This directive selects the instruction set being generated The value 16 selects Thumb with the value 32 selecting ARM name dn register name type index name qn register name type index The dn and qn directives are used to create
187. dollar sign can be used as a prefix for hexadecimal numbers and as a symbol denoting the current location counter A backslash is an ordinary character for the Z80 assembler The single quote must be followed by a closing quote If there is one character in between it is a character constant otherwise it is a string constant Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 209 9 32 2 2 Register Names The registers are referred to with the letters assigned to them by Zilog In addition as recognizes ixl and ixh as the least and most significant octet in ix and similarly iyl and iyh as parts of iy 9 32 2 3 Case Sensitivity Upper and lower case are equivalent in register names opcodes condition codes and as sembler directives The case of letters is significant in labels and symbol names The case is also important to distinguish the suffix b for a backward reference to a local label from the suffix B for a number in binary notation 9 32 3 Floating Point Floating point numbers are not supported 9 32 4 Z80 Assembler Directives as for the Z80 supports some additional directives for compatibility with other assemblers These are the additional directives in as for the Z80 db expression string expression string defb expression string expression string For each string the characters are copied to the object file for each other expression the value is s
188. e boundary If a label is defined at the beginning of the line its value will be the aligned value In addition to the traditional hex prefix Ox a hexadecimal number can also be specified by the prefix character After all operands to an MMIX instruction or directive have been specified the rest of the line is ignored treated as a comment 9 23 3 1 Special Characters The characters and are line comment characters each start a comment at the begin ning of a line but only at the beginning of a line A prefixes a hexadecimal number if found elsewhere on a line Two other characters and each start a comment anywhere on the line Thus you can t use the modulus and not operators in expressions normally associated with these two characters 174 Using as A is a line separator treated as a new line so separate instructions can be specified on a single line 9 23 3 2 Symbols The character is permitted in identifiers There are two exceptions to it being treated as any other symbol character if a symbol begins with it means that the symbol is in the global namespace and that the current prefix should not be prepended to that symbol see MMIX prefix page 176 The is then not considered part of the symbol For a symbol in the label position first on a line a at the end of a symbol is silently stripped off A label is permitte
189. e 1 for files using the hardware floating point ABI e 2 for files using the software floating point ABI Tag GNU Power ABI Vector 8 The vector ABI used by this object file The value will be e 0 for files not affected by the vector ABI e 1 for files using general purpose registers to pass vectors e 2 for files using AltiVec registers to pass vectors e 3 for files using SPE registers to pass vectors 8 2 Defining New Object Attributes If you want to define a new GNU object attribute here are the places you will need to modify New attributes should be discussed on the binutils mailing list e This manual which is the official register of attributes e The header for your architecture include elf to define the tag e The bfd support file for your architecture to merge the attribute and issue any appropriate link warnings e Test cases in Id testsuite for merging and link warnings e binutils readelf c to display your attribute e GCC if you want the compiler to mark the attribute automatically Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 75 9 Machine Dependent Features The machine instruction sets are almost by definition different on each machine where as runs Floating point representations vary as well and as often supports a few additional directives or command line options for compatibility with other assemblers on a particu lar platform Finally some versions of as support special pseudo instr
190. e OSF 1 assembler but as does not do instruction scheduling so these features are ignored The following directives are recognized for compatibility with the OSF 1 assembler but are ignored proc aproc reguse livereg option aent ugen eflag alias noalias 9 1 6 Opcodes For detailed information on the Alpha machine instruction set see the Alpha Architecture Handbook located at ftp ftp digital com pub Digital info semiconductor literature alphaahb pdf ER Using as 9 2 ARC Dependent Features 9 2 1 Options marc 5161718 This option selects the core processor variant Using marc is the same as marc6 which is also the default arc5 Base instruction set arc6 Jump and link jl instruction No requirement of an instruction between setting flags and conditional jump For example mov f rO r1 beq foo arc Break brk and sleep sleep instructions arc8 Software interrupt swi instruction Note the option directive can to be used to select a core variant from within assembly code 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 this is the default 9 2 2 Syntax 9 2 2 1 Special Characters TODO 9 2 2 2 Register Names TODO 9 2 3 Floating Point The ARC core does not curre
191. e added to the list of di rectories normally searched for source and include files C54XDSP_DIR will override A_DIR 9 31 4 Constants Syntax The TIC54X version of as allows the following additional constant formats using a suffix to indicate the radix Binary 000000B 011000b Octal 10Q 224q Hexadecimal 45h OFH 9 31 5 String Substitution A subset of allowable symbols which we ll call subsyms may be assigned arbitrary string values This is roughly equivalent to C preprocessor define macros When as encounters one of these symbols the symbol is replaced in the input stream by its string value Subsym names must begin with a letter Subsyms may be defined using the asg and eval directives See Section 9 31 9 asg page 201 See Section 9 31 9 eval page 201 Expansion is recursive until a previously encountered symbol is seen at which point substitution stops In this example x is replaced with SYM2 SYM2 is replaced with SYM1 and SYM1 is replaced with x At this point x has already been encountered and the substitution stops Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 199 asg x SYM1 asg SYM1 SYM2 asg SYM2 x add x a final code assembled is add x a Macro parameters are converted to subsyms a side effect of this is the normal as NARG dereferencing syntax is unnecessary Subsyms defined within a macro will have global scope unless the var directive is used to identify the subsym as a l
192. e following additional machine directives align This must be followed by the desired alignment in bytes common This must be followed by a symbol name a positive number and bss This behaves somewhat like comm but the syntax is different half This is functionally identical to short nword On the Sparc the nword directive produces native word sized value ie if as sembling with 32 it is equivalent to word if assembling with 64 it is equivalent to xword proc This directive is ignored Any text following it on the same line is also ignored register This directive declares use of a global application or system register It must be followed by a register name g2 g3 g6 or g7 comma and the symbol name for that register If symbol name is scratch it is a scratch register if it is ignore it just suppresses any errors about using undeclared global register but does not emit any information about it into the object file This can be useful e g if you save the register before use and restore it after reserve This must be followed by a symbol name a positive number and bss This behaves somewhat like 1comm but the syntax is different Seg This must be followed by text data or data1 It behaves like text data or data 1 Skip This is functionally identical to the space directive word On the Sparc the word directive produces 32 bit values instead of the 16 bit values it produces on
193. e 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 relo cations can be used target align no target align Enable or disable automatic alignment to reduce branch penalties at some ex pense in code size See Section 9 36 3 2 Automatic Instruction Alignment page 225 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 See Section 9 36 4 2 Function Call Relaxation page 227 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 1ongcalls 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 operand
194. e of the combined work In the combination you must combine any sections entitled History in the various original documents forming one section entitled History likewise combine any sec tions entitled Acknowledgements and any sections entitled Dedications You must delete all sections entitled Endorsements 6 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released under this License and replace the individual copies of this License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in the collection provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects You may extract a single document from such a collection and distribute it individu ally under this License provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document and follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document 7 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not as a whole count as a Modified Version of the Document provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the compilation Such a compilation is called an aggregate and this License does not apply to the other self contained works thus compiled with the
195. e resulting object file as using the constant GP without function descriptor data model This model is like the constant GP model except that it additionally does away with function descriptors What this means is that the address of a function refers directly to the function s code entry point Normally such an address would refer to a function descriptor which contains both the code entry point and the GP value needed by the function Note that this option does not in any fashion affect the machine code emitted by the assembler All it does is turn on the EF IA 64 NOFUNCDESC CONS GP flag in the ELF file header milp32 milp64 m1 p64 mp64 These options select the data model The assembler defaults to m1p64 LP64 data model mle mbe These options select the byte order The mle option selects little endian byte order default and mbe selects big endian byte order Note that TA 64 machine code always uses little endian byte order mtune itanium1 mtune itanium2 Tune for a particular A 64 CPU itanium1 or itanium2 The default is ita nium2 munwind check warning munwind check error These options control what the assembler will do when performing consistency checks on unwind directives munwind check warning will make the assem bler issue a warning when an unwind directive check fails This is the default munwind check error will make the assembler issue
196. e rn Svi 130 x86 64 zechions 0 2 maiu nene NE eee ee 129 x86 64 size suffixes 00 00 eee eee eee 129 x86 64 source destination operands 129 x86 64 oupport 0 ee eee eee eee 128 x86 64 syntax compatibility 129 xfloat directive TIC54X 0 202 xlong directive TIC54X 203 Xtensa architecture o 223 Xtensa assembler syntax oooooooooooooo 224 Xtensa directives 00 eee eee eee eee 228 Xtensa opcode namen 224 Using as Xtensa register Hames 225 xword directive BDARC o 197 Z CIE 208 ZOU EE 208 Z80 floating pont 209 Z80 line comment character 208 Z80 option 208 Z80 registers EENS emn 209 LSO SUDDpOIb iiendec du idee RE Pha i wan 208 Z8 SIDA EE 208 m EET 208 Z80 case sensitivity oo ooooooccooooommoo 209 Z80 only directives eee eee 209 Z800 addressing modes seule 211 Z8000 directives lsleseeeeeeeeeee es 212 Z8000 line comment character 211 Z8000 line separator sees eene 21 Z8000 opcode summary 213 Z8000 options cessisse met eem es 211 Z8000 registers leslie eese 211 Z8000 Support neben he teet 211 zdaoff pseudo op V n0 o 222 zero register V850 ooo ooooocomomm o oo 218 zero terminated strings eee 44
197. e symbol is not protected from later redefinition Compare Section 7 44 Equiv page 49 7 44 equiv symbol expression The equiv directive is like equ and set except that the assembler will signal an error if symbol is already defined Note a symbol which has been referenced but not actually defined is considered to be undefined Except for the contents of the error message this is roughly equivalent to ifdef SYM err endif equ SYM VAL plus it protects the symbol from later redefinition 7 45 eqv symbol expression The eqv directive is like equiv but no attempt is made to evaluate the expression or any part of it immediately Instead each time the resulting symbol is used in an expression a snapshot of its current value is taken 7 46 err If as assembles a err directive it will print an error message and unless the Z option was used it will not generate an object file This can be used to signal an error in conditionally compiled code 7 47 error string Similarly to err this directive emits an error but you can specify a string that will be emit ted as the error message If you don t specify the message it defaults to error directive invoked in source file See Section 1 7 Error and Warning Messages page 16 50 Using as error This code has not been assembled and tested 7 48 exitm Exit early from the current macro definition See Section 7 75 Macro page 56 7 49 ext
198. e use then the use may not use a lituse relocation lituse base NW Used with any memory format instruction e g 1d1 to indicate that the literal is used for an address load The offset field of the instruction must be zero During relaxation the code may be altered to use a gp relative load lituse jsr N Used with a register branch format instruction e g jsr to indicate that the literal is used for a call During relaxation the code may be altered to use a direct branch e g bsr lituse jsrdirect N Similar to lituse_jsr but also that this call cannot be vectored through a PLT entry This is useful for functions with special calling conventions which do not allow the normal call clobbered registers to be clobbered 78 Using as lituse_bytoff N Used with a byte mask instruction e g extb1 to indicate that only the low 3 bits of the address are relevant During relaxation the code may be altered to use an immediate instead of a register shift lituse_addr NV Used with any other instruction to indicate that the original address is in fact used and the original 1dq instruction may not be altered or deleted This is useful in conjunction with lituse_jsr to test whether a weak symbol is defined ldq 27 f00 29 literal 1 beq 27 is_undef lituse addr 1 jsr 26 27 foo lituse_jsr 1 lituse_tlsgd NW Used with a register branch format instruction to indicate that the literal is the call to __t1s_get_addr used to
199. e 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 This feature is useful if the processor support the FR bit in its status register and this bit is known by the programmer to be set This bit prevents the aliasing of the double width register by the single width registers By default construct floats is selected allowing construction of these floating point constants trap no break as automatically macro expands certain division and multiplication instruc tions to check for overflow and division by zero This option causes as to generate code to take a trap exception rather than a break exception when an error is detected The trap instructions are only supported at Instruction Set Architecture level 2 and higher break no trap Generate code to take a break exception rather than a trap exception when an error is detected This is the default mpdr mno pdr Control generation of pdr sections Off by default on IRIX on elsewhere Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 169 mshared mno shared When generating code using the Unix calling conventions selected by KPIC or mcall_shared gas will normally generate code which can go into a shared library The mno shared option tells gas to generate code which uses the calling convention but can not go into a shared library The resulting code
200. ection 4 4 Sub Sections page 31 64 Using as ELF Version This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives The others are subsection see Section 7 105 SubSection page 68 pushsection see Section 7 88 PushSection page 62 popsection see Section 7 83 PopSection page 61 and previous see Sec tion 7 82 Previous page 60 For ELF targets the section directive is used like this section name flags Qtype flag_specific_arguments The optional flags argument is a quoted string which may contain any combination of the following characters a section is allocatable W section is writable x section is executable M section is mergeable S section contains zero terminated strings G section is a member of a section group T section is used for thread local storage The optional type argument may contain one of the following constants progbits section contains data nobits section does not contain data i e section only occupies space note section contains data which is used by things other than the program init_array section contains an array of pointers to init functions fini_array section contains an array of pointers to finish functions preinit_array section contains an array of pointers to pre init functions Many targets only support the first three section types Note on targets where the character is the start of a comment eg ARM then another character is used instead For
201. ed sequentially For example the code fragment mv ri r2 mv r3 r1 produces a different result from mv ri r2 n mv r3 r1 since the former moves rl into r3 and then r2 into rl whereas the later moves r2 into r1 and r3 This is a shorter synonym for the warn ezplicit parallel conflicts option Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 149 no warn explicit parallel conflicts Instructs as not to produce warning messages when questionable parallel in structions are encountered Wnp This is a shorter synonym for the no warn ezplicit parallel conflicts option ignore parallel conflicts This option tells the assembler s to stop checking parallel instructions for con straint violations This ability is provided for hardware vendors testing chip designs and should not be used under normal circumstances no ignore parallel conflicts This option restores the assembler s default behaviour of checking parallel in structions to detect constraint violations Ip This is a shorter synonym for the ignore parallel conflicts option nIp This is a shorter synonym for the no ignore parallel conflicts option warn unmatched high This option tells the assembler to produce a warning message if a high pseudo op is encountered without a matching low pseudo op The presence of such an unmatched pseudo op usually indicates a programming error no warn unmatched high Disables a previously enabled warn unmatched high option Wuh
202. educe the minimal sufficient processor type if none is specified depending on the object code format the processor type may be recorded in the object file If it is critical that the as output match a specific architecture specify that architecture explicitly Add code to collect information about conditional branches taken for later optimization using branch prediction bits The conditional branch instructions have branch prediction bits in the CA CB and CC architectures If BR represents a conditional branch instruction the following represents the code generated by the assembler when b is specified call increment routine word 0 pre counter Label BR call increment routine word 0 post counter The counter following a branch records the number of times that branch was not taken the difference between the two counters is the number of times the branch was taken A table of every such Label is also generated so that the external postprocessor gbr960 supplied by Intel can locate all the counters This table is always labeled __BRANCH_TABLE__ this is a local symbol to permit collecting statistics for many separate object files The table is word aligned and begins with a two word header The first word initialized to 0 is used in maintaining linked lists of branch tables The second word is a count of the number of entries in the table which follow immediately each is a word pointing to one of the labels i
203. ee 125 ESA 390 only directives nsunnnnnuna 126 escape codes character 25 eval directive DICH 201 OVEN rrr p nE ro 212 even directive ARM 89 even directive M 157 even directive TICE 201 exitm directe 58 expr internal section 31 expression argument 39 EXPLeSSIOUS EE REEL daa Hex 39 expressions comparison eee 40 expressions empty sees 39 expressions integer elles lees esses 39 extAuxRegister directive ARC 82 extCondCode directive ARC 83 extCoreRegister directive ARC 83 extend directive M680x0 o ooocooo ooooo 157 extend directive M68HC11 163 extend directive ARM 90 extended directive 1000 140 extern directive lieu 50 extInstruction directive ARC 83 Appendix A AS Index F fail directives rpm nr A 50 far mode directive TIC54X 202 faster processing E 18 fatal signals oir id 233 fclist directive TIC54X o o o ooo 202 fcnolist directive TIC54X 202 fepe register V850 oo 219 fepsw register Va 219 ffloat directive VAN 214 field directive TIC5AX 202 file directive AE caca EN a ga 4T 50 file directive MSP 490 180 file name logical eese 50 files imcludimg See dE Rer wey Re metres 53 fles anp t iiec uh raa Reti dese E nh 15 fll dipecbive n xw f RW ae ria EEN 50 filling Memory eee pe
204. ee Section 3 6 1 1 Strings page 25 in which case each character in the string is emitted as a separate constant of the size indicated by the directive Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 177 The PREFIX directive sets a symbol name prefix to be prepended to all sym bols except local symbols see Section 9 23 3 2 MMIX Symbols page 174 that are not prefixed with until the next PREFIX directive Such prefixes accumulate For example PREFIX a PREFIX b c IS 0 defines a symbol abc with the value 0 BSPEC ESPEC A pair of BSPEC and ESPEC directives delimit a section of special contents without specified semantics Example BSPEC 42 TETRA 1 2 3 ESPEC The single operand to BSPEC must be number in the range 0 255 The BSPEC number 80 is used by the GNU binutils implementation 9 23 4 Differences to mmixal The binutils as and 1d combination has a few differences in function compared to mmixal see mmixsite page 173 The replacement of a symbol with a GREG allocated register see GREG base page 176 is not handled the exactly same way in as as in mmixal This is apparent in the mmixal example file inout mms where different registers with different offsets eventually yielding the same address are used in the first instruction This type of difference should however not affect the function of any program unless it has specific assumptions about the allocated regi
205. ehaviour of assem bling for the M32R microprocessor This can be useful if the default has been changed by a previous command line option This option tells the assembler to produce little endian code and data The default is dependent upon how the toolchain was configured This is a synonym for little This option tells the assembler to produce big endian code and data This is a synonum for big This option specifies that the output of the assembler should be marked as position independent code PIC This option tells the assembler to attempts to combine two sequential instruc tions into a single parallel instruction where it is legal to do so no parallel This option disables a previously enabled parallel option no bitinst This option disables the support for the extended bit field instructions provided by the M32R2 If this support needs to be re enabled the bitinst switch can be used to restore it This option tells the assembler to attempt to optimize the instructions that it produces This includes filling delay slots and converting sequential instructions into parallel ones This option implies parallel warn explicit parallel conflicts Instructs as to produce warning messages when questionable parallel instruc tions are encountered This option is enabled by default but gcc disables it when it invokes as directly Questionable instructions are those whose be haviour would be different if they were execut
206. ehe 66 PIX Syntax 22x eben a ELE E rd 224 float directive 0 cee cece eee ee 50 float directive 1386 o ooooococoooocmoo o 133 float directive Mo tt 157 float directive M68HC11 163 float directive TIC54X 202 float directive NA 214 float directive x86 64 000000 133 floating point numbers s sccccrirsririeieisici 27 floating point numbers double 48 floating point numbers single 50 66 floating point Alpha IEEE 79 floating point ARC IEEE 82 floating point ARM IEEE 88 floating point DIO V eee 112 floating point D30V 0 eee eee 116 floating point ESA 390 IEEE 126 floating point H8 300 IEEE 118 floating point HPPA rEr 120 floating point 12806 133 floating point 1960 IEEE oococccoo 140 floating point M 157 floating point M68HCI1 sseeeeees 163 floating point MSP 430 IEEE 180 floating point SH IEEE 191 floating point SPARC IEEE 197 floating point V850 rr 220 floating point VAN 214 floating point z 0 04 133 floating point Z80 0 0 0 eee eee 209 flon ms e erte le teehee Nee RR 2 force thumb directive ARM 90 format of error messages ssssss elle 16 format of warning mess
207. endent Features 152 9 20 1 M680x0 Option 152 9202 SYNTAX cate nao in eee oe a hee la eee 155 9 20 8 Motorola Gvntaz 0 eee eee eects 156 9 20 4 Floating Pot 157 9 20 5 680x0 Machine Directives 0 00 0c eee eee 157 9720 6 OBCOd6eS 2 2 ess eroi rd oe areca 158 9 20 6 1 Branch Improvement 0000 esse eee 158 9 20 6 2 Special Oharacterg 000 cece eee eens 159 9 21 M68HC11 and M68HC12 Dependent Features 160 9 21 1 M68HC11 and M68HC12 Options 160 9 21 2 SyDtaX ced e ed ete td 161 9 21 3 Symbolic Operand Modifiers neeennunannennnne 162 9 21 4 Assembler Directive 163 9 21 5 Floating Pont 163 9 21 0 OpCodes eg cdta lo padded Cade eae 164 9 21 6 1 Branch Irmprowvement esee 164 9 22 MIPS Dependent Features 165 9 22 1 Assembler options 0 cece eee eens 165 9 22 2 MIPS ECOFF object code 169 9 22 3 Directives for debugging information 169 9 22 4 Directives to override the size of symbols 169 9 22 5 Directives to override the ISA Jevel 170 9 22 6 Directives for extending MIPS 16 bit instructions 170 9 22 7 Directive to mark data as an instruction et 9 22 8 Directives to save and restore options 171 9 22 9 Directives to control generation of MIPS ASE instructions EE 171 9 23 MMIX Dependent Features 0000 eee eee eee ee 172 9 23 1 Command line Optionsg
208. ent Features 124 9 14 1 1860 Notes 000 AE e RI DR i 137 9 14 2 1860 Command line Option 137 9 14 2 1 SVR4 compatibility options ssasuusssssnuus 137 9 14 2 2 Other optong ne 137 9 14 3 1860 Machine Directives seee lesse esses 137 9 14 4 i860 Opcodes essel 138 9 14 4 1 Other instruction support pseudo instructions 138 9 15 Intel 80960 Dependent Features ooooooooooroooo 139 9 15 1 1960 Command line Option 139 9 15 2 Floating Pot 140 9 15 3 i960 Machine Directives 000 cee eee eee ee 140 9 15 4 1960 Opcodes 0 cece teen E eens 141 OA SAU WEE 141 9 15 4 2 Compare and Branch 0 000 e ee eens 141 9 16 IA 64 Dependent Features 0000s cece cette ees 143 Vil viii 9 16 1 OptlOnS cree eet re ret Ree Re PER 143 9 10 2 Syntax sic fb rh tette tec paid ovs 144 9 16 2 1 Special OCharacterg eese 144 9 16 2 2 Register Names ebrii 144 9 16 2 3 IA 64 Processor Status Register PSR Bit Names DEET 144 9 16 3 OpCOdes REENEN deed ee te Eb EI E ERR 145 9 17 IP2K Dependent Heatures eese 146 9 17 1 TP2K Options sita eni heads 146 9 18 M32C Dependent Features 147 9 18 1 M32C Options 0 eee 147 9 18 2 Symbolic Operand Modifiers nassaanunaa rennan 147 9 19 M32R Dependent Heatures 00 00 cece eese 148 9 19 1 M32R Options aie eee eee eee 148 9 19 2 M32R Dmrecttveg 0 000 eee cee eens 149 9 19 3 M32R Warnes ita ddr 150 9 20 M680x0 Dep
209. ent Features 135 9 13 12 AT amp T Syntax bugs The UnixWare assembler and probably other AT amp T derived ix86 Unix assemblers generate floating point instructions with reversed source and destination registers in certain cases Unfortunately gcc and possibly many other programs use this reversed syntax so we re stuck with it For example fsub st st 3 results in st 3 being updated to ier st 3 rather than the expected Ast 3 jet This happens with all the non commutative arithmetic floating point operations with two register operands where the source register is Ast and the destination register is hst i 9 13 13 Specifying CPU Architecture as may be told to assemble for a particular CPU sub architecture with the arch cpu_ type directive This directive enables a warning when gas detects an instruction that is not supported on the CPU specified The choices for cpu type are 18086 i186 1286 1386 i486 1586 1686 pentium pentiumpro pentiumii pentiumiii pentium4 prescott nocona core core2 amdfam10 K6 athlon sledgehammer k8 mmx sse sse sse3 ssse3 sse4 1 sse4 2 ssel sse4a 3dnow 3dnowa padlock pacifica svme abm Apart from the warning there are only two other effects on as operation Firstly if you
210. ent to mcpu except that there are more value of cpu understood Valid cpu value are 2000 3000 3900 4000 4010 4100 4111 vr4120 vr4130 vr4181 4300 4400 4600 4650 5000 rm5200 rm5230 rm5231 rm5261 rm5721 vr5400 vr5500 6000 rm7000 8000 rm9000 10000 12000 4kc 4km 4kp 4ksc 4kec 4kem 4kep 4ksd m4k m4kp 24kc 24kf2_1 24kf 24kf1_1 24kec 24kef2_1 24kef 24kef1_1 168 Using as 34kc 34kf2_1 34kf 34kf1_1 74kc 74kf2_1 74kf 74kf1_1 74k 3 74kf3_2 5kc 5kf 20kc 25kf sb1 sbla loongson2e loongson2f xlr For compatibility reasons nx and bfx are accepted as synonyms for nf1_1 These values are deprecated mtune cpu Schedule and tune for a particular MIPS cpu Valid cpu values are identical to march cpu mabi abi Record which ABI the source code uses The recognized arguments are 32 n32 064 64 and eabi msym32 mno sym32 Equivalent to adding set sym32 or set nosym32 to the beginning of the as sembler input See Section 9 22 4 MIPS symbol sizes page 169 nocpp This option is ignored It is accepted for command line compatibility with other assemblers which use it to turn off C style preprocessing With GNU as there is no need for nocpp because the GNU assembler itself never runs the C preprocessor construct floats no construct floats The no construct floats option disables the construction of doubl
211. er for those cases where direct calls are sufficient Call relaxation is disabled by default because it can have a negative effect on both code size and performance although the linker can usually eliminate the unnecessary overhead If a program is too large and some of the calls are out of range function call relaxation can be enabled using the longcalls command line option or the longcalls directive see Section 9 36 5 2 longcalls page 229 9 36 4 3 Other Immediate Field Relaxation The assembler normally performs the following other relaxations They can be disabled by using underscore prefixes see Section 9 36 2 1 Opcode Names page 224 the no transform command line option see Section 9 36 1 Command Line Options page 223 or the no transform directive see Section 9 36 5 3 transform page 229 The MOVI machine instruction can only materialize values in the range from 2048 to 2047 Values outside this range are best materialized with L32R instructions Thus movi aO 100000 is assembled into the following machine code literal L1 100000 132r a0 Li The L8UI machine instruction can only be used with immediate offsets in the range from 0 to 255 The L168I and L16UI machine instructions can only be used with offsets from 0 to 510 The L321 machine instruction can only be used with offsets from 0 to 1020 A load offset outside these ranges can be materialized with an L32R instruction if the destination register
212. er rejects programs containing this directive Mark the beginning of a procedure Mark the end of a procedure export name typ 1 param r Make a procedure name available to callers typ if present must be one of absolute code ELF only not SOM data entry data entry millicode plabel pri_prog or sec_prog param if present provides either relocation information for the procedure ar guments and result or a privilege level param may be argwn where n ranges from O to 3 and indicates one of four one word arguments rtnval the pro cedure s result or priv_lev privilege level For arguments or the result r 122 Using as specifies how to relocate and must be one of no not relocatable gr argu ment is in general register fr in floating point register or fu upper half of float register For priv_lev r is an integer half n Define a two byte integer constant n synonym for the portable as directive Short import name typ 1 Converse of export make a procedure available to call The arguments use the same conventions as the first two arguments for export label name Define name as a label for the current assembly location leave Not yet supported the assembler rejects programs containing this directive origin lc Advance location counter to Ic Synonym for the as portable direc
213. er relaxation isn t yet implemented in ld The option x also imples linker allocated gregs If instruction expansion is enabled as can expand a PUSHJ instruction into a series of instructions The shortest expansion is to not expand it but just mark the call as redi rectable to a stub which 1d creates at link time but only if the original PUSHJ instruction is found not to reach the target The stub consists of the necessary instructions to form a jump to the target This happens if as can assert that the PUSHJ instruction can reach such a stub The option no pushj stubs disables this shorter expansion and the longer series of instructions is then created at assembly time The option no stubs is a syn onym intended for compatibility with future releases where generation of stubs for other instructions may be implemented Usually a two operand expression see GREG base page 176 without a matching GREG directive is treated as an error by as When the option linker allocated gregs Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 173 is in effect they are instead passed through to the linker which will allocate as many global registers as is needed 9 23 2 Instruction expansion When as encounters an instruction with an operand that is either not known or does not fit the operand size of the instruction as and 1d will expand the instruction into a sequence of instructions semanticall
214. erand is an immediate Equivalent to discarding the result of the operation extInstruction mul64 0x14 0x00 SUFFIX_COND SYNTAX_20P 0P1_IMM_IMPLIED This describes a 2 operand instruction with an implicit first immediate operand The result of this operation would be discarded half expressions TODO Long expressions TODO option arclarc5larc6larc7larc8 The option directive must be followed by the desired core version Again arc is an alias for arc6 Note the option directive overrides the command line option marc a warn ing is emitted when the version is not consistent between the two even for the implicit default core version arc6 Short expressions STODO Word expressions TODO 9 2 5 Opcodes For information on the ARC instruction set see ARC Programmers Reference Manual ARC International www arc com 86 Using as 9 3 ARM Dependent Features 9 3 1 Options 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 armi arm2 arm250 arm3 arm6 arm60 arm600 arm610 arm620 armT arm7m arm7d arm7dm arm7di arm dmi arm70 arm700 arm700i arm710 arm710t arm720 arm720t arm740t arm710c arm7100 arm7500 arm7500fe arm t arm tdmi arm tdmi s arm8 arm810 strongarm strongarml strongarm110
215. erands opcodei operands opcode2 operands Y If an opcode can only be encoded in a FLIX instruction but is not specified as part of a FLIX bundle the assembler will choose the smallest format where the opcode can be encoded and will fill unused instruction slots with no ops 9 36 2 1 Opcode Names See the Xtensa Instruction Set Architecture ISA Reference Manual for a complete list of opcodes and descriptions of their semantics 6 1 If an opcode name is prefixed with an underscore character _ as will not transform that instruction in any way The underscore prefix disables both optimization see Sec tion 9 36 3 Xtensa Optimizations page 225 and relaxation see Section 9 36 4 Xtensa Relaxation page 226 for that particular instruction Only use the underscore prefix when it is essential to select the exact opcode produced by the assembler Using this feature un necessarily makes the code less efficient by disabling assembler optimization and less flexible by disabling relaxation Note that this special handling of underscore prefixes only applies to Xtensa opcodes not to either built in macros or user defined macros When an underscore prefix is used with a macro e g _MOV it refers to a different macro The assembler generally provides built in macros both with and without the underscore prefix where the underscore versions behave as if the underscore carries through to the instructions in the macros For examp
216. erences First a colon may immediately follow a label definition This is simply for compatibility with how most assembly language programmers write code Some obscure expression parsing problems may affect hand written code which uses the spop instructions or code which makes significant use of the line separator as is much less forgiving about missing arguments and other similar oversights than the HP assembler as notifies you of missing arguments as syntax errors this is regarded as a feature not a bug Finally as allows you to use an external symbol without explicitly importing the symbol Warning in the future this will be an error for HPPA targets Special characters for HPPA targets include is the line comment character can be used instead of a newline to separate statements Since has no special meaning you may use it in symbol names 9 11 4 Floating Point The HPPA family uses IEEE floating point numbers 9 11 5 HPPA Assembler Directives as for the HPPA supports many additional directives for compatibility with the native assembler This section describes them only briefly For detailed information on HPPA specific assembler directives see HP9000 Series 800 Assembly Language Reference Manual HP 92432 90001 as does not support the following assembler directives described in the HP manual Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 121 endm liston enter locct leave macro listo
217. ern extern is accepted in the source program for compatibility with other assemblers but it is ignored as treats all undefined symbols as external 7 50 fail expression Generates an error or a warning If the value of the expression is 500 or more as will print a warning message If the value is less than 500 as will print an error message The message will include the value of expression This can occasionally be useful inside complex nested macros or conditional assembly 7 51 file string file tells as that we are about to start a new logical file string is the new file name In general the filename is recognized whether or not it is surrounded by quotes but if you wish to specify an empty file name you must give the quotes This statement may go away in future it is only recognized to be compatible with old as programs 7 52 fill repeat size value repeat size and value are absolute expressions This emits repeat copies of size bytes Repeat may be zero or more Size may be zero or more but if it is more than 8 then it is deemed to have the value 8 compatible with other people s assemblers The contents of each repeat bytes is taken from an 8 byte number The highest order 4 bytes are zero The lowest order 4 bytes are value rendered in the byte order of an integer on the computer as is assembling for Each size bytes in a repetition is taken from the lowest order size bytes of this number Again this
218. ersion of as uses the instruction names in the D10V Architecture Manual However the names in the manual are sometimes ambiguous There are instruction names that can assemble to a short or long form opcode How does the assembler pick the correct form as will always pick the smallest form if it can When dealing with a symbol that is not defined yet when a line is being assembled it will always use the long form If you need to force the assembler to use either the short or long form of the instruction you can append either s short or 1 long to it For example if you are writing an assembly program and you want to do a branch to a symbol that is defined later in your program you can write bra s foo Objdump and GDB will always append s or 1 to instructions which have both short and long forms 9 8 2 2 Sub Instructions The D10V assembler takes as input a series of instructions either one per line or in the special two per line format described in the next section Some of these instructions will be short form or sub instructions These sub instructions can be packed into a single in struction The assembler will do this automatically It will also detect when it should not pack instructions For example when a label is defined the next instruction will never be packaged with the previous one Whenever a branch and link instruction is called it will not be packaged with the next instruction so the return addr
219. es cs ds ss es fs gs These are automatically added by specifying using the section memory operand form for memory references Operand Address size prefixes data16 and addr16 change 32 bit operands addresses into 16 bit operands addresses while data32 and addr32 change 16 bit ones in a code16 section into 32 bit operands addresses These prefixes must appear on the same line of code as the instruction they modify For example in a 16 bit code16 section you might write addr32 jmpl ebx The bus lock prefix lock inhibits interrupts during execution of the instruction it precedes This is only valid with certain instructions see a 80386 manual for details The wait for coprocessor prefix wait waits for the coprocessor to complete the current instruction This should never be needed for the 80386 80387 combination The rep repe and repne prefixes are added to string instructions to make them repeat hecx times cx times if the current address size is 16 bits 132 Using as e The rex family of prefixes is used by x86 64 to encode extensions to i386 instruction set The rex prefix has four bits an operand size overwrite 64 used to change operand size from 32 bit to 64 bit and X Y and Z extensions bits used to extend the register set You may write the rex prefixes directly The rex64xyz instruction emit
220. ess will be valid Nops are automatically inserted when necessary 110 Using as If you do not want the assembler automatically making these decisions you can control the packaging and execution type parallel or sequential with the special execution symbols described in the next section 9 8 2 3 Special Characters and are the line comment characters Sub instructions may be executed in order in reverse order or in parallel Instructions listed in the standard one per line format will be executed sequentially To specify the executing order use the following symbols gt Sequential with instruction on the left first EN Sequential with instruction on the right first spp Parallel The D10V syntax allows either one instruction per line one instruction per line with the execution symbol or two instructions per line For example abs al gt abs rO Execute these sequentially The instruction on the right is in the right container and is executed second abs rO lt abs al Execute these reverse sequentially The instruction on the right is in the right container and is executed first 1d2w r2 0r8 mac a0 r0 r7 Execute these in parallel 1d2w r2 0r8 mac a0 r0 r7 Two line format Execute these in parallel ld2w r2 0r8 mac a0 r0 r7 Two line format Execute these sequentially Assembler will put them in the proper containers ld2w r2 r8 gt mac a0 r0 r7 Two line format Execute these
221. essing modes with opcodes com mon to the v10 and v32 are recognized When N is specified as will emit a warning when a 16 bit branch instruction is expanded into a 32 bit multiple instruction construct see Section 9 7 2 CRIS Expand page 105 Some versions of the CRIS v10 for example in the Etrax 100 LX contain a bug that causes destabilizing memory accesses when a multiply instruction is executed with certain values in the first operand just before a cache miss When the mul bug abort command line option is active the default value as will refuse to assemble a file containing a multiply instruction at a dangerous offset one that could be the last on a cache line or is in a Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 105 section with insufficient alignment This placement checking does not catch any case where the multiply instruction is dangerously placed because it is located in a delay slot The mul bug abort command line option turns off the checking 9 7 2 Instruction expansion as will silently choose an instruction that fits the operand size for register constant operands For example the offset 127 in move d r3 127 r4 fits in an instruction using a signed byte offset Similarly move d r2 32767 r1 will generate an instruction using a 16 bit offset For symbolic expressions and constants that do not fit in 16 bits including the sign bit a 32 bit offset is generated For branches as will expa
222. essor 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 co processor The default is to assume an MMU for 68020 and up For details about the PDP 11 machine dependent features options see Section 9 25 1 PDP 11 Options page 183 mpic mno pic Generate position independent or position dependent code The default is mpic mall mall extensions Enable all instruction set extensions This is the default mno extensions Disable all instruction set extensions mextension mno extension Enable or disable a particular instruction set extension mcpu Enable the instruction set extensions supported by a particular CPU and dis able all other extensions mmachine Enable the instruction set extensions supported by a particular machine model and disable all other extensions The following options are available when as is configured for a picoJava processor mb Generate big endian f
223. f machine dependent options 9 25 1 1 Code Generation Options mpic mno pic Generate position independent or position dependent code The default is to generate position independent code 9 25 1 2 Instruction Set Extension Options These options enables or disables the use of extensions over the base line instruction set as introduced by the first PDP 11 CPU the KA11 Most options come in two variants a mextension that enables extension and a mno extension that disables extension The default is to enable all extensions mall mall extensions Enable all instruction set extensions mno extensions Disable all instruction set extensions mcis mno cis Enable or disable the use of the commercial instruction set which consists of these instructions ADDNI ADDN ADDPI ADDP ASHNI ASHN ASHPI ASHP CMPCT CMPC CMPNI CHEN CMPPI CMPP CVTLNI CVTLN CVTLPI CVTLP CVTNLI CVTNL CVTNPI CVINP CVTPLI CVTPL CVTPNI CVTPN DIVPI DIVP L2DR L3DR LOCCI LOCC MATCI MATC MOVCI MOVC MOVRCI MOVRC MOVTCI MOVTC MULPI MULP SCANCI SCANC SKPCI SKPC SPANCI SPANC SUBNI SUBN SUBPI and SUBP mcsm mno csm Enable or disable the use of the CSM instruction meis mno eis Enable or disable the use of the extended instruction set which consists of these instructions ASHC ASH DIV MARK MUL RTT SOB SXT and XOR mfis mkev11 mno fis mno kev11 Enable or disable the use of the KEV1
224. ff Beyond those implemented for compatibility as supports one additional assembler di rective for the HPPA param It conveys register argument locations for static functions Its syntax closely follows the export directive These are the additional directives in as for the HPPA block n blockz n call callinfo code Reserve n bytes of storage and initialize them to zero Mark the beginning of a procedure call Only the special case with no arguments is allowed param value flag Specify a number of parameters and flags that define the environment for a procedure param may be any of frame frame size entry_gr end of general regis ter range entry_fr end of float register range entry_sr end of space register range The values for flag are calls or caller proc has subroutines tno calls proc does not call subroutines save_rp preserve return pointer save_sp proc preserves stack pointer no_unwind do not unwind this proc hpux_int proc is interrupt routine Assemble into the standard section called TEXT subsection CODE copyright string In the SOM object format insert string into the object code marked as a copyright string copyright string enter entry exit In the ELF object format insert string into the object code marked as a version string Not yet supported the assembl
225. for your modifications adjacent to the other copyright notices F Include immediately after the copyright notices a license notice giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the terms of this License in the form shown in the Addendum below G Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document s license notice H Include an unaltered copy of this License I Preserve the section entitled History and its title and add to it an item stating at least the title year new authors and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the 242 Using as Title Page If there is no section entitled History in the Document create one stating the title year authors and publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence J Preserve the network location if any given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on These may be placed in the History section You may omit a network location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission K In any section entitled Acknowledgements or Dedications preserve the section s title
226. g point hardware in the computer running as 28 Using as Chapter 4 Sections and Relocation 29 4 Sections and Relocation 4 1 Background Roughly a section is a range of addresses with no gaps all data in those addresses is treated the same for some particular purpose For example there may be a read only section The linker 1d reads many object files partial programs and combines their contents to form a runnable program When as emits an object file the partial program is assumed to start at address 0 1d assigns the final addresses for the partial program so that different partial programs do not overlap This is actually an oversimplification but it suffices to explain how as uses sections 1d moves blocks of bytes of your program to their run time addresses These blocks slide to their run time addresses as rigid units their length does not change and neither does the order of bytes within them Such a rigid unit is called a section Assigning run time addresses to sections is called relocation It includes the task of adjusting mentions of object file addresses so they refer to the proper run time addresses For the H8 300 and for the Renesas SuperH SH as pads sections if needed to ensure they end on a word sixteen bit boundary An object file written by as has at least three sections any of which may be empty These are named text data and bss sections When it generates COFF or ELF output as can als
227. g strange is going on such as your copy of as is out of sync or you have encountered a bug in the C library on your system This has happened Your copy might crash and ours would not If you told us to expect a crash then when ours fails to crash we would know that the bug was not happening for us If you had not told us to expect a crash then we would not be able to draw any conclusion from our observations e If you wish to suggest changes to the as source send us context diffs as generated by diff with the u c or p option Always send diffs from the old file to the new file If you even discuss something in the as source refer to it by context not by line number The line numbers in our development sources will not match those in your sources Your line numbers would convey no useful information to us Here are some things that are not necessary e A description of the envelope of the bug Often people who encounter a bug spend a lot of time investigating which changes to the input file will make the bug go away and which changes will not affect it Chapter 10 Reporting Bugs 235 This is often time consuming and not very useful because the way we will find the bug is by running a single example under the debugger with breakpoints not by pure deduction from a series of examples We recommend that you save your time for something else Of course if you can find a simpler example to report instead of the
228. g treated as rn jCOND N Skips next N bytes followed by jump instruction and equivalent to jCOND N 2 Also there are some instructions which cannot be found in other assemblers These are branch instructions which has different opcodes upon jump distance They all got PC relative addressing mode 180 Using as beq label A polymorph instruction which is jeq label in case if jump distance within allowed range for cpu s jump instruction If not this unrolls into a sequence of jne 6 br label bne label A polymorph instruction which is jne label or jeq 4 br label blt label A polymorph instruction which is jl label or jge 4 br label bltn label A polymorph instruction which is jn label or jn 2 jmp 4 br label bltu label A polymorph instruction which is jlo label or jhs 2 br label bge label A polymorph instruction which is jge label or jl 4 br label bgeu label A polymorph instruction which is jhs label or jlo 4 br label bgt label A polymorph instruction which is jeq 2 jge label or jeq 6 j1 4 br label bgtu label A polymorph instruction which is jeq 2 jhs label or jeq 6 jlo 4 br label bleu label A polymorph instruction which is jeq label jlo label or jeq 2 jhs 4 br label ble label A polymorph instruction which is jeq label j1 label or jeq 2 jge 4 br label
229. generating 16 bit code from gcc and differs from code16 in that call ret enter leave push pop pusha popa pushf and popf instructions default to 32 bit size This is so that the stack pointer is manipulated in the same way over function calls allowing access to function parameters at the same stack offsets as in 32 bit mode code16gcc also automatically adds address size prefixes where necessary to use the 32 bit addressing modes that gcc generates The code which as generates in 16 bit mode will not necessarily run on a 16 bit pre 80386 processor To write code that runs on such a processor you must refrain from using any 32 bit constructs which require as to output address or operand size prefixes Note that writing 16 bit code instructions by explicitly specifying a prefix or an instruc tion mnemonic suffix within a 32 bit code section generates different machine instructions than those generated for a 16 bit code segment In a 32 bit code section the following code generates the machine opcode bytes 66 6a 04 which pushes the value 4 onto the stack decrementing hesp by 2 pushw 4 The same code in a 16 bit code section would generate the machine opcode bytes 6a 04 i e without the operand size prefix which is correct since the processor default operand size is assumed to be 16 bits in a 16 bit code section Chapter 9 Machine Depend
230. he comment section 7 60 if absolute expression if marks the beginning of a section of code which is only considered part of the source program being assembled if the argument which must be an absolute expression is non zero The end of the conditional section of code must be marked by endif see Section 7 42 endif page 49 optionally you may include code for the alternative condition flagged by 52 Using as else see Section 7 37 else page 48 If you have several conditions to check elseif may be used to avoid nesting blocks if else within each subsequent else block The following variants of if are also supported ifdef symbol Assembles the following section of code if the specified symbol has been defined Note a symbol which has been referenced but not yet defined is considered to be undefined ifb text Assembles the following section of code if the operand is blank empty ifc stringi string2 Assembles the following section of code if the two strings are the same The strings may be optionally quoted with single quotes If they are not quoted the first string stops at the first comma and the second string stops at the end of the line Strings which contain whitespace should be quoted The string comparison is case sensitive ifeq absolute expression Assembles the following section of code if the argument is zero ifeqs stringi string2 Another form of ifc The strings must be quoted using double
231. he structure offset is adjusted accordingly field and string are also allowed the size of field is one bit and string is considered to be one word in size Only element descriptors structure union tags align and conditional assembly directives are allowed within struct endstruct align aligns member offsets to word boundaries only ssize if provided will always be assigned the size of the structure The tag directive in addition to being used to define a structure union ele ment within a structure may be used to apply a structure to a symbol Once applied to label the individual structure elements may be applied to label to produce the desired offsets using label as the structure base Set the tab size in the output listing Ignored utag union name 1 element count 1 name 2 element count 2 tname tag utagx tcount name n element count n usize endstruct label tag utag Similar to struct but the offset after each element is reset to zero and the usize is set to the maximum of all defined elements Starting offset for the union is always zero 206 Using as symbol usect section name size blocking_flagl alignment_flag Reserve space for variables in a named uninitialized section similar to bss usect allows definitions sections independent of bss symbol points to the first location reserved by this allocation The symbol may be used as a variable name size is the alloca
232. he first argument must always have a value specified but not the second which instead has a default value The third formal will get assigned all remaining arguments specified at invo cation time When you call a macro you can specify the argument values either by position or by keyword For example sum 9 17 is equivalent to sum to 17 from 9 Note that since each of the macargs can be an identifier exactly as any other one permitted by the target architecture there may be occasional problems if the target hand crafts special meanings to certain characters when they occur in a special position For example if the colon is generally permitted to be part of a symbol name but the architecture specific code special cases it when occurring as the final character of a symbol to denote a label then the macro parameter replacement code will have no way of knowing that and consider the whole construct including the colon an identifier and check only this identifier for being the subject to parameter substitution So for example this macro definition macro label 1 M endm might not work as expected Invoking label foo might not create a label called foo but instead just insert the text 1 into the assembler source probably generating an error about an unrecognised identifier Similarly problems might occur with the period character which is often allowed inside opcode names and hence iden
233. he name of the relocation is R_CRIS_32_PLT_PCREL Example add d fnname PLT pc PLTG Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 107 Like PLT but the value is relative to the beginning of the global offset table The relocation is R_CRIS_32_PLT_GOTREL Example move d fnname PLTG r3 GOTPLT Similar to PLT but the value of the symbol is a 32 bit index into the global offset table This is somewhat of a mix between the effect of the GOT and the PLT suffix the difference to GOT is that there will be a procedure linkage table entry created and that the symbol is assumed to be a function entry and will be resolved by the run time resolver as with PLT The relocation is R_CRIS_32_GOTPLT Example jsr r0 fnname GOTPLT GOTPLT16 A variant of GOTPLT giving a 16 bit value Its relocation name is R_CRIS_16_GOTPLT Example jsr r0 fnname GOTPLT16 GOTOFF This suffix must only be attached to a local symbol but may be used in an expression adding an offset The value is the address of the symbol relative to the start of the global offset table The relocation name is R_CRIS_32_GOTREL Example move d r0 localsym GOTOFF r3 9 7 4 3 Register names A character may always prefix a general or special register name in an instruction operand but is mandatory when the option no underscore is specified or when the syntax register prefix directive is in effect see
234. hich 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 an MCore processor jsri2bsr nojsri2bsr Enable or disable the JSRI to BSR transformation By default this is enabled The command line option nojsri2bsr can be used to disable it sifilter nosifilter Enable or disable the silicon filter behaviour By default this is disabled The default can be overridden by the sifilter command line option relax Alter jump instructions for long displacements mcpu 210 340 Select the cpu type on the target hardware This controls which instructions can be assembled EB Assemble for a big endian target Chapter 1 Overview 13 EL Assemble for a little endian target See the info pages for documentation of the MMIX specific options The following options are available when as is configured for an Xtensa processor text section literals no text section literals With text section literals literal pools are interspersed in the text section The default is no text section literals which places literals in a separate section in the output file These options only affect literals referenced
235. his directive has no effect when using the text section literals option see Section 9 36 1 Command Line Options page 223 9 36 5 7 absolute literals The absolute literals and no absolute literals directives control the absolute vs PC relative mode for L32R instructions These are relevant only for Xtensa configurations that include the absolute addressing option for L32R instructions begin no absolute literals end no labsolute literals These directives do not change the L32R mode they only cause the assembler to emit the appropriate kind of relocation for L32R instructions and to place the literal values in the appropriate section To change the L32R mode the program must write the LITBASE special register It is the programmer s responsibility to keep track of the mode and indicate to the assembler which mode is used in each region of code If the Xtensa configuration includes the absolute L32R addressing option the default is to assume absolute L32R addressing unless the no absolute literals command line option is specified Otherwise the default is to assume PC relative L32R addressing The absolute literals directive can then be used to override the default determined by the command line options 232 Using as Chapter 10 Reporting Bugs 233 10 Reporting Bugs Your bug reports play an essential role in making as reliable Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem or it may
236. his directive may only be used inside a def endef pair Storage class may flag whether a symbol is static or external or it may record further symbolic debugging information 7 94 section name Use the section directive to assemble the following code into a section named name This directive is only supported for targets that actually support arbitrarily named sections on a out targets for example it is not accepted even with a standard a out section name COFF Version For COFF targets the section directive is used in one of the following ways Section name flags section name subsection If the optional argument is quoted it is taken as flags to use for the section Each flag is a single character The following flags are recognized b bss section uninitialized data n section is not loaded W writable section d data section r read only section x executable section S shared section meaningful for PE targets a ignored For compatibility with the ELF version If no flags are specified the default flags depend upon the section name If the section name is not recognized the default will be for the section to be loaded and writable Note the n and w flags remove attributes from the section rather than adding them so if they are used on their own it will be as if no flags had been specified at all If the optional argument to the section directive is not quoted it is taken as a sub section number see S
237. if flag f0 is true Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 115 Sfx d SE T Vip ef Execute the instruction if flag f0 is false Execute the instruction if flag fl is true Execute the instruction if flag f1 is false Execute the instruction if both flags f0 and fl are true Execute the instruction if flag f0 is true and flag fl is false 9 9 2 5 Register Names You can use the predefined symbols ro through r63 to refer to the D30V registers You can also use sp as an alias for r63 and link as an alias for r62 The accumulators are a0 and al The D30V also has predefined symbols for these control registers and status bits psw bpsw pe bpc rpt_c rpt_s rpt_e mod_s mod_e iba fO fi f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 S v va Processor Status Word Backup Processor Status Word Program Counter Backup Program Counter Repeat Count Repeat Start address Repeat End address Modulo Start address Modulo End address Instruction Break Address Flag 0 Flag 1 Flag 2 Flag 3 Flag 4 Flag 5 Flag 6 Flag 7 Same as flag 4 saturation flag Same as flag 5 overflow flag Same as flag 6 sticky overflow flag Same as flag 7 carry borrow flag Same as flag 7 carry borrow flag 116 Using as 9 9 2 6 Addressing Modes as understands the following addressing modes for the D30V Rn in the following refers to any of the numbered registers but not the control regi
238. ified for listing lhs width If neither switch is used the default is to one listing rhs width number Sets the maximum width in characters of the source line that is displayed alongside the hex dump The default value for this parameter is 100 The source line is displayed on the right hand side of the listing output listing cont lines number Sets the maximum number of continuation lines of hex dump that will be dis played for a given single line of source input The default value is 4 2 9 Assemble in MRI Compatibility Mode A The M or mri option selects MRI compatibility mode This changes the syntax and pseudo op handling of as to make it compatible with the ASM68K or the ASM960 depending upon the configured target assembler from Microtec Research The exact nature of the MRI syntax will not be documented here see the MRI manuals for more information Note in particular that the handling of macros and macro arguments is somewhat different The purpose of this option is to permit assembling existing MRI assembler code using as The MRI compatibility is not complete Certain operations of the MRI assembler de pend upon its object file format and can not be supported using other object file formats Supporting these would require enhancing each object file format individually These are e global symbols in common section The m68k MRI assembler supports common sections which are merged by the
239. ike this type name type description This sets the type of symbol name to be either a function symbol or an object symbol There are five different syntaxes supported for the type description field in order to provide compatibility with various other assemblers Because some of the characters used in these syntaxes such as 0 and are comment characters for some architectures some of the syntaxes below do not work on all architec tures The first variant will be accepted by the GNU assembler on all architectures so that 70 Using as variant should be used for maximum portability if you do not need to assemble your code with other assemblers The syntaxes supported are type lt name gt STT_ lt TYPE_IN_UPPER_CASE gt type lt name gt lt type gt type lt name gt lt type gt type lt name gt gt type gt type lt name gt lt type gt The types supported are STT_FUNC function Mark the symbol as being a function name STT_OBJECT object Mark the symbol as being a data object STT_TLS tls object Mark the symbol as being a thead local data object STT COMMON common Mark the symbol as being a common data object Note Some targets support extra types in addition to those listed above 7 111 uleb128 expressions uleb128 stands for unsigned little endian base 128 This is a compact variable length representation of numbers used by the DWARF symbolic debugging format See Section 7 99 s
240. ill be unable to automatically find a good place to put a literal pool Moreover D l Literals for the init and fini sections are always placed in separate sections even when text section literals is enabled Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 231 the code for the interrupt vector must be at a specific starting address so the literal pool cannot come before the start of the code The literal pool for the vector must be explicitly positioned in the middle of the vector before any uses of the literals due to the nega tive offsets used by PC relative L32R instructions The literal_position directive can be used to do this In the following code the literal for M will automatically be aligned correctly and is placed after the unconditional jump global M code_start j continue literal_position align 4 continue movi a4 M 9 36 5 6 literal prefix The literal prefix directive allows you to override the default literal section names which are derived from the names of the sections where the literals are defined begin literal prefix name end literal prefix For literals defined within the delimited region the literal section names are derived from the name argument instead of the name of the current section The rules used to derive the literal section names do not change See Section 9 36 5 4 literal page 229 If the name argument is omitted the literal sections revert to the defaults T
241. in str lastch str ch Returns index of the last occurrence of character constant ch in str isdefed symbol Returns zero if the symbol symbol is not in the symbol table non zero other wise Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 207 ismember symbol list Assign the first member of comma separated string list to symbol list is re assigned the remainder of the list Returns zero if list is a null string Both arguments must be subsyms iscons expr Returns 1 if string expr is binary 2 if octal 3 if hexadecimal 4 if a character 5 if decimal and zero if not an integer isname name Returns 1 if name is a valid symbol name zero otherwise isreg reg Returns 1 if reg is a valid predefined register name ARO AR7 only structsz stag Returns the size of the structure or union represented by stag structacc stag Returns the reference point of the structure or union represented by stag Al ways returns zero 9 31 11 Memory mapped Registers The following symbols are recognized as memory mapped registers 208 Using as 9 32 Z80 Dependent Features 9 32 1 Options The Zilog Z80 and Ascii R800 version of as have a few machine dependent options z80 Produce code for the Z80 processor There are additional options to request warnings and error messages for undocumented instructions ignore undocumented instructions Wnud Silently assemble undocumented Z80 instructions that have been adop
242. indirect with displacement PC relative address for branch or rep Immediate data the is optional and ignored 112 Using as 9 8 2 6 eWORD Modifier Any symbol followed by word will be replaced by the symbol s value shifted right by 2 This is used in situations such as loading a register with the address of a function or any other code fragment For example if you want to load a register with the location of the function main then jump to that function you could do it as follows ldi r2 main word jmp r2 9 8 3 Floating Point The D10V has no hardware floating point but the float and double directives generates IEEE floating point numbers for compatibility with other development tools 9 8 4 Opcodes For detailed information on the D10V machine instruction set see D10V Architecture A VLIW Microprocessor for Multimedia Applications Mitsubishi Electric Corp as imple ments all the standard D10V opcodes The only changes are those described in the section on size modifiers Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 113 9 9 D30V Dependent Features 9 9 1 D30V Options The Mitsubishi D30V version of as has a few machine dependent options Q The D30V can often execute two sub instructions in parallel When this option is used as will attempt to optimize its output by detecting when instructions can be executed in parallel n When this option is used as will issue a warning every time it adds a nop
243. ine LM r6 r7 V some longlong extern A r1 F 12 gt AH r0 H 42 ME r6 E 3 1416 MD r6 D 3 14159265358979 126 Using as 0 r6 XL4 cacad0d0 ltorg should all behave as expected that is an entry in the literal pool will be created or reused if it already exists and the instruction operands will be the displacement into the literal pool using the current base register as last declared with the using directive 9 12 4 Floating Point The assembler generates only IEEE floating point numbers The older floating point formats are not supported 9 12 5 ESA 390 Assembler Directives as for the ESA 390 supports all of the standard ELF SVR4 assembler directives that are documented in the main part of this documentation Several additional directives are supported in order to implement the ESA 390 addressing model The most important of these are using and ltorg These are the additional directives in as for the ESA 390 dc A small subset of the usual DC directive is supported drop regno Stop using regno as the base register The regno must have been previously declared with using directive in the same section as the current section ebcdic string Emit the EBCDIC equivalent of the indicated string The emitted string will be null terminated Note that the directives string etc emit ascii strings by default EQU The standard HLASM style EQU directive is not supported however the stan dard as directive
244. ing set mips16 at the start of the assembly file no mips16 turns off this option msmartmips mno smartmips Enables the SmartMIPS extensions to the MIPS32 instruction set which pro vides a number of new instructions which target smartcard and cryptographic applications This is equivalent to putting set 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 in structions mno dspr2 turns off this option mmt mno mt Generate code for the MT Application Specific Extension This tells the as sembler to accept MT instructions mno mt turns off this option Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 167 mfix7000 mno fix7000 Cause nops to be inserted if the read of the destination register of an mfhi o
245. ingle in struction The assembler will do this automatically It will also detect when it should not pack instructions For example when a label is defined the next instruction will never be packaged with the previous one Whenever a branch and link instruction is called it will not be packaged with the next instruction so the return address will be valid Nops are automatically inserted when necessary If you do not want the assembler automatically making these decisions you can control the packaging and execution type parallel or sequential with the special execution symbols described in the next section 9 9 2 3 Special Characters and are the line comment characters Sub instructions may be executed in order in reverse order or in parallel Instructions listed in the standard one per line format will be executed sequentially unless you use the 0 option 114 Using as To specify the executing order use the following symbols gt Sequential with instruction on the left first EN Sequential with instruction on the right first ZP Parallel The D30V syntax allows either one instruction per line one instruction per line with the execution symbol or two instructions per line For example abs r2 r3 gt abs r4 r5 Execute these sequentially The instruction on the right is in the right container and is executed second abs r2 r3 lt abs r4 r5 Execute these reverse sequentially The instruction on the
246. ion 2 4 ccc kc nde ER EE T DIOVX options ize bx le acier e RI 109 D10V registers ee NEE NEE nri 110 D10V size modifiers 000 ee 109 D10V sub instruction ordering 110 D10V sub instructions 00 109 RAIER Lee veles heh eR 109 DIOV syntax cen meth ER enn 109 D30V addressing modes 116 D30V floating pont 116 D30V Guarded Execution 114 D30V line comment character 113 D30N MOPS reiri prosa pace ee Seda Babs 7 D30V nops after 32 bit multiply Y D30V opcode summary seuuuuue 116 D30V opt mzation sees afi D30V option 113 DIOV TEBISHEES oe rrr m rne 115 D30V size modifiers 0 0 ee eee eee 113 D30V sub instruction ordering 113 D30V sub instructions lesse seeeses 113 DIOVSUPDO Tb eee pani nana AE hen 113 DSOV syntax soos ig eae ae e e ke ete EE EE 113 data alignment on SPARC sssuaanaune 196 data and text sections joining 21 data directive ice aes eere ES exu 48 data directive TICE 202 data relocations ARM 88 data section NEE EEN n hn 30 datat directive Mo ttt 157 252 data2 directive M tt 157 datalabel SH64 0 0 00 cee eee eee 194 dbpc register V850 00 0 c eee eee 220 dbpsw register Va 220 debuggers and symbol order 35 debugging COFF symbols 48 RI REI EE 185 decimal integers 0
247. ion For example mov hilo here r6 computes the absolute address of label here and puts the result into register 6 Computes the offset of the named variable from the start of the Small Data Area whoes address is held in register 4 the GP register and stores the result as a 16 bit signed value in the immediate operand field of the given instruction For example ld w sdaoff a variable gp r6 loads the contents of the location pointed to by the label a variable into register 6 provided that the label is located somewhere within 32K of the address held in the GP register Note the linker assumes that the GP register contains a fixed address set to the address of the label called __gp This can either be set up automatically by the linker or specifically set by using the defsym __gp lt value gt command line option Computes the offset of the named variable from the start of the Tiny Data Area whoes address is held in register 30 the EP register and stores the result as a 4 5 7 or 8 bit unsigned value in the immediate operand field of the given instruction For example 222 zdaoff ctoff Using as sld w tdaoff _a_variable ep r6 loads the contents of the location pointed to by the label _a_variable into register 6 provided that the label is located somewhere within 256 bytes of the address held in the EP register Note the linker assumes that the EP register
248. irective ARM 92 thumb set directive ARM 92 TIC54X builtin math functions 199 TIC54X machine directives anaa uaaa 201 TIC54X memory mapped registers 207 TIC54X Options ANE atore eee na eae 198 TIC54X subsym builtins 0 206 TICS4X Support cemLexe RR Pa EY oe 198 TIC54X specific macros 02 eens eee 206 time total for assembly 21 title direc ve ll vene ey Eure tede 69 tp register VEON reres cese e Pemex len e 218 transform directive leeeeseeeese eee 229 trusted compiler ssellseeees eee eee 18 turning preprocessing on and off 23 type directive COFF version 69 type directive ELF version 69 type of a symbol eese 3T U ualong directive SH 191 uaword directive SH 191 ubyte directive TIC54X 0 202 uchar directive TIC54X 0 202 uhalf directive TIC54X 0 203 uint directive TIC54X 000 203 ulebi28 directive oc NEEN e ers 70 ulong directive TIC54X ooooooooooooo 203 undefined section 31 union directive TIC54X 04 205 unreq directive ARM 92 UnSegm issicceso ages e ur m RE RR ERU Re eee 212 usect directive TICBAX 0 004 205 ushort directive TIC54X 0 203 uword directive TIC54X 0 04 203 V V850 command line options
249. irstch subsym builtin TIC54X 206 floor math builtin TIC54X 200 fmod math builtin TIC54X 200 int math builtin TIC54X 00 200 iscons subsym builtin TIC54X 207 isdefed subsym builtin TIC54X 206 ismember subsym builtin TIC54X 206 isname subsym builtin TIC54X 207 isreg subsym builtin TIC54X 207 1astch subsym builtin TIC54X 206 1dexp math builtin TIC54X 200 log math builtin TIC54X 00 200 log10 math builtin TIC54X 200 max math builtin TIC54X 200 min math builtin TIC54X 200 pow math builtin TIC54X 00 200 round math builtin TIC54X 200 sgn math builtin TIC54X 201 sin math builtin TIC54X 201 sinh math builtin TIC54X 201 sqrt math builtin TIC54X 201 structacc subsym builtin TIC5AX 207 structsz subsym builtin TIC54X 207 symcmp subsym builtin TIC54X 206 symlen subsym builtin TIC54X 206 EE 93 tan math builtin TIC54X 00 201 tanh math builtin TIC54X 201 trunc math builtin TIC54X 201 245 option VAXZINMS eee eee 214 B PE 14 32 option 12080 128 32 option 86 84 128
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251. is slightly more efficient This option only affects the handling of the cpload and cpsetup pseudo ops 9 22 2 MIPS ECOFF object code Assembling for a MIPS ECOFF target supports some additional sections besides the usual text data and bas The additional sections are rdata used for read only data sdata used for small data and sbss used for small common objects When assembling for ECOFF the assembler uses the gp 28 register to form the address of a small object Any object in the sdata or sbss sections is considered small in this sense For external objects or for objects in the bas section you can use the gcc G option to control the size of objects addressed via gp the default value is 8 meaning that a reference to any object eight bytes or smaller uses gp Passing G 0 to as prevents it from using the gp register on the basis of object size but the assembler uses gp for objects in sdata or sbss in any case The size of an object in the bss section is set by the comm or 1comm directive that defines it The size of an external object may be set with the extern directive For example extern sym 4 declares that the object at sym is 4 bytes in length whie leaving sym otherwise undefined Using small ECOFF objects requires linker support and assumes that the gp register is correctly initialized normally done automatically by the startup code MIPS ECOFF assembly code must
252. is is shorter than the default abso lute addressing Other addressing modes remain unchanged in x86 64 architecture except registers used are 64 bit instead of 32 bit 9 13 8 Handling of Jump Instructions Jump instructions are always optimized to use the smallest possible displacements This is accomplished by using byte 8 bit displacement jumps whenever the target is sufficiently close If a byte displacement is insufficient a long displacement is used We do not support word 16 bit displacement jumps in 32 bit mode i e prefixing the jump instruction with the data16 instruction prefix since the 80386 insists upon masking heip to 16 bits after the word displacement is added See also see Section 9 13 13 1386 Arch page 135 Note that the jcxz jecxz loop loopz loope loopnz and loopne instruc tions only come in byte displacements so that if you use these instructions gcc does not use them you may get an error message and incorrect code The AT amp T 80386 assembler tries to get around this problem by expanding jcxz foo to jcxz cx zero jmp cx nonzero cx zero jmp foo cx nonzero 9 13 9 Floating Point All 80387 floating point types except packed BCD are supported BCD support may be added without much difficulty These data types are 16 32 and 64 bit integers and single 32 bit double 64 bit and extended 80 bit precision floating point Each suppo
253. is not permitted if the ABI is not specified on the command line When the ABI is specified on the command line any abi pseudo ops in the source must match it shcompact const crange Emit code range descriptors for constants in SHcompact code sections no mix Disallow SHmedia code in the same section as constants and SHcompact code no expand Do not expand MOVI PT PTA or PTB instructions expand pt32 With abi 64 expand PT PTA and PTB instructions to 32 bits only 9 29 2 Syntax 9 29 2 1 Special Characters 1 is the line comment character You can use instead of a newline to separate statements Since has no special meaning you may use it in symbol names 9 29 2 2 Register Names You can use the predefined symbols ro through r63 to refer to the SH64 general registers crO through cr63 for control registers trO through tr7 for target address registers 194 Using as fro through fr63 for single precision floating point registers dro through dr62 even numbered registers only for double precision floating point registers vO through fv60 multiples of four only for single precision floating point vectors p0 through fp62 even numbered registers only for single precision floating point pairs mtrx0 through mtrx48 multiples of 16 only for 4x4 matrices of single precision floating point registers pc for the program
254. is option specifies that the output of the assembler should be marked as position independent code PIC fix v4bx Allow BX instructions in ARMv4 code This is intended for use with the linker option of the same name mwarn deprecated mno warn deprecated Enable or disable warnings about using deprecated options or features The default is to warn 9 3 2 Syntax 9 3 2 1 Special Characters The presence of a 9 on a line indicates the start of a comment that extends to the end of the current line If a appears as the first character of a line the whole line is treated as a comment The character can be used instead of a newline to separate statements Either 87 or can be used to indicate immediate operands TODO Explain about data modifier on symbols 9 3 2 2 Register Names TODO Explain about ARM register naming and the predefined names 9 3 3 Floating Point The ARM family uses IEEE floating point numbers 9 3 3 1 ARM relocation generation Specific data relocations can be generated by putting the relocation name in parentheses after the symbol name For example word foo TARGET1 This will generate an 8 ARM TARGET1 relocation against the symbol foo The following relocations are supported GOT GOTOFF TARGET1 TARGET2 SBREL TLSGD TLSLDM TLSLDO GOTTPOFF and TPOFF For compatibility with older toolchains the assembler also accepts PLT after branch targets This will generate the
255. is the same as the C operator Remainder Shift Left Same as the C operator lt lt Shift Right Same as the C operator gt gt 2 Intermediate precedence Bitwise Inclusive Or Bitwise And Bitwise Exclusive Or Bitwise Or Not 3 Low Precedence Addition If either argument is absolute the result has the section of the other argument You may not add together arguments from different sections Subtraction If the right argument is absolute the result has the section of the left argument If both arguments are in the same section the result is absolute You may not subtract arguments from different sections Is Equal To Is Not Equal To Is Less Than Is Greater Than Is Greater Than Or Equal To Is Less Than Or Equal To The comparison operators can be used as infix operators A true results has a value of 1 whereas a false result has a value of 0 Note these operators perform signed comparisons 4 Lowest Precedence amp amp Logical And Chapter 6 Expressions 41 II Logical Or These two logical operations can be used to combine the results of sub expressions Note unlike the comparison operators a true result returns a value of 1 but a false results does still return 0 Also note that the logical or operator has a slightly lower precedence than logical and In short it s only meaningful to add or subtract the offsets in an address you can only have a defined section in
256. is this reference e Which section does the address refer to What is the numeric value of address start address of section 30 Using as e Is the reference to an address Program Counter relative In fact every address as ever uses is expressed as section offset into section Further most expressions as computes have this section relative nature For some object formats such as SOM for the HPPA some expressions are symbol relative instead In this manual we use the notation secname N to mean offset N into section secname Apart from text data and bss sections you need to know about the absolute section When 1d mixes partial programs addresses in the absolute section remain unchanged For example address absolute 0 is relocated to run time address 0 by 1d Although the linker never arranges two partial programs data sections with overlapping addresses after linking by definition their absolute sections must overlap Address absolute 239 in one part of a program is always the same address when the program is running as address absolute 239 in any other part of the program The idea of sections is extended to the undefined section Any address whose section is unknown at assembly time is by definition rendered undefined U where U is filled in later Since numbers are always defined the only way to generate an undefined address is to mention an undefined symbol A reference to a named comm
257. ivalent to putting set 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 in structions mno dspr2 turns off this option mmt mno mt Generate code for the MT Application Specific Extension This tells the as sembler to accept MT instructions mno mt turns off this option 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 12 Using as emulation name This option ca
258. iving Symbols Other Values 0 0 0 c cece eee eee 35 5 3 Symbol Names 0 cece cece or 35 5 4 The Special Dot Symbol 0 eee eee eee 37 bu Symbol Ai EE 37 E WEE 37 Doe TYG es ih rcr 37 5 5 3 Symbol Attributes a out a 5 5 9 Descriptor omnia Lr ERR da Exe 38 Dw 0 PIPER 38 5 5 4 Symbol Attributes for OO 38 5 5 4 1 Primary Attributes cesi ez eee Rer 38 5 512 Auxiliary Attributes pirita 38 5 5 5 Symbol Attributes for GON 38 6 Expressions nera RC ACORDE 39 6 1 Empty kapnressiong nnn 39 6 2 Integer Exporesgiong nnne 39 QI JUOD nits I UE CREE e DOE Ua ex DRE ns 39 0 28 2 Operatorg unde Red etre ee ER xA Rn 39 0 2 3 Prefix OperaloE oae bem exi aha 39 6 2 4 Infix Operatorg nnn 40 7 Assembler Directives esses 43 Tl 2aBbOPU GgeseIel a et eese d Reden endet IRL rn 43 rt E co suo Pici RT 43 71 3 align abs expr abs expr aba ermpr sss 43 CAL ascii string ser ener e greet rede ad seeded 44 GO asciz STEINE erana ena ti E deed e 44 7 6 balign wl abs expr abs expr abs expr 44 Gt byte expressions occ pee ened oy ee EE 44 7 8 comm symbol length eee 44 7 9 cfi startproc simple esee elles 45 GH cfi endproe 24 on eon ur eR dere EE ERE E ERES 45 7 11 cfi personality encoding exp ica eer on 45 112 EE Veda encoding A ica Roe es 45 1 13 cfi_def_cfa register offset i esee 45 7 14 cfi def cfa register register cessus 45 1 15
259. l COMMON misis eee 44 symbol making visible to linker 51 symbolic debuggers information for 66 gem bole ER EEN e kk hh ree RO RR 35 Symbols in position independent code CRIS 106 symbols with uppercase VAX VMS 213 symbols assigning values to 49 Symbols built in CHRIS 105 Symbols CRIS buht n 105 symbols local common n nnaasuna ennen nna 54 symver directe 68 syntax compatibility 1386 129 syntax compatibility x86 64 129 syntax AND 95 syntax BRIN sick cece ena e hes 99 syntax D OV ais ENEE EE cbt eee eee 109 syntax D30V aoa ee eren es 113 syntax M320 erriari sameindir hern bd 147 syntax M680x assassin en 155 syntax M68HC11 uouausunnaununennen 161 162 syntax machine independent 23 syntax Xtensa assembler ss 224 sysproc directive 9000 140 T bab Nb A re tete PR rre LOUPE ahs 25 tab directive TIC54X 2 eee 205 tag directive eror erans metre ie 69 tag directive TICBAX 2 eee 205 tdaoff pseudo op V n0 o 221 temporary symbol names oooooooooooo 36 text and data sections joining Ls 21 text directive soos sia eere udo AER ees 69 text SECHON occu re E rr dosia ie 30 Appendix A AS Index tfloat directive 1386 oooooo ooooo 133 tfloat directive z p D4 133 thumb directive ARM 92 Thumb support 86 thumb func d
260. l A as the magic character to distinguish them from ordinary labels For example the fifth definition of 6 may be named L6C A5 5 4 The Special Dot Symbol The special symbol refers to the current address that as is assembling into Thus the expression melvin long defines melvin to contain its own address Assigning a value to is treated the same as a org directive Thus the expression 4 is the same as saying space 4 5 5 Symbol Attributes Every symbol has as well as its name the attributes Value and Type Depending on output format symbols can also have auxiliary attributes If you use a symbol without defining it as assumes zero for all these attributes and probably won t warn you This makes the symbol an externally defined symbol which is generally what you would want 5 5 1 Value The value of a symbol is usually 32 bits For a symbol which labels a location in the text data bss or absolute sections the value is the number of addresses from the start of that section to the label Naturally for text data and bss sections the value of a symbol changes as 1d changes section base addresses during linking Absolute symbols values do not change during linking that is why they are called absolute The value of an undefined symbol is treated in a special way If it is 0 then the symbol is not defined in this assembler source file and 1d tries to determine its va
261. l EE 184 emkd1ID rats Paila 184 mdd cortina EE RI du E RH ERR 184 mkdlle ii beue eR bs Rr os ee Se 184 akd lif EE 184 H EENG 184 mkdir es dua 184 Md eh ae RP Because 184 247 SC EE 183 mlimited eis 20 0 eee eee ee eee 183 RE 160 mlong double i cece bites n n 160 mmcu command line option AVR 94 SOWIE Pm 184 mmicrocode ccoo 184 mmnemonic option i386 128 mmnemonic option x86 64 128 mmutiproC coco 184 SUM E 184 mnaked reg option i386 129 mnaked reg option x86 64 129 I nO ClS 3 ciii Rx PM iad RI M SR a beens 183 JIDILO CSHL i acamkcescukeddckodaKadbedwds 183 SEELEN Lee ee RE EK DE e 183 mn Nenneg 183 TE CEET 183 e EE 183 mmn0o fep ie eee eet eee 183 LEE 183 mno kevll seeeeseeeee ee eee 183 mno limited eis 0 e eee ee eee eee 183 nmuio mifpt 2 ee ee de e 184 mno microcode 1 LL eee 184 mno mutiproC e re n nnn 184 IDDO IDXDS sclse dec be a he ber hg Eee 184 SNO PIE iid shad eee ta EE A wu RE ee 183 mno skip bug command line option AVR 94 ER 184 MOM oceans eosin ioe eaten pad a 168 mno wrap command line option AVR 94 Gr Ee 183 mrelax command line option V850 217 RE 160 mshort double 00 eee eee eee eee 160 A dae he ue de HERE ee 184 AMS YMG NEE 168 msyntax option 1386 o o o ooooooooo 128
262. l used in the current file but defined elsewhere Both map to the standard global directive half value value n uhalf value value n short value value n ushort value value n int value value n uint value value n word value value n uword value value n Place one or more values into consecutive words of the current section If a label is used it points to the word allocated for the first value encountered label symbol Define a special symbol to refer to the load time address of the current section program counter length width Set the page length and width of the output listing file Ignored list nolist Control whether the source listing is printed Ignored long value value n ulong value value n xlong value value n Place one or more 32 bit values into consecutive words in the current section The most significant word is stored first long and ulong align the result on a longword boundary xlong does not Loop count break condition endloop Repeatedly assemble a block of code Loop begins the block and endloop marks its termination count defaults to 1024 and indicates the number of times the block should be repeated break terminates the loop so that assembly 204 Using as begins after the endloop directive The optional condition will cause the loop to terminate only if it evaluates to zero macro name mac
263. lable 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 Chapter 1 Overview cj 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 k Specify that PIC code has been generated See the info pages for documentation of the CRIS specific options The following options are available when as is configured for a D10V processor 0 Optimize output by parallelizing instructions The following options are available when as is configured for a D30V processor 0 Optimize output by parallelizing instructions n Warn when nops are generated N Warn when a nop after a 32 bit multiply instruction is generated The following options are available when as is configured for the Intel 80960 processor ACA ACA_A ACB ACC AKA AKB AKC AMC Specify which variant of the 960 architecture is the target b Add code
264. le _MOV may expand to _MOV N Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 225 The underscore prefix only applies to individual instructions not to series of instructions For example if a series of instructions have underscore prefixes the assembler will not transform the individual instructions but it may insert other instructions between them e g to align a LOOP instruction To prevent the assembler from modifying a series of instructions as a whole use the no transform directive See Section 9 36 5 3 transform page 229 9 36 2 2 Register Names The assembly syntax for a register file entry is the short name for a TIE register file followed by the index into that register file For example the general purpose AR register file has a short name of a so these registers are named a0 a15 As a special feature sp is also supported as a synonym for a1 Additional registers may be added by processor configuration options and by designer defined TIE extensions An initial character is optional in all register names 9 36 3 Xtensa Optimizations The optimizations currently supported by as are generation of density instructions where appropriate and automatic branch target alignment 9 36 3 1 Using Density Instructions The Xtensa instruction set has a code density option that provides 16 bit versions of some of the most commonly used opcodes Use of these opcodes can significantly reduce code size When possible the assemb
265. le Errors which stop the assembly are still reported If you use the fatal warnings option as considers files that generate warnings to be in error You can switch these options off again by specifying warn which causes warnings to be output as usual 2 17 Generate Object File in Spite of Errors Z After an error message as normally produces no output If for some reason you are inter ested in object file output even after as gives an error message on your program use the Z option If there are any errors as continues anyways and writes an object file after a final warning message of the form n errors m warnings generating bad object file Chapter 3 Syntax 23 3 Syntax This chapter describes the machine independent syntax allowed in a source file as syntax is similar to what many other assemblers use it is inspired by the BSD 4 2 assembler except that as does not assemble Vax bit fields 3 1 Preprocessing The as internal preprocessor e adjusts and removes extra whitespace It leaves one space or tab before the keywords on a line and turns any other whitespace on the line into a single space e removes all comments replacing them with a single space or an appropriate number of newlines e converts character constants into the appropriate numeric values It does not do macro processing include file handling or anything else you may get from your C compiler s preprocessor Y
266. le directive x86 64 oooooooooooo 133 single quote 80 208 sixteen bit integers lesse 51 sixteen byte integer lle esee 59 size directive COFF version 66 size directive ELF version 66 size modifiers DIN 109 size modifiers DOUM 113 size modifiers M tt 155 size prefixes 280 131 size suffixes HS 2300 na 119 sizes operands i386 0 0 eee eee 129 sizes operands z80 D4 2 00 ee ee 129 Skip UTC sje ae dete eee dara rater 66 skip directive M tt 157 skip directive DARC 197 sleb128 directe 66 small objects MIPS ECOFF 169 SmartMIPS instruction generation override 171 SOM symbol attributes 38 source program teasee ipp EAn n 15 source destination operands i386 129 source destination operands x86 64 129 Sp r giSber EE cd ds EE A 225 sp register V8DU esso e err DER en 218 260 space directive eee eee eee eee 66 space directive TICE 204 space used maximum for assembly 21 SPARC architectures ocs ircsrirorrecererrai 196 SPARC data alignment 196 SPARC floating point IEEE 197 SPARC machine directives 197 SPARC ontions eee ee eens 196 SPARC support 196 special characters ARC 82 special characters M tt 159 special purpose registers MSP 430 179 sslist directive TIC54X 204 ssnolis
267. leb128 page 66 7 112 val addr This directive permitted only within def endef pairs records the address addr as the value attribute of a symbol table entry 7 113 version string This directive creates a note section and places into it an ELF formatted note of type NT_VERSION The note s name is set to string 7 114 vtable_entry table offset This directive finds or creates a symbol table and creates a VTABLE_ENTRY relocation for it with an addend of offset 7 115 vtable_inherit child parent This directive finds the symbol child and finds or creates the symbol parent and then creates a VIABLE_INHERIT relocation for the parent whose addend is the value of the child symbol As a special case the parent name of 0 is treated as referring to the ABS section Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 71 7 116 warning string Similar to the directive error see Section 7 47 error string page 49 but just emits a warning 7 117 weak names This directive sets the weak attribute on the comma separated list of symbol names If the symbols do not already exist they will be created On COFF targets other than PE weak symbols are a GNU extension This directive sets the weak attribute on the comma separated list of symbol names If the symbols do not already exist they will be created On the PE target weak symbols are supported natively as weak aliases When a weak symbol is created that is not an alias GAS crea
268. ler automatically translates instructions from the core Xtensa instruction set into equivalent instructions from the Xtensa code density option This trans lation can be disabled by using underscore prefixes see Section 9 36 2 1 Opcode Names page 224 by using the no transform command line option see Section 9 36 1 Com mand Line Options page 223 or by using the no transform directive see Section 9 36 5 3 transform page 229 It is a good idea not to use the density instructions directly The assembler will au tomatically select dense instructions where possible If you later need to use an Xtensa processor without the code density option the same assembly code will then work without modification 9 36 3 2 Automatic Instruction Alignment The Xtensa assembler will automatically align certain instructions both to optimize per formance and to satisfy architectural requirements As an optimization to improve performance the assembler attempts to align branch targets so they do not cross instruction fetch boundaries Xtensa processors can be con figured with either 32 bit or 64 bit instruction fetch widths An instruction immediately following a call is treated as a branch target in this context because it will be the target of a return from the call This alignment has the potential to reduce branch penalties at some expense in code size This optimization is enabled by default You can disable it with the no target
269. lers were capable of assembling self contained programs directly into a runnable program For some formats this isn t currently possible but it can be done for the a out format The object file is meant for input to the linker 1d It contains assembled program code information to help 1d integrate the assembled program into a runnable file and optionally symbolic information for the debugger 16 Using as 1 7 Error and Warning Messages as may write warnings and error messages to the standard error file usually your termi nal 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 Warning messages have the format file name NNN Warning Message Text where NNN is a line number If a logical file name has been given see Section 7 51 file page 50 it is used for the filename otherwise the name of the current input file is used If a logical line number was given see Section 7 69 1ine page 54 then it is used to calculate the number printed otherwise the actual line in the current source file is printed The message text is intended to be self explanatory in the grand Unix tradition Error messages have the format file name NNN FATAL Error Message Text The file name and line number are derived as for warning messages The actual message text may be rather less explanatory
270. line options V850 217 command line options ignored VAX 213 COMMENTS eek os ee e ure AE E PEDES ed eR e 23 comments Mot 159 comments removed by preprocessor 23 common directive BDARC oo 197 common gechong 6 eee eee eee 55 common variable storage ooooooooo o 32 compare and jump expansions i960 141 compare branch instructions i960 141 comparison expressions sees eese 40 conditional assembly 00 51 constant single character 26 constants enelggo e hm PY Pee ERES 25 constants bignum esri err iro trpi eroe eee 27 constants character 25 constants converted by preprocessor 23 constants floating pont 2T constants integer lessen 26 constants number 26 constants String 25 constants TICE 198 conversion instructions 1386 130 conversion instructions x86 64 130 coprocessor wait 1386 sss esses 131 copy directive TICBAX 000 202 cpu directive Mot 157 CR16 Operand Qualifiers s nuuaneanneena 102 CRIO support ecien ne rr EY YER eae 102 crash of assembler 233 CRIS emulation crisaout command line OPTION EE EE 104 CRIS emulation criself command line option EE ee ee 104 CRIS march architecture command line OPTION chided ante eee nea Pek esa ne 104 CRIS mul bug abort command line optio
271. linker Other object file formats do not support this as handles common sections by treating them as a single common symbol It permits local symbols to be defined within a common section but it can not support global symbols since it has no way to describe them e complex relocations The MRI assemblers support relocations against a negated section address and reloca tions which combine the start addresses of two or more sections These are not support by other object file formats e END pseudo op specifying start address The MRI END pseudo op permits the specification of a start address This is not supported by other object file formats The start address may instead be specified using the e option to the linker or in a linker script e IDNT ident and NAME pseudo ops The MRI IDNT ident and NAME pseudo ops assign a module name to the output file This is not supported by other object file formats e ORG pseudo op The m68k MRI ORG pseudo op begins an absolute section at a given address This differs from the usual as org pseudo op which changes the location within the current section Absolute sections are not supported by other object file formats The address of a section may be assigned within a linker script 20 Using as There are some other features of the MRI assembler which are not supported by as typically either because they are difficult or because they seem of little consequence Some of these may be
272. ll CPUs supported by the march command line option are also selectable by this directive The original value is restored by set arch default The directive set mipsi6 puts the assembler into MIPS 16 mode in which it will assemble instructions for the MIPS 16 processor Use set nomips16 to return to normal 32 bit mode Traditional MIPS assemblers do not support this directive 9 22 6 Directives for extending MIPS 16 bit instructions By default MIPS 16 instructions are automatically extended to 32 bits when necessary The directive set noautoextend will turn this off When set noautoextend is in effect any 32 bit instruction must be explicitly extended with the e modifier e g 1i e 4 1000 The directive set autoextend may be used to once again automatically extend instructions when necessary This directive is only meaningful when in MIPS 16 mode Traditional MIPS assemblers do not support this directive Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 171 9 22 7 Directive to mark data as an instruction The insn directive tells as that the following data is actually instructions This makes a difference in MIPS 16 mode when loading the address of a label which precedes instructions as automatically adds 1 to the value so that jumping to the loaded address will do the right thing 9 22 8 Directives to save and restore options The directives set push and set pop may be used to save and restore the current settings for
273. llj Both arguments are required index must be between 0 and 31 inclusive Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 141 9 15 4 1960 Opcodes All Intel 960 machine instructions are supported see Section 9 15 1 i960 Command line Options page 139 for a discussion of selecting the instruction subset for a particular 960 architecture Some opcodes are processed beyond simply emitting a single corresponding instruction callj and Compare and Branch or Compare and Jump instructions with target displace ments larger than 13 bits 9 15 4 1 callj You can write callj to have the assembler or the linker determine the most appropriate form of subroutine call call bal or calls If the assembly source contains enough information a leafproc or sysproc directive defining the operand then as trans lates the ca11j if not it simply emits the ca11j leaving it for the linker to resolve 9 15 4 2 Compare and Branch The 960 architectures provide combined Compare and Branch instructions that permit you to store the branch target in the lower 13 bits of the instruction word itself However if you specify a branch target far enough away that its address won t fit in 13 bits the assembler can either issue an error or convert your Compare and Branch instruction into separate instructions to do the compare and the branch Whether as gives an error or expands the instruction depends on two choices you can
274. llustrated above NEXT COUNT N BRLAB 1 E BRLAB N BRANCH TABLE layout The first word of the header is used to locate multiple branch tables since each object file may contain one Normally the links are maintained with a call to an initialization routine placed at the beginning of each function in the file The GNU C compiler generates these calls automatically when you give it a b option For further details see the documentation of gbr960 140 no relax Using as Normally Compare and Branch instructions with targets that require displace ments greater than 13 bits or that have external targets are replaced with the corresponding compare or chkbit and branch instructions You can use the no relax option to specify that as should generate errors instead if the target displacement is larger than 13 bits This option does not affect the Compare and Jump instructions the code emit ted for them is always adjusted when necessary depending on displacement size regardless of whether you use no relax 9 15 2 Floating Point as generates IEEE floating point numbers for the directives float double extended and single 9 15 3 1960 Machine Directives bss symbol length align Reserve length bytes in the bss section for a local symbol aligned to the power of two specified by align length and align must be positive absolute expressions
275. lue from other files linked into the same program You make this kind of symbol simply by mentioning a symbol name without defining it A non zero value represents a comm common declaration The value is how much common storage to reserve in bytes addresses The symbol refers to the first address of the allocated storage 5 5 2 Type The type attribute of a symbol contains relocation section information any flag settings indicating that a symbol is external and optionally other information for linkers and debuggers The exact format depends on the object code output format in use 5 5 3 Symbol Attributes a out 38 Using as 5 5 3 1 Descriptor This is an arbitrary 16 bit value You may establish a symbol s descriptor value by using a desc statement see Section 7 33 desc page 48 A descriptor value means nothing to as 5 5 3 2 Other This is an arbitrary 8 bit value It means nothing to as 5 5 4 Symbol Attributes for COFF The COFF format supports a multitude of auxiliary symbol attributes like the primary symbol attributes they are set between def and endef directives 5 5 4 1 Primary Attributes The symbol name is set with def the value and type respectively with val and type 5 5 4 2 Auxiliary Attributes The as directives dim line scl size tag and weak can generate auxiliary symbol table information for COFF 5 5 5 Symbol Attributes for SOM The SOM format for the HPPA supports a multit
276. lues are identical to the processor list of march CPU mmnemonic att mmnemonic intel This option specifies instruction mnemonic for matching instructions The att mnemonic and intel mnemonic directives will take precedent Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 129 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 opetion specifies that registers don t require a A prefix The att syntax and intel syntax directives will take precedent 9 13 2 AT amp T Syntax versus Intel Syntax as now supports assembly using Intel assembler syntax intel syntax selects Intel mode and att syntax switches back to the usual AT amp T mode for compatibility with the output of gcc Either of these directives may have an optional argument prefix or noprefix specifying whether registers require a prefix AT amp T System V 386 assembler syntax is quite different from Intel syntax We mention these differences because almost all 80386 documents use Intel syntax Notable differences between the two syntaxes are e AT amp T immediate operands are preceded by Intel immediate operands are undelim ited Intel push 4 is AT amp T push1 4 AT amp T register operands are preceded by 4 Intel register operands are undelimited AT amp T absolute as opposed to PC relative jump call operands a
277. m in debugging number This is the number that was used in the local label definition So if the label is written 55 then the number is 55 C B This unusual character is included so you do not accidentally invent a symbol of the same name The character has ASCII value of 002 control B ordinal number This is a serial number to keep the labels distinct The first definition of 0 gets the number 1 The 15th definition of 0 gets the number 15 and so on Likewise the first definition of 1 gets the number 1 and its 15th definition gets 15 as well So for example the first 1 may be named LiC B1 and the 44th 3 may be named L3C B44 Chapter 5 Symbols 37 Dollar Local Labels as also supports an even more local form of local labels called dollar labels These labels go out of scope i e they become undefined as soon as a non local label is defined Thus they remain valid for only a small region of the input source code Normal local labels by contrast remain in scope for the entire file or until they are redefined by another occurrence of the same local label Dollar labels are defined in exactly the same way as ordinary local labels except that instead of being terminated by a colon they are terminated by a dollar sign e g 55 They can also be distinguished from ordinary local labels by their transformed names which use ASCII character 001 contro
278. m32r2 command line option It tells the assembler to start accepting the extra instructions in the M32R2 ISA as well as the ordinary M32R ISA The directive performs a similar thing as the little command line option It tells the assembler to start producing little endian code and data This option should be used with care as producing mixed endian binary files is fraught with danger The directive performs a similar thing as the big command line option It tells the assembler to start producing big endian code and data This option should be used with care as producing mixed endian binary files is fraught with danger 9 19 3 M32R Warnings There are several warning and error messages that can be produced by as which are specific to the M32R output of ist instruction is the same as an input to 2nd instruction is this intentional This message is only produced if warnings for explicit parallel conflicts have been enabled It indicates that the assembler has encountered a parallel in struction in which the destination register of the left hand instruction is used Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 151 as an input register in the right hand instruction For example in this code fragment mv ri r2 neg r3 r1 register rl is the destination of the move instruction and the input to the neg instruction output of 2nd instruction is the same as an input to 1st instruction is this intentional This message is only produce
279. mation about the MIPS instruction set see MIPS RISC Architecture by Kane and Heindrich Prentice Hall For an overview of MIPS assembly conventions see Appendix D Assembly Language Programming in the same work 9 22 1 Assembler options The MIPS configurations of GNU as support these special options 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 The default value is 8 EB EL Any MIPS configuration of as can select big endian or little endian output at run time unlike the other GNU development tools which must be configured for one or the other Use EB to select big endian output and EL for little endian KPIC Generate SVR4 style PIC This option tells the assembler to generate SVRA style position independent macro expansions It also tells the assembler to mark the output file as PIC mvxworks pic Generate VxWorks PIC This option tells the assembler to generate VxWorks style position independent macro expansions mipsi mips2 mips3 mips4 mips5 mips32 mips32r2 mips64 mips64r2 Generate code for a particular MIPS Instruction Set Architecture level mipsi corresponds to the R2000 and R3000 processors mips2 to the R6000 processor mips3 to the R4000 processor and mips4 to the R8000 and R10000 processors mips5 mips32 mips3
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282. 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 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 See Section 5 3 Symbol Names page 35 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 o objfile Name the object file o
283. mb interwork LE Target CRIS options underscore no underscore pic N emulation criself emulation crisaout march v0_v10 march v10 march v32 march common_v10_v32 Target DIOU options 0 Target D30V options O n N Target i386 options 321 64 n march CPU EXTENSION mtune CPU Target i960 options ACA ACA A ACB ACC AKA AKB AKC AMC b no relax Target 14 64 options mconstant gp mauto pic milp32 milp64 mlp64 mp64 mle mbe mtune itaniuml 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 Target M32R options m32rx no warn explicit parallel conflicts W n pl Target M680X0 options LU m68000 m68010 m68020 Target M68HC11 options m68hc11 m68hc12 m68hcs12 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 2101 340 Target MIPS options nocpp EL EB O optimization level g debug level LG num KPIC call shared non_shared xgot mvxworks pic mabi ABI 32 n32
284. mbler also supports the following undocumented Z80 instructions that have not been adopted in the R800 instruction set out c 0 Sends zero to the port pointed to by register c slim Equivalent to m m lt lt 1 1 the operand m can be any operand that is valid for sla One can use s11 as a synonym for sli op ix d r This is equivalent to ld r ix d opc r ld ix d r The operation opc may be any of res b set b rl rie rr Trc gla sli sra and srl and the register r may be any of a b c d e h and 1 opc iy d r As above but with iy instead of ix The web site at http www z80 info is a good starting place to find more information on programming the Z80 Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 211 9 33 Z8000 Dependent Features The Z8000 as supports both members of the Z8000 family the unsegmented Z8002 with 16 bit addresses and the segmented Z8001 with 24 bit addresses When the assembler is in unsegmented mode specified with the unsegm directive an address takes up one word 16 bit sized register When the assembler is in segmented mode specified with the segm directive a 24 bit address takes up a long 32 bit register See Section 9 33 3 Assembler Directives for the Z8000 page 212 for a list of other Z8000 specific assembler directives 9 33 1 Options 28001 Genera
285. mbol in the bss section size is in words If present block ing_flag indicates the allocated space should be aligned on a page boundary if 202 Using as it would otherwise cross a page boundary If present alignment_flag causes the assembler to allocate size on a long word boundary byte value value_n ubyte value value_n char value value_n uchar value value_n Place one or more bytes into consecutive words of the current section The upper 8 bits of each word is zero filled If a label is used it points to the word allocated for the first byte encountered clink section name Set STYP_CLINK flag for this section which indicates to the linker that if no symbols from this section are referenced the section should not be included in the link If section name is omitted the current section is used c mode TBD copy filename filename include filename filename Read source statements from filename The normal include search path is used Normally copy will cause statements from the included file to be printed in the assembly listing and include will not but this distinction is not currently implemented data Begin assembling code into the data section double value value_n ldouble value value_n float value value_n xfloat value value n Place an IEEE single precision floating point representation of one or more floating point values into the curre
286. me When using indirect encodings the symbol provided should be the location where personality can be loaded from not the personality routine itself The default after cfi_startproc is cfi_personality Oxff no personality routine 7 12 cfi_lsda encoding exp cfi_lsda defines LSDA and its encoding encoding must be a constant determining how the LSDA should be encoded If it is 255 DW_EH_PE_omit second argument is not present otherwise second argument should be a constant or a symbol name The default after cfi_ startproc is cfi_lsda Oxff no LSDA 7 13 cfi_def_cfa register offset cfi_def_cfa defines a rule for computing CFA as take address from register and add offset to it 7 14 cfi def cfa register register cfi def cfa register modifies a rule for computing CFA From now on register will be used instead of the old one Offset remains the same 46 Using as 7 15 cri_ der cfa offset offset cfi_def_cfa_offset modifies a rule for computing CFA Register remains the same but offset is new Note that it is the absolute offset that will be added to a defined register to compute CFA address 7 16 cfi_adjust_cfa_offset offset Same as cfi_def_cfa_offset but offset is a relative value that is added substracted from the previous offset 7 17 cfi_offset register offset Previous value of register is saved at offset offset from CFA 7 18 cfi_rel_offset register offset Previous value of register is saved at off
287. ment a0 through a7 Indirect Plus Offset number a0 through number a7 or number pc The number may also appear within the parentheses as in number Za0 When used with the pc the number may be omitted with an address register omitting the number produces Address Register Indirect mode Index number apc register size scale The number may be omitted or it may appear within the parentheses The apc may be omitted The register and the apc may appear in either order If both apc and register are address registers and the size and scale are omitted then the first register is taken as the base register and the second as the index register Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 157 Postindex Preindex number apc register size scale onumber The onumber or the register or both may be omitted Either the number or the apc may be omitted but not both number apc register size scale onumber The number or the apc or the register or any two of them may be omitted The onumber may be omitted The register and the apc may appear in either order If both apc and register are address registers and the size and scale are omitted then the first register is taken as the base register and the second as the index register 9 20 4 Floating Point Packed decimal P format floating literals are not supported Feel free to add the code The
288. mv7 armv7 a armv7 r armv7 m iwmmxt and xscale If both mcpu and march are specified the assembler will use the setting for mcpu The architecture option can be extended with the same instruction set extension options as the mcpu option mfpu floating point format This option specifies the floating point format to assemble for The assembler will issue an error message if an attempt is made to assemble an instruction which will not execute on the target floating point unit The following for mat options are recognized softfpa fpe fpe2 fpe3 fpa fpa10 fpall arm7500fe softvfp softvfptvfp vfp vfpiO vfpiO rO vfp3 vfp9 vfpxd Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 87 vfpv2 vfpv3 vfpv3 di6 arm1020t arm1020e armi136jf s maverick and neon In addition to determining which instructions are assembled this option also affects the way in which the double assembler directive behaves when assem bling little endian code The default is dependent on the processor selected For Architecture 5 or later the default is to assembler for VFP instructions for earlier architectures the default is to assemble for FPA instructions mthumb This option specifies that the assembler should start assembling Thumb in structions that is it should behave as though the file starts with a code 16 directive mthumb interwork This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as supporting interworking
289. n and dup_comm from the subspace respectively This avoids having to introduce additional directives to mark these symbols The HP assembler sets is_common from common However it doesn t set the dup_common from dup_comm It doesn t have comdat support 124 Using as version str Write str as version identifier in object code 9 11 6 Opcodes For detailed information on the HPPA machine instruction set see PA RISC Architecture and Instruction Set Reference Manual HP 09740 90039 Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 125 9 12 ESA 390 Dependent Features 9 12 1 Notes The ESA 390 as port is currently intended to be a back end for the GNU CC compiler It is not HLASM compatible although it does support a subset of some of the HLASM directives The only supported binary file format is ELF none of the usual MVS VM OE USS object file formats such as ESD or XSD are supported When used with the GNU CC compiler the ESA 390 as will produce correct fully relo cated functional binaries and has been used to compile and execute large projects How ever many aspects should still be considered experimental these include shared library support dynamically loadable objects and any relocation other than the 31 bit relocation 9 12 2 Options as has no machine dependent command line options for the ESA 390 9 12 3 Syntax The opcode operand syntax follows the ESA 390 Principles of Operation m
290. n seca gd Dd AE O 104 CRIS no mul bug abort command line option EET 104 CRIS no underscore command line option Vic Ba ee nO Re PI edge mie pues 104 CRIS pic command line option 104 CRIS underscore command line option 104 CRIS N command line option 104 CRIS architecture variant option 104 CRIS assembler directive arch 108 CRIS assembler directive dword 107 251 CRIS assembler directive syntax 107 CRIS assembler directives 107 CRIS built in symbols ooocoocoooooo 105 CRIS instruction ecpansion esses 105 CRIS line comment characters 106 CRIS opbong aram ehm n 104 CRIS position independent code 104 CRIS pseudo op ach 108 CRIS pseudo op dword 04 107 CRIS pseudo op SYMAX 0 eee eee 107 CRIS pseudo ops sess 107 CRIS register names 0005 107 ORIS Support rara A aa t 104 CRIS symbols in position independent code 106 ctbp register V850 ee EES enn 220 ctoff pseudo op V Dn0 oo 222 ctpc register V850 EE 220 ctpsw register VS 220 current address 37 current address advancing 59 D D10V Qword moder 112 D10V addressing modes 111 D10V floating pont 112 D10V line comment character 110 D10V opcode summary 2 000 112 D10V optimizat
291. n example for each instruction instead 9 21 2 Syntax In the M68HC11 syntax the instruction name comes first and it may be followed by one or several operands up to three Operands are separated by comma In the normal mode as will complain if too many operands are specified for a given instruction In the MRI mode turned on with M option it will treat them as comments Example inx lda 23 bset 2 x 4 brclr bot 8 foo The following addressing modes are understood for 68HC11 and 68HC12 Immediate number Address Register number X number Y The number may be omitted in which case 0 is assumed Direct Addressing mode x symbol or digits Absolute symbol or digits The M68HC12 has other more complex addressing modes All of them are supported and they are represented below Constant Offset Indexed Addressing Mode number reg The number may be omitted in which case 0 is assumed The register can be either X Y SP or PC The assembler will use the smaller post byte definition according to the constant value 5 bit constant offset 9 bit constant offset or 16 bit constant offset If the constant is not known by the assembler it will use the 16 bit constant offset post byte and the value will be resolved at link time 162 Using as Offset Indexed Indirect number reg The register can be either X Y S
292. n is not given as emits dbXX ooi bras oo2 oo1 jmp foo 002 This family includes fjne fjeq fjge fjlt fjgt fjle fjf fjt fjgl fjgle finge fjngl fjngle fjngt fjnle fjnlt fjoge fjogl fjogt fjole fjolt fjor fjseq fjsf fjsne fjst fjueq fjuge fjugt fjule fjult fjun Each of these pseudo operations always expands to a single Motorola coproces sor branch instruction word or long All Motorola coprocessor branch instruc tions allow both word and long displacements 9 20 6 2 Special Characters The immediate character is for Sun compatibility The line comment character is 7 unless the bitwise or option is used If a appears at the beginning of a line it is treated as a comment unless it looks like line file in which case it is treated normally 160 Using as 9 21 M68HC11 and M68HC12 Dependent Features 9 21 1 M68HC11 and M68HC12 Options The Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12 version of as have a few machine dependent options m68hc11 m68hc12 m68hcs12 mshort mlong This option switches the assembler in the M68HC11 mode In this mode the assembler only accepts 68H C11 operands and mnemonics It produces code for the 68HC11 This option switches the assembler in the M68HC12 mode In this mode the assembler also accepts 68HC12 operands and mnemonics It produces code for the 68HC12 A few 68HC11 instructions are replaced by some 68HC12 instructions as recommended by Motorola specifications
293. n that it marks the aliased symbol as being a thumb function entry point in the same way that the thumb func directive does unreq alias name This undefines a register alias which was previously defined using the req dn Or qn directives For example foo req rO unreq foo An error occurs if the name is undefined Note this pseudo op can be used to delete builtin in register name aliases eg r0 This should only be done if it is really necessary raw offset bytel Insert one of more arbitary unwind opcode bytes which are known to adjust the stack pointer by offset bytes For example unwind raw 4 Oxb1 0x01 is equivalent to save r0 vsave vfp reglist Generate unwinder annotations to restore the VFP registers in vfp reglist using FLDMD Also works for VFPv3 registers that are to be restored using VLDM The format of vfp reglist is the same as the corresponding store multiple in struction VFP registers vsave d8 d9 d10 fstmdd sp d8 d9 d10 VFPv3 registers vsave di5 di6 di7 vstm sp 1d15 di6 di7 Since FLDMX and FSTMX are now deprecated this directive should be used in favour of save for saving VFP registers for ARMv6 and above Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 93 9 3 5 Opcodes as implements all the standard ARM opcodes It also implements several pseudo opcodes including several synthetic load instructions NOP nop This pseudo op will always evaluate to a legal ARM instr
294. 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 ct 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 Filenames and Line numbers There are two ways of locating a line in the input file or files and either may be used in reporting error messages One way refers to a line number in a physical file the other refers to a line number in a logical file See Section 1 7 Error and Warning Messages page 16 Physical files are those files named in the command line given to as Logical files are simply names declared explicitly by assembler directives they bear no relation to physical files Logical file names help error messages reflect the original source file when as source is itself synthesized from other files as understands the directives emitted by the gcc preprocessor See also Section 7 51 file page 50 1 6 Output Object File Every time you run as it produces an output file which is your assembly language program translated into numbers This file is the object file Its default name is a out You can give it another name by using the o option Conventionally object file names end with o The default name is used for historical reasons older assemb
295. name2 nodename will also be used to resolve references to name2 by the linker The third usage of the symver directive is symver name name2000nodename When name is not defined within the file being assembled it is treated as name20nodename When name is defined within the file being assembled the symbol name name will be changed to name200nodename 7 107 tag structname This directive is generated by compilers to include auxiliary debugging information in the symbol table It is only permitted inside def endef pairs Tags are used to link structure definitions in the symbol table with instances of those structures 7 108 text subsection Tells as to assemble the following statements onto the end of the text subsection numbered subsection which is an absolute expression If subsection is omitted subsection number zero is used 7 109 title heading Use heading as the title second line immediately after the source file name and pagenum ber when generating assembly listings This directive affects subsequent pages as well as the current page if it appears within ten lines of the top of a page 7 110 type This directive is used to set the type of a symbol COFF Version For COFF targets this directive is permitted only within def endef pairs It is used like this type int This records the integer int as the type attribute of a symbol table entry ELF Version For ELF targets the type directive is used l
296. nd 4xmm7 The AMD x86 64 architecture extends the register set by enhancing the 8 32 bit registers to 64 bit 4rax the accumulator Arbx Arex rdx Ardi Arsi Arbp the frame pointer resp the stack pointer the 8 extended registers rg Ar15 the 8 32 bit low ends of the extended registers 4r8d 4ribd the 8 16 bit low ends of the extended registers 4r8w Aribw the 8 8 bit low ends of the extended registers r8b r15b the 4 8 bit registers Asil Adil bei Aspl the 8 debug registers 4db8 Adb15 the 8 SSE registers Axmm8 Axmm15 9 13 6 Instruction Prefixes Instruction prefixes are used to modify the following instruction They are used to re peat string instructions to provide section overrides to perform bus lock operations and to change operand and address sizes Most instructions that normally operate on 32 bit operands will use 16 bit operands if the instruction has an operand size prefix Instruc tion prefixes are best written on the same line as the instruction they act upon For example the scas scan string instruction is repeated with repne scas es jedi fal You may also place prefixes on the lines immediately preceding the instruction but this circumvents checks that as does with prefixes and will not work with all prefixes Here is a list of instruction prefixes Section override prefix
297. nd a string for its value GNU attributes have a string value if the tag number is odd and an integer value if the tag number is even The second bit tag amp 2 is set for architecture independent attributes and clear for architecture dependent ones 8 1 1 Common GNU attributes These attributes are valid on all architectures Tag_compatibility 32 The compatibility attribute takes an integer flag value and a vendor name If the flag value is 0 the file is compatible with other toolchains If it is 1 then the file is only compatible with the named toolchain If it is greater than 1 the file can only be processed by other toolchains under some private arrangement indicated by the flag value and the vendor name 8 1 2 MIPS Attributes Tag_GNU_MIPS_ABI_FP 4 The floating point ABI used by this object file The value will be e 0 for files not affected by the floating point ABI e 1 for files using the hardware floating point with a standard double precision FPU e 2 for files using the hardware floating point ABI with a single precision FPU 74 Using as e 3 for files using the software floating point ABI e 4 for files using the hardware floating point ABI with 64 bit wide double precision floating point registers and 32 bit wide general purpose registers 8 1 3 PowerPC Attributes Tag GNU_Power_ABI_FP 4 The floating point ABI used by this object file The value will be e 0 for files not affected by the floating point ABI
298. nd from a 16 bit branch instruction into a sequence of in structions that can reach a full 32 bit address Since this does not correspond to a single instruction such expansions can optionally be warned about See Section 9 7 1 CRIS Opts page 104 If the operand is found to fit the range a lapc mnemonic will translate to a lapcq instruction Use lapc d to force the 32 bit lapc instruction Similarly the addo mnemonic will translate to the shortest fitting instruction of addoq addo w and addo d when used with a operand that is a constant known at assembly time 9 7 3 Symbols Some symbols are defined by the assembler They re intended to be used in conditional assembly for example if asm arch cris v32 code for CRIS v32 elseif asm arch cris common_v10_v32 code common to CRIS v32 and CRIS v10 elseif asm arch cris viO asm arch cris any vO v10 code for v10 else error Code needs to be added here endif These symbols are defined in the assembler reflecting command line options either when specified or the default They are always defined to 0 or 1 asm arch cris any_v0_v10 This symbol is non zero when march v0_v10 is specified or the default asm arch cris common viO v32 Set according to the option march common_v10_v32 agm arch cris viO Reflects the option march v10 asm arch cris v32 Corresponds to march v10 Speaking of symbols when a symbol is use
299. nd of floating point numbers emitted depends on how as is configured See Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 7 36 eject Force a page break at this point when generating assembly listings 7 37 else else is part of the as support for conditional assembly see Section 7 60 if page 51 It marks the beginning of a section of code to be assembled if the condition for the preceding if was false 7 38 elseif elseif is part of the as support for conditional assembly see Section 7 60 if page 51 It is shorthand for beginning a new if block that would otherwise fill the entire else section 7 39 end end marks the end of the assembly file as does not process anything in the file past the end directive Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 49 7 40 endef This directive flags the end of a symbol definition begun with def 7 41 endfunc endfunc marks the end of a function specified with func 7 42 endif endif is part of the as support for conditional assembly it marks the end of a block of code that is only assembled conditionally See Section 7 60 if page 51 7 43 equ symbol expression This directive sets the value of symbol to expression It is synonymous with set see Section 7 95 set page 65 The syntax for equ on the HPPA is symbol equ expression The syntax for equ on the Z80 is symbol equ expression On the Z80 it is an eror if symbol is already defined but th
300. ng directive AR 85 long directive 1380 tr 0000 eee 133 long directive TIC54X o ooooommommmm m 203 long directive x86 64 oooooooomooomoo 133 longcall pseudo op VS 222 longcalls directive 0oooooooooooooooo 229 longjump pseudo op VS 222 loop directive TICBAX suuuuuuu 203 LOOP instructions alignment 225 low directive M32R 0 eee eee ee 149 Ip register V850 ee en nns 219 Tralo cca daa seg ete EEA uS EE 212 M M16C architecture option 147 M32C architecture option 147 M32C modifiers ii ekes reg 147 M32G Optl0n8 i AS dE EE ew ela gus 147 M32G support sse e nete nk Y RR EYES 147 M32R architecture options 148 M32R directives eiii ara AE ALE 149 M32R options EEN yo ree e hd 148 M32R suppOrb siiadegaeco a n rk ted 148 M32R warnlngS zosixe rp Rr Rache ek ere n 150 M680x0 addressing modes oooooooooooo 155 M680x0 architecture options 153 M680x0 branch improvement 158 M680x0 directives 0000000 157 256 M680x0 floating pont 157 M680x0 immediate character 159 M680x0 line comment character 159 M680x0 opcodes 0 cece ee ee eee eee 158 M680x0 option 152 M680x0 psendo opcodes neue 158 M680x0 size modifiers 0000 00 155 M680x0 support sese 152 MOB x syntax EE 155 M68HC11 addressing modes
301. no case hack A value of 3 h3 implies that case should be preserved The value 1 is unused The H option directs as to display every mapped symbol during assembly Symbols whose names include a dollar sign are exceptions to the general name mapping These symbols are normally only used to reference VMS library names Such symbols are always mapped to upper case The option causes as to truncate any symbol name larger than 31 char acters The option also prevents some code following the _main symbol normally added to make the object file compatible with Vax 11 C ect This option is ignored for backward compatibility with as version 1 x H The H option causes as to print every symbol which was changed by case mapping 9 34 2 VAX Floating Point Conversion of flonums to floating point is correct and compatible with previous assemblers Rounding is towards zero if the remainder is exactly half the least significant bit D F G and H floating point formats are understood Immediate floating literals e g S 6 9 are rendered correctly Again rounding is towards zero in the boundary case The float directive produces f format numbers The double directive produces d format numbers 9 34 3 Vax Machine Directives The Vax version of the assembler supports four directives for generating Vax floating point constants They are described in the table below dfloat This e
302. not But in any case the principal function of a bug report is to help the entire community by making the next version of as work better Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of as In order for a bug report to serve its purpose you must include the information that enables us to fix the bug 10 1 Have You Found a Bug If you are not sure whether you have found a bug here are some guidelines e If the assembler gets a fatal signal for any input whatever that is a as bug Reliable assemblers never crash e If as produces an error message for valid input that is a bug e If as does not produce an error message for invalid input that is a bug However you should note that your idea of invalid input might be our idea of an extension or support for traditional practice e If you are an experienced user of assemblers your suggestions for improvement of as are welcome in any case 10 2 How to Report Bugs A number of companies and individuals offer support for GNU products If you obtained as from a support organization we recommend you contact that organization first You can find contact information for many support companies and individuals in the file etc SERVICE in the GNU Emacs distribution In any event we also recommend that you send bug reports for as to https support codesourcery com GNUToo1chain The fundamental principle of reporting bugs usefully is this report all the f
303. nt section All but xfloat align the result on a longword boundary Values are stored most significant word first drlist drnolist Control printing of directives to the listing file Ignored emsg string mmsg string Wmsg string Emit a user defined error message or warning respectively far mode Use extended addressing when assembling statements This should appear only once per file and is equivalent to the mfar mode option see Section 9 31 1 mf ar mode page 198 fclist fcnolist Control printing of false conditional blocks to the listing file Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 203 field value size Initialize a bitfield of size bits in the current section If value is relocatable then size must be 16 size defaults to 16 bits If value does not fit into size bits the value will be truncated Successive field directives will pack starting at the current word filling the most significant bits first and aligning to the start of the next word if the field size does not fit into the space remaining in the current word A align directive with an operand of 1 will force the next field directive to begin packing into a new word If a label is used it points to the word that contains the specified field global symbol symbol n def symbol symbol n ref symbol symbol n def nominally identifies a symbol defined in the current file and available to other files ref identifies a symbo
304. nt subsection is advanced the intervening bytes are filled with fill which should be an absolute expression If the comma and fill are omitted fill defaults to zero 60 Using as 7 81 p2align wl abs expr abs expr abs expr Pad the location counter in the current subsection to a particular storage boundary The first expression which must be absolute is the number of low order zero bits the location counter must have after advancement For example p2align 3 advances the location counter until it a multiple of 8 If the location counter is already a multiple of 8 no change is needed The second expression also absolute gives the fill value to be stored in the padding bytes It and the comma may be omitted If it is omitted the padding bytes are normally zero However on some systems if the section is marked as containing code and the fill value is omitted the space is filled with no op instructions The third expression is also absolute and is also optional If it is present it is the maximum number of bytes that should be skipped by this alignment directive If doing the alignment would require skipping more bytes than the specified maximum then the alignment is not done at all You can omit the fill value the second argument entirely by simply using two commas after the required alignment this can be useful if you want the alignment to be filled with no op instructions when appropriate The p2alignw and p2alignl
305. ntly have hardware floating point support Software floating point support is provided by GCC and uses IEEE floating point numbers 9 2 4 ARC Machine Directives The ARC version of as supports the following additional machine directives 2byte expressions TODO 3byte expressions TODO 4byte expressions TODO Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 83 extAuxRegister name address mode The ARCtangent A4 has extensible auxiliary register space The auxiliary registers can be defined in the assembler source code by using this directive The first parameter is the name of the new auxiallry register The second parameter is the address of the register in the auxiliary register memory map for the variant of the ARC The third parameter specifies the mode in which the register can be operated is and it can be one of r readonly w write only r w read or write For example extAuxRegister mulhi 0x12 w This specifies an extension auxiliary register called mulhi which is at address 0x12 in the memory space and which is only writable extCondCode suffix value The condition codes on the ARCtangent A4 are extensible and can be specified by means of this assembler directive They are specified by the suffix and the value for the condition code They can be used to specify extra condition codes with any values For example extCondCode is_busy 0x14 add is busy ri r2 r3 bis_busy _main extCoreRegister name regnum mode sho
306. nums separated by commas It has the same effect as float The exact kind of floating point numbers emitted depends on how as is configured See Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 7 98 size This directive is used to set the size associated with a symbol COFF Version For COFF targets the size directive is only permitted inside def endef pairs It is used like this Ssize expression ELF Version For ELF targets the size directive is used like this size name expression This directive sets the size associated with a symbol name The size in bytes is computed from expression which can make use of label arithmetic This directive is typically used to set the size of function symbols 7 99 sleb128 expressions sleb128 stands for signed little endian base 128 This is a compact variable length rep resentation of numbers used by the DWARF symbolic debugging format See Section 7 111 u1eb128 page 70 7 100 skip size fill This directive emits size bytes each of value fill Both size and fill are absolute expressions If the comma and fill are omitted fill is assumed to be zero This is the same as space 7 101 space size fill This directive emits size bytes each of value fill Both size and fill are absolute expressions If the comma and fill are omitted fill is assumed to be zero This is the same as skip Warning space has a completely different meaning for HPPA targets
307. nym for Line 7 12 mri val If val is non zero this tells as to enter MRI mode If val is zero this tells as to exit MRI mode This change affects code assembled until the next mri directive or until the end of the file See Section 2 9 MRI mode page 19 Tela list Control in conjunction with the nolist directive whether or not assembly listings are generated These two directives maintain an internal counter which is zero initially list increments the counter and nolist decrements it Assembly listings are generated whenever the counter is greater than zero 56 Using as By default listings are disabled When you enable them with the a command line option see Chapter 2 Command Line Options page 17 the initial value of the listing counter is one 7 74 Long expressions Long is the same as int See Section 7 63 int page 53 7 75 macro The commands macro and endm allow you to define macros that generate assembly output For example this definition specifies a macro sum that puts a sequence of numbers into memory macro sum from 0 to 5 long from If to from sum Nfromti Nto endif endm With that definition SUM 0 5 is equivalent to this assembly input long long long long long long c14 560 h tz o0 macro macname macro macname macargs Begin the definition of a macro called macname If your macro definition re quires arguments
308. o be let us know Some of the history has been lost we are not intentionally leaving anyone out Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License 239 Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 1 March 2000 Copyright C 2000 2003 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed 0 PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other written document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or noncommercially Secondarily this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others This License is a kind of copyleft which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense It complements the GNU General Public License which is a copyleft license designed for free software We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software because free software needs free documentation a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does But this License is not limited to software manuals it can be used for any textual work regardless of subject
309. o generate whatever other named sections you specify using the section directive see Section 7 94 section page 63 If you do not use any directives that place output in the text or data sections these sections still exist but are empty When as generates SOM or ELF output for the HPPA as can also generate what ever other named sections you specify using the space and subspace directives See HP9000 Series 800 Assembly Language Reference Manual HP 92432 90001 for details on the space and subspace assembler directives Additionally as uses different names for the standard text data and bss sections when generating SOM output Program text is placed into the CODE section data into DATA and BSS into BSS Within the object file the text section starts at address 0 the data section follows and the bss section follows the data section When generating either SOM or ELF output files on the HPPA the text section starts at address 0 the data section at address 0x4000000 and the bss section follows the data section To let 1d know which data changes when the sections are relocated and how to change that data as also writes to the object file details of the relocation needed To perform relocation 1d must know each time an address in the object file is mentioned e Where in the object file is the beginning of this reference to an address e How long in bytes
310. ocal macro variable see Section 9 31 9 var page 201 Substitution may be forced in situations where replacement might be ambiguous by placing colons on either side of the subsym The following code eval 10 x LAB X add tx a When assembled becomes LAB10 add 10 a Smaller parts of the string assigned to a subsym may be accessed with the following syntax symbol char_index Evaluates to a single character string the character at char_index symbol start length Evaluates to a substring of symbol beginning at start with length length 9 31 6 Local Labels Local labels may be defined in two ways e N where N is a decimal number between 0 and 9 e LABEL where LABEL is any legal symbol name Local labels thus defined may be redefined or automatically generated The scope of a local label is based on when it may be undefined or reset This happens when one of the following situations is encountered e newblock directive see Section 9 31 9 newblock page 201 e The current section is changed sect text or data e Entering or leaving an included file e The macro scope where the label was defined is exited 9 31 7 Math Builtins The following built in functions may be used to generate a floating point value All return a floating point value except cvi int and sgn which return an integer value acos expr Returns the floating point arccosine of expr 200 Using as asin exp
311. ollowing directives mode shmedia shcompact isa shmedia shcompact Specify the ISA for the following instructions the two directives are equivalent Note that programs such as objdump rely on symbolic labels to determine when such mode switches occur by checking the least significant bit of the label s address so such mode isa changes should always be followed by a label in practice this is true anyway Note that you cannot use these directives if you didn t specify an ISA on the command line abi 32164 Specify the ABI for the following instructions Note that you cannot use this di rective unless you specified an ABI on the command line and the ABIs specified must match uaquad Like uaword and ualong this allows you to specify an intentionally unaligned quadword 64 bit word Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 195 9 29 4 Opcodes For detailed information on the SH64 machine instruction set see SuperH 64 bit RISC Series Architecture Manual SuperH Inc as implements all the standard SH64 opcodes In addition the following pseudo opcodes may be expanded into one or more alternate opcodes movi If the value doesn t fit into a standard movi opcode as will replace the movi with a sequence of movi and shori opcodes pt This expands to a sequence of movi and shori opcode followed by a ptrel opcode or to a pta or ptb opcode depending on the label referenced 196 Using as 9 30 SPARC Dependent Features 9
312. olymorph instructions handler mQ enables relaxation at assembly time DANGEROUS 9 24 2 Syntax 9 24 2 1 Macros The macro syntax used on the MSP 430 is like that described in the MSP 430 Family Assembler Specification Normal as macros should still work Additional built in macros are llo exp Extracts least significant word from 32 bit expression exp lhi exp Extracts most significant word from 32 bit expression exp hlo exp Extracts 3rd word from 64 bit expression exp hhi exp Extracts 4rd word from 64 bit expression exp They normally being used as an immediate source operand mov ttllo 1 r10 mov 1 r10 mov lhi i r10 mov 0 r10 9 24 2 2 Special Characters 5 is the line comment character The character in jump instructions indicates current location and implemented only for TI syntax compatibility 9 24 2 3 Register Names General purpose registers are represented by predefined symbols of the form rN for global registers where N represents a number between O and 15 The leading letters may be in either upper or lower case for example r13 and R7 are both valid register names Register names PC SP and SR cannot be used as register names and will be treated as variables Use ro r1 and r instead 9 24 2 4 Assembler Extensions QrN As destination operand being treated as 0 rn O rN As source operand bein
313. ompiler output into something that works as occasionally does strange things to word directives Directives of the form word symi sym2 are often emitted by compilers as part of jump tables Therefore when as assembles a directive of the form word symi sym2 and the difference between sym1 and sym2 does not fit in 16 bits as creates a secondary jump table immediately before the next label This secondary jump table is preceded by a short jump to the first byte after the secondary table This short jump prevents the flow of control from accidentally falling into the new table Inside 72 Using as the table is a long jump to sym2 The original word contains sym1 minus the address of the long jump to sym2 If there were several occurrences of word symi sym2 before the secondary jump table all of them are adjusted If there was a word sym3 sym4 that also did not fit in sixteen bits a long jump to sym4 is included in the secondary jump table and the word directives are adjusted to contain sym3 minus the address of the long jump to sym4 and so on for as many entries in the original jump table as necessary 7 120 Deprecated Directives One day these directives won t work They are included for compatibility with older assem blers abort line Chapter 8 Object Attributes 73 8 Object Attributes as assembles source files written for a specific architecture into object files for that architec
314. on sees nen 105 de WEE 105 OA O A ge ee hed Rhee 4 eh ee dee 105 9 7 4 1 Special Character 106 9 7 4 2 Symbols in position independent code 106 9 7 4 3 Register DAMES Aseissa teina aaa en 107 9 7 4 4 Assembler Directives 00020c else 107 9 8 D10V Dependent Features 0 000 c cece eee 109 9 8 IDIOV OptlOns ca tenete e de 109 0 8 2 WVU Nm sare aati beer 109 9 8 2 1 Size Modbers 0 0 eee cee eee eee 109 9 8 2 2 Sub Instructions 0 109 9 8 2 3 Special Character 110 9 8 2 4 Register Name ENEE ae hm ehh 110 9 8 2 5 Addressing Modes cscs entr rr eed SA 111 9 8 2 6 WORD Modifer eese 112 98 3 Floating Point EE 112 9 84 Opcodes i eie ore ERR pea EE Ra EN 112 9 9 D30V Dependent Features 0 00 cece cece eh 113 9 9 1 D80V Ontons 0 0 00 es 113 O92 MA eek cen A te UN ER be E 113 9 9 2 1 Size Modbers eese eee 113 9 0 2 2 Sub Instructions EE 113 9 9 2 3 Special Character 113 9 9 2 4 Guarded Execution sees sees 114 9 9 2 5 Register Names oen e Rp rede Rida 115 9 9 2 6 Addressing Modes d NS be e RR ERE RR ERR RES 116 9 9 3 Floating Point eese III 116 9 0 4 OpCOdeS vrs br Ipae ted eed eee d redu 116 9 10 H8 300 Dependent Features eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee LI 9 10 1 Options emp een RI eet or edi en 117 9 10 2 Syntax reiecit 117 9 10 2 1 Special OCharacterg oo 117 9 10 2 2 Register Names r cpresrieelniiroien eee LE
315. on MIZR Xt id lo ir e YO dod 148 warn unmatched high option M32R 149 Wnp option M32RX eee eee 149 Wnuh option M32RX c ooocccccccoo o 149 Wp option M 2RX eee 148 wsigned_overflow command line option V850 EENEG 217 Wuh option MB2RX oooccccccccccc 149 wunsigned_overflow command line option V850 aT 217 x command line option MMIX 172 z80 command line option Z80 208 z8001 command line option Z8000 211 z8002 command line option Z8000 211 Ad ode ren REESE YS 37 arch directive ARM 89 big directive M32RX oooooccccccc oo 150 cantunwind directive ARM 89 cpu directive ARM 89 eabi_attribute directive ARM 89 fnend directive ARM 90 fnstart directive ARM 90 fpu directive ARM 90 handlerdata directive ARM 90 SR EE al little directive M32RX 150 ltorg directive ARM 90 m32r directive M32R o ooo ooooooo oo 150 m32r2 directive M32R2 150 m32rx directive M3ZRX s ssssrercersrirasus 150 movsp directive ARM 90 NAAA Kees EE Lea oe a Ye 15 object_arch directive ARM 90 pad directive ARM 91 Using as param on HPPA isis nre es 121 personality directive ARM 91 personalityindex directive ARM 91 pool directive ARM 91 save directive ARM 91 SOU ARCO
316. on whoes components both use the same execution pipeline Instructions write to the same destination register This message is produced when the assembler encounters a parallel instruction where both components attempt to modify the same register For example these code fragments will produce this message mv r1 r2 neg r1 r3 jl r0 l mv r14 ri st r2 ri mv ri r3 mv ri r2 ld rO ri cmp r1 r2 addx r3 r4 Both write to the condition bit 152 Using as 9 20 M680x0 Dependent Features 9 20 1 M680x0 Options The Motorola 680x0 version of as has a few machine dependent options march architecture This option specifies a target architecture The following architectures are rec ognized 68000 68010 68020 68030 68040 68060 cpu32 isaa isaaplus isab isac and cfv4e mcpu cpu This option specifies a target cpu When used in conjunction with the march option the cpu must be within the specified architecture Also the generic features of the architecture are used for instruction generation rather than those of the specific chip m no 68851 m no 68881 m no div m no usp m no float m no mac m no emac Enable or disable various architecture specific features If a chip or architecture by default supports an option for instance march isaaplus includes the mdiv option explicitly disabling the o
317. on block would be such a symbol its value is unknown at assembly time so it has section undefined By analogy the word section is used to describe groups of sections in the linked program 1d puts all partial programs text sections in contiguous addresses in the linked program It is customary to refer to the text section of a program meaning all the addresses of all partial programs text sections Likewise for data and bss sections Some sections are manipulated by 1d others are invented for use of as and have no meaning except during assembly 4 2 Linker Sections 1d deals with just four kinds of sections summarized below named sections text section data section These sections hold your program as and 1d treat them as separate but equal sections Anything you can say of one section is true of another When the pro gram is running however it is customary for the text section to be unalterable The text section is often shared among processes it contains instructions con stants and the like The data section of a running program is usually alterable for example C variables would be stored in the data section bss section This section contains zeroed bytes when your program begins running It is used to hold uninitialized variables or common storage The length of each partial program s bss section is important but because it starts out containing zeroed bytes there is no need to store explicit zero bytes in the object
318. on is in effect no leading underscore This is the opposite of the syntax leading underscore directive and emits an error if the option underscore is in effect arch ARGUMENT This is an assertion directive giving an error if the specified ARGUMENT is not the same as the specified or default value for the march architecture option see march option page 104 Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 109 9 8 D10V Dependent Features 9 8 1 D10V Options The Mitsubishi D10V version of as has a few machine dependent options g The D10V can often execute two sub instructions in parallel When this option is used as will attempt to optimize its output by detecting when instructions can be executed in parallel nowarnswap To optimize execution performance as will sometimes swap the order of in structions Normally this generates a warning When this option is used no warning will be generated when instructions are swapped gstabs packing no gstabs packing as packs adjacent short instructions into a single packed instruction no gstabs packing turns instruction packing off if gstabs is specified as well gstabs packing the default turns instruction packing on even when gstabs is specified 9 8 2 Syntax The D10V syntax is based on the syntax in Mitsubishi s D10V architecture manual The differences are detailed below 9 8 2 1 Size Modifiers The D10V v
319. ong branches 4 A Op BYTE WORD BYTE WORD 4 A bsr bsr lt pc rel gt lt error gt jsr lt abs gt bra bra lt pc rel gt lt error gt jmp lt abs gt jbsr bsr lt pc rel gt sr abs bsr lt pc rel gt sr abs jbra bra lt pc rel gt mp abs bra lt pc rel gt jmp abs bXX bXX lt pc rel gt lt error gt bNX 3 jmp lt abs gt jbXX bXX lt pc rel gt DbNX 3 bXX lt pc rel gt PI 3 jmp lt abs gt jmp lt abs gt 4 A XX condition NX negative of condition XX These are the simplest jump pseudo operations they always map to one partic ular machine instruction depending on the displacement to the branch target Here jbXX stands for an entire family of pseudo operations where XX is a conditional branch or condition code test The full list of pseudo ops in this family is jbec jbeq jbge jbgt jbhi jbvs jbpl blo jbcs jbne jblt jble jbls jbvc jbmi For the cases of non PC relative displacements and long displacements as issues a longer code fragment in terms of NX the opposite condition to XX For example for the non PC relative case jbXX foo gives bNXs oof jmp foo oof Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 165 9 22 MIPS Dependent Features GNU as for MIPS architectures supports several different MIPS processors and MIPS ISA levels I through V MIPS32 and MIPS64 For infor
320. only briefly These are the additional directives in as for the Alpha arch cpu Specifies the target processor This is equivalent to the mcpu command line option See Section 9 1 2 Alpha Options page 76 for a list of values for cpu ent function n Mark the beginning of function An optional number may follow for compat ibility with the OSF 1 assembler but is ignored When generating mdebug information this will create a procedure descriptor for the function In ELF it will mark the symbol as a function a la the generic type directive 80 Using as end function Mark the end of function In ELF it will set the size of the symbol a la the generic size directive mask mask offset Indicate which of the integer registers are saved in the current function s stack frame mask is interpreted a bit mask in which bit n set indicates that register n is saved The registers are saved in a block located offset bytes from the canonical frame address CFA which is the value of the stack pointer on entry to the function The registers are saved sequentially except that the return address register normally 26 is saved first This and the other directives that describe the stack frame are currently only used when generating mdebug information They may in the future be used to generate DWARF2 debug_frame unwind information for hand written as sembly fmask mask offset Indicate which of the floating point registers are
321. or not assembly listings are generated These two directives maintain an internal counter which is zero initially list increments the counter and nolist decrements it Assembly listings are generated whenever the counter is greater than zero 7 79 octa bignums This directive expects zero or more bignums separated by commas For each bignum it emits a 16 byte integer The term octa comes from contexts in which a word is two bytes hence octa word for 16 bytes 7 80 org new lc fill Advance the location counter of the current section to new lc new lc is either an absolute expression or an expression with the same section as the current subsection That is you can t use org to cross sections if new Ic has the wrong section the org directive is ignored To be compatible with former assemblers if the section of new lc is absolute as issues a warning then pretends the section of new Ic is the same as the current subsection org may only increase the location counter or leave it unchanged you cannot use org to move the location counter backwards Because as tries to assemble programs in one pass new lc may not be undefined If you really detest this restriction we eagerly await a chance to share your improved assembler Beware that the origin is relative to the start of the section not to the start of the subsection This is compatible with other people s assemblers When the location counter of the curre
322. original one that is a convenience for us Errors in the output will be easier to spot running under the debugger will take less time and so on However simplification is not vital if you do not want to do this report the bug anyway and send us the entire test case you used e A patch for the bug A patch for the bug does help us if it is a good one But do not omit the necessary information such as the test case on the assumption that a patch is all we need We might see problems with your patch and decide to fix the problem another way or we might not understand it at all Sometimes with a program as complicated as as it is very hard to construct an example that will make the program follow a certain path through the code If you do not send us the example we will not be able to construct one so we will not be able to verify that the bug is fixed And if we cannot understand what bug you are trying to fix or why your patch should be an improvement we will not install it A test case will help us to understand e A guess about what the bug is or what it depends on Such guesses are usually wrong Even we cannot guess right about such things without first using the debugger to find the facts 236 Using as Chapter 11 Acknowledgements 237 11 Acknowledgements If you have contributed to GAS and your name isn t listed here it is not meant as a slight We just don t know about it Send mail to the maintainer and we ll correc
323. ormat output ml Generate little endian format output Chapter 1 Overview 9 The following options are available when as is configured for the Motorola 68HC11 or 68HC12 series m68hc11 m68hc12 m68hcs12 Specify what processor is the target The default is defined by the configuration option when building the assembler mshort Specify to use the 16 bit integer ABI mlong Specify to use the 32 bit integer ABI mshort double Specify to use the 32 bit double ABI mlong double Specify to use the 64 bit double ABI force long branches Relative branches are turned into absolute ones This concerns conditional branches unconditional branches and branches to a sub routine 8 short branches Do not turn relative branches into absolute ones when the offset is out of range Strict direct mode Do not turn the direct addressing mode into extended addressing mode when the instruction does not support direct addressing mode print insn syntax Print the syntax of instruction in case of error print opcodes print the list of instructions with syntax and then exit generate example print an example of instruction for each possible instruction and then exit This option is only useful for testing as The following options are available when as is configured for the SPARC architecture Av6 Av7 Av8 Asparclet Asparclite Av8plus Av8plusa Av9 Av9a Explicitly select a variant of the
324. ose in Intel 1432 spec ification gcc generates those instructions with AT amp T mnemonic 9 13 5 Register Naming Register operands are always prefixed with A The 80386 registers consist of e the 8 32 bit registers eax the accumulator hebx Yecx 4edx hedi esi hebp the frame pointer and hesp the stack pointer e the 8 16 bit low ends of these fax bx hcx hdx Adi hsi Abp and hsp e the 8 8 bit registers ah hal Abh b1 Mech Acl Adh and 2941 These are the high bytes and low bytes of Zax bx cx and Ydx e the 6 section registers cs code section Ads data section Ass stack section hes hfs and Les e the 3 processor control registers Zcr0 Acr2 and Ycr3 e the 6 debug registers 4db0 Adb1 db2 Adb3 4db6 and Ldb7 Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 131 the 2 test registers 4tr6 and Ltr7 the 8 floating point register stack Ast or equivalently Ast 0 st 1 st 2 h8t 3 st 4 st 5 st 6 and Ast 7 These registers are overloaded by 8 MMX registers mmO mm1 mm2 mm3 mm4 mm5 4mm6 and mm7 the 8 SSE registers registers xmm0 xmm1 xmm2 xmm3 xmm4 xmm5 xmm6 a
325. ot always enough to make it accessible to other partial programs You may need the HPPA only EXPORT directive as well See Section 9 11 5 HPPA Assembler Directives page 120 7 56 gnu attribute tag value Record a GNU object attribute for this file See Chapter 8 Object Attributes page 73 7 57 hidden names This is one of the ELF visibility directives The other two are internal see Section 7 64 internal page 53 and protected see Section 7 85 protected page 61 This directive overrides the named symbols default visibility which is set by their bind ing local global or weak The directive sets the visibility to hidden which means that the symbols are not visible to other components Such symbols are always considered to be protected as well 7 58 hword expressions This expects zero or more expressions and emits a 16 bit number for each 6 This directive is a synonym for short depending on the target architecture it may also be a synonym for word 7 59 ident This directive is used by some assemblers to place tags in object files The behavior of this directive varies depending on the target When using the a out object file format as simply accepts the directive for source file compatibility with existing assemblers but does not emit anything for it When using COFF comments are emitted to the comment or rdata section depending on the target When using ELF comments are emitted to t
326. oted for a particular target machine and underscores Case of letters is significant foo is a different symbol name than Foo Each symbol has exactly one name Each name in an assembly language program refers to exactly one symbol You may use that symbol name any number of times in a program Local Symbol Names A local symbol is any symbol beginning with certain local label prefixes By default the local label prefix is L for ELF systems or L for traditional a out systems but each target may have its own set of local label prefixes On the HPPA local symbols begin with L Local symbols are defined and used within the assembler but they are normally not saved in object files Thus they are not visible when debugging You may use the L option see Section 2 7 Include Local Symbols L page 18 to retain the local symbols in the object files 36 Using as Local Labels Local labels help compilers and programmers use names temporarily They create symbols which are guaranteed to be unique over the entire scope of the input source code and which can be referred to by a simple notation To define a local label write a label of the form N where N represents any positive integer To refer to the most recent previous definition of that label write Nb using the same number as when you defined the label To refer to the next definition of a local label write Nf the b stands for ba
327. ou can do include file processing with the include directive see Section 7 62 include page 53 You can use the GNU C compiler driver to get other CPP style preprocessing by giving the input file a S suffix See section Options Controlling the Kind of Output in Using GNU CC Excess whitespace comments and character constants cannot be used in the portions of the input text that are not preprocessed If the first line of an input file is NO_APP or if you use the f option whitespace and comments are not removed from the input file Within an input file you can ask for whitespace and comment removal in specific portions of the by putting a line that says APP before the text that may contain whitespace or comments and putting a line that says NO_APP after this text This feature is mainly intend to support asm statements in compilers whose output is otherwise free of comments and whitespace 3 2 Whitespace Whitespace is one or more blanks or tabs in any order Whitespace is used to separate symbols and to make programs neater for people to read Unless within character constants see Section 3 6 1 Character Constants page 25 any whitespace means the same as exactly one space 3 3 Comments There are two ways of rendering comments to as In both cases the comment is equivalent to one space Anything from through the next is a comment This means you may not nest these comments
328. ples areg GREG breg GREG data_value GREG data_buffer greg creg another_data_value The symbolic register name can be used in place of a non special register If a value isn t provided it defaults to zero Unless the option no merge gregs is specified non zero registers allocated with this directive may be eliminated 176 BYTE WYDE TETRA OCTA PREFIX Using as by as another register with the same value used in its place Any of the in structions CSWAP GO LDA LDBU LDB LDHT LDOU LDO LDSF LDTU LDT LDUNC LDVTS LDWU LDW PREGO PRELD PREST PUSHGO STBU STB STCO STHT STOU STSF STTU STT STUNC SYNCD SYNCID can have a value nearby an initial value in place of its second and third operands Here nearby is defined as within the range 0 255 from the initial value of such an allocated register bufferi BYTE 0 0 0 0 0 buffer2 BYTE 0 0 0 0 0 GREG buffert LDOU 42 butter In the example above the Y field of the LDOUI instruction LDOU with a constant Z will be replaced with the global register allocated for buffer1 and the Z field will have the value 5 the offset from buffer1 to buffer2 The result is equivalent to this code bufferi BYTE 0 0 0 0 0 buffer2 BYTE 0 0 0 0 0 tmpreg GR
329. ports both DEC syntax and BSD syntax The only difference is that in DEC syntax a character is used to denote an immediate constants while in BSD syntax the character for this purpose is general purpose registers are named r0 through r7 Mnemonic alternatives for r6 and r7 are sp and pc respectively Floating point registers are named ac through ac3 or alternatively frO through fr3 Comments are started with a or a character and extend to the end of the line FIXME clash with immediates 9 25 4 Instruction Naming Some instructions have alternative names BCC BHIS BCS BLO L2DR L2D L3DR L3D SYS TRAP 186 Using as 9 25 5 Synthetic Instructions The JBR and JCC synthetic instructions are not supported yet Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 187 9 26 picoJava Dependent Features 9 26 1 Options as has two additional command line options for the picoJava architecture ml This option selects little endian data output mb This option selects big endian data output 188 Using as 9 27 PowerPC Dependent Features 9 27 1 Options The PowerPC chip family includes several successive levels using the same core instruction set but including a few additional instructions at each level There are exceptions to this however For details on what instructions each variant supports please see the chip s architecture reference manual The following table lists all available PowerPC options mpwrx mpwr2
330. previous Now in section B subsection 0 word OxdefO Will place 0x1234 into section A 0x5678 and Oxdef0 into subsection 0 of section B and Ox9abc into subsection 1 of section B In terms of the section stack this directive swaps the current section with the top section on the section stack 7 83 popsection This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives The others are section see Section 7 94 Section page 63 subsection see Section 7 105 SubSection page 68 pushsection see Section 7 88 PushSection page 62 and previous see Section 7 82 Previous page 60 This directive replaces the current section and subsection with the top section and subsection on the section stack This section is popped off the stack 7 84 print string as will print string on the standard output during assembly You must put string in double quotes 7 85 protected names This is one of the ELF visibility directives The other two are bidden see Section 7 57 Hidden page 51 and internal see Section 7 64 Internal page 53 This directive overrides the named symbols default visibility which is set by their bind ing local global or weak The directive sets the visibility to protected which means that any references to the symbols from within the components that defines them must be resolved to the definition in that component even if a definition in another component would normally preempt this 7 86
331. psize lines columns Use this directive to declare the number of lines and optionally the number of columns to use for each page when generating listings If you do not use psize listings use a default line count of 60 You may omit the comma and columns specification the default width is 200 columns as generates formfeeds whenever the specified number of lines is exceeded or whenever you explicitly request one using eject If you specify lines as 0 no formfeeds are generated save those explicitly specified with eject 62 Using as 7 87 purgem name Undefine the macro name so that later uses of the string will not be expanded See Section 7 75 Macro page 56 7 88 pushsection name subsection flags typel arguments This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives The others are section see Section 7 94 Section page 63 subsection see Section 7 105 SubSection page 68 popsection see Section 7 83 PopSection page 61 and previous see Section 7 82 Previous page 60 This directive pushes the current section and subsection onto the top of the section stack and then replaces the current section and subsection with name and subsection The optional flags type and arguments are treated the same as in the section see Section 7 94 Section page 63 directive 1 89 quad bignums quad expects zero or more bignums separated by commas For each bignum it emits
332. ption will override the default up You can use the 1 option to shorten the size of references to undefined sym bols If you do not use the 1 option references to undefined symbols are wide enough for a full Long 32 bits Since as cannot know where these symbols end up as can only allocate space for the linker to fill in later Since as does not know how far away these symbols are it allocates as much space as it can If you use this option the references are only one word wide 16 bits This may be useful if you want the object file to be as small as possible and you know that the relevant symbols are always less than 17 bits away register prefix optional For some configurations especially those where the compiler normally does not prepend an underscore to the names of user variables the assembler requires a before any use of a register name This is intended to let the assembler distinguish between C variables and functions named a0 through a7 and so on The is always accepted but is not required for certain configurations notably sun3 The register prefix optional option may be used to permit omitting the even for configurations for which it is normally required If this is done it will generally be impossible to refer to C variables and functions with the same names as register names bitwise or Normally the character is treated as a comment chara
333. quired unwind_fnstart Marks the start of a function with an unwind table entry force_thumb This directive forces the selection of Thumb instructions even if the target processor does not support those instructions fpu name Select the floating point unit to assemble for Valid values for name are the same as for the mfpu commandline option handlerdata Marks the end of the current function and the start of the exception table entry for that function Anything between this directive and the fnend directive will be added to the exception table entry Must be preceded by a personality or personalityindex directive ldouble expression expression See extend ltorg This directive causes the current contents of the literal pool to be dumped into the current section which is assumed to be the text section at the current location aligned to a word boundary GAS maintains a separate literal pool for each section and each sub section The 1torg directive will only affect the literal pool of the current section and sub section At the end of assembly all remaining un empty literal pools will automatically be dumped Note older versions of GAS would dump the current literal pool any time a section change occurred This is no longer done since it prevents accurate control of the placement of literal pools movsp reg ttoffset Tell the unwinder that reg contains an offset from the current stack pointer If
334. r Returns the floating point arcsine of expr atan expr Returns the floating point arctangent of expr atan2 expri expr2 Returns the floating point arctangent of expr1 expr2 ceil expr Returns the smallest integer not less than expr as floating point cosh expr Returns the floating point hyperbolic cosine of expr cos expr Returns the floating point cosine of expr cvf expr Returns the integer value expr converted to floating point cvi expr Returns the floating point value expr converted to integer exp expr Returns the floating point value e expr fabs expr Returns the floating point absolute value of expr floor expr Returns the largest integer that is not greater than expr as floating point fmod expri expr2 Returns the floating point remainder of expr expr2 int expr Returns 1 if expr evaluates to an integer zero otherwise 1dexp expri expr2 Returns the floating point value expr1 2 expr2 log10 expr Returns the base 10 logarithm of expr log expr Returns the natural logarithm of expr max expr1 expr2 Returns the floating point maximum of exprl1 and expr2 min expri expr2 Returns the floating point minimum of expr1 and expr2 pow expri expr2 Returns the floating point value expr1 expr2 Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 201 round expr Returns the nearest integer to expr as a floating point number sgn expr Returns 1 0 or 1
335. r The translation is indirect a decimal floating point number from the text is converted by as to a generic binary floating point number of more than sufficient precision This generic floating point number is converted to a particular computer s floating point format or formats by a portion of as specialized to that computer A flonum is written by writing in order e The digit 0 0 is optional on the HPPA e A letter to tell as the rest of the number is a flonum e is recommended Case is not important On the H8 300 Renesas SuperH SH and AMD 29K architectures the letter must be one of the letters DFPRSX in upper or lower case On the ARC the letter must be one of the letters DFRS in upper or lower case On the Intel 960 architecture the letter must be one of the letters DFT in upper or lower case On the HPPA architecture the letter must be E upper case only An optional sign either or An optional integer part zero or more decimal digits An optional fractional part followed by zero or more decimal digits An optional exponent consisting of e An E or e e Optional sign either or e One or more decimal digits At least one of the integer part or the fractional part must be present The floating point number has the usual base 10 value as does all processing using integers Flonums are computed independently of any floatin
336. r mflo instruction occurs in the following two instructions mfix vr4120 no mfix vr4120 Insert nops to work around certain VR4120 errata This option is intended to be used on GCC generated code it is not designed to catch all problems in hand written assembler code mfix vr4130 no mfix vr4130 Insert nops to work around the VR4130 mf1o mfhi errata mfix ice9a mno fix ice9a Detect missing movn d 30 reg zero instructions required for the ICE9A double floating point multiplication errata and invalid 30 references conflicting with same Raise an error if so m4010 no m4010 Generate code for the LSI R4010 chip This tells the assembler to accept the R4010 specific instructions addciu ffc etc and to not schedule nop instructions around accesses to the HI and LO registers no m4010 turns off this option m4650 no m4650 Generate code for the MIPS R4650 chip This tells the assembler to accept the mad and madw instruction and to not schedule nop instructions around accesses to the HI and LO registers no m4650 turns off this option m3900 no m3900 m4100 no m4100 For each option mnnnn generate code for the MIPS Rnnnn chip This tells the assembler to accept instructions specific to that chip and to schedule for that chip s hazards march cpu Generate code for a particular MIPS cpu It is exactly equival
337. r this License 240 Using as The Cover Texts are certain short passages of text that are listed as Front Cover Texts or Back Cover Texts in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License A Transparent copy of the Document means a machine readable copy represented in a format whose specification is available to the general public whose contents can be viewed and edited directly and straightforwardly with generic text editors or for images composed of pixels generic paint programs or for drawings some widely avail able drawing editor and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup has been designed to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent A copy that is not Transparent is called Opaque Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup Texinfo input format LaTeX input format SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML designed for human modifica tion Opaque formats include PostScript PDF proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors SGML or XML for which the DTD and or processing tools are not generally available and the machine generated HTML produced by some word processors for
338. rPC assembler and made a few other minor patches 1 Any more details 238 Using as Steve Chamberlain made GAS able to generate listings Hewlett Packard contributed support for the HP9000 300 Jeff Law wrote GAS and BFD support for the native HPPA object format SOM along with a fairly extensive HPPA testsuite for both SOM and ELF object formats This work was supported by both the Center for Software Science at the University of Utah and Cygnus Support Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of Cygnus Support original incomplete implementation for SPARC Pete Hoogenboom and Jeff Law at the University of Utah HPPA mainly Michael Meissner of the Open Software Foundation i386 mainly and Ken Raeburn of Cygnus Support sparc and some initial 64 bit support Linas Vepstas added GAS support for the ESA 390 IBM 370 architecture Richard Henderson rewrote the Alpha assembler Klaus Kaempf wrote GAS and BFD support for openVMS Alpha Timothy Wall Michael Hayes and Greg Smart contributed to the various tic flavors David Heine Sterling Augustine Bob Wilson and John Ruttenberg from Tensilica Inc added support for Xtensa processors Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug fixes and con figuration enhancements Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements If you have contributed significant work and are not mentioned on this list and want t
339. ran Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen of Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS back end tc mips c tc mips h and contributed Rose format support which hasn t been merged in yet Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS code to support a out format Support for the Zilog Z8k and Renesas H8 300 processors tc z8k tc h8300 and IEEE 695 object file format obj ieee was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support Steve also modified the COFF back end to use BFD for some low level operations for use with the H8 300 and AMD 29k targets John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support added include support and simplified the configuration of which versions accept which directives He updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola s opcodes always produced fixed size instructions e g jsr while synthetic instructions remained shrinkable jbsr John fixed many bugs including true tested cross compilation support and one bug in relaxation that took a week and required the proverbial one bit fix Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT syntax for the 68k completed support for some COFF targets 68k 1386 SVR3 and SCO Unix added support for MIPS ECOFF and ELF targets wrote the initial RS 6000 and Powe
340. re are 3 flavors of branch short medium and long Some other assemblers would emit short and medium branches unless told by this option to emit short and long branches t Temporary File Directory Some other assemblers may use a temporary file and this option takes a filename being the directory to site the temporary file Since as does not use a temporary disk file this option makes no difference t needs exactly one filename The Vax version of the assembler accepts additional options when compiled for VMS hn External symbol or section used for global variables names are not case sensi tive on VAX VMS and always mapped to upper case This is contrary to the C language definition which explicitly distinguishes upper and lower case To im plement a standard conforming C compiler names must be changed mapped to preserve the case information The default mapping is to convert all lower case characters to uppercase and adding an underscore followed by a 6 digit hex value representing a 24 digit binary value The one digits in the binary value represent which characters are uppercase in the original symbol name The h n option determines how we map names This takes several values No h switch at all allows case hacking as described above A value of zero 214 Using as ho implies names should be upper case and inhibits the case hack A value of 2 h2 implies names should be all lower case with
341. re prefixed by they are undelimited in Intel syntax e AT amp T and Intel syntax use the opposite order for source and destination operands Intel add eax 4 is addl 4 eax The source dest convention is maintained for compatibility with previous Unix assemblers Note that bound invlpga and instructions with 2 immediate operands such as the enter instruction do not have reversed order Section 9 13 12 i386 Bugs page 135 e In AT amp T syntax the size of memory operands is determined from the last character of the instruction mnemonic Mnemonic suffixes of b w 1 and q specify byte 8 bit word 16 bit long 32 bit and quadruple word 64 bit memory references Intel syn tax accomplishes this by prefixing memory operands not the instruction mnemonics with byte ptr word ptr dword ptr and qword ptr Thus Intel mov al byte ptr foo is movb foo hal in AT amp T syntax e Immediate form long jumps and calls are 1ca11 1jmp section offset in AT amp T syntax the Intel syntax is call jmp far section offset Also the far return in struction is lret stack adjust in AT amp T syntax Intel syntax is ret far stack adjust e The AT amp T assembler does not provide support for multiple section programs Unix style systems expect all programs to be single sections 9 13 3 Instruction Naming Instruction mnemonics a
342. re suffixed with one character modifiers which specify the size of operands The letters b w 1 and q specify byte word long and quadruple word operands If no suffix is specified by an instruction then as tries to fill in the missing suffix based on the destination register operand the last one by convention Thus mov hax bx is equivalent to movw Zax Abx also mov 1 bx is equivalent to movw 1 bx Note that this is incompatible with the AT amp T Unix assembler which assumes that a 130 Using as missing mnemonic suffix implies long operand size This incompatibility does not affect compiler output since compilers always explicitly specify the mnemonic suffix Almost all instructions have the same names in AT amp T and Intel format There are a few exceptions The sign extend and zero extend instructions need two sizes to specify them They need a size to sign zero extend from and a size to zero extend to This is accomplished by using two instruction mnemonic suffixes in AT amp T syntax Base names for sign extend and zero extend are movs and movz in AT amp T syntax movsx and movzx in Intel syntax The instruction mnemonic suffixes are tacked on to this base name the from suffix before the to suffix Thus movsbl al Zedx is AT amp T syntax for move sign extend from al to edx Possible suffixes thus are b1 from byte to long bw from
343. rective associated with the a out or b out object code formats as still recognizes it when producing COFF output and treats Line as though it were the COFF 1n if it is found outside a def endef pair Inside a def line is instead one of the directives used by compilers to generate auxiliary symbol information for debugging 7 70 linkonce type Mark the current section so that the linker only includes a single copy of it This may be used to include the same section in several different object files but ensure that the linker will only include it once in the final output file The linkonce pseudo op must be used for each instance of the section Duplicate sections are detected based on the section name so it should be unique This directive is only supported by a few object file formats as of this writing the only object file format which supports it is the Portable Executable format used on Windows NT The type argument is optional If specified it must be one of the following strings For example linkonce same size Not all types may be supported on all object file formats discard Silently discard duplicate sections This is the default one_only Warn if there are duplicate sections but still keep only one copy same size Warn if any of the duplicates have different sizes same contents Warn if any of the duplicates do not have exactly the same contents 7 71 1n line number 1n is a syno
344. right is in the right container and is executed first abs r2 r3 abs r4 r5 Execute these in parallel ldw r2 0 r3 r4 l mulx r6 r8 r9 Two line format Execute these in parallel mulx a0 r8 r9 stw r2 0 r3 r4 Two line format Execute these sequentially unless 0 option is used If the Q option is used the assembler will determine if the instructions could be done in parallel the above two instructions can be done in parallel and if so emit them as parallel instructions The assembler will put them in the proper containers In the above example the assembler will put the stw instruction in left container and the mulx instruction in the right container stw r2 0 r3 r4 gt mulx a0 r8 r9 Two line format Execute the stw instruction followed by the mulx instruc tion sequentially The first instruction goes in the left container and the second instruction goes into right container The assembler will give an error if the machine ordering constraints are violated stw r2 0 r3 r4 mulx a0 r8 r9 Same as previous example except that the mulx instruction is executed before the stw instruction Since has no special meaning you may use it in symbol names 9 9 2 4 Guarded Execution as supports the full range of guarded execution directives for each instruction Just append the directive after the instruction proper The directives are tx Execute the instruction
345. ro parami param n mexit endm See the section on macros for more explanation See Section 9 31 10 TIC54X Macros page 206 mlib filename filename Load the macro library filename filename must be an archived library BFD ar compatible of text files expected to contain only macro definitions The standard include search path is used mlist molist Control whether to include macro and loop block expansions in the listing output Ignored mmregs Define global symbolic names for the c54x registers Supposedly equivalent to executing set directives for each register with its memory mapped value but in reality is provided only for compatibility and does nothing newblock This directive resets any TIC54X local labels currently defined Normal as local labels are unaffected option option list Set listing options Ignored Sblock section name section name name n name n Designate section name for blocking Blocking guarantees that a section will start on a page boundary 128 words if it would otherwise cross a page bound ary Only initialized sections may be designated with this directive See also See Section 9 31 2 TIC54X Block page 198 sect section name Define a named initialized section and make it the current section symbol set value symbol equ value Equate a constant value to a symbol which is placed in the symbol table symbol may not be previously defined Space size
346. rom the usual as definition it does not write a zero byte after copying str stringz str Like string but appends a zero byte after copying str to object file Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 123 subspa name params nsubspa name params Similar to space but selects a subsection name within the current section You may only specify params when you create a subsection in the first instance of subspa for this name If specified the list params declares attributes of the subsection identified by keywords The keywords recognized are quad expr quadrant for this subsection align expr alignment for beginning of this subsection a power of two access expr value for access rights field sort expr sorting order for this subspace in link code_only subsection contains only code unloadable subsection cannot be loaded into memory comdat subsection is comdat common subsection is common block dup_comm subsection may have duplicate names or zero subsection is all zeros do not write in object file nsubspa always creates a new subspace with the given name even if one with the same name already exists comdat common and dup_comm can be used to implement various flavors of one only support when using the SOM linker The SOM linker only supports specific combinations of these flags The details are not documented
347. rtcut Specifies an extension core register name for the application This allows a register name with a valid regnum between 0 and 60 with the following as valid values for mode r readonly w write only r w read or write The other parameter gives a description of the register having a shortcut in the pipeline The valid values are can_shortcut cannot_shortcut For example extCoreRegister mlo 57 r can_shortcut This defines an extension core register mlo with the value 57 which can shortcut the pipeline extInstruction name opcode subopcode suffixclass syntaxclass The ARCtangent A4 allows the user to specify extension instructions The extension instructions are not macros The assembler creates encodings for use of these instructions according to the specification by the user The parameters are 84 Using as ename Name of the extension instruction eopcode Opcode to be used Bits 27 31 in the encoding Valid values 0x10 0x1f or 0x03 esubopcode Subopcode to be used Valid values are from 0x09 0x3f However the correct value also depends on syntaxclass esuffixclass Determines the kinds of suffixes to be allowed Valid values are SUFFIX_NONE SUFFIX_COND SUFFIX_FLAG which indicates the ab sence or presence of conditional suffixes and flag setting by the ex tension instruction It is also possible to specify that an instruction sets the flags and is conditional by using SUFFIX_CODE SUFF
348. rted type has an instruction mnemonic suffix and a constructor associated with it Instruction mnemonic suffixes specify the operand s data type Constructors build these data types into memory H e Floating point constructors are float or single double and tfloat for 32 64 and 80 bit formats These correspond to instruction mnemonic suffixes s 1 and t t stands for 80 bit ten byte real The 80387 only supports this format via the 1dt load 80 bit real to stack top and fstpt store 80 bit real and pop stack instructions e Integer constructors are word long or int and quad for the 16 32 and 64 bit integer formats The corresponding instruction mnemonic suffixes are s single T long and q quad As with the 80 bit real format the 64 bit q format is only present in the fildq load quad integer to stack top and fistpq store quad integer and pop stack instructions 134 Using as Register to register operations should not use instruction mnemonic suffixes fst1l Ast st 1 will give a warning and be assembled as if you wrote fst Ast 4st 1 since all register to register operations use 80 bit floating point operands Contrast this with fst1 st mem which converts Ast from 80 bit to 64 bit floating point format then stores the result in the 4 byte location mem
349. s symver name name20nodename If the symbol name is defined within the file being assembled the symver directive effectively creates a symbol alias with the name name2 nodename and in fact the main reason that we just don t try and create a regular alias is that the character isn t permitted in symbol names The name2 part of the name is the actual name of the symbol by which it will be externally referenced The name name itself is merely a name of convenience that is used so that it is possible to have definitions for multiple versions of a function within a single source file and so that the compiler can unambiguously know which version of a function is being mentioned The nodename portion of the alias should be the name of a node specified in the version script supplied to the linker when building a shared library If you are attempting to override a versioned symbol from a shared library then nodename should correspond to the nodename of the symbol you are trying to override If the symbol name is not defined within the file being assembled all references to name will be changed to name2 nodename If no reference to name is made name2 nodename will be removed from the symbol table Another usage of the symver directive is Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 69 symver name name200nodename In this case the symbol name must exist and be defined within the file being assembled It is similar to name2 nodename The difference is
350. s rex prefix with all the bits set By omitting the 64 x y or z you may write other prefixes as well Normally there is no need to write the prefixes explicitly since gas will automatically generate them based on the instruction operands 9 13 7 Memory References An Intel syntax indirect memory reference of the form section base index scale disp is translated into the AT amp T syntax section disp base index scale where base and index are the optional 32 bit base and index registers disp is the optional displacement and scale taking the values 1 2 4 and 8 multiplies index to calculate the address of the operand If no scale is specified scale is taken to be 1 section specifies the optional section register for the memory operand and may override the default section register see a 80386 manual for section register defaults Note that section overrides in AT amp T syntax must be preceded by a If you specify a section override which coincides with the default section register as does not output any section register override prefixes to assemble the given instruction Thus section overrides can be specified to emphasize which section register is used for a given memory operand Here are some examples of Intel and AT amp T style memory references AT amp T 4 hebp Intel Lebp 4 base is febp disp is 4 section is missing and the default section is used hss for addressing wi
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352. s to add OS specific CFI opcodes or generic CFI opcodes that GAS does not yet support 7 28 file fileno filename When emitting dwarf2 line number information file assigns filenames to the debug_line file name table The fileno operand should be a unique positive integer to use as the index of the entry in the table The filename operand is a C string literal The detail of filename indices is exposed to the user because the filename table is shared with the debug_info section of the dwarf2 debugging information and thus the user must know the exact indices that table entries will have 7 29 loc fileno lineno column options The 10oc directive will add row to the debug_line line number matrix corresponding to the immediately following assembly instruction The fileno lineno and optional column arguments will be applied to the debug_line state machine before the row is added The options are a sequence of the following tokens in any order basic_block This option will set the basic_block register in the debug_line state machine to true prologue_end This option will set the prologue_end register in the debug_line state ma chine to true epilogue_begin This option will set the epilogue_begin register in the debug_line state machine to true is_stmt value This option will set the is_stmt register in the debug_line state machine to value which must be either 0 or 1 isa value This directive will set the isa regi
353. s to be errors rename section oldname newname Rename the oldname section to newname This option can be used multiple times to rename multiple sections 224 Using as 9 36 2 Assembler Syntax Block comments are delimited by and End of line comments may be introduced with either or Instructions consist of a leading opcode or macro name followed by whitespace and an optional comma separated list of operands opcode operand Instructions must be separated by a newline or semicolon FLIX instructions which bundle multiple opcodes together in a single instruction are specified by enclosing the bundled opcodes inside braces format opcodeO operands opcode1 operands opcode2 operands The opcodes in a FLIX instruction are listed in the same order as the corresponding instruction slots in the TIE format declaration Directives and labels are not allowed inside the braces of a FLIX instruction A particular TIE format name can optionally be specified immediately after the opening brace but this is usually unnecessary The assembler will automatically search for a format that can encode the specified opcodes so the format name need only be specified in rare cases where there is more than one applicable format and where it matters which of those formats is used A FLIX instruction can also be specified on a single line by separating the opcodes with semicolons 1 format opcodeO op
354. s to file lt filename gt me lt filename gt Target Z80 options z80 r800 ignore undocumented instructions Wnud ignore unportable instructions Wnup warn undocumented instructions Wud warn unportable instructions Wup forbid undocumented instructions Fud forbid unportable instructions Fup Target Xtensa options no text section literals no absolute literals no target align no longcalls no transform rename section oldname newname 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 4 Using as 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 cdhlmns Turn on listings in any of a variety of ways ac omit false conditionals ad omit debugging directives ah include high level source al include assembly am include macro expansions an omit forms processing as include symbols file set the name of the listing file H You may combine these options for example use
355. sections named text and data R is not supported for any of the HPPA targets Using R generates a warning from as 2 13 Display Assembly Statistics statistics Use statistics to display two statistics about the resources used by as the maximum amount of space allocated during the assembly in bytes and the total execution time taken for the assembly in CPU seconds 2 14 Compatible Output traditional format For some targets the output of as is different in some ways from the output of some existing assembler This switch requests as to use the traditional format instead For example it disables the exception frame optimizations which as normally does by default on gcc output 2 15 Announce Version v You can find out what version of as is running by including the option v which you can also spell as version on the command line 22 Using as 6 2 16 Control Warnings W warn no warn 9 9 9 fatal warnings as should never give a warning or error message when assembling compiler output But programs written by people often cause as to give a warning that a particular assumption was made All such warnings are directed to the standard error file If you use the W and no warn options no warnings are issued This only affects the warning messages it does not change any particular of how as assembles your fi
356. sequentially Same as above but second in struction will always go into right container Since has no special meaning you may use it in symbol names 9 8 2 4 Register Names You can use the predefined symbols ro through r15 to refer to the D10V registers You can also use sp as an alias for r15 The accumulators are a0 and ai There are special register pair names that may optionally be used in opcodes that require even numbered registers Register names are not case sensitive Register Pairs rO ri Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 111 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7 r8 r9 ri0 rii ri2 ri13 ri4 ri15 The D10V also has predefined symbols for these control registers and status bits psw bpsw pe bpc rpt_c rpt_s rpt_e mod_s mod_e iba fO fi c Processor Status Word Backup Processor Status Word Program Counter Backup Program Counter Repeat Count Repeat Start address Repeat End address Modulo Start address Modulo End address Instruction Break Address Flag 0 Flag 1 Carry flag 9 8 2 5 Addressing Modes as understands the following addressing modes for the D10V Rn in the following refers to any of the numbered registers but not the control registers Rn ORn ORn ORn Q SP Register direct Register indirect Register indirect with post increment Register indirect with post decrement Register indirect with pre decrement disp Rn addr imm Register
357. set offset from the current CFA register This is transformed to cfi_offset using the known displacement of the CFA register from the CFA This is often easier to use because the number will match the code it s annotating 7 19 cfi_register registerl register2 Previous value of register is saved in register register2 7 20 cfi_restore register cfi_restore says that the rule for register is now the same as it was at the beginning of the function after all initial instruction added by cfi_startproc were executed 7 21 cfi_undefined register From now on the previous value of register can t be restored anymore 7 22 cfi_same_value register Current value of register is the same like in the previous frame i e no restoration needed 7 23 cfi_remember_state First save all current rules for all registers by cfi_remember_state then totally screw them up by subsequent cfi_ directives and when everything is hopelessly bad use cfi_ restore_state to restore the previous saved state 7 24 cfi return column register Change return column register i e the return address is either directly in register or can be accessed by rules for register 7 25 cfi signal frame Mark current function as signal trampoline Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 47 7 26 cfi_window_save SPARC register window has been saved 7 27 cfi escape expression Allows the user to add arbitrary bytes to the unwind info One might use thi
358. specify their names after the macro name separated by com mas or spaces You can qualify the macro argument to indicate whether all invocations must specify a non blank value through req or whether it takes all of the remaining arguments through vararg You can supply a default value for any macro argument by following the name with deflt You cannot define two macros with the same macname unless it has been sub ject to the purgem directive see Section 7 87 Purgem page 62 between the two definitions For example these are all valid macro statements macro comm Begin the definition of a macro called comm which takes no argu ments macro plusi p pl macro plusi p pl Either statement begins the definition of a macro called plusi which takes two arguments within the macro definition write p or Api to evaluate the arguments Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 57 macro reserve_str p1 0 p2 Begin the definition of a macro called reserve_str with two argu ments The first argument has a default value but not the second After the definition is complete you can call the macro either as reserve_str a b with p1 evaluating to a and p2 evaluating to b or as reserve_str b with p1 evaluating as the default in this case 0 and p2 evaluating to b macro m p1 req p2 0 p3 vararg Begin the definition of a macro called m with at least three ar guments T
359. ster V890 en are e EE 219 eight byte integer elles 62 eipc register V850 lisse 219 eipsw register Va 219 eject directive 0 0 cee kon eee eee 48 ELF symbol type oo occcccccccoccccroo 69 else directiv is sese ri eens a 48 elseif directive iiis 48 empty expressions sse 39 emsg directive TICBAX 00 202 emulation A keh seem e Yu PERPE 11 Using as end ee inue te meer RERO EE 48 enddual directive i860 0 138 endef directive 49 endfunc directe 49 endianness MIR 10 endianness PI 8 endif directe 49 endloop directive TIC54X 0 203 endm directive ssi esp ru ra NEEN as 58 endm directive DICH 204 endstruct directive TIC54X 205 endunion directive TIC54X 205 environment settings TIC5AX 198 EOF newline must precede nuuanneeun 24 ep register V850 oo ck eee ee eee 219 equ directive ssns drenerer po EE EE AE i 49 equ directive TICBAX ooooooooo 204 equiv directive iios se NEES eae 49 edv directive icio nr Madea ee ad Res 49 err directive Ae dile adc ee PRI Gn eR 49 GrrOrdireCUlve 24 sis ess ease ak PEDRO WE RE ee 49 error TREIER Rua REIR a e 16 error on valid mput 0 000 eee 233 errors caused by Warnings rssccu 22 errors continuing after 22 ESA 390 floating point IEEE 126 ESA 390 support 125 ESA 390 Gantax 22 e
360. ster in the debug_line state machine to value which must be an unsigned integer 7 30 loc_mark_labels enable The loc_mark_labels directive makes the assembler emit an entry to the debug_line line number matrix with the basic_block register in the state machine set whenever a code label is seen The enable argument should be either 1 or 0 to enable or disable this function respectively 48 Using as 7 31 data subsection data tells as to assemble the following statements onto the end of the data subsection numbered subsection which is an absolute expression If subsection is omitted it defaults to zero 7 32 def name Begin defining debugging information for a symbol name the definition extends until the endef directive is encountered 7 33 desc symbol abs expression This directive sets the descriptor of the symbol see Section 5 5 Symbol Attributes page 37 to the low 16 bits of an absolute expression The desc directive is not available when as is configured for COFF output it is only for a out or b out object format For the sake of compatibility as accepts it but produces no output when configured for COFF 7 34 dim This directive is generated by compilers to include auxiliary debugging information in the symbol table It is only permitted inside def endef pairs 7 35 double flonums double expects zero or more flonums separated by commas It assembles floating point numbers The exact ki
361. ster number Line numbers in the mmo object format are currently not supported Expression operator precedence is not that of mmixal operator precedence is that of the C programming language It s recommended to use parentheses to explicitly specify wanted operator precedence whenever more than one type of operators are used The serialize unary operator Y the fractional division operator the logical not operator and the modulus operator are not available Symbols are not global by default unless the option globalize symbols is passed Use the global directive to globalize symbols see Section 7 55 Global page 51 Operand syntax is a bit stricter with as than mmixal For example you can t say addu 1 2 3 instead you must write addu 1 2 3 You can t LOC to a lower address than those already visited i e backwards A LOC directive must come before any emitted code Predefined symbols are visible as file local symbols after use In the ELF file that is the linked mmo file has no notion of a file local symbol Some mapping of constant expressions to sections in LOC expressions is attempted but that functionality is easily confused and should be avoided unless compatibility with mmixal is required A LOC expression to 0x2000000000000000 or higher maps to the data section and lower addresses map to the text section see MMIX loc page 175 178 Using as
362. sters Rn Register direct Rn Register indirect Rn Register indirect with post increment ORn Register indirect with post decrement SP Register indirect with pre decrement disp Rn Register indirect with displacement addr PC relative address for branch or rep imm Immediate data the is optional and ignored 9 9 3 Floating Point The D30V has no hardware floating point but the float and double directives generates IEEE floating point numbers for compatibility with other development tools 9 9 4 Opcodes For detailed information on the D30V machine instruction set see D30V Architecture A VLIW Microprocessor for Multimedia Applications Mitsubishi Electric Corp as imple ments all the standard D30V opcodes The only changes are those described in the section on size modifiers Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 117 9 10 H8 300 Dependent Features 9 10 1 Options as has no additional command line options for the Renesas formerly Hitachi H8 300 family 9 10 2 Syntax 9 10 2 1 Special Characters AE 3 is the line comment character can be used instead of a newline to separate statements Therefore you may not use in symbol names on the H8 300 9 10 2 2 Register Names You can use predefined symbols of the form ranh and rn1 to refer to the H8 300 registers as sixteen 8 bit general purpose registers n is a digit from 0 to 7 for instance both roh
363. suennannaa 163 ldouble directive ARM 90 ldouble directive TIC54X 202 LDR reg lt label gt pseudo op ARM 93 leafproc directive 2000 140 length directive TIC54X 203 length of symbols 0 00 irie ee eee 24 lflags directive ignored 54 line comment character 23 line comment character Alpha 76 line comment character ARM 88 line comment character AND 95 line comment character D1OV 110 line comment character D30V 113 line comment character H8 300 117 line comment character A 64 144 line comment character M680x0 159 line comment character MSP 430 179 line comment character SH 190 line comment character SH64 193 line comment character V850 217 line comment character Z80 208 line comment character Z8000 211 line comment characters CRIS 106 line comment characters MMIX 173 line directe 54 line directive MSP A30 180 line numbers in input files 15 line numbers in warnings errors 16 line separator character 24 line separator Alnha niesek 76 line separator ARM 88 line separator AN 95 line separator H8 300 000 eee 117 line separator LA O4 144 line separ
364. t an error message is generated In addition to standard branch operands as allows these pseudo operations to have all operands that are allowed for jsr and jmp substituting these instruc tions if the operand given is not valid for a branch instruction Here jXX stands for an entire family of pseudo operations where XX is a conditional branch or condition code test The full list of pseudo ops in this family is jhi jls jec jcs jne jeq jvc jvs jpl jmi jge jit jgt jle Usually each of these pseudo operations expands to a single branch instruction However if a word branch is not sufficient no long branches are available and the pcrel option is not given as issues a longer code fragment in terms of NX the opposite condition to XX For example under these conditions jXX foo gives bNXs oof jmp foo oof Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 159 dbXX 4XX The full family of pseudo operations covered here is dbhi dbls dbcc dbcs dbne dbeq dbvc dbvs dbpl dbmi dbge dblt dbgt dble dbf dbra dbt Motorola dbXX instructions allow word displacements only When a word displacement is sufficient each of these pseudo operations expands to the cor responding Motorola instruction When a word displacement is not sufficient and long branches are available when the source reads dbXX foo as emits dbXX ooi bras oo2 ooi bral foo 002 If however long branches are not available and the pcrel optio
365. t SubSectiOn oer ea cbe s Rer d pao 69 1 109 title heading see EE SEET R ENESE RUE 69 TAO EE 69 Using as 7 111 ulebi28 expressgions 0 cece eee 70 LID val Ee ERES ae eo ee es 70 LIS version string diede rrr eR ORE E aus ware 70 7 114 vtable_entry table offset s lesse 70 7 115 vtable_inherit child parent 0005 70 7 116 warning String ee ENEE RI eee E one EE s 71 CALE weak names th ti SEELEN ada 71 7 118 weakref alias target ccc ccc ccc ccc eens 71 7 119 word expreSSiONS esses ral 7 120 Deprecated Directives 00 cece ccc cect eee eens 72 Object Attributes 0c eere 73 8 1 GNU Object Attributes 0 00 73 8 1 1 Common GNU attbutes eee eee eee 73 8 1 2 MIPS Attnbutes ernn creer rane ne a 73 8 1 3 PowerPC Attributes serei henten a nn 74 8 2 Defining New Object Attributes 00 ce eee 74 Machine Dependent Features 75 9 1 Alpha Dependent Features 0000 0 c cece cece een ees 76 9 1 1 Jloteg 0 arimeen aiaa reme acere Reed hed eg 76 9 172 Optog Ea ech AAA dee a 76 9 1 3 SYNTAR a etl st tres ah Ee eg ob e ea eee 76 9 1 3 1 Special Characters 0 00 cece cece cee ences 76 9 1 3 2 Register Names iii oder iR eb dint a 77 9 1 3 8 Relocatong eens te 9 1 4 Floating Polk dude mre Pade eee aon 79 9 1 5 Alpha Assembler Dimtectives 0 00 cece ananuna 79 9 1 0 Opcodes susto rz e rd en e Rhee tee eee Roba 8
366. t directive TIC54X 204 stabd directives eie E rt seed Fae en ee 67 stabn directive isis ge re AER SEENEN E ui 67 Stabssdirective ss eg oo Ir RARE RE 67 stabx directives e cee EEN rer p bra ene 66 standard assembler sections 29 standard input as input file 14 statement separator character 24 statement separator Alpha 76 statement separator ARM 88 statement separator AND 95 statement separator HS 200 17 statement separator IA 64 144 statement separator 2 190 statement separator SHDG4 193 statement separator Z8000 211 statements structure of 24 statistics about assembly oo o o o oooo 21 stopping the assembly usssucccnnrsurecnne 43 string constants lis eee n e n 25 string directive ee se eer PEFS 67 string directive on HPPA 122 string directive TIC54X 204 string literals jc 500 02 cdi pda e ehe ved exes 44 string copying to object file 67 string16 directive ooooooooommmmmmm 67 string16 copying to object file 67 string32 directive ooooooooommmmmmm 67 string32 copying to object file 67 string64 directive oooooooooommmmmmsn 67 string64 copying to object file 67 Strings directive ee keine le whee 67 string8 copying to object file
367. t the situation Currently the maintainer is Ken Raeburn email address raeburn cygnus com Dean Elsner wrote the original GNU assembler for the VAX Jay Fenlason maintained GAS for a while adding support for GDB specific debug infor mation and the 68k series machines most of the preprocessing pass and extensive changes in messages c input file c write c K Richard Pixley maintained GAS for a while adding various enhancements and many bug fixes including merging support for several processors breaking GAS up to handle multiple object file format back ends including heavy rewrite testing an integration of the coff and b out back ends adding configuration including heavy testing and verifica tion of cross assemblers and file splits and renaming converted GAS to strictly ANSI C including full prototypes added support for m680 34 0 and cpu32 did considerable work on i960 including a COFF port including considerable amounts of reverse engineering a SPARC opcode file rewrite DECstation rs6000 and hp300hpux host ports updated know assertions and made them work much other reorganization cleanup and lint Ken Raeburn wrote the high level BFD interface code to replace most of the code in format specific I O modules The original VMS support was contributed by David L Kashtan Eric Youngdale has done much work with it since The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus Minh T
368. te segmented code by default 28002 Generate unsegmented code by default 9 33 2 Syntax 9 33 2 1 Special Characters is the line comment character You can use instead of a newline to separate statements 9 33 2 2 Register Names The Z8000 has sixteen 16 bit registers numbered 0 to 15 You can refer to different sized groups of registers by register number with the prefix r for 16 bit registers rr for 32 bit registers and rq for 64 bit registers You can also refer to the contents of the first eight of the sixteen 16 bit registers by bytes They are named rln and rhn byte registers rlO rh0 rli rhi r12 rh2 r13 rh3 rl4 rh4 r15 rh5 r16 rh6 r17 rh7 word registers rO ri r2 r3 r4 rb r6 17 r8 r9 r10 r11 r12 r13 r14 r15 long word registers rr0 rr2 rr4 rr6 rr8 rr 0 rr12 rr14 quad word registers rq0 rq4 rq8 rqi2 9 33 2 3 Addressing Modes as understands the following addressing modes for the 728000 rln rhn rn rrn rqn Register direct 8bit 16bit 32bit and 64bit registers Orn Orrn Indirect register rrn in segmented mode rn in unsegmented mode 212 Using as addr Direct the 16 bit or 24 bit address depending on whether the assembler is in segmented or unsegmented mode of the operand is in the instruction address rn Indexed the 16 or 24 bit address is added to the 16 bit register to produce the final address in memory of the operand rn imm rrn imm
369. ted as documented R800 instructions ignore unportable instructions Wnup Silently assemble all undocumented Z80 instructions warn undocumented instructions Wud Issue warnings for undocumented Z80 instructions that work on R800 do not assemble other undocumented instructions without warning warn unportable instructions Wup Issue warnings for other undocumented Z80 instructions do not treat any un documented instructions as errors forbid undocumented instructions Fud Treat all undocumented z80 instructions as errors forbid unportable instructions Fup Treat undocumented z80 instructions that do not work on R800 as errors r800 Produce code for the R800 processor The assembler does not support undoc umented instructions for the R800 In line with common practice as uses Z80 instruction names for the R800 processor as far as they exist 9 32 2 Syntax The assembler syntax closely follows the Z80 family CPU User Manual by Zilog In expressions a single may be used as is equal to comparison operator Suffices can be used to indicate the radix of integer constants H or h for hexadecimal D or d for decimal Q 0 q or o for octal and B for binary The suffix b denotes a backreference to local label 9 32 2 1 Special Characters H The semicolon is the line comment character The
370. ted size in words blocking flag indicates whether to block this section on a page boundary 128 words see Section 9 31 2 TIC54X Block page 198 alignment flag indicates whether the section should be longword aligned var sym sym n Define a subsym to be a local variable within a macro See See Section 9 31 10 TIC54X Macros page 206 version version Set which processor to build instructions for Though the following values are accepted the op is ignored 541 542 543 545 545LP 546LP 548 549 9 31 10 Macros Macros do not require explicit dereferencing of arguments i e ARG During macro expansion the macro parameters are converted to subsyms If the number of arguments passed the macro invocation exceeds the number of parameters defined the last parameter is assigned the string equivalent of all remaining arguments If fewer arguments are given than parameters the missing parameters are assigned empty strings To include a comma in an argument you must enclose the argument in quotes The following built in subsym functions allow examination of the string value of subsyms or ordinary strings The arguments are strings unless otherwise indicated subsyms passed as args will be replaced by the strings they represent symlen str Returns the length of str symcmp str1 str2 Returns 0 if str str2 non zero otherwise firstch str ch Returns index of the first occurrence of character constant ch
371. ters The presence of a on a line indicates the start of a comment that extends to the end of the current line If a appears as the first character of a line the whole line is treated as a comment The character can be used instead of a newline to separate statements 9 4 2 2 Register Names The AVR has 32 x 8 bit general purpose working registers ro ri r31 Six of the 32 registers can be used as three 16 bit indirect address register pointers for Data Space addressing One of the these address pointers can also be used as an address pointer for look up tables in Flash program memory These added function registers are the 16 bit X Y and Z registers X r26 127 Y r28 r29 Z r30 r31 9 4 2 3 Relocatable Expression Modifiers The assembler supports several modifiers when using relocatable addresses in AVR instruc tion operands The general syntax is the following modifier relocatable expression 108 This modifier allows you to use bits 0 through 7 of an address expression as 8 bit relocatable expression hi8 This modifier allows you to use bits 7 through 15 of an address expression as 8 bit relocatable expression This is useful with for example the AVR ldi instruction and 108 modifier For example ldi r26 108 sym 10 ldi r27 hi8 sym 10 hh8 This modifier allows you to use bits 16 through 23 of an address expression as 8 bit relocatable expression
372. tes an alternate symbol to hold the default value 7 118 weakref alias target This directive creates an alias to the target symbol that enables the symbol to be referenced with weak symbol semantics but without actually making it weak If direct references or definitions of the symbol are present then the symbol will not be weak but if all references to it are through weak references the symbol will be marked as weak in the symbol table The effect is equivalent to moving all references to the alias to a separate assembly source file renaming the alias to the symbol in it declaring the symbol as weak there and running a reloadable link to merge the object files resulting from the assembly of the new source file and the old source file that had the references to the alias removed The alias itself never makes to the symbol table and is entirely handled within the assembler 7 119 word expressions This directive expects zero or more expressions of any section separated by commas The size of the number emitted and its byte order depend on what target computer the assembly is for Warning Special Treatment to support Compilers Machines with a 32 bit address space but that do less than 32 bit addressing require the following special treatment If the machine of interest to you does 32 bit addressing or doesn t require it see Chapter 9 Machine Dependencies page 75 you can ignore this issue In order to assemble c
373. th Aebp as the base register index scale are both missing AT amp T foot 4eax 4 Intel foo eax 4 index is 4eax scaled by a scale 4 disp is foo All other fields are missing The section register here defaults to Ads AT amp T 00C 1 Intel foo This uses the value pointed to by foo as a memory operand Note that base and index are both missing but there is only one This is a syntactic exception AT amp T hgs foo Intel gs foo This selects the contents of the variable foo with section register section being Ags Absolute as opposed to PC relative call and jump operands must be prefixed with If no is specified as always chooses PC relative addressing for jump call labels Any instruction that has a memory operand but no register operand must specify its size byte word long or quadruple with an instruction mnemonic suffix b w 1 or q respectively Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 133 The x86 64 architecture adds an RIP instruction pointer relative addressing This addressing mode is specified by using rip as a base register Only constant offsets are valid For example AT amp T 1234 rip Intel rip 1234 Points to the address 1234 bytes past the end of the current instruction AT amp T symbol rip Intel Crip symbo1 Points to the symbol in RIP relative way th
374. that a compiler debugging option like g be used and that assembly listings al be requested also Use the ac option to omit false conditionals from a listing Any lines which are not assembled because of a false if or ifdef or any other conditional or a true if followed by an else will be omitted from the listing Use the ad option to omit debugging directives from the listing Once you have specified one of these options you can further control listing output and its appearance using the directives list nolist psize eject title and sbttl The an option turns off all forms processing If you do not request listing output with one of the a options the listing control directives have no effect The letters after a may be combined into one option e g aln Note if the assembler source is coming from the standard input e g because it is being created by gcc and the pipe command line switch is being used then the listing will not contain any comments or preprocessor directives This is because the listing code buffers input source lines from stdin only after they have been preprocessed by the assembler This reduces memory usage and makes the code more efficient 2 2 alternate Begin in alternate macro mode see Section 7 76 a1tmacro page 58 2 9 p This option has no effect whatsoever but it is accepted to make it more likely that scripts wri
375. the classic AVR core with up to 128K program memory space MCU types atmegal03 at43usb320 at43usb355 at76c711 at90usb82 at90usb162 Instruction set avr4 is for the enhanced AVR core with up to 8K program memory space MCU types atmega48 atmega48p atmega8 atmega88 atmega88p atmega8515 atmega8535 atmega8hva at90pwml at90pwm2 at90pwm2b at90pwm3 at90pwm3b Instruction set avr5 is for the enhanced AVR core with up to 128K program memory space MCU types atmegal6 atmegal61 atmegal62 atmegal63 atmegal64p atmegal65 atmegal65p atmegal68 atmegal68p atmegal69 atmegal69p atmega32 atmega323 atmega324p atmega325 atmega325p atmega328p atmega329 atmega329p atmega3250 atmega3250p atmega3290 atmega3290p atmega32hvb atmega406 atmega64 atmega640 atmega644 atmega644p atmegal28 atmegal280 atmega1281 atmegal284p atmega645 atmega649 atmega6450 atmega6490 atmegal6hva at90can32 at90can64 at90can128 at90pwm216 at90pwm316 at90usb646 at90usb647 at90usb1286 at90usb1287 at94k Instruction set avr6 is for the enhanced AVR core with 256K program memory space MCU types atmega2560 atmega2561 mall opcodes mno skip mno wrap Accept all AVR opcodes even if not supported by mmcu bug This option disable warnings for skipping two word instructions This option reject rjmp rcall instructions with 8K wrap around 9 4 2 Syntax Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 95 9 4 2 1 Special Charac
376. the stack The stack grows by decrementing the stack pointer Frame Pointer FP The frame pointer contains the 32 bit address of the previous frame pointer in the stack It is located at the top of a frame Loop Top LTO and LT1 These registers contain the 32 bit address of the top of a zero overhead loop Loop Count LCO and LC1 These registers contain the 32 bit counter of the zero overhead loop executions Loop Bottom LBO and LB1 These registers contain the 32 bit address of the bottom of a zero overhead loop Index Registers The set of 32 bit registers I0 I1 12 I3 that normally contain byte addresses of data structures Abbreviated I register or Ireg Modify Registers The set of 32 bit registers MO M1 M2 M3 that normally contain offset values that are added and subracted to one of the index registers Abbreviated as Mreg Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 101 Length Registers The set of 32 bit registers LO L1 L2 L3 that normally contain the length in bytes of the circular buffer Abbreviated as Lreg Clear the Lreg to disable circular addressing for the corresponding Ireg Base Registers The set of 32 bit registers BO B1 B2 B3 that normally contain the base address in bytes of the circular buffer Abbreviated as Breg Floating Point The Blackfin family has no hardware floating point but the float directive gen erates ieee floating point numbers for use with software floating point libraries Bla
377. the symbol specified as a byte boundary for example an alignment Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 45 of 16 means that the least significant 4 bits of the address should be zero The alignment must be an absolute expression and it must be a power of two If 1d allocates uninitialized memory for the common symbol it will use the alignment when placing the symbol If no alignment is specified as will set the alignment to the largest power of two less than or equal to the size of the symbol up to a maximum of 16 The syntax for comm differs slightly on the HPPA The syntax is symbol comm length symbol is optional 7 9 cfi_startproc simple cfi_startproc is used at the beginning of each function that should have an entry in eh frame It initializes some internal data structures Don t forget to close the function by cfi_endproc Unless cfi_startproc is used along with parameter simple it also emits some archi tecture dependent initial CFI instructions 7 10 cfi_endproc cfi_endproc is used at the end of a function where it closes its unwind entry previously opened by cfi_startproc and emits it to eh_frame 7 11 cfi_personality encoding exp cfi_personality defines personality routine and its encoding encoding must be a con stant determining how the personality should be encoded If it is 255 DW_EH_PE_omit second argument is not present otherwise second argument should be a constant or a sym bol na
378. tifier names So for example constructing a macro to build an opcode from a base name and a length specifier like this macro opcode base length base length endm and invoking it as opcode store 1 will not create a store 1 instruction but instead generate some kind of error as the assembler tries to interpret the text base Mlength There are several possible ways around this problem 58 endm exitm V Using as Insert white space If it is possible to use white space characters then this is the simplest solution eg macro label 1 M endm Use XO The string NO can be used to separate the end of a macro argu ment from the following text eg macro opcode base length base Mength endm Use the alternate macro syntax mode In the alternative macro syntax mode the ampersand character amp can be used as a separator eg altmacro macro label 1 1 amp endm Note this problem of correctly identifying string parameters to pseudo ops also applies to the identifiers used in irp see Section 7 65 Irp page 53 and irpc see Section 7 66 Irpc page 54 as well Mark the end of a macro definition Exit early from the current macro definition as maintains a counter of how many macros it has executed in this pseudo variable you can copy that number to your output with but only within a macro definition LOCAL name 7 76 Warning LOCAL is
379. tion E EE EE 104 A xatd fece bet ls hia cir ace bn Du ed 21 mul bug abort command line option CRIS EE 104 no absolute literalS 223 no construct floats llle elles 168 no expand command line option MMIX 172 no longcalls corrida dinar ii 223 no merge gregs command line option MMIX TN 172 246 no mul bug abort command line option CRIS EEN 104 no predefined syms command line option MMIX Seege bres Pec eens E e es 172 no pushj stubs command line option MMIX EE 172 no stubs command line option MMIX 172 no target align i ies neo nen 223 no text section literals 223 no transform 2 v 6 evade rp 223 no underscore command line option CRIS mm 104 SSNO WAFN 5 his idae eds hide Rb REA d ERE 22 gelen LL AER 153 pic command line option CRIS 104 print insn syntax co oo 161 print opcodes 00 0 eee eee 161 register prefix optional option M680x0 EE 152 AA iia 190 relax command line option MMIX 172 Ee SECO A Ee tegip re ee dk as 223 renesaS os be n ERRUEREEFRRCRERET REFERRE 190 short branches esprisi reet ieii P EGA ES 160 MA lice torri bara ENEE ra RR HERR EUR E L 190 A iE iacase REO ERRGqeRE NINE 21 strict direct mode 005 160 mg D EE 223 text section literals 223 traditional format
380. tions of all such symbols including rounding mode symbols segment symbols BIT symbols and TRAP symbols used in mmix system calls It also turns off predefined special register names except when used in PUT and GET instructions By default some instructions are expanded to fit the size of the operand or an external symbol see Section 9 23 2 MMIX Expand page 173 By passing no expand no such expansion will be done instead causing errors at link time if the operand does not fit The mmixal documentation see mmixsite page 173 specifies that global registers allocated with the GREG directive see MMIX greg page 175 and initialized to the same non zero value will refer to the same global register This isn t strictly enforceable in as since the final addresses aren t known until link time but it will do an effort unless the no merge gregs option is specified Register merging isn t yet implemented in 1d as will warn every time it expands an instruction to fit an operand unless the option x is specified It is believed that this behaviour is more useful than just mimicking mmixal s behaviour in which instructions are only expanded if the x option is specified and assembly fails otherwise when an instruction needs to be expanded It needs to be kept in mind that mmixal is both an assembler and linker while as will expand instructions that at link stage can be contracted Though link
381. titles with the Front Cover Texts being list and with the Back Cover Texts being list A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License If you have no Invariant Sections write with no Invariant Sections instead of saying which ones are invariant If you have no Front Cover Texts write no Front Cover Texts instead of Front Cover Texts being list likewise for Back Cover Texts If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code we recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license such as the GNU General Public License to permit their use in free software Appendix A AS Index AS Index Fie ice hie race eee ee wa die aS Eee ET 24 RAPP TTE 23 FNOZABPP soi ck os ce toda de Gas ea ERR decade ced 23 in symbol names 110 114 190 193 Paonrikius e prenez ie cq mb perdues he Rees 93 acos math builtin TIC54X 199 asin math builtin TIC54X 199 atan math builtin TIC54X 200 atan2 math builtin TIC54X 200 ceil math builtin TIC54X 200 cos math builtin TIC54X 200 cosh math builtin TIC54X 200 cvf math builtin TIC54X 200 cvi math builtin TIC54X 200 ee eee 93 exp math builtin TIC54X 00 200 fabs math builtin TIC54X 200 f
382. tive org param name typ param r Similar to export but used for static procedures proc Use preceding the first statement of a procedure procend Use following the last statement of a procedure label reg expr Synonym for equ define label with the absolute expression expr as its value Space secname params Switch to section secname creating a new section by that name if necessary You may only use params when creating a new section not when switching to an existing one secname may identify a section by number rather than by name If specified the list params declares attributes of the section identified by key words The keywords recognized are spnum exp identify this section by the number exp an absolute expression sort exp order sections according to this sort key when linking exp is an absolute expression unloadable sec tion contains no loadable data notdefined this section defined elsewhere and private data in this section not available to other programs Spnum secnam Allocate four bytes of storage and initialize them with the section number of the section named secnam You can define the section number with the HPPA Space directive String str Copy the characters in the string str to the object file See Section 3 6 1 1 Strings page 25 for information on escape sequences you can use in as strings Warning The HPPA version of string differs f
383. to 4 byte boundaries but that alignment is now the programmer s responsibility 9 36 4 Xtensa Relaxation When an instruction operand is outside the range allowed for that particular instruction field as can transform the code to use a functionally equivalent instruction or sequence of instructions This process is known as relaxation This is typically done for branch instructions because the distance of the branch targets is not known until assembly time The Xtensa assembler offers branch relaxation and also extends this concept to function calls MOVI instructions and other instructions with immediate fields 9 36 4 1 Conditional Branch Relaxation When the target of a branch is too far away from the branch itself i e when the offset from the branch to the target is too large to fit in the immediate field of the branch instruction it may be necessary to replace the branch with a branch around a jump For example beqz a2 L may result in bnez n a2 M jL M The BNEZ N instruction would be used in this example only if the density option is available Otherwise BNEZ would be used This relaxation works well because the unconditional jump instruction has a much larger offset range than the various conditional branches However an error will occur if a branch target is beyond the range of a jump instruction as cannot relax unconditional jumps Similarly an error will occur if the original input contains an unconditional jump to a
384. to monotonically higher addresses A LOC expression must be a previously defined symbol or a pure constant An example which sets the label prev to the current location and updates the current location to eight bytes forward prev LOC 0 8 When a LOC has a constant as its operand a symbol __ MMIX start text or __ MMIX start data is defined depending on the address as mentioned above Each such symbol is interpreted as special by the linker locating the section at that address Note that if multiple files are linked the first object file with that section will be mapped to that address not necessarily the file with the LOC definition Example LOCAL external_symbol LOCAL 42 Local asymbol This directive operation generates a link time assertion that the operand does not correspond to a global register The operand is an expression that at link time resolves to a register symbol or a number A number is treated as the register having that number There is one restriction on the use of this directive the pseudo directive must be placed in a section with contents code or data The IS directive asymbol IS an_expression sets the symbol asymbol to an_expression A symbol may not be set more than once using this directive Local labels may be set using this directive for example 5H IS 4 This directive reserves a global register gives it an initial value and optionally gives it a symbolic name Some exam
385. tored in one byte A warning is issued in case of an overflow dw expression expression defw expression expression For each expression the value is stored in two bytes ignoring overflow d24 expression expression def24 expression expression For each expression the value is stored in three bytes ignoring overflow d32 expression expression def32 expression expression For each expression the value is stored in four bytes ignoring overflow ds count value defs count value Fill count bytes in the object file with value if value is omitted it defaults to Zero symbol equ expression symbol defl expression These directives set the value of symbol to expression If equ is used it is an error if symbol is already defined Symbols defined with equ are not protected from redefinition set This is a normal instruction on Z80 and not an assembler directive psect name A synonym for See Section 7 94 Section page 63 no second argument should be given 210 Using as 9 32 5 Opcodes In line with common practice Z80 mnemonics are used for both the Z80 and the R800 In many instructions it is possible to use one of the half index registers ixl ixh iyl iyh in stead of an 8 bit general purpose register This yields instructions that are documented on the R800 and undocumented on the Z80 Similarly in f c is documented on the R800 and undocumented on the Z80 The asse
386. tten for other assemblers also work with as 18 Using as 2 4 Work Faster f f should only be used when assembling programs written by a trusted compiler f stops the assembler from doing whitespace and comment preprocessing on the input file s before assembling them See Section 3 1 Preprocessing page 23 Warning if you use f when the files actually need to be preprocessed if they contain comments for example as does not work correctly 2 5 include Search Path I path Use this option to add a path to the list of directories as searches for files specified in include directives see Section 7 62 include page 53 You may use I as many times as necessary to include a variety of paths The current working directory is always searched first after that as searches any I directories in the same order as they were specified left to right on the command line 2 6 Difference Tables K as sometimes alters the code emitted for directives of the form word symi sym2 See Section 7 119 word page 71 You can use the K option if you want a warning issued when this is done 6 2 7 Include Local Symbols L Symbols beginning with system specific local label prefixes typically L for ELF systems or L for traditional a out systems are called local symbols See Section 5 3 Symbol Names page 35 Normally you do not see such symbols when de
387. ture But not all object files are alike Many architectures support incompatible variations For instance floating point arguments might be passed in floating point registers if the object file requires hardware floating point support or floating point arguments might be passed in integer registers if the object file supports processors with no hardware floating point unit Or if two objects are built for different generations of the same architecture the combination may require the newer generation at run time This information is useful during and after linking At link time 1d can warn about incompatible object files After link time tools like gdb can use it to process the linked file correctly Compatibility information is recorded as a series of object attributes Each attribute has a vendor tag and value The vendor is a string and indicates who sets the meaning of the tag The tag is an integer and indicates what property the attribute describes The value may be a string or an integer and indicates how the property affects this object Missing attributes are the same as attributes with a zero value or empty string value Object attributes were developed as part of the ABI for the ARM Architecture The file format is documented in ELF for the ARM Architecture 8 1 GNU Object Attributes The gnu attribute directive records an object attribute with vendor gnv Except for Tag_compatibility which has both an integer a
388. typed and or indexed register aliases for use in Advanced SIMD Extension Neon instructions The former should be used to create aliases of double precision registers and the latter to create aliases of quad precision registers If these directives are used to create typed aliases those aliases can be used in Neon instructions instead of writing types after the mnemonic or after each operand For example x dn d2 32 y dn d3 32 z dn d4 32 1 vmul x y z This is equivalent to writing the following vmul f32 d2 d3 d4 1 Aliases created using dn or qn can be destroyed using unreq cpu name Select the target processor Valid values for name are the same as for the mcpu commandline option eabi attribute tag value Set the EABI object attribute number tag to value The value is either a number string or number string depending on the tag 90 Using as even This directive aligns to an even numbered address extend expression expression ldouble expression expression These directives write 12byte long double floating point values to the output section These are not compatible with current ARM processors or ABIs unwind_fnend Marks the end of a function with an unwind table entry The unwind index table entry is created when this directive is processed If no personality routine has been specified then standard personality routine 0 or 1 will be used depending on the number of unwind opcodes re
389. uc tion will consist of more than one operation There are two cases where this occurs The first is when two general operations are combined Normally a comma separates the different parts as in a0 r3 h r2 1 al 13 1 r2 h The second case occurs when a general instruction is combined with one or two memory references for joint issue The latter portions are set off by a token a0 r3 h r2 1 ri p3 r4 12 Register Names The assembler treats register names and instruction keywords in a case insensi tive manner User identifiers are case sensitive Thus R3 1 R3 L 13 1 and r3 L are all equivalent input to the assembler Register names are reserved and may not be used as program identifiers Some operations such as Move Register require a register pair Register pairs are always data registers and are denoted using a colon eg R3 2 The larger number must be written firsts Note that the hardware only supports odd even pairs eg R7 6 R5 4 R3 2 and R1 0 Some instructions such as SP Push Multiple require a group of adjacent registers Adjacent registers are denoted in the syntax by the range enclosed in parentheses and separated by a colon eg R7 3 Again the larger number appears first Portions of a particular register may be individually specified This is written with a dot following the register name and then a letter denoting the desired portion For 32 bit registers H
390. uction sets see ARM Software Development Toolkit Reference Manual Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 9 3 6 Mapping Symbols The ARM ELF specification requires that special symbols be inserted into object files to mark certain features a At the start of a region of code containing ARM instructions t At the start of a region of code containing THUMB instructions d At the start of a region of data The assembler will automatically insert these symbols for you there is no need to code them yourself Support for tagging symbols b f p and m which is also mentioned in the current ARM ELF specification is not implemented This is because they have been dropped from the new EABI and so tools cannot rely upon their presence 94 Using as 9 4 AVR Dependent Features 9 4 1 Options mmcu mcu Specify ATMEL AVR instruction set or MCU type Instruction set avrl is for the minimal AVR core not supported by the C com piler only for assembler programs MCU types at90s1200 attiny11 attiny12 attiny15 attiny28 Instruction set avr2 default is for the classic AVR core with up to 8K pro gram memory space MCU types at90s2313 at90s2323 attiny22 attiny26 at90s2333 at90s2343 at90s4414 at90s4433 at90s4434 at90s8515 at90c8534 at90s8535 at86rf401 attiny13 attiny2313 attiny261 attiny461 attiny861 at tiny24 attiny44 attiny84 attiny25 attiny45 attiny85 attiny43u attiny48 attiny88 Instruction set avr3 is for
391. uction that does noth ing Currently it will evaluate to MOV r0 r0 LDR ldr register expression If expression evaluates to a numeric constant then a MOV or MVN instruction will be used in place of the LDR instruction if the constant can be generated by either of these instructions Otherwise the constant will be placed into the nearest literal pool if it not already there and a PC relative LDR instruction will be generated ADR adr register label This instruction will load the address of label into the indicated register The instruction will evaluate to a PC relative ADD or SUB instruction depending upon where the label is located If the label is out of range or if it is not defined in the same file and section as the ADR instruction then an error will be generated This instruction will not make use of the literal pool ADRL adrl register label This instruction will load the address of label into the indicated register The instruction will evaluate to one or two PC relative ADD or SUB instructions depending upon where the label is located If a second instruction is not needed a NOP instruction will be generated in its place so that this instruction is always 8 bytes long If the label is out of range or if it is not defined in the same file and section as the ADRL instruction then an error will be generated This instruction will not make use of the literal pool For information on the ARM or Thumb instr
392. uctions for branch optimization This chapter discusses most of these differences though it does not include details on any machine s instruction set For details on that subject see the hardware manufacturer s manual 76 Using as 9 1 Alpha Dependent Features 9 1 1 Notes The documentation here is primarily for the ELF object format as also supports the ECOFF and EVAX formats but features specific to these formats are not yet documented 9 1 2 Options 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 1ca45 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 exist ing 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
393. ude of symbol attributes set with the EXPORT and IMPORT directives The attributes are described in HP9000 Series 800 Assembly Language Reference Manual HP 92432 90001 under the IMPORT and EXPORT assembler directive documentation Chapter 6 Expressions 39 6 Expressions An expression specifies an address or numeric value Whitespace may precede and or follow an expression The result of an expression must be an absolute number or else an offset into a particular section If an expression is not absolute and there is not enough information when as sees the expression to know its section a second pass over the source program might be necessary to interpret the expression but the second pass is currently not implemented as aborts with an error message in this situation 6 1 Empty Expressions An empty expression has no value it is just whitespace or null Wherever an absolute expression is required you may omit the expression and as assumes a value of absolute 0 This is compatible with other assemblers 6 2 Integer Expressions An integer expression is one or more arguments delimited by operators 6 2 1 Arguments Arguments are symbols numbers or subexpressions In other contexts arguments are some times called arithmetic operands In this manual to avoid confusing them with the instruction operands of the machine language we use the term argument to refer to parts of expressions only reserving the
394. ul instruction x86 64 0 136 incbin direttive cive du ie exc BET R BET ex 53 Using as include directe 53 include directive search path 18 indirect character NA 216 infix Operators cesses preie arp EE EEE ee eee 40 inhibiting interrupts i386 131 TIP UG EEN 15 input file linenumbers sseeeessssss 15 instruction expansion CRIS 105 instruction expansion MMIX 173 instruction naming 1386 ooooooooo 129 instruction naming zB0 D4 129 instruction prefixes 1386 o o o o o oooo 131 instruction set Mots 158 instruction set MOSHOCHIT unana 164 instruction summary AND 96 instruction summary D10V 112 instruction summary D30V 116 instruction summary H8 300 119 instruction summary SH 192 instruction summary SH64 195 instruction summary Z8000 213 instructions and directives uuuereeen 24 int directive 0 0 cece eee eee eee 53 int directive HS 200 e o 119 int directive 1386 oooooooo 133 int directive TIC54X ooooo o o ooooooooo 203 int directive 80 04 133 integer expressions o 39 integer L bte 00 eee eee eee 59 integer 8 byte i i ENEE SEENEN e etes 62 INGO GETS owe se ash ka ENEE NEEN ah RR s 26 integers 16 bit iii ess 51 integers 32 bit
395. uses as to emulate as configured for some other target in all respects including output format choosing between ELF and ECOFF only handling of pseudo opcodes which may generate debugging information or store symbol table information and default endianness The available configuration names are mipsecoff mipself mipslecoff mipsbecoff mipslelf mipsbelf The first two do not alter the default endianness from that of the primary target for which the assembler was configured the others change the default to little or big endian as indicated by the b or 1 in the name Using EB or EL will override the endianness selection in any case This option is currently supported only when the primary target as is config ured for is a MIPS ELF or ECOFF target Furthermore the primary target or others specified with enable targets at configuration time must include support for the other format if both are to be available For example the Irix 5 configuration includes support for both Eventually this option will support more configurations with more fine grained control over the assembler s behavior and will be supported for more processors 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 w
396. using LITPOOL r4 text BASR r3 0 using r3 B START long LITPOOL START L r4 4 r3 L ri5 A some routine LTR r15 r15 BNE LABEL AH r0 H 42 LABEL ME r6 E 3 1416 data LITPOOL ltorg Note that this dual using directive semantics extends and is not compatible with HLASM semantics Note that this assembler directive does not support the full range of HLASM semantics 9 12 6 Opcodes For detailed information on the ESA 390 machine instruction set see ESA 390 Principles of Operation IBM Publication Number DZ9AR004 128 Using as 9 13 80386 Dependent Features The i386 version as supports both the original Intel 386 architecture in both 16 and 32 bit mode as well as AMD x86 64 architecture extending the Intel architecture to 64 bits 9 13 1 Options The i386 version of as has a few machine dependent options 32 2 84 n divide Select the word size either 32 bits or 64 bits Selecting 32 bit implies Intel 1386 architecture while 64 bit implies AMD x86 64 architecture 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 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 dis
397. utput from as objfile R Fold the data section into the text section Set the default size of GAS s hash tables to a prime number close to number Increasing this value can reduce the length of time it takes the assembler to perform its tasks at the expense of increasing the assembler s memory require ments Similarly reducing this value can reduce the memory requirements at the expense of speed 6 Using as reduce memory overheads This option reduces GAS s memory requirements at the expense of making the assembly processes slower Currently this switch is a synonym for hash size 4051 but in the future it may have other effects as well statistics Print the maximum space in bytes and total time in seconds used by assem bly strip local absolute Remove local absolute symbols from the outgoing symbol table vV 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 zx 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 an ARC processor marc 5161718 This option selects the core processor variant EB EL Select either big endian EB or little endian EL output The following options are avai
398. v sub are defined with variants using the suffixes b w and 1 to specify the size of a memory operand as supports these suffixes but does not require them since one of the operands is always a register as can deduce the correct size For example since rO refers to a 16 bit register mov r0 0foo is equivalent to mov w rO0 0foo If you use the size suffixes as issues a warning when the suffix and the register size do not match 120 Using as 9 11 HPPA Dependent Features 9 11 1 Notes As a back end for GNU cc as has been throughly tested and should work extremely well We have tested it only minimally on hand written assembly code and no one has tested it much on the assembly output from the HP compilers The format of the debugging sections has changed since the original as port version 1 3X was released therefore you must rebuild all HPPA objects and libraries with the new assembler so that you can debug the final executable The HPPA as port generates a small subset of the relocations available in the SOM and ELF object file formats Additional relocation support will be added as it becomes necessary 9 11 2 Options as has no machine dependent command line options for the HPPA 9 11 3 Syntax The assembler syntax closely follows the HPPA instruction set reference manual assembler directives and general syntax closely follow the HPPA assembly language reference manual with a few noteworthy diff
399. word operand to refer only to machine instruction operands Symbols are evaluated to yield section NNN where section is one of text data bss absolute or undefined NNN is a signed 2 s complement 32 bit integer Numbers are usually integers A number can be a flonum or bignum In this case you are warned that only the low order 32 bits are used and as pretends these 32 bits are an integer You may write integer manipulating instructions that act on exotic constants compatible with other assemblers Subexpressions are a left parenthesis followed by an integer expression followed by a right parenthesis or a prefix operator followed by an argument 6 2 2 Operators Operators are arithmetic functions like or 4 Prefix operators are followed by an argu ment Infix operators appear between their arguments Operators may be preceded and or followed by whitespace 6 2 3 Prefix Operator as has the following prefix operators They each take one argument which must be absolute Negation Two s complement negation Complementation Bitwise not 40 Using as 6 2 4 Infix Operators Infix operators take two arguments one on either side Operators have precedence but operations with equal precedence are performed left to right Apart from or both arguments must be absolute and the result is absolute 1 Highest Precedence lt lt gt gt Multiplication Division Truncation
400. xample assembling irpc param 123 move d param sp endr is equivalent to assembling move di spQ move d2 spQ move d3 spQ For some caveats with the spelling of symbol see also the discussion at See Section 7 75 Macro page 56 7 67 lcomm symbol length Reserve length an absolute expression bytes for a local common denoted by symbol The section and value of symbol are those of the new local common The addresses are allocated in the bss section so that at run time the bytes start off zeroed Symbol is not declared global see Section 7 55 g1obal page 51 so is normally not visible to 1d Some targets permit a third argument to be used with 1comm This argument specifies the desired alignment of the symbol in the bss section The syntax for 1comm differs slightly on the HPPA The syntax is symbol 1comm length symbol is optional 7 68 lflags as accepts this directive for compatibility with other assemblers but ignores it 7 69 Line line number Change the logical line number line number must be an absolute expression The next line has that logical line number Therefore any other statements on the current line after Chapter 7 Assembler Directives 55 a statement separator character are reported as on logical line number line number 1 One day as will no longer support this directive it is recognized only for compatibility with existing assembler programs Even though this is a di
401. xarch v8plus xarch v8plusa For compatibility with the Solaris v9 assembler These options are equivalent to Av8plus and Av8plusa respectively bump Warn whenever it is necessary to switch to another level If an architecture level is explicitly requested GAS will not issue warnings until that level is reached and will then bump the level as required except between incompatible levels 32 64 Select the word size either 32 bits or 64 bits These options are only available with the ELF object file format and require that the necessary BFD support has been included 9 30 2 Enforcing aligned data SPARC GAS normally permits data to be misaligned For example it permits the Long pseudo op to be used on a byte boundary However the native SunOS and Solaris assemblers issue an error when they see misaligned data You can use the enforce aligned data option to make SPARC GAS also issue an error about misaligned data just as the SunOS and Solaris assemblers do The enforce aligned data option is not the default because gcc issues misaligned data pseudo ops when it initializes certain packed data structures structures defined using the packed attribute You may have to assemble with GAS in order to initialize packed data structures in your own code Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 197 9 30 3 Floating Point The Sparc uses IEEE floating point numbers 9 30 4 Sparc Machine Directives The Sparc version of as supports th
402. xecuted 02 008 58 Macros MSP A90 eee eee ee eee 179 macros TICb4X aie teen ete ate 206 make rules cere NENNEN NN EEN NEE 21 manual structure and purpose 14 math builtins TICE 199 Maximum number of continuation lines 19 memory references 1290 132 memory references x86 64 ooo mooo 132 memory mapped registers TIC54X 207 merging text and data sections 21 messages from assembler lulu 16 minus permitted arguments 40 MIPS architecture options useeseuu 165 Using as MIPS big endian output o 165 MIPS CPU override seesesuueess 170 MIPS debugging directives 169 MIPS DSP Release 1 instruction generation OVERMOGS secs uen Fides gee EE Tad MIPS DSP Release 2 instruction generation OC css scr ER yee ee es E TR LET Db MIPS ECOFF sections 169 MIPS endianness seeselsseeeeeeees 10 RN DEE 10 MIPS ISA overide 0 eee eee 170 MIPS little endian output 165 MIPS MDMxX instruction generation override EE 171 MIPS MIPS 3D instruction generation override EE 171 MIPS MT instruction generation override 171 MIPS option stack 171 MIPS porocessor eee eee eee eee 165 MiS A es 155 mlib directive TIC54X 00200 204 mlist directive TIC54X 0 oooo ococooo o o 204 MMIX assembler directive BSPEC 177 MMIX assembler directive BYTE
403. xpects zero or more flonums separated by commas and assembles Vax d format 64 bit floating point constants ffloat This expects zero or more flonums separated by commas and assembles Vax f format 32 bit floating point constants gfloat This expects zero or more flonums separated by commas and assembles Vax g format 64 bit floating point constants hfloat This expects zero or more flonums separated by commas and assembles Vax h format 128 bit floating point constants 9 34 4 VAX Opcodes All DEC mnemonics are supported Beware that case instructions have exactly 3 operands The dispatch table that follows the case instruction should be made with word statements This is compatible with all unix assemblers we know of Chapter 9 Machine Dependent Features 215 9 34 5 VAX Branch Improvement Certain pseudo opcodes are permitted They are for branch instructions They expand to the shortest branch instruction that reaches the target Generally these mnemonics are made by substituting j for b at the start of a DEC mnemonic This feature is included both for compatibility and to help compilers If you do not need this feature avoid these opcodes Here are the mnemonics and the code they can expand into jbsb jbr jr jCOND jacbX jaobYYY Jsb is already an instruction mnemonic so we chose jbsb byte displacement bsbb word displacement bsbw long displacement jsb
404. y equivalent to the operand fitting the instruction Expansion will take place for the following instructions GETA Expands to a sequence of four instructions SETL INCML INCMH and INCH The operand must be a multiple of four Conditional branches A branch instruction is turned into a branch with the complemented condition and prediction bit over five instructions four instructions setting 255 to the operand value which like with GETA must be a multiple of four and a final GO 255 255 0 PUSHJ Similar to expansion for conditional branches four instructions set 255 to the operand value followed by a PUSHGO 255 255 0 JMP Similar to conditional branches and PUSHJ The final instruction is GO 255 255 0 The linker 1d is expected to shrink these expansions for code assembled with relax though not currently implemented 9 23 3 Syntax The assembly syntax is supposed to be upward compatible with that described in Sections 1 3 and 1 4 of The Art of Computer Programming Volume 1 Draft versions of those chapters as well as other MMIX information is located at http www cs faculty stanford edu knuth mmix news html Most code examples from the mmixal package located there should work unmodified when assembled and linked as single files with a few noteworthy exceptions see Section 9 23 4 MMIX mmixal page 177 Before an instruction is emitted the current location is aligned to the next four byt
405. y their bind ing local global or weak The directive sets the visibility to internal which means that the symbols are considered to be hidden i e not visible to other components and that some extra processor specific processing must also be performed upon the symbols as well 7 65 irp symbol values Evaluate a sequence of statements assigning different values to symbol The sequence of statements starts at the irp directive and is terminated by an endr directive For each value symbol is set to value and the sequence of statements is assembled If no value is listed the sequence of statements is assembled once with symbol set to the null string To refer to symbol within the sequence of statements use symbol For example assembling 54 Using as irp param 1 2 3 move d param sp endr is equivalent to assembling move di spQ move d2 spQ move d3 spQ For some caveats with the spelling of symbol see also Section 7 75 Macro page 56 1 66 irpc symbol values Evaluate a sequence of statements assigning different values to symbol The sequence of statements starts at the irpc directive and is terminated by an endr directive For each character in value symbol is set to the character and the sequence of statements is assembled If no value is listed the sequence of statements is assembled once with symbol set to the null string To refer to symbol within the sequence of statements use symbol For e
406. ype other desc The name of the symbol generated is not even an empty string It is a null pointer for compatibility Older assemblers used a null pointer so they didn t waste space in object files with empty strings The symbol s value is set to the location counter relocatably When your program is linked the value of this symbol is the address of the location counter when the stabd was assembled stabn type other desc value The name of the symbol is set to the empty string Stabs string type other desc value All five fields are specified 7 103 string str string8 str string16 str string32 str string64 str Copy the characters in str to the object file You may specify more than one string to copy separated by commas Unless otherwise specified for a particular machine the assembler marks the end of each string with a 0 byte You can use any of the escape sequences described in Section 3 6 1 1 Strings page 25 The variants string16 string32 and string64 differ from the string pseudo opcode in that each 8 bit character from str is copied and expanded to 16 32 or 64 bits respectively The expanded characters are stored in target endianness byte order Example String32 BYE expands to String BNONONOYNONONOENONONO On little endian targets String O O OB O O OY O O OE On big endian targets 68 Using as 7 104 struct expression Switch to the absolute

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