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-EB

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

-EL

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

-mdialect=dialect

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

-misa-spec=spec

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

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

-mno-relax

This option tells the assembler to not relax instructions.

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

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

-march=archname

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

-mcpu=cpuname

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

-EL

-mlittle-endian

Generate little-endian output.

-EB

-mbig-endian

Generate big-endian output.

-fpic

-pic

Generate position-independent code.

-mljump

-mno-ljump

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

-mbranch-stub

-mno-branch-stub

Pass through R_CKCORE_PCREL_IMM26BY2 relocations for bsr instructions to the linker.

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

-force2bsr

-mforce2bsr

-no-force2bsr

-mno-force2bsr

Enable/disable transformation of jbsr instructions to bsr. This option is always enabled (and -mno-force2bsr is ignored) for CK801/CK802 targets.  It is also always enabled when -mbranch-stub is in effect.

-jsri2bsr

-mjsri2bsr

-no-jsri2bsr

-mno-jsri2bsr

Enable/disable transformation of jsri instructions to bsr. This option is enabled by default.

-mnolrw

-mno-lrw

Enable/disable transformation of lrw instructions into a movih/ori pair.

-melrw

-mno-elrw

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

-mlaf

-mliterals-after-func

-mno-laf

-mno-literals-after-func

Enable/disable placement of literal pools after each function.

-mlabr

-mliterals-after-br

-mno-labr

-mnoliterals-after-br

Enable/disable placement of literal pools after unconditional branches. This option is enabled by default.

-mistack

-mno-istack

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

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

-mhard-float

Enable hard float instructions.

-mmp

Enable multiprocessor instructions.

-mcp

Enable coprocessor instructions.

-mcache

Enable cache prefetch instruction.

-msecurity

Enable C-SKY security instructions.

-mtrust

Enable C-SKY trust instructions.

-mdsp

Enable DSP instructions.

-medsp

Enable enhanced DSP instructions.

-mvdsp

Enable vector DSP instructions.

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

-mepiphany

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

-mepiphany16

Restricts the permitted instructions to just the 16 bit set.

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

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

-h-tick-hex

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

-mach=name

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

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

--32 | --x32 | --64

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

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

-n

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

--divide

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

-march=CPU[+EXTENSION...]

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

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

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

-mtune=CPU

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

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

-moperand-check=none

-moperand-check=warning

-moperand-check=error

These options control if the assembler should check certain instruction operands or operand combinations.  An example instructions where operand size cannot be inferred from its operands and also hasn't been specified by way of an instruction suffix. -moperand-check=none will make the assembler not perform these checks.  -moperand-check=warning will make the assembler issue a warning when respective checks fail, which is the default. -moperand-check=error will make the assembler issue an error when respective checks fail.

-msse2avx

This option specifies that the assembler should encode SSE instructions with VEX prefix, requiring AVX to be available.  SSE instructions using extended GPRs will be encoded with EVEX prefix, requiring AVX512 or AVX10 to be available.

-muse-unaligned-vector-move

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

-msse-check=none

-msse-check=warning

-msse-check=error

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

-mavxscalar=128

-mavxscalar=256

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

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

-mvexwig=0

-mvexwig=1

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

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

-mevexlig=128

-mevexlig=256

-mevexlig=512

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

-mevexwig=0

-mevexwig=1

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

-mmnemonic=att

-mmnemonic=intel

This option specifies instruction mnemonic for matching instructions. The .att_mnemonic and .intel_mnemonic directives will take precedent.

-msyntax=att

-msyntax=intel

This option specifies instruction syntax when processing instructions. The .att_syntax and .intel_syntax directives will take precedent.

-mnaked-reg

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

-madd-bnd-prefix

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

-mno-shared

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

-mbig-obj

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

-momit-lock-prefix=no

-momit-lock-prefix=yes

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

-mfence-as-lock-add=no

-mfence-as-lock-add=yes

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

-mrelax-relocations=no

-mrelax-relocations=yes

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

-mtls-check=no

-mtls-check=yes

These options control whether the assembler check tls relocation. -mtls-check=yes will check tls relocation. -mtls-check=no will not check tls relocation The default can be controlled by a configure option --enable-x86-tls-check.

-malign-branch-boundary=NUM

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

-malign-branch=TYPE[+TYPE...]

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

-malign-branch-prefix-size=NUM

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

-mbranches-within-32B-boundaries

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

-mlfence-after-load=no

-mlfence-after-load=yes

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

-mlfence-before-indirect-branch=none

-mlfence-before-indirect-branch=all

-mlfence-before-indirect-branch=register

-mlfence-before-indirect-branch=memory

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

-mlfence-before-ret=none

-mlfence-before-ret=shl

-mlfence-before-ret=or

-mlfence-before-ret=yes

-mlfence-before-ret=not

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

-mx86-used-note=no

-mx86-used-note=yes

These options control whether the assembler should generate GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_USED and GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_2_USED GNU property notes.  The default can be controlled by the --enable-x86-used-note configure option.

-mevexrcig=rne

-mevexrcig=rd

-mevexrcig=ru

-mevexrcig=rz

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

-mamd64

-mintel64

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

-O0 | -O | -O1 | -O2 | -Os

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

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

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

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

-mip2022ext

Specifies that the extended IP2022 instructions are allowed.

-mip2022

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

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

-m32c

Assemble M32C instructions.

-m16c

Assemble M16C instructions (the default).

-relax

Enable support for link-time relaxations.

-h-tick-hex

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

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

--m32rx

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

--warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts or --Wp

Produce warning messages when questionable parallel constructs are encountered.

--no-warn-explicit-parallel-conflicts or --Wnp

Do not produce warning messages when questionable parallel constructs are encountered.

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

-l

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

-m68000 | -m68008 | -m68010 | -m68020 | -m68030

| -m68040 | -m68060 | -m68302 | -m68331 | -m68332

| -m68333 | -m68340 | -mcpu32 | -m5200

Specify what processor in the 68000 family is the target.  The default is normally the 68020, but this can be changed at configuration time.

-m68881 | -m68882 | -mno-68881 | -mno-68882

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

-m68851 | -mno-68851

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

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

-relax-section

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

-relax-all

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

-no-relax

Do not replace any branches or calls.

-EB

Generate big-endian output.

-EL

Generate little-endian output.  This is the default.

-march=architecture

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

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

-mlink-relax

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

-mno-link-relax

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

-mno-warn-regname-label

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

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

-G num

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

-EB

Generate "big endian" format output.

-EL

Generate "little endian" format output.

-mips1

-mips2

-mips3

-mips4

-mips5

-mips32

-mips32r2

-mips32r3

-mips32r5

-mips32r6

-mips64

-mips64r2

-mips64r3

-mips64r5

-mips64r6

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

-march=cpu

Generate code for a particular MIPS CPU.

-mtune=cpu

Schedule and tune for a particular MIPS CPU.

-mfix7000

-mno-fix7000

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

-mfix-rm7000

-mno-fix-rm7000

Cause nops to be inserted if a dmult or dmultu instruction is followed by a load instruction.

-mfix-r5900

-mno-fix-r5900

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

-mdebug

-no-mdebug

Cause stabs-style debugging output to go into an ECOFF-style .mdebug section instead of the standard ELF .stabs sections.

-mpdr

-mno-pdr

Control generation of .pdr sections.

-mgp32

-mfp32

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

-mgp64

-mfp64

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

-mfpxx

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

-modd-spreg

-mno-odd-spreg

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

-mips16

-no-mips16

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

-mmips16e2

-mno-mips16e2

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

-mmicromips

-mno-micromips

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

-msmartmips

-mno-smartmips

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

-mips3d

-no-mips3d

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

-mdmx

-no-mdmx

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

-mdsp

-mno-dsp

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

-mdspr2

-mno-dspr2

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

-mdspr3

-mno-dspr3

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

-mmsa

-mno-msa

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

-mxpa

-mno-xpa

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

-mmt

-mno-mt

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

-mmcu

-mno-mcu

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

-mcrc

-mno-crc

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

-mginv

-mno-ginv

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

-mloongson-mmi

-mno-loongson-mmi

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

-mloongson-cam

-mno-loongson-cam

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

-mloongson-ext

-mno-loongson-ext

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

-mloongson-ext2

-mno-loongson-ext2

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

-minsn32

-mno-insn32

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

--construct-floats

--no-construct-floats

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

--relax-branch

--no-relax-branch

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

-mignore-branch-isa

-mno-ignore-branch-isa

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

-mnan=encoding

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

--emulation=name

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

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

-nocpp

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

--trap

--no-trap

--break

--no-break

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

-n

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

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

-fpic

-fPIC

Generate position-independent code

-fno-pic

Don't generate position-independent code (default)

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

-mcpu=metac11

Generate code for Meta 1.1.

-mcpu=metac12

Generate code for Meta 1.2.

-mcpu=metac21

Generate code for Meta 2.1.

-mfpu=metac21

Allow code to use FPU hardware of Meta 2.1.

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

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

-O1

Optimize for performance.

-Os

Optimize for space.

-EL

Produce little endian data output.

-EB

Produce little endian data output.

-mpic

Generate PIC.

-mno-fp-as-gp-relax

Suppress fp-as-gp relaxation for this file.

-mb2bb-relax

Back-to-back branch optimization.

-mno-all-relax

Suppress all relaxation for this file.

-march=<arch name>

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

-mbaseline=<baseline>

Assemble for baseline <baseline> which could be v2, v3, v3m.

-mfpu-freg=FREG

Specify a FPU configuration.

0      8 SP /  4 DP registers

1     16 SP /  8 DP registers

2     32 SP / 16 DP registers

3     32 SP / 32 DP registers

-mabi=abi

Specify a abi version <abi> could be v1, v2, v2fp, v2fpp.

-m[no-]mac

Enable/Disable Multiply instructions support.

-m[no-]div

Enable/Disable Divide instructions support.

-m[no-]16bit-ext

Enable/Disable 16-bit extension

-m[no-]dx-regs

Enable/Disable d0/d1 registers

-m[no-]perf-ext

Enable/Disable Performance extension

-m[no-]perf2-ext

Enable/Disable Performance extension 2

-m[no-]string-ext

Enable/Disable String extension

-m[no-]reduced-regs

Enable/Disable Reduced Register configuration (GPR16) option

-m[no-]audio-isa-ext

Enable/Disable AUDIO ISA extension

-m[no-]fpu-sp-ext

Enable/Disable FPU SP extension

-m[no-]fpu-dp-ext

Enable/Disable FPU DP extension

-m[no-]fpu-fma

Enable/Disable FPU fused-multiply-add instructions

-mall-ext

Turn on all extensions and instructions support

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

-a32

Generate ELF32 or XCOFF32.

-a64

Generate ELF64 or XCOFF64.

-K PIC

Set EF_PPC_RELOCATABLE_LIB in ELF flags.

-mpwrx | -mpwr2

Generate code for POWER/2 (RIOS2).

-mpwr

Generate code for POWER (RIOS1)

-m601

Generate code for PowerPC 601.

-mppc,  -mppc32,  -m603,  -m604

Generate code for PowerPC 603/604.

-m403,  -m405

Generate code for PowerPC 403/405.

-m440

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

-m464

Generate code for PowerPC 464.

-m476

Generate code for PowerPC 476.

-m7400,  -m7410,  -m7450,  -m7455

Generate code for PowerPC 7400/7410/7450/7455.

-m750cl,  -mgekko,  -mbroadway

Generate code for PowerPC 750CL/Gekko/Broadway.

-m821,  -m850,  -m860

Generate code for PowerPC 821/850/860.

-mppc64,  -m620

Generate code for PowerPC 620/625/630.

-me200z2,  -me200z4

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

-me300

Generate code for PowerPC e300 family.

-me500,  -me500x2

Generate code for Motorola e500 core complex.

-me500mc

Generate code for Freescale e500mc core complex.

-me500mc64

Generate code for Freescale e500mc64 core complex.

-me5500

Generate code for Freescale e5500 core complex.

-me6500

Generate code for Freescale e6500 core complex.

-mlsp

Enable LSP instructions.  (Disables SPE and SPE2.)

-mspe

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

-mspe2

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

-mtitan

Generate code for AppliedMicro Titan core complex.

-mppc64bridge

Generate code for PowerPC 64, including bridge insns.

-mbooke

Generate code for 32-bit BookE.

-ma2

Generate code for A2 architecture.

-maltivec

Generate code for processors with AltiVec instructions.

-mvle

Generate code for Freescale PowerPC VLE instructions.

-mvsx

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

-mhtm

Generate code for processors with Hardware Transactional Memory instructions.

-mpower4,  -mpwr4

Generate code for Power4 architecture.

-mpower5,  -mpwr5,  -mpwr5x

Generate code for Power5 architecture.

-mpower6,  -mpwr6

Generate code for Power6 architecture.

-mpower7,  -mpwr7

Generate code for Power7 architecture.

-mpower8,  -mpwr8

Generate code for Power8 architecture.

-mpower9,  -mpwr9

Generate code for Power9 architecture.

-mpower10,  -mpwr10

Generate code for Power10 architecture.

-mpower11,  -mpwr11

Generate code for Power11 architecture.

-mfuture

Generate code for 'future' architecture.

-mcell

-mcell

Generate code for Cell Broadband Engine architecture.

-mcom

Generate code Power/PowerPC common instructions.

-many

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

-mregnames

Allow symbolic names for registers.

-mno-regnames

Do not allow symbolic names for registers.

-mrelocatable

Support for GCC's -mrelocatable option.

-mrelocatable-lib

Support for GCC's -mrelocatable-lib option.

-memb

Set PPC_EMB bit in ELF flags.

-mlittle,  -mlittle-endian,  -le

Generate code for a little endian machine.

-mbig,  -mbig-endian,  -be

Generate code for a big endian machine.

-msolaris

Generate code for Solaris.

-mno-solaris

Do not generate code for Solaris.

-nops=count

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

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

-fpic

-fPIC

Generate position-independent code

-fno-pic

Don't generate position-independent code (default)

-march=ISA

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

-misa-spec=ISAspec

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

-mpriv-spec=PRIVspec

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

-mabi=ABI

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

-mrelax

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

-mno-relax

Don't do linker relaxations.

-march-attr

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

-mno-arch-attr

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

-mcsr-check

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

-mno-csr-check

Don't do CSR checking.

-mlittle-endian

Generate code for a little endian machine.

-mbig-endian

Generate code for a big endian machine.

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

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

-m31

-m64

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

-mesa

-mzarch

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

-march=processor

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

-mregnames

-mno-regnames

Allow or disallow symbolic names for registers.

-mwarn-areg-zero

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

-mwarn-regtype-mismatch=strict

-mwarn-regtype-mismatch=relaxed

-mwarn-regtype-mismatch=no

-mno-warn-regtype-mismatch

Controls whether the assembler performs register name type checks and generates a warning message in case of a mismatch with the operand register type. The default (which can be restored by using the relaxed argument) is to perform relaxed register name type checks, which allow floating point register (FPR) names %f0 to %f15 to be specified as argument to vector register (VR) operands and vector register (VR) names %v0 to %v15 to be specified as argument to floating point register (FPR) operands.  This is acceptable as the FPR are embedded into the lower half of the VR. Using the strict argument strict register name type checks are performed. The no argument, which is equivalent to -mno-warn-regtype-mismatch, disables any register name type checks.

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

-march=arch

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

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

-mdsbt

-mno-dsbt

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

-mpid=no

-mpid=near

-mpid=far

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

-mpic

-mno-pic

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

-mbig-endian

-mlittle-endian

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

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

-m32 | -m64

Select the word size, either 32 bits or 64 bits.

-EB | -EL

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

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

-mtune=arch

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

The following names are recognized: mcm24 mcm gr5 gr6

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

--text-section-literals | --no-text-section-literals

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

--auto-litpools | --no-auto-litpools

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

--absolute-literals | --no-absolute-literals

Indicate to the assembler whether L32R instructions use absolute or PC-relative addressing.  If the processor includes the absolute addressing option, the default is to use absolute L32R relocations.  Otherwise, only the PC-relative L32R relocations can be used.

--target-align | --no-target-align

Enable or disable automatic alignment to reduce branch penalties at some expense in code size.    This optimization is enabled by default.  Note that the assembler will always align instructions like LOOP that have fixed alignment requirements.

--longcalls | --no-longcalls

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

--transform | --no-transform

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

--rename-section oldname=newname

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

--trampolines | --no-trampolines

Enable or disable transformation of jump instructions to allow jumps across a greater range of addresses.    This option should be used when jump targets can potentially be out of range.  In the absence of such jumps this option does not affect code size or performance.  The default is --trampolines.

--abi-windowed | --abi-call0

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

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

@chapter Z80 Dependent Features

-march=CPU[-EXT...][+EXT...]

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

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

-local-prefix=prefix

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

-colonless

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

-sdcc

Accept assembler code produced by SDCC.

-fp-s=FORMAT

Single precision floating point numbers format. Default: ieee754 (32 bit).

-fp-d=FORMAT

Double precision floating point numbers format. Default: ieee754 (64 bit).