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NAME         top

       AS - the portable GNU assembler.

SYNOPSIS         top

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

TARGET         top

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Target D10V options:
          [-O]

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

       Target EPIPHANY options:
          [-mepiphany|-mepiphany16]

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

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

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

       Target IP2K options:
          [-mip2022|-mip2022ext]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Target picoJava options:
          [-mb|-me]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Target Visium options:
          [-mtune=arch]

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

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

DESCRIPTION         top

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OPTIONS         top

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

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

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

           -ac omit false conditionals

           -ad omit debugging directives

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

           -ah include high-level source

           -al include assembly

           -am include macro expansions

           -an omit forms processing

           -as include symbols

           =file
               set the name of the listing file

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

       --alternate
           Begin in alternate macro mode.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -J  Don't warn about signed overflow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -R  Fold the data section into the text section.

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

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

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

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

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

       -v
       -version
           Print the as version.

       --version
           Print the as version and exit.

       -W
       --no-warn
           Suppress warning messages.

       --fatal-warnings
           Treat warnings as errors.

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

       -w  Ignored.

       -x  Ignored.

       -Z  Generate an object file even after errors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -mcode-density
           Enable Code Density extension instructions.

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

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

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

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

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

       -mthumb
           Enable Thumb only instruction decoding.

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

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

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

       -mccs
           Turns on CodeComposer Studio assembly syntax compatibility
           mode.

       -k  Specify that PIC code has been generated.

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

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

       -mfdpic
           Assemble for the FDPIC ABI.

       -mno-fdpic
       -mnopic
           Disable -mfdpic.

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

       @chapter BPF Dependent Features

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -fpic
       -pic
           Generate position-independent code.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -mhard-float
           Enable hard float instructions.

       -mmp
           Enable multiprocessor instructions.

       -mcp
           Enable coprocessor instructions.

       -mcache
           Enable cache prefetch instruction.

       -msecurity
           Enable C-SKY security instructions.

       -mtrust
           Enable C-SKY trust instructions.

       -mdsp
           Enable DSP instructions.

       -medsp
           Enable enhanced DSP instructions.

       -mvdsp
           Enable vector DSP instructions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -march=CPU[+EXTENSION...]
           This option specifies the target processor.  The assembler
           will issue an error message if an attempt is made to assemble
           an instruction which will not execute on the target
           processor.  The following processor names are recognized:
           "i8086", "i186", "i286", "i386", "i486", "i586", "i686",
           "pentium", "pentiumpro", "pentiumii", "pentiumiii",
           "pentium4", "prescott", "nocona", "core", "core2", "corei7",
           "iamcu", "k6", "k6_2", "athlon", "opteron", "k8", "amdfam10",
           "bdver1", "bdver2", "bdver3", "bdver4", "znver1", "znver2",
           "znver3", "znver4", "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", "amx_int8",
           "amx_bf16", "amx_fp16", "amx_complex", "amx_tile", "vmx",
           "vmfunc", "smx", "xsave", "xsaveopt", "xsavec", "xsaves",
           "aes", "pclmul", "fsgsbase", "rdrnd", "f16c", "bmi2", "fma",
           "movbe", "ept", "lzcnt", "popcnt", "hle", "rtm", "tsx",
           "invpcid", "clflush", "mwaitx", "clzero", "wbnoinvd",
           "pconfig", "waitpkg", "uintr", "cldemote", "rdpru",
           "mcommit", "sev_es", "lwp", "fma4", "xop", "cx16", "syscall",
           "rdtscp", "3dnow", "3dnowa", "sse4a", "sse5", "snp",
           "invlpgb", "tlbsync", "svme" and "padlock".  Note that these
           extension mnemonics can be prefixed with "no" to revoke the
           respective (and any dependent) functionality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -mip2022ext
           Specifies that the extended IP2022 instructions are allowed.

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

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

       -m32c
           Assemble M32C instructions.

       -m16c
           Assemble M16C instructions (the default).

       -relax
           Enable support for link-time relaxations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -EB Generate big-endian output.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -EB Generate "big endian" format output.

       -EL Generate "little endian" format output.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -fpic
       -fPIC
           Generate position-independent code

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       "-O1"
           Optimize for performance.

       "-Os"
           Optimize for space.

       "-EL"
           Produce little endian data output.

       "-EB"
           Produce little endian data output.

       "-mpic"
           Generate PIC.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       -a32
           Generate ELF32 or XCOFF32.

       -a64
           Generate ELF64 or XCOFF64.

       -K PIC
           Set EF_PPC_RELOCATABLE_LIB in ELF flags.

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

       -mpwr
           Generate code for POWER (RIOS1)

       -m601
           Generate code for PowerPC 601.

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

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

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

       -m464
           Generate code for PowerPC 464.

       -m476
           Generate code for PowerPC 476.

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

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

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

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

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

       -me300
           Generate code for PowerPC e300 family.

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

       -me500mc
           Generate code for Freescale e500mc core complex.

       -me500mc64
           Generate code for Freescale e500mc64 core complex.

       -me5500
           Generate code for Freescale e5500 core complex.

       -me6500
           Generate code for Freescale e6500 core complex.

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

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

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

       -mtitan
           Generate code for AppliedMicro Titan core complex.

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

       -mbooke
           Generate code for 32-bit BookE.

       -ma2
           Generate code for A2 architecture.

       -maltivec
           Generate code for processors with AltiVec instructions.

       -mvle
           Generate code for Freescale PowerPC VLE instructions.

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

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

       -mpower4, -mpwr4
           Generate code for Power4 architecture.

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

       -mpower6, -mpwr6
           Generate code for Power6 architecture.

       -mpower7, -mpwr7
           Generate code for Power7 architecture.

       -mpower8, -mpwr8
           Generate code for Power8 architecture.

       -mpower9, -mpwr9
           Generate code for Power9 architecture.

       -mpower10, -mpwr10
           Generate code for Power10 architecture.

       -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 to indicate the soft-float
           calling convention.  Also, "ilp32" can optionally be followed
           by "e" to indicate the RVE ABI, which is always soft-float.

       -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),
           or z16 (or arch14).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       @chapter Z80 Dependent Features

   Command-line Options
       -march=CPU[-EXT...][+EXT...]
           This option specifies the target processor. The assembler
           will issue an error message if an attempt is made to assemble
           an instruction which will not execute on the target
           processor. The following processor names are recognized:
           "z80", "z180", "ez80", "gbz80", "z80n", "r800".  In addition
           to the basic instruction set, the assembler can be told to
           accept some extention mnemonics. For example,
           "-march=z180+sli+infc" extends z180 with SLI instructions and
           IN F,(C). The following extentions 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 extention mnemonics
           starting with "-" revoke the respective functionality:
           "-march=z80-full+xyhl" first removes all default extentions
           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).

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