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.TH AS 1 "April 17, 1991"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
as \- VAX-11 assembler
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B as
[
.B \-d124
] [
.B \-L
] [
.B \-W
] [
.B \-V
] [
.B \-J
] [
.B \-R
] [
.B \-t
directory
] [
.B \-o
objfile ] [ name ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I As
assembles the named files, or the standard input if no file name is specified.
The available flags are:
.TP
.B \-d
Specifies the number of bytes to be assembled for offsets
which involve forward or external references, and which have sizes unspecified
in the assembly language.
The default is 
.B \-d4.
.TP
.B \-L
Save defined labels beginning with a `L', which are normally discarded
to save space in the resultant symbol table.
The compilers generate such temporary labels.
.TP
.B \-V
Use virtual memory for some intermediate storage,
rather than a temporary file.
.TP
.B \-W
Do not complain about errors.
.TP
.B \-J
Use long branches to resolve jumps when byte-displacement branches are
insufficient.  This must be used when a compiler-generated assembly contains
branches of more than 32k bytes.
.TP
.B \-R
Make initialized data segments read-only, by concatenating them to
the text segments.
This obviates the need to run editor scripts on assembly
code to make initialized data read-only and shared.
.TP
.B \-t
Specifies a directory to receive the temporary file, other than
the default /tmp.
.PP
All undefined symbols in the assembly
are treated as global.
.PP
The output of the assembly is left on the file
.I objfile;
if that is omitted,
.I a.out
is used.
.SH FILES
.ta 1.5i
/tmp/as\(**	default temporary files
.br
a.out		default resultant object file
.SH "SEE ALSO"
ld(1),
nm(1),
adb(1),
dbx(1),
a.out(5)
.br
Auxiliary documentation
.I Assembler Reference Manual.
.SH AUTHORS
John F. Reiser
.br
Robert R. Henry
.SH BUGS
.B \-J
should be eliminated; the assembler should automatically choose among
byte, word and long branches.