Assembler Overview

The Solaris x86 assembler as translates Solaris x86 assembly language into Executable and Linking Format (ELF) relocatable object files that can be linked with other object files to create an executable file or a shared object file. (See Chapter 7, Object File Format, in Linker and Libraries Guide, for a complete discussion of ELF object file format.) The assembler supports macro processing by the C preprocessor (cpp) or the m4 macro processor. The assembler supports the instruction sets of the following CPUs: