This appendix describes how to invoke the assembler and its options from the command line.
You invoke the assembler command line as follows:
as [options] [inputfile] ...
The as command translates the assembly language source files, inputfile, into an executable object file, objfile. The assembler recognizes the filename argument hyphen (-) as the standard input. It accepts more than one file name on the command line. The input file is the concatenation of all the specified files. If an invalid option is given or the command line contains a syntax error, the assembler prints the error (including a synopsis of the command line syntax and options) to standard error output, and then terminates.
The assembler supports macros, #include files, and symbolic substitution through use of the C preprocessor cpp(1). The assembler invokes the preprocessor before assembly begins if the –P option has been specified from the command line.