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--- spo600:assembler_basics [2025/01/08 21:51] – [Assembly Language on a Linux System] chris
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 =====  Format of an Assembly Language program  =====
-The traditional extension for assembly-language source files that will be used as input to an assembler is ''.s'' or ".asm", or ''.S'' for files that need to go through the C preprocessor (''cpp'') and compiler (''cc'').
+The traditional extension for assembly-language source files that will be used as input to an assembler is ''.s'' (or __.asm__ on some platforms), or ''.S'' for files that need to go through the C preprocessor (''cpp'') and possibly the compiler (''cc'').
 An assembly-language program consists of:
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   -  Run the linker: ''ld //test//.o -o //test//''
-Note that the ''-g'' option assembles the program with symbolic debugging information included.
+Note that the ''-g'' option assembles the program with symbolic debugging information included (just as it does in most C compilers).
 ====  Compiling an Assembly Language Program using the NASM Assembler  ====
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 Notes:
-  -  NASM only works with x86 code.
+  *  NASM only works with x86 code.
-  -  The source file must be written using NASM syntax (which is substantially different from the GNU assembler syntax).
+  *  The source file must be written using NASM syntax (which is substantially different from the GNU assembler syntax).
-  -  The ''-f elf64'' option instructs NASM to assemble the code for a 64-bit target (x86_64).
+  *  The ''-f elf64'' option instructs NASM to assemble the code for a 64-bit target (x86_64).
-  -  The ''-g'' option assembles the program with symbolic debugging information included.
+  *  The ''-g'' option assembles the program with symbolic debugging information included.
 ====  Compiling an Assembly Language program using GCC  ====