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9.44.1 Options

The SPARC chip family includes several successive versions, using the same core instruction set, but including a few additional instructions at each version. There are exceptions to this however. For details on what instructions each variant supports, please see the chips architecture reference manual.

By default, as assumes the core instruction set (SPARC v6), but bumps the architecture level as needed: it switches to successively higher architectures as it encounters instructions that only exist in the higher levels.

If not configured for SPARC v9 (sparc64-*-*) GAS will not bump past sparclite by default, an option must be passed to enable the v9 instructions.

GAS treats sparclite as being compatible with v8, unless an architecture is explicitly requested. SPARC v9 is always incompatible with sparclite.

-Av6 | -Av7 | -Av8 | -Aleon | -Asparclet | -Asparclite
-Av8plus | -Av8plusa | -Av8plusb | -Av8plusc | -Av8plusd |
-Av8plusv | -Av8plusm | -Av8plusm8
-Av9 | -Av9a | -Av9b | -Av9c | -Av9d | -Av9e | -Av9v | -Av9m | -Av9m8
-Asparc | -Asparcvis | -Asparcvis2 | -Asparcfmaf | -Asparcima
-Asparcvis3 | -Asparcvis3r | -Asparc5 | -Asparc6

Use one of the -A options to select one of the SPARC architectures explicitly. If you select an architecture explicitly, as reports a fatal error if it encounters an instruction or feature requiring an incompatible or higher level.

-Av8plus, -Av8plusa, -Av8plusb, -Av8plusc, -Av8plusd, and -Av8plusv select a 32 bit environment.

-Av9, -Av9a, -Av9b, -Av9c, -Av9d, -Av9e, -Av9v and -Av9m select a 64 bit environment and are not available unless GAS is explicitly configured with 64 bit environment support.

-Av8plusa and -Av9a enable the SPARC V9 instruction set with UltraSPARC VIS 1.0 extensions.

-Av8plusb and -Av9b enable the UltraSPARC VIS 2.0 instructions, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8plusa and -Av9a.

-Av8plusc and -Av9c enable the UltraSPARC Niagara instructions, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8plusb and -Av9b.

-Av8plusd and -Av9d enable the floating point fused multiply-add, VIS 3.0, and HPC extension instructions, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8plusc and -Av9c.

-Av8pluse and -Av9e enable the cryptographic instructions, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8plusd and -Av9d.

-Av8plusv and -Av9v enable floating point unfused multiply-add, and integer multiply-add, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8pluse and -Av9e.

-Av8plusm and -Av9m enable the VIS 4.0, subtract extended, xmpmul, xmontmul and xmontsqr instructions, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8plusv and -Av9v.

-Av8plusm8 and -Av9m8 enable the instructions introduced in the Oracle SPARC Architecture 2017 and the M8 processor, as well as the instructions enabled by -Av8plusm and -Av9m.

-Asparc specifies a v9 environment. It is equivalent to -Av9 if the word size is 64-bit, and -Av8plus otherwise.

-Asparcvis specifies a v9a environment. It is equivalent to -Av9a if the word size is 64-bit, and -Av8plusa otherwise.

-Asparcvis2 specifies a v9b environment. It is equivalent to -Av9b if the word size is 64-bit, and -Av8plusb otherwise.

-Asparcfmaf specifies a v9b environment with the floating point fused multiply-add instructions enabled.

-Asparcima specifies a v9b environment with the integer multiply-add instructions enabled.

-Asparcvis3 specifies a v9b environment with the VIS 3.0, HPC , and floating point fused multiply-add instructions enabled.

-Asparcvis3r specifies a v9b environment with the VIS 3.0, HPC, and floating point unfused multiply-add instructions enabled.

-Asparc5 is equivalent to -Av9m.

-Asparc6 is equivalent to -Av9m8.

-xarch=v8plus | -xarch=v8plusa | -xarch=v8plusb | -xarch=v8plusc
-xarch=v8plusd | -xarch=v8plusv | -xarch=v8plusm |
-xarch=v8plusm8 | -xarch=v9 | -xarch=v9a | -xarch=v9b
-xarch=v9c | -xarch=v9d | -xarch=v9e | -xarch=v9v
-xarch=v9m | -xarch=v9m8
-xarch=sparc | -xarch=sparcvis | -xarch=sparcvis2
-xarch=sparcfmaf | -xarch=sparcima | -xarch=sparcvis3
-xarch=sparcvis3r | -xarch=sparc5 | -xarch=sparc6

For compatibility with the SunOS v9 assembler. These options are equivalent to -Av8plus, -Av8plusa, -Av8plusb, -Av8plusc, -Av8plusd, -Av8plusv, -Av8plusm, -Av8plusm8, -Av9, -Av9a, -Av9b, -Av9c, -Av9d, -Av9e, -Av9v, -Av9m, -Av9m8, -Asparc, -Asparcvis, -Asparcvis2, -Asparcfmaf, -Asparcima, -Asparcvis3, -Asparcvis3r, -Asparc5 and -Asparc6 respectively.

-bump

Warn whenever it is necessary to switch to another level. If an architecture level is explicitly requested, GAS will not issue warnings until that level is reached, and will then bump the level as required (except between incompatible levels).

-32 | -64

Select the word size, either 32 bits or 64 bits. These options are only available with the ELF object file format, and require that the necessary BFD support has been included.

--dcti-couples-detect

Warn if a DCTI (delayed control transfer instruction) couple is found when generating code for a variant of the SPARC architecture in which the execution of the couple is unpredictable, or very slow. This is disabled by default.


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