8.3.1 Options
-
-marc[5|6|7|8]
-
This option selects the core processor variant. Using
-marc
is the same as-marc6
, which is also the default.-
arc5
- Base instruction set.
-
arc6
-
Jump-and-link (jl) instruction. No requirement of an instruction between setting flags and conditional jump. For example:
mov.f r0,r1 beq foo
-
arc7
- Break (brk) and sleep (sleep) instructions.
-
arc8
- Software interrupt (swi) instruction.
Note: the
.option
directive can to be used to select a core variant from within assembly code. -
-
-EB
- This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as being encoded for a big-endian processor.
-
-EL
- This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should be marked as being encoded for a little-endian processor - this is the default.