Mnemonics cross-reference

The assembler supports both PowerPC® and POWER® family mnemonics.

The assembler supports both PowerPC® and POWER® family mnemonics. The assembler listing has a cross-reference for both mnemonics. The cross-reference is restricted to instructions that have different mnemonics in the POWER® family and PowerPC® architectures, but which share the same op codes, functions, and operand input formats.

The assembler listing contains a column to display mnemonics cross-reference information.

The mnemonics cross-reference helps the user migrate a source program from one architecture to another. The -s flag for the as command provides a mnemonics cross-reference in the assembler listing to assist with migration. If the -s flag is not used, no mnemonics cross-reference is provided.