Assembling and linking a program

The assembly language program defines the commands for assembling and linking a program.

This section provides information on the following:

Assembling and linking a program
Assembly language programs can be assembled with the as command or the cc command.
Understanding assembler passes
Interpreting an assembler listing
The -l flag of the as command produces a listing of an assembler language file.
Interpreting a symbol cross-reference
The example of the symbol cross-reference for the hello.s assembly program.
Subroutine linkage convention
The Subroutine Linkage Convention.
Understanding and programming the toc
The TOC is used to find objects in an XCOFF file.
Using thread local storage
Thread-local variables can be declared and defined with the TL and UL storage-mapping classes.
Running a program
A program is ready to run when it has been assembled and linked without producing any error messages.

Parent topic: Assembler language reference