Gnu Assembler (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The GNU Assembler, commonly known as gas or simply as, its executable name, is the assembler used by the GNU Project. It is the default back-end of GCC. It is used to assemble the GNU operating system and the Linux kernel, and various other software. It is a part of the GNU Binutils package. The GAS executable is named after as, a Unix assembler. GAS is cross-platform, and both runs on and assembles for a number of different computer architectures. Released under the GNU General Public License v3, GAS is free software. GAS supports a general syntax that works for all of the supported architectures. The general syntax includes assembler directives and a method for commenting.