LLVM-AS(1)

💅 LLVM-AS(1) — the LLVM assembler, bestie edition ✨

okay so welcome to the LLVM manual page for llvm-as, aka the glow-up station where your human-readable assembly becomes ✨bitcode✨. grab a strawberry drink 🍓 and let's go.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

llvm-as — the LLVM assembler, no cap

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

llvm-as [options] [filename]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

llvm-as is the LLVM assembler. it reads a file that's full of human-readable LLVM assembly language, translates it into LLVM bitcode, and writes the result into a file or straight to standard output. it's giving translator! it's giving main character energy! 👑

if filename is omitted, or if it's literally just -, then llvm-as reads its input from standard input. stdin girlies rise 🫶

if you didn't specify an output file with the -o option, then llvm-as sends its output to a file or to standard output by following these rules — and bestie, they're lowkey iconic:

• if the input is standard input, then the output is standard output. (matching energies ✨)
• if the input is a file that ends with .ll, then the output file is of the same name, except the suffix is changed to .bc.
• if the input is a file that does not end with the .ll suffix, then the output file has the same name as the input file, except that the .bc suffix is appended.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -f — enable binary output on terminals. normally llvm-as will refuse to write raw bitcode output if the output stream is a terminal, which is honestly so valid of it 🛑 but with this option, llvm-as will write raw bitcode regardless of the output device. it does not care. it will not be stopped. 💀
• -help — print a summary of command line options. the "wait what were the flags again" button 🙈
• -o filename — specify the output file name. if filename is -, then llvm-as sends its output to standard output.

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🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

if llvm-as succeeds, it will exit with 0. otherwise, if an error occurs, it will exit with a non-zero value. simple as that, periodt. 🎀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• llvm-dis(1)
• as(1)

(the reverse-glow-up and the classic, iykyk)

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). they're the blueprint fr fr 💜

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

2003-2023, LLVM Project

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ok that's the whole thing bestie, go forth and assemble 💅🔥 slay

sign-off: this page is number 15, dated 2023-01-14, from the LLVM manual set, and it's called LLVM-AS(1) — mwah, take care of her 🫶🎀