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								This file documents the GNU Assembler "as".
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								Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002,
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								<a name="Object"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Errors.html#Errors">Errors</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">1.6 Output (Object) File</h3>
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								<p><a name="index-object-file-34"></a><a name="index-output-file-35"></a><a name="index-a_002eout-36"></a><a name="index-_002eo-37"></a>Every time you run <span class="command">as</span> it produces an output file, which is
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								your assembly language program translated into numbers.  This file
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								is the object file.  Its default name is
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								<code>a.out</code>. 
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								You can give it another name by using the <span class="option">-o</span> option.  Conventionally,
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								object file names end with <span class="file">.o</span>.  The default name is used for historical
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								reasons: older assemblers were capable of assembling self-contained programs
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								directly into a runnable program.  (For some formats, this isn't currently
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								possible, but it can be done for the <code>a.out</code> format.)
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								   <p><a name="index-linker-38"></a><a name="index-ld-39"></a>The object file is meant for input to the linker <code>ld</code>.  It contains
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								assembled program code, information to help <code>ld</code> integrate
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								the assembled program into a runnable file, and (optionally) symbolic
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								information for the debugger.
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