<html lang="en"> <head> <title>K - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.7"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Invoking.html#Invoking" title="Invoking"> <link rel="prev" href="I.html#I" title="I"> <link rel="next" href="L.html#L" title="L"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. man end--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="K"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="L.html#L">L</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="I.html#I">I</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Invoking.html#Invoking">Invoking</a> <hr><br> </div> <h3 class="section">2.6 Difference Tables: <span class="option">-K</span></h3> <p><a name="index-_002dK-66"></a> <a name="index-difference-tables_002c-warning-67"></a><a name="index-warning-for-altered-difference-tables-68"></a><span class="command">as</span> sometimes alters the code emitted for directives of the form <span class="samp">.word </span><var>sym1</var><span class="samp">-</span><var>sym2</var>. See <a href="Word.html#Word"><code>.word</code></a>. You can use the <span class="samp">-K</span> option if you want a warning issued when this is done. </body></html>