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Output (Object) File
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Output (Object) File
Every time you run as, it produces an output file, which is your assembly language program
translated into numbers. This file is the object file. Its default name is a.out, or b.out, when as is configured for the Intel 80960. You can give it another name by using the -o option. Conventionally, object file names end with .o. The default name is used for historical reasons: older assemblers were
capable of assembling self-contained programs directly into a runnable program. (For
some formats, this isn’t currently possible, but it can be done for the a.out format.)
The object file is meant for input to the linker
ld. It contains assembled program code, information to help ld integrate the assembled program into a runnable file, and (optionally)
symbolic information for the debugger.
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