This chapter describes the tas command line interface program. The tas program provides a non-cost interface to the Tachyon z/Assembler. You do not need to purchase a license from Tachyon Software to run the tas program.
The tas is used to assemble the GNU assembler code generated by the GCC compilers. The tas program can create object files from GNU assembler code in either ELF format (for Linux for S/390 and zSeries) or in GOFF format (for OS/390 or z/OS).
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