--statistics

[Ian Lance Taylor]

ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> writes:

> asm2.s
>
> dovom:
> .section .data
> .byte 12,15,28
> .word aval-dovom
> .section .text
> aval:
> mov $5,%eax
>
> as --statistics -o asm2.o asm2.s
> as: total time in assembly: 0.002999
> as: data size 13128544
> frag chains:
>
> 	0x8cdc3a8 .text     	         2 frags
>
> 	0x8cdc3f4 .data     	         2 frags
>
> 	0x8cdc440 .bss      	         2 frags
> fixups: 1
> 0 mini local symbols created, 0 converted
>
> What does the terms mean? 2 frags? mini local symbol? converted? fixups?
> (The version of as is 2.19.51)

See gas/doc/internal.texi and the gas source code.

Ian