Introduction

This chapter discusses how to convert existing SunOS 4.1 SPARC assembly files to the SunOS 5.x SPARC assembly file format.

Conversion Instructions

• Remove the leading underscore ( _ ) from symbol names. The Solaris 2.x SPARCompilers do not prepend a leading underscore to symbol names in the users' programs, like the SPARCompilers that ran under SunOS 4.1.
• Prefix local symbol names ,with a dot (.) . Local symbol names in the SunOS 5.x SPARC assembly language begin with a dot (. ) so that they will not conflict with user programs' symbol names.
• Change the usage of the pseudo-op .seg to .section e.g. Change .seg "data" to .section ".data". See Appendix A, "Pseudo-Operations," for more information.

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Note - The above conversions can be automatically achieved by passing the -T option to the assembler.

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Examples

Figure 4-1 shows how to convert an existing 4.1 file to the new format. The lines that are different in the new format are marked with change bars.

Figure 4-1