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6.8. `as86': Minix/Linux `as86' Object Files
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   The Minix/Linux 16-bit assembler `as86' has its own non-standard
object file format. Although its companion linker `ld86' produces
something close to ordinary `a.out' binaries as output, the object file
format used to communicate between `as86' and `ld86' is not itself
`a.out'.

   NASM supports this format, just in case it is useful, as `as86'.
`as86' provides a default output file-name extension of `.o'.

   `as86' is a very simple object format (from the NASM user's point of
view). It supports no special directives, no special symbols, no use of
`SEG' or `WRT', and no extensions to any standard directives. It
supports only the three standard section names `.text', `.data' and
`.bss'.