This document describes how to use the Intel® Itanium(TM) Assembler (IAS) on Windows NT* or Linux systems.
To gain the most from this guide, you should be familiar with the Itanium architecture and assembly language. This User’s Guide documents the features specific to the Intel Itanium assembly tool. See the Related Publications section for references to relevant documents.
The IAS User's Guide provides the information you need to write an Itanium architecture assembly language program assembling on IAS. It describes the IAS usage and features. In addition, this user's guide provides detailed information on all IAS diagnostic messages.
IAS is a cross-platform assembler; it runs on 32-bit systems and Itanium-based systems, and produces Itanium architecture object files. IAS does not assemble IA-32 assembly language programs.