no-herd maintainer-needed@gentoo.org pasm is a portable assembler for processors of the PowerPC family, written completely in ANSI-C. All PPC standard instructions, AltiVec instructions, all 32-bit extended mnemonics and most of the 64-bit extended mnemonics are supported. pasm knows about nearly 50 directives. Among them are directives for macros, conditional assembly, include files, base-relative addressing (small data), etc..