Using GCC to produce readable assembly?

Question

I was wondering how to use GCC on my C source file to dump a mnemonic version of the machine code so I could see what my code was being compiled into. You can do this with J

Answer 1

If you give GCC the flag -fverbose-asm, it will

Put extra commentary information in the generated assembly code to make it more readable.

[...] The added comments include:

• information on the compiler version and command-line options,
• the source code lines associated with the assembly instructions, in the form FILENAME:LINENUMBER:CONTENT OF LINE,
• hints on which high-level expressions correspond to the various assembly instruction operands.