diff --git a/ast/ast.go b/ast/ast.go
index a1acbdb..3cc4b5c 100644
--- a/ast/ast.go
+++ b/ast/ast.go
@@ -58,8 +58,14 @@ type Text struct {
 	Keyword token.Token // the TEXT token
 	Name    *Symbol     // ·funcName(SB)
 	Flags   []string    // NOSPLIT, DUPOK, …
-	Frame   *Operand    // $0
-	Args    *Operand    // the -65 part; nil when absent
+	// FlagVal is the flags operand as the toolchain reads it: one integer
+	// the operand evaluates to, the OR of the named flags and any literals
+	// written beside them.  Zero when the TEXT carries no flags operand, and
+	// after an evaluation failure, where Flags still carries the scanned
+	// names beside the diagnostic.
+	FlagVal int64
+	Frame   *Operand // $0
+	Args    *Operand // the -65 part; nil when absent
 	Body    []Stmt
 	Doc     string // preceding comment block (typically the Go signature)
 }
@@ -72,6 +78,10 @@ type Globl struct {
 	Keyword token.Token
 	Name    *Symbol
 	Flags   []string
+	// FlagVal is the flags operand folded to the one integer the toolchain
+	// evaluates it as, exactly as on Text.  Zero when the GLOBL carries no
+	// flags operand or the operand failed to evaluate.
+	FlagVal int64
 	Size    *Operand
 }
 
diff --git a/parser/flags.go b/parser/flags.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23c85c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parser/flags.go
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2026 Petr Balvín <opensource@petrbalvin.org> (https://petrbalvin.org)
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+// The TEXT and GLOBL flags operand.
+//
+// The toolchain reads the middle operand of a TEXT (and of a GLOBL) as one
+// constant expression: identifiers joined by '|', each a name
+// runtime/textflag.h defines as a number, with literals and constant
+// arithmetic beside them (cmd/asm/internal/asm/asm.go, evalInteger).  gasm
+// consumes textflag.h natively rather than expanding it, so the names are
+// evaluated here against the same table, and an identifier outside it is
+// the toolchain's evaluation failure.
+package parser
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+
+	"sourcedock.dev/petrbalvin/gasm-sdk/token"
+)
+
+// textFlags is the flag table of runtime/textflag.h: the names the
+// assembler knows and the values they stand for.
+var textFlags = map[string]int64{
+	"NOPROF":        1,
+	"DUPOK":         2,
+	"NOSPLIT":       4,
+	"RODATA":        8,
+	"NOPTR":         16,
+	"WRAPPER":       32,
+	"NEEDCTXT":      64,
+	"TLSBSS":        256,
+	"NOFRAME":       512,
+	"REFLECTMETHOD": 1024,
+	"TOPFRAME":      2048,
+	"ABIWRAPPER":    4096,
+}
+
+// flagNOSPLIT and flagNOFRAME single out the two flags whose value the
+// parser itself reasons about, in the toolchain's own TEXT diagnostics.
+const (
+	flagNOSPLIT = 4
+	flagNOFRAME = 512
+)
+
+// flagOrder lists the table ascending by value, the order the canonical
+// name expansion of a folded value reads in.
+var flagOrder = []struct {
+	name string
+	val  int64
+}{
+	{"NOPROF", 1},
+	{"DUPOK", 2},
+	{"NOSPLIT", 4},
+	{"RODATA", 8},
+	{"NOPTR", 16},
+	{"WRAPPER", 32},
+	{"NEEDCTXT", 64},
+	{"TLSBSS", 256},
+	{"NOFRAME", 512},
+	{"REFLECTMETHOD", 1024},
+	{"TOPFRAME", 2048},
+	{"ABIWRAPPER", 4096},
+}
+
+// flagsRun returns the flags operand of a TEXT or GLOBL directive: the
+// tokens after the symbol up to the frame operand's '$', with comments and
+// the one trailing comma that separated the operand from the '$' removed.
+func flagsRun(g []token.Token) []token.Token {
+	n := 0
+	for n < len(g) && g[n].Kind != token.Dollar {
+		n++
+	}
+	out := make([]token.Token, 0, n)
+	for _, t := range g[:n] {
+		if t.Kind == token.Comment {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, t)
+	}
+	if len(out) > 0 && out[len(out)-1].Kind == token.Comma {
+		out = out[:len(out)-1]
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// evalFlags evaluates one flags operand.  Every identifier must name a
+// flag in textFlags; the toolchain rejects any other with "unexpected NAME
+// evaluating expression", and so does this.  The whole operand folds to
+// one integer, which is returned as the value.
+//
+// The names returned follow the operand's own spelling: an operand written
+// purely as names keeps them in written order, duplicates included, the
+// toolchain accepting both silently; an operand that mixes in literals or
+// arithmetic has no written names to keep, so the folded value expands to
+// the canonical ascending name list.  Bits outside the table (a literal
+// such as 8192) live in the value alone; the names cannot spell them.
+//
+// After a failure the names collected so far are returned with value 0:
+// the tree stays usable beside the diagnostic, and value 0 is exactly the
+// flags the assembler can trust the operand for.
+func (p *state) evalFlags(g []token.Token, keepWritten bool) ([]string, int64) {
+	if len(g) == 0 {
+		return nil, 0
+	}
+	// An explicit '$' makes the operand an immediate ('$NOSPLIT' over the
+	// preprocessor's '$4'); the toolchain reads it as the same constant.
+	if g[0].Kind == token.Dollar {
+		g = g[1:]
+		if len(g) == 0 {
+			return nil, 0
+		}
+	}
+
+	sub := make([]token.Token, 0, len(g))
+	var names []string
+	namesOnly := true
+	failed := false
+	for _, t := range g {
+		if t.Kind == token.Ident {
+			v, ok := textFlags[t.Text]
+			if !ok {
+				if p.expand {
+					p.errorf(t.Pos, "unexpected %s evaluating expression", t.Text)
+				}
+				failed = true
+			}
+			names = append(names, t.Text)
+			if ok {
+				sub = append(sub, numberToken(v, t))
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if t.Kind != token.Pipe {
+			// Anything beyond names and their '|' separators gives the
+			// operand arithmetic the written names cannot express.
+			namesOnly = false
+		}
+		if keepWritten && t.Kind == token.Number {
+			names = append(names, t.Text)
+		}
+		sub = append(sub, t)
+	}
+	if failed {
+		return names, 0
+	}
+	v, rest, ok := foldExpr(sub)
+	if !ok || len(rest) > 0 {
+		if p.expand {
+			bad := g[0]
+			if ok && len(rest) > 0 {
+				bad = rest[0]
+			}
+			p.errorf(bad.Pos, "unexpected %s evaluating expression", bad.Text)
+		}
+		return names, 0
+	}
+	if keepWritten {
+		return names, v
+	}
+	if namesOnly {
+		// Written names stay exactly as written; the value folds them.
+		return names, v
+	}
+	return flagNames(v), v
+}
+
+// flagNames expands a folded flags value into the canonical ascending name
+// list of the table's bits it holds.  A negative value expands to nothing:
+// its bit pattern is not a combination the names can spell.
+func flagNames(v int64) []string {
+	if v <= 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for _, f := range flagOrder {
+		if v&f.val != 0 {
+			out = append(out, f.name)
+			v &^= f.val
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// numberToken rebuilds t as the decimal literal of v at t's position.
+func numberToken(v int64, t token.Token) token.Token {
+	return token.Token{Kind: token.Number, Text: strconv.FormatInt(v, 10), Pos: t.Pos, End: t.End}
+}
diff --git a/parser/parser.go b/parser/parser.go
index a89f5ea..f4b88eb 100644
--- a/parser/parser.go
+++ b/parser/parser.go
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ type state struct {
 	file *ast.File
 	errs []error
 
+	// expand records the assembly path (ParseWithOptions with Expand): the
+	// one view of a file that must reject what the toolchain's assembler
+	// rejects.  The tooling view (linter, formatter, language server) stays
+	// tolerant and reports through its own diagnostics instead.
+	expand bool
+
 	curText *ast.Text // the TEXT body labels/instructions attach to
 	pending []string  // comment lines awaiting a TEXT to become its Doc
 }
@@ -245,13 +251,14 @@ func (p *state) parseText(line []token.Token) {
 	text.Name = sym
 	rest = rest[n:]
 
-	// Consume flags (identifiers, possibly '|' joined) up to the frame '$'.
+	// Consume the flags operand: everything between the symbol and the
+	// frame '$' is one operand, which the toolchain evaluates to a single
+	// integer (identifiers joined by '|', each a known textflag.h name,
+	// literals and constant arithmetic beside them).  A single trailing
+	// comma is the separator that stood before the '$'.
 	rest = skipComma(rest)
+	text.Flags, text.FlagVal = p.evalFlags(flagsRun(rest), false)
 	for len(rest) > 0 && rest[0].Kind != token.Dollar {
-		if rest[0].Kind == token.Ident {
-			text.Flags = append(text.Flags, rest[0].Text)
-		}
-		// Commas, '|' and anything else between flags is skipped.
 		rest = rest[1:]
 	}
 
@@ -291,6 +298,23 @@ func (p *state) parseText(line []token.Token) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// The toolchain's own TEXT diagnostics over the evaluated flags
+	// (cmd/asm/internal/asm/asm.go asmText, and the frame check its arm64
+	// backend raises): an ABIInternal symbol must not grow the stack, and
+	// NOFRAME reserves no frame at all, so a declared frame contradicts it.
+	// Both belong to the assembly path; the tooling view reports the frame
+	// case through the linter's own advisory instead.
+	if p.expand {
+		if text.Name.ABI == "ABIInternal" && text.FlagVal&flagNOSPLIT == 0 {
+			p.errorf(line[0].Pos, "TEXT %q: ABIInternal requires NOSPLIT", text.Name.Name)
+		}
+		if text.FlagVal&flagNOFRAME != 0 && text.Frame != nil &&
+			text.Frame.Imm.HasVal && text.Frame.Imm.Val > 0 {
+			p.errorf(text.Frame.Pos, "NOFRAME functions must have a frame size of 0, not %d",
+				text.Frame.Imm.Val)
+		}
+	}
+
 	p.file.Decls = append(p.file.Decls, text)
 	p.curText = text
 }
@@ -309,15 +333,17 @@ func (p *state) parseGlobl(line []token.Token) *ast.Globl {
 	g.Name = sym
 	rest = skipComma(rest[n:])
 	// Flags are identifiers (RODATA, DUPOK) or legacy numeric constants
-	// (2, 8, 9, 10) from runtime/textflag.h.
-	for len(rest) > 0 && rest[0].Kind != token.Dollar {
-		if rest[0].Kind == token.Ident || rest[0].Kind == token.Number {
-			g.Flags = append(g.Flags, rest[0].Text)
+	// (2, 8, 9, 10) from runtime/textflag.h.  The toolchain evaluates the
+	// operand as one constant expression, so every name is validated here
+	// and the whole operand folds to g.FlagVal; Flags keeps the atoms as
+	// written, the numeric spellings being data-side combinations the
+	// link layer reads back.
+	g.Flags, g.FlagVal = p.evalFlags(flagsRun(rest), true)
+	for i, t := range rest {
+		if t.Kind == token.Dollar {
+			g.Size = parseOperand(rest[i:], false)
+			break
 		}
-		rest = rest[1:]
-	}
-	if len(rest) > 0 && rest[0].Kind == token.Dollar {
-		g.Size = parseOperand(rest, false)
 	}
 	return g
 }
diff --git a/parser/preproc.go b/parser/preproc.go
index 5bb1adc..04804bd 100644
--- a/parser/preproc.go
+++ b/parser/preproc.go
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ func ParseWithOptions(path, src string, opts Options) (*ast.File, []error) {
 	} else {
 		lines = statementLines(tokens)
 	}
-	p := &state{path: path}
+	p := &state{path: path, expand: opts.Expand}
 	p.parse(lines)
 	return p.file, append(errs, p.errs...)
 }