<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Copyright (C) 1991-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Architecture Selection (GNU Binary Utilities)</title> <meta name="description" content="Architecture Selection (GNU Binary Utilities)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Architecture Selection (GNU Binary Utilities)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index" rel="index" title="Binutils Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Selecting-the-Target-System.html#Selecting-the-Target-System" rel="up" title="Selecting the Target System"> <link href="debuginfod.html#debuginfod" rel="next" title="debuginfod"> <link href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection" rel="prev" title="Target Selection"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Architecture-Selection"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Target Selection</a>, Up: <a href="Selecting-the-Target-System.html#Selecting-the-Target-System" accesskey="u" rel="up">Selecting the Target System</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Binutils-Index.html#Binutils-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Architecture-Selection-1"></a> <h3 class="section">17.2 Architecture Selection</h3> <p>An <em>architecture</em> is a type of <small>CPU</small> on which an object file is to run. Its name may contain a colon, separating the name of the processor family from the name of the particular <small>CPU</small>. </p> <p>The command to list valid architecture values is ‘<samp>objdump -i</samp>’ (the second column contains the relevant information). </p> <p>Sample values: ‘<samp>m68k:68020</samp>’, ‘<samp>mips:3000</samp>’, ‘<samp>sparc</samp>’. </p> <a name="objdump-Architecture"></a> <h4 class="subheading"><code>objdump</code> Architecture</h4> <p>Ways to specify: </p> <ol> <li> command-line option: <samp>-m</samp> or <samp>--architecture</samp> </li><li> deduced from the input file </li></ol> <a name="objcopy_002c-nm_002c-size_002c-strings-Architecture"></a> <h4 class="subheading"><code>objcopy</code>, <code>nm</code>, <code>size</code>, <code>strings</code> Architecture</h4> <p>Ways to specify: </p> <ol> <li> deduced from the input file </li></ol> </body> </html>