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<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>.
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<p>The command to list valid architecture values is ‘<samp>objdump -i</samp>’ (the
second column contains the relevant information).
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<p>Sample values: ‘<samp>m68k:68020</samp>’, ‘<samp>mips:3000</samp>’, ‘<samp>sparc</samp>’.
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<h4 class="subheading"><code>objdump</code> Architecture</h4>
<p>Ways to specify:
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<li> command-line option: <samp>-m</samp> or <samp>--architecture</samp>
</li><li> deduced from the input file
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<h4 class="subheading"><code>objcopy</code>, <code>nm</code>, <code>size</code>, <code>strings</code> Architecture</h4>
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<li> deduced from the input file
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