Contents|Index|Previous|Next Architecture selection An architecture is a type of CPU 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 CPU. The command to list valid architecture values is ‘objdump -i’ (the second column contains the relevant information). Sample values: ‘m68k:68020’, ‘mips:3000’, ‘sparc’. objdump architecture Ways to specify: objdump command line option: ‘-m’ or ‘--architecture’ deduced from the input file objcopy, nm, size, strings architecture Ways to specify: deduced from the input file Linker input architecture Ways to specify: deduced from the input file Linker output architecture Ways to specify: script command, OUTPUT_ARCH (see Other linker script commands in Using ld) the default architecture from the linker output target (see discussions for Target selection)