A target is an object file format. A given target may be supported for multiple architectures (see Architecture Selection). A target selection may also have variations for different operating systems or architectures.
The command to list valid target values is ‘objdump -i’ (the first column of output contains the relevant information).
Some sample values are: ‘a.out-hp300bsd’, ‘ecoff-littlemips’, ‘a.out-sunos-big’.
You can also specify a target using a configuration triplet. This is the same sort of name that is passed to configure to specify a target. When you use a configuration triplet as an argument, it must be fully canonicalized. You can see the canonical version of a triplet by running the shell script config.sub which is included with the sources.
Some sample configuration triplets are: ‘m68k-hp-bsd’, ‘mips-dec-ultrix’, ‘sparc-sun-sunos’.
objdump
TargetWays to specify:
GNUTARGET
objcopy
and strip
Input TargetWays to specify:
GNUTARGET
objcopy
and strip
Output TargetWays to specify:
objcopy
and strip
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GNUTARGET
nm
, size
, and strings
TargetWays to specify:
GNUTARGET