Selecting the Target System

This appendix describes how you can specify targets and architectures for the ELF utilities.

You can specify three aspects of the target system to the utilities that work on ELF files, each in several ways:

• target — the object file format
• architecture — the type of CPU the target file is to run on
• linker emulation (which applies to the linker only) — a personality that specifies default values for the target system.

In the following summaries, the lists of ways to specify values are in order of decreasing precedence; the ways listed first override those listed later.