1<html lang="en"> 2<head> 3<title>MIPS - Untitled</title> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> 5<meta name="description" content="Untitled"> 6<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> 7<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> 8<link rel="up" href="Machine-Dependent.html#Machine-Dependent" title="Machine Dependent"> 9<link rel="prev" href="M68K.html#M68K" title="M68K"> 10<link rel="next" href="MMIX.html#MMIX" title="MMIX"> 11<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> 12<!-- 13This file documents the GNU linker LD 14(Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2011.09-69) 15version 2.21.53. 16 17Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 182001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 19 20Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 21under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 22or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 23with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 24Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the 25section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.--> 26<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> 27<style type="text/css"><!-- 28 pre.display { font-family:inherit } 29 pre.format { font-family:inherit } 30 pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } 31 pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } 32 pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } 33 pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } 34 span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } 35 span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } 36 span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } 37--></style> 38<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cs.css"> 39</head> 40<body> 41<div class="node"> 42<a name="MIPS"></a> 43<p> 44Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="MMIX.html#MMIX">MMIX</a>, 45Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="M68K.html#M68K">M68K</a>, 46Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Machine-Dependent.html#Machine-Dependent">Machine Dependent</a> 47<hr> 48</div> 49 50<h3 class="section">4.7 <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> and the MIPS family</h3> 51 52<p><a name="index-MIPS-microMIPS-instruction-choice-selection-626"></a><a name="index-g_t_002d_002dinsn32-627"></a><a name="index-g_t_002d_002dno_002dinsn32-628"></a>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">--insn32</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-insn32</span></samp>’ options control the choice of 53microMIPS instructions used in code generated by the linker, such as that 54in the PLT or lazy binding stubs, or in relaxation. If ‘<samp><span class="samp">--insn32</span></samp>’ is 55used, then the linker only uses 32-bit instruction encodings. By default 56or if ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-insn32</span></samp>’ is used, all instruction encodings are used, 57including 16-bit ones where possible. 58 59 </body></html> 60 61