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 2013.11-24) 15version 2.23.52. 16 17Copyright (C) 1991-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 18 19Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 20under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 21or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 22with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 23Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the 24section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.--> 25<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> 26<style type="text/css"><!-- 27 pre.display { font-family:inherit } 28 pre.format { font-family:inherit } 29 pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } 30 pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } 31 pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } 32 pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } 33 span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } 34 span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } 35 span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } 36--></style> 37<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cs.css"> 38</head> 39<body> 40<div class="node"> 41<a name="MIPS"></a> 42<p> 43Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="MMIX.html#MMIX">MMIX</a>, 44Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="M68K.html#M68K">M68K</a>, 45Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Machine-Dependent.html#Machine-Dependent">Machine Dependent</a> 46<hr> 47</div> 48 49<h3 class="section">4.7 <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> and the MIPS family</h3> 50 51<p><a name="index-MIPS-microMIPS-instruction-choice-selection-636"></a><a name="index-g_t_002d_002dinsn32-637"></a><a name="index-g_t_002d_002dno_002dinsn32-638"></a>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">--insn32</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-insn32</span></samp>’ options control the choice of 52microMIPS instructions used in code generated by the linker, such as that 53in the PLT or lazy binding stubs, or in relaxation. If ‘<samp><span class="samp">--insn32</span></samp>’ is 54used, then the linker only uses 32-bit instruction encodings. By default 55or if ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-insn32</span></samp>’ is used, all instruction encodings are used, 56including 16-bit ones where possible. 57 58 </body></html> 59 60