<html lang="en"> <head> <title>MIPS - Untitled</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Untitled"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Machine-Dependent.html#Machine-Dependent" title="Machine Dependent"> <link rel="prev" href="M68K.html#M68K" title="M68K"> <link rel="next" href="MMIX.html#MMIX" title="MMIX"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU linker LD (GNU Binutils) version 2.26. Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="MIPS"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="MMIX.html#MMIX">MMIX</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="M68K.html#M68K">M68K</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Machine-Dependent.html#Machine-Dependent">Machine Dependent</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">4.7 <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> and the MIPS family</h3> <p><a name="index-MIPS-microMIPS-instruction-choice-selection-656"></a><a name="index-g_t_002d_002dinsn32-657"></a><a name="index-g_t_002d_002dno_002dinsn32-658"></a>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">--insn32</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-insn32</span></samp>’ options control the choice of microMIPS instructions used in code generated by the linker, such as that in the PLT or lazy binding stubs, or in relaxation. If ‘<samp><span class="samp">--insn32</span></samp>’ is used, then the linker only uses 32-bit instruction encodings. By default or if ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-insn32</span></samp>’ is used, all instruction encodings are used, including 16-bit ones where possible. </body></html>