<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Target Options - Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Invoking-GCC.html#Invoking-GCC" title="Invoking GCC"> <link rel="prev" href="Spec-Files.html#Spec-Files" title="Spec Files"> <link rel="next" href="Submodel-Options.html#Submodel-Options" title="Submodel Options"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 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 the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <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="Target-Options"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Submodel-Options.html#Submodel-Options">Submodel Options</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Spec-Files.html#Spec-Files">Spec Files</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Invoking-GCC.html#Invoking-GCC">Invoking GCC</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">3.16 Specifying Target Machine and Compiler Version</h3> <p><a name="index-target-options-1259"></a><a name="index-cross-compiling-1260"></a><a name="index-specifying-machine-version-1261"></a><a name="index-specifying-compiler-version-and-target-machine-1262"></a><a name="index-compiler-version_002c-specifying-1263"></a><a name="index-target-machine_002c-specifying-1264"></a> The usual way to run GCC is to run the executable called <samp><span class="command">gcc</span></samp>, or <samp><var>machine</var><span class="command">-gcc</span></samp> when cross-compiling, or <samp><var>machine</var><span class="command">-gcc-</span><var>version</var></samp> to run a version other than the one that was installed last. </body></html>