what does target mean?

[joyo]

I find gcc & gdb have target such as hppa64-hp-hpux11.11 , hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00 ,can anyone explain what's it means ? Or show me a link about it.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

target means what platform you are compiling for. hppa64-hp-hpux11.11 is 64 bit PA-RISC

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[joyo]

I use file binary to find target. I find something output like this :
ELF-64 executable object file - PA-RISC 2.0 (LP64)
and something like that:
PA-RISC2.0 executable dynamically linked
Are they same , i means ELF-64 and PA-RISC2.0?

[Dennis Handly]

>ELF-64 executable object file - PA-RISC 2.0 (LP64)

This is PA64.

>PA-RISC2.0 executable dynamically linked

This is PA32 +DA2.0.

>Are they same, I means ELF-64 and PA-RISC2.0?

It depends. Both have PA-RISC 2.0 but PA64 has ELF-64 and (LP64).
PA32 doesn't have those.