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The full naming scheme encodes three pieces 76of information in the following pattern: 77</p> 78<div class="smallexample"> 79<pre class="smallexample"><var>architecture</var>-<var>vendor</var>-<var>os</var> 80</pre></div> 81 82<p>For example, you can use the alias <code>sun4</code> as a <var>host</var> argument, 83or as the value for <var>target</var> in a <code>--target=<var>target</var></code> 84option. The equivalent full name is ‘<samp>sparc-sun-sunos4</samp>’. 85</p> 86<p>The <samp>configure</samp> script accompanying <small>GDB</small> does not provide 87any query facility to list all supported host and target names or 88aliases. <samp>configure</samp> calls the Bourne shell script 89<code>config.sub</code> to map abbreviations to full names; you can read the 90script, if you wish, or you can use it to test your guesses on 91abbreviations—for example: 92</p> 93<div class="smallexample"> 94<pre class="smallexample">% sh config.sub i386-linux 95i386-pc-linux-gnu 96% sh config.sub alpha-linux 97alpha-unknown-linux-gnu 98% sh config.sub hp9k700 99hppa1.1-hp-hpux 100% sh config.sub sun4 101sparc-sun-sunos4.1.1 102% sh config.sub sun3 103m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1 104% sh config.sub i986v 105Invalid configuration `i986v': machine `i986v' not recognized 106</pre></div> 107 108<p><code>config.sub</code> is also distributed in the <small>GDB</small> source 109directory (<samp>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git</samp>, for version 10.2.90.20210621-git). 110</p> 111 112 113 114</body> 115</html> 116