Anna Ceguerra <anna.ceguerra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I managed to export conftest.c before it got deleted. Here is the code, and > the generated assembly. Generating a.out & running it causes it to fail with > the same error ( Bad CPU type in executable). As I think I may have said before, it's an issue with your assembler and/or your linker. You have to figure out how to tell your assembler and linker to build a program which will run on your system. Most likely there is a way to do it, but gcc is not doing it. > Also, what does the ".quad" > instruction do? I thought I had disabled libquadmath in my configure > command? The .quad pseudo-op has nothing to do with libquadmath. .quad means to assemble an 8-byte constant. Ian