Hi, I'm surprised: On an x86_64 machine, "gcc -dumpmachine" prints "x86_64-linux-gnu" as expected. But "gcc -m32 -dumpmachine" prints the same, whereas I'd expected it to print something like "i686-linux-gnu" instead, as indicated by gcc's usage: $ gcc -help ... -dumpmachine Display the compiler's target processor After all, I've explicitly told it to build for 32-bit targets. But anyhow, is there any other way to obtain the target triplet (or at least the target processor that gcc would actually build for, depending on the switches being passed? Thanks for any help, Chris