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What to call the tools for MIPS

Cross-development tools in the GNUPro Toolkit are normally installed with names that reflect the target machine, so that you can install more than one set of tools in the same binary directory. The target name, constructed with the --target option to configure, is used as a prefix to the program name. For example, the compiler for the IDT/MIPS (called simply gcc in native configurations) is called by one of the following names, depending on which configuration you have installed.

mips-idt-ecoff-gcc
If configured for big-endian byte ordering.

mipsel-idt-ecoff-gcc
If configured for little endian byte ordering.

Likewise, the mips-configured gdb is called: mips-idt-gdb.

For DOS-hosted toolchains, the tools are simply called by their standard names, such as gcc, gdb, etc.