On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 14:27:10 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> I'd have hoped that specifying the the format explicits would have
> been possible, but very few program seems to support such options.
> Actually, only objdump (maybe others) accepts a '-b' flags.

ld has -m, objcopy/strip have -F/-O/-I, readelf doesnt care, addr2line/nm/size 
have --target.  seems like just as, ar, and ranlib are missing command line 
flags, and --target might be the logical flag to add to them.
-mike