It works here in an up-to-date sid chroot: % gcc-4.2 -m32 hello.c && file a.out a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
Please give me the result of: % dpkg -l gcc gcc-4.2 gcc-multilib gcc-4.2-multilib % ls -l /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.3/32/
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