https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83496
--- Comment #21 from Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net> --- I'm not familiar with mips ABIs but on gcc mips machine there's 32 bit code. root@erpro8-fsf1:~# file /bin/ls /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-II version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0x2b2fe81ce221a20ae62f4d516d1553fab61f9087, with unknown capability 0x41000000 = 0xf676e75, with unknown capability 0x10000 = 0x70401, stripped root@erpro8-fsf1:~# gcc -dumpspecs ... mabi=n32/mabi=32/mabi=64