Visual Studio's /MACHINE linker switch help

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Hi EveryBody.

does anybody know what the different switch options do, architecture wise ?
here are the options:
MACHINE ARM (/MACHINE:ARM)
MACHINE EBC (/MACHINE:EBC)
MACHINE IA64 (/MACHINE:IA64)
MACHINE MIPS (/MACHINE:MIPS)
MACHINE MIPS16 (/MACHINE:MIPS16)
MACHINE MIPSFPU (/MACHINE:MIPSFPU)
MACHINE MIPSFPU16 (/MACHINE:MIPSFPU16)
MACHINE SH4 (/MACHINE:SH4)
MACHINE THUMB (/MACHINE:THUMB)
MACHINE X64 (/MACHINE:X64)
MACHINE X86 (/MACHINE:X86)
(Formated it to be asier to read)

i know ARM is the CPU used in mobile devices and that IA64 is Intels version of AMD64.
but what are the others ?

Thanks in Advance.

---edit---
is X64 option actually AMD64 ?

Posted 8-Jul-11 1:45am

ryan20fun

Updated 8-Jul-11 2:14am

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-08T02:04:00

Solution 1

Did you google for?
See Unified Extensible Firmware Interface[^] for EBC.
MIPS architecture[^] for MIPS.
SuperH[^] for SH4.
THUMB[^] is an ARM 'instruction set state'.

Posted 8-Jul-11 2:04am

CPallini

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ryan20fun 8-Jul-11 8:07am

i googled all over, but not on the exact one, my other searches like that did not work.