m68k-atari-mint support for binutils
m68k-atari-mint is the name of the target system in 'cpu-vendor-os' format.
BFD library support
The Binary File Descriptor library is used to give support of different binary object files to the various binutils tools. On the Atari platform, it means adding at least support for the GEMDOS executable format. This one is extended for use in
MiNT, by adding an extra header, which holds all the information necessary for the standard a.out format.
GAS assembler support
GAS (GNU assembler) takes a .S assembly source file, assemble it, and use BFD to generate a .O object file.
LD linker support
LD (GNU linker) takes several .O object files and/or .A object libraries, link them together and use BFD to generate the executable file that will run on the target system.