https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86388
--- Comment #4 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #3) > (In reply to Alexander Monakov from comment #1) > > I'd prefer existing ordering relative to alphabetical: the list produced by > > GCC is mostly ordered first by manufacturer, then by > > generation/capabilities. Placement of the 'x86-64' entry seems odd, but, > > other than that, I like the order. > > > > The manual also orders -march entries in this "manufacturer-capabilities" > > style. > > See I don't know my CPU generations/capabilities, all I want to do is find > the one I meant to type, and the easiest way to do that would be to look for > where it would be placed alphabetically Alternatively, the suggestion could use the Levenshtein distance calculator that spellchecking suggestions use elsewhere in GCC, instead of just listing all the values.
