On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Marlier <patrick.marl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 12/05/2013 07:22 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: >> >> We'd like to add a new -mtune=ia option for x86 to optimize for both >> Haswell and Silvermont. Currently, -mtune=ia is aliased to -mtune=slm. >> We will improve it further for Haswell and Silvermont. Later, we will >> update it to future Intel processors. > > > At first, 'ia' means to me Itanium, ie IA-64. I would personally prefer > another name but maybe I am the only one to think that. >
"ia" stands for Intel Architecture. It is the natural name for this option. -- H.J.
