On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:05 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I think "ia" and the natural "aa" are too obfuscated. Why didn't you chose simply "intel" here? (will the next patch add -mtune=a as that's natural for "AMD"?) Please re-consider. Richard. > -- > H.J.
