On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Richard Biener > <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA IA-32, Intel Architecture, 32-bit IA-64, Intel Architecture, 64-bit >> that's natural for "AMD"?) > > -mtune=intel indeed sounds better. > We will discuss it internally. Thanks. -- H.J.
