This patch updates the default processor tuning to POWER8 for any PPC64 Linux target, not only little endian (ELFv2).
Any objection? Thanks, David * config/rs6000/linux64.h (PROCESSOR_DEFAULT): Change to PROCESSOR_POWER8. (PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64): Same. Index: linux64.h =================================================================== --- linux64.h (revision 209981) +++ linux64.h (working copy) @@ -69,13 +69,9 @@ #endif #undef PROCESSOR_DEFAULT -#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT PROCESSOR_POWER7 +#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT PROCESSOR_POWER8 #undef PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64 -#ifdef LINUX64_DEFAULT_ABI_ELFv2 #define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64 PROCESSOR_POWER8 -#else -#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64 PROCESSOR_POWER7 -#endif /* We don't need to generate entries in .fixup, except when -mrelocatable or -mrelocatable-lib is given. */