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Re: [PATCH] Add -mtune=ia support
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Patrick Marlier <patrick dot marlier at gmail dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:41:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -mtune=ia support
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:38:27AM +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:05 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Marlier
> > <patrick.marlier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
Yeah, please.
Jakub