[PATCH] Add -mtune=ia support
H.J. Lu
hjl.tools@gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 21:05:00 GMT 2013
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Marlier
<patrick.marlier@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.
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