[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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