[PATCH] Add -mtune=ia support

[Richard Biener]

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:
>> 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
that's natural for "AMD"?)

Please re-consider.

Richard.

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> H.J.