What to call Intel ia32e processor?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:00:39AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:46:14PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:40:15PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > Currently, when you configure gcc for x86_64-linux, it will tune for
> > > > K8. I want a new target, which will tune for Intel ia32e processor by
> > > > default. I am using ia32e-linux for the time being.
> > > 
> > > That way a lot of software won't recognize that beast at _all_, neither
> > > as i386 nor as amd64 compatible.
> > 
> > I only want it for gcc and you have to use it by hand like
> > 
> > # ../configure ia32e-linux
> > 
> > which will configure gcc to tune for Intel ia32e processor by default.
> > Nothing else will be affected.
> 
> Please don't inflict that on any external users.  As others have said,
> the way we handle the different flavors of one processor family is with
> --with-cpu.

Gcc can be configured with k8-linux, opteron-linux and athlon_64-linux.
I'd like to have something silimar to that.


H.J.