On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:05 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Marlier >> <patrick.marl...@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"?)
-mtune=intel indeed sounds better. Uros.
