On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Paul Koning wrote: > >> In i386-gcc 4.5.1, --target-help says that "generic32" and "generic64" >> are valid values for -march= and -mtune. In fact, those values are >> rejected (even though there seems to be code in i386.c to handle those >> values). > > See PR 45731. This is help for assembler options, not compiler options.
But mtune= is a compiler switch, so why would --target-help describe "generic64" as a valid choice for that switch when it is not? paul