From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10296 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2012 13:36:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 10072 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Dec 2012 13:36:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_AV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-oa0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-oa0-f49.google.com) (209.85.219.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:36:16 +0000 Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id l10so9683449oag.8 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:36:14 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.32.235 with SMTP id m11mr16135134oei.129.1356701774108; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:36:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.153.201 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:36:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC, x86] Changes for AVX and AVX2 processors From: Uros Bizjak To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Cc: Vladimir Yakovlev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-12/txt/msg01447.txt.bz2 Hello! > New processors core-avx and core-avx2 are added. It was done to have > possibilities to turn new features on for these processors. Please review. I don't think this is a good approach, you are mixing an architecture with an ISA extension in the name. We already have processor_alias_table, where processor architecture and features (extensions) can be activated, depending on the name. Uros.