[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mk: gcc -march support for intel processors code names

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-10-12 13:38, Pattan, Reshma:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> > 2016-10-10 22:33, Reshma Pattan:
> > > The GCC 4.9 -march option supports the intel code names for
> > > processors, for example -march=silvermont, -march=broadwell.
> > > The RTE_MACHINE config flag can be used to pass code name to the
> > > compiler as -march flag.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
> > 
> > Applied, thanks
> > 
> > How the -march=broadwell option will work with icc and clang?
> 
> Clang does support broadwell option.
> And I do have Icc version" icc (ICC) 16.0.3 20160415" which doesn't support code names.
> 
> Any other info you are explicitly looking for?

Yes, why are we still supporting ICC?

Clearly this patch does not care about ICC.
Note that it is not an acceptance blocker but it would be interesting
to have some news of ICC from time to time, regarding supported archs
and performance of the generated code.