On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:41:47AM -0600, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 18:56 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > I'd like to close the stage 1 phase of GCC 4.8 development
> > on Monday, November 5th. If you have still patches for new features you'd
> > like to see in GCC 4.8, please post them for review soon. Patches
> > posted before the freeze, but reviewed shortly after the freeze, may
> > still go in, further changes should be just bugfixes and documentation
> > fixes.
>
> I'd like to post later today (hopefully this morning) a very minimal
> configure patch that adds the -mcpu=power8 and -mtune=power8 compiler
> options to gcc. Currently, power8 will be an alias for power7, but
> getting this path in now allows us to add power8 support to the
> compiler without having to touch the arch independent configure script.
config.gcc target specific hunks are part of the backend, the individual
target maintainers can approve changes to that, I really don't see a reason
to add a dummy alias now just for that. If the power8 enablement is
approved and non-intrusive enough that it would be acceptable even during
stage 3, then so would be corresponding config.gcc changes.
Jakub
