https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html states...
> Optimizing for other Intel microarchitectures have been renamed to > -march=nehalem, westmere, sandybridge, ivybridge, haswell, bonnell. My ancient Atom netbook identifies as "bonnell". [aa1][waltdnes][~] gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target | grep -i march= -march= bonnell According to a post on the Arch forum gcc ignores "-march=atom"... https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1423395#p1423395 This is very important if you're trying to optimize for an Atom netbook. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications