P.S. Follow up to my last post

Paul Koning paulkoning@comcast.net
Fri Aug 25 13:40:24 GMT 2023



> On Aug 25, 2023, at 9:30 AM, Jan Beulich via Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
> On 25.08.2023 15:07, jacob navia wrote:
>> OK, there is no bug, I didn’t expect anything else.
>> 
>> SO:
>> 
>> To use all the instruction of the processor he/she is running on, the user should:
>> 
>> 1)Be aware that gcc doesn’t see crucial instructions of the processor by verifying its assembler output.
>> 
>> 2) Be aware that there is an (undocumented) option -march… that will enable the assembler and the compiler to generate all the instructions of the current processor.
>> 
>> Well, there is NO BUG!
> 
> Well, if -march= is indeed undocumented for gcc, that's something
> worth reporting there then, I would say.

It would be if it were true, but of course it is not.  -march is clearly mentioned in the info pages, the man pages, and in "gcc --target-help".  Likewise, it is documented in the info pages, man pages, and "as --help".

	paul



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