On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 03:38, Jeffrey Walton via Gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I was wondering about this output when using GCC on PowerPC. Why is > GCC advertising Power7 and Power8 when the arch switches to enable > them are not present on Linux? > > ========== > > This is GCC112 on the compile farm. Both GCC 4.8 and 8.3 have the > behavior. Notice there are no options like -maltivec or -mcpu=power8 gcc -Q --help=target | fgrep cpu The compilers on gcc112 are configured for powerpc64le-*-linux which implies POWER8 because that target isn't supported on POWER7.
