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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: gcc -march support for intel processors
	code names
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:25:10 +0200
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2016-08-15 16:02, 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. Also old gcc versions compatibility code
> for the intel platform is removed from
> mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.toolchain-compat.mk

Do you mean to not support GCC < 4.9 ?