Targeting IA-64 Architecture Processors Automatically

The Intel compiler supports options that optimize application performance for Intel® Itanium® processors based on the IA-64 architecture.

Note

Mac OS* X: These options are not supported.

While the resulting executable is backward compatible, generated code is optimized for specific processors; therefore, code generated with -mtune=itanium2-p9000 (Linux) or /G2-p9000 (Windows) will run correctly on Itanium® 2 processors.

The following examples demonstrate using the default options to target an Itanium® 2 processor (9000 series). The same binary will also run on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors.