[bin0]

It might just be the easiest way to do it. It's also possible that Intel didn't have access to samples of enough AMD stuff to test, or the wrong department had it, or they couldn't get approval to take the time it would require. The GCC guys almost certainly lacked the hardware, time, and inclination to do this instead. It's not malice, I don't think, so much as practicality. I'm sure they'd accept an AMD patch enabling this where available.

[robert-wallis]

Intel and AMD should provide GCC maintainers hardware. It could easily come out of the marketing budget, because benchmarks compiled using gcc would be affected, and they use benchmark numbers in advertising.

[justinjlynn]

> Intel didn't have access to samples of enough AMD stuff, or the wrong department had it, or they couldn't get approval to take the time it would require

I seriously doubt that.

[big_chungus]

You'd be surprised how bad communication can be in a big company the size of intel. I'm sure they have plenty of samples of AMD stuff, but I could believe they're being used mostly by some cpu-testing division, rather than the open-source one.

[justinjlynn]

I wouldn't be surprised that communications were bad within Intel. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was zero political will to make sure their contribution worked properly on AMD processors. Combine the two and you get whatever plausible deniability you want to use to deflect the argument, I suppose.