I'm going to throw my two cents into this question and suggest a slightly more verbose extension of elias's answer. As of gcc 4.6, running of gcc -march=native -v -E - < /dev/null emits an increasing amount of spam in the form of superfluous -mno-* flags. The following will strip these:
gcc -march=native -v -E - < /dev/null 2>&1 | grep cc1 | perl -pe 's/ -mno-\S+//g; s/^.* - //g;'
However, I have only verified the correctness of this on two different CPUs (an Intel Core2 and AMD Phenom), so I suggest also running the following script to be sure that all of these -mno-* flags can be safely stripped.
2021 EDIT: There are indeed machines where -march=native uses a particular -march value, but must disable some implied ISAs (Instruction Set Architecture) with -mno-*.
#!/bin/bash
gcc_cmd="gcc"
# Optionally supply path to gcc as first argument
if (($#)); then
gcc_cmd="$1"
fi
with_mno=$(
"${gcc_cmd}" -march=native -mtune=native -v -E - < /dev/null 2>&1 |
grep cc1 |
perl -pe 's/^.* - //g;'
)
without_mno=$(echo "${with_mno}" | perl -pe 's/ -mno-\S+//g;')
"${gcc_cmd}" ${with_mno} -dM -E - < /dev/null > /tmp/gcctest.a.$$
"${gcc_cmd}" ${without_mno} -dM -E - < /dev/null > /tmp/gcctest.b.$$
if diff -u /tmp/gcctest.{a,b}.$$; then
echo "Safe to strip -mno-* options."
else
echo
echo "WARNING! Some -mno-* options are needed!"
exit 1
fi
rm /tmp/gcctest.{a,b}.$$
I haven't found a difference between gcc -march=native -v -E - < /dev/null and gcc -march=native -### -E - < /dev/null other than some parameters being quoted -- and parameters that contain no special characters, so I'm not sure under what circumstances this makes any real difference.
Finally, note that --march=native was introduced in gcc 4.2, prior to which it is just an unrecognized argument.