Re: CPUID detection

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Felix Kollmann wrote:

> I attached the working CPUID detection which is based on assembler
> (Linux and Windows).
> 
> PS: Am I good?

Not really.

You kludged a solution in the face of a better 'official' mechanism.

As a result, you have code that won't even compile on a significant
fraction of Linux boxes.

Doing away with such ad-hoc solutions is part of what Linux is all
about.

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