[Ecls-list] architecture-specific *FEATURES*

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> wrote:
> I think that Matthew was only talking about detecting the CPU type; in
> that case using the CPUID[1] instruction should be enough
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID

That is completely platform specific (intel), and would involve
hacking in a solution that would only work for one compiler and
architecture. Either we provide a uniform solution --even if it is a
customized translation table for uname() that grows with user
feedback-- or no solution at all.

Juanjo

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