From: JeLlyFish DOT software AT gmx DOT net (Vinzent Hoefler)
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Subject: Re: CPUID?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:34:48 GMT
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"Peter Yan" <peteryen AT idirect DOT com> wrote:

>Does djgpp supports new instructions such as CPUID?

Yes.

>How to use it?

Just like you use C. You have to type it into the editor. :-)

>I heard
>that djgpp use so-called AT&T x86 inline assembler - oh my god! What is it?

An assembler written to prove that assembly is hard to understand. ;-)

>Hardly understand!

If you're not sticking to inline assembly, you can use NASM. Nice
Intel-Syntax and compatible output to (almost) everything an x86 can
run.


Vinzent.

-- 
C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.  C++ makes that
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
		-- Bjarne Stroustrup