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From: Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: porting xen-detect ASM code into a shared library
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:43:37 +0200
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Keir Fraser a =E9crit :
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> On 10/7/08 13:30, "Guillaume Rousse" <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr> wrote:
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>> Many thanks, it worked. I just hope this is not an error in original
>> xc_cpuid_x86.c ccode (borrowed from
>> http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/source/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c)
>>
>> Can I ensure upstream cfengine maintainer about portability of this co=
de
>> among various platforms and systems ?
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> It's gcc and x86 specific of course. Beyond that it is portable (across=
 OSes
> for example).
What's the point of #ifdef __i386__ for the %ebx register usage issue,=20
if whose cpuid function is x86-only ? Or is it actually a way to=20
distinguish between gcc and other compilers ?

And are they alternative for non-i386 arches ?
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Guillaume Rousse
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