{ This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. Copyright (c) 1999-2000 by Florian Klaempfl This unit contains some routines to get informations about the processor See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution, for details about the copyright. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. **********************************************************************} unit cpu; interface { returns true, if the processor supports the cpuid instruction } function cpuid_support : boolean; { returns true, if floating point is done by an emulator } function floating_point_emulation : boolean; { returns the contents of the cr0 register } function cr0 : longint; var is_sse3_cpu : boolean = false; implementation {$ASMMODE INTEL} function cpuid_support : boolean;assembler; { Check if the ID-flag can be changed, if changed then CpuID is supported. Tested under go32v1 and Linux on c6x86 with CpuID enabled and disabled (PFV) } asm push ebx pushfd pushfd pop eax mov ebx,eax xor eax,200000h push eax popfd pushfd pop eax popfd and eax,200000h and ebx,200000h cmp eax,ebx setnz al pop ebx end; function cr0 : longint;assembler; asm DB 0Fh,20h,0C0h { mov eax,cr0 special registers are not allowed in the assembler parsers } end; function floating_point_emulation : boolean; begin {!!!! I don't know currently the position of the EM flag } { $4 after Ralf Brown's list } floating_point_emulation:=(cr0 and $4)<>0; end; {$ASMMODE ATT} function sse3_support : boolean; var _ecx : longint; begin if cpuid_support then begin asm pushl %ebx movl $1,%eax cpuid movl %ecx,_ecx popl %ebx end; sse3_support:=(_ecx and $1)<>0; end else { a cpu with without cpuid instruction supports never sse3 } sse3_support:=false; end; begin is_sse3_cpu:=sse3_support; end.