[MPlayer-dev-eng] Why cpuid so complex?

[Zuxy Meng]

2006/4/23, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl>:
> On Sunday 23 April 2006 09:24, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > icc supports inline ASM? I didn't know, but it's good news! Anyway,
> > the way current asm is written clearly shows that the author didn't
> > know what to expect from inline asm (IMHO).
>
> See libavcodec/i386/cputest.c. Saving ebx by hand is necessary for PIC.
>

Looks like a workaround for an old gcc bug?

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