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

[Ivo]

On Sunday 23 April 2006 09:24, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Saving ebx by hand sometimes breaks in icc and gcc -O, and what
> > problem would the last way cause?
>
> 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.

--Ivo