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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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To: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
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Subject: Re: cpuid_eax damages registers (2.4.7pre7)
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Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
> What I want to say (I could be wrong and that can't surprise me) is
> that the original cpuid_eax is in fact incorrect. All cpuid_XXX funcs
> use only dummy output operands...
> 

Bullsh*t.  One of the output operands is always a non-dummy (in
cpuid_edx() edx is not a dummy, for example.)

	-hpa
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