> >How about "you elitist 680x0 users won't be able to (directly) use programs
> >which work fine on all the other architectures because you are gratuitously
> >incompatible"?
>
> There are a finite number of architectures. It doesn't seem like a big deal
> to be able to deal with each individually if need be.
Yeah. Since someone has told me it is possible to retrieve the information
by making syscalls to the kernel, I think this is the safest and most
compatible way to go. Anyone care to give me clues or resources where I
can read up on? I really don't want to depend on the /proc/cpuinfo file
really.
Cheers,
Alex
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