== Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article > dsimcha wrote: > > == Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article > >> dsimcha wrote: > >>> == Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article > >>>> [snip] > >>>> Thanks, that's definitely a bug. The code in core.cpuid has not been > >>>> tested on the most recent CPUs (Intel added a totally new method) and > >>>> their documentation is quite convoluted. It's hard to get it right > >>>> without an actual machine. > >>> Bug 4462. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4462 > >> Please check if the latest druntime commit fixes this. > > > > Thanks. Unfortunately I can't test this because the Linux build script for > > Phobos > > is broken on my machine in some inscrutable way. Frankly, my success rate > > at > > building stuff from other people's make files is well under 50%. Make is > > just a > > horrible technology that needs to die a horrible death. We should be > > eating our > > own dogfood and using rdmd for build scripts. > I agree. > In this case, core.cpuid is completely stand-alone. So you could just > copy it into another directory and change the module statement.
Great idea. Unfortunately that still doesn't fix it. I get different wrong information on some machines, but it's still wrong, and the specific example I posted to Bugzilla hasn't changed at all.
