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- SE>I have Borland Pascal 7.0 and I ran acrost the idea of 286 and 8088 code
- SE>specs in a program. How can you detect for a 286 CPU and if present,
- SE>switch $G to $G+ ?
-
- There should be a program somewhere in your TP disks that has a routine
- that detects whether or not a 286+ CPU is pressent. Unfortunately you
- can't have it change the status of $G. It's either on or off. You can
- either leave it on , detect CPU type, if its the wrong type leave a
- mesage and abort the program or not use the $G directive at all.
-
- Here is a simple CPU detection routine in case you can't find the one I
- mentioned:
- }
-
- CONST
- CPU :ARRAY[0..3] Of STRING[13] =('8088/V20','80286',
- '80386/80486','80486');
- FUNCTION CpuType :WORD; ASSEMBLER;
- { Returns a value depending on the type of CPU }
- { 0 = 8088/V20 or compatible }
- { 1 = 80286 2 = 80386/80486+ }
- ASM
- Xor DX,DX { Clear DX }
- Push DX
- PopF { Clear Flags }
- PushF
- Pop AX { Load Cleared Flags }
- And AX,$0F000 { Check hi bits for F0h }
- Cmp AX,$0F000
- Je @Quit { Quit if 8088 }
- Inc DX
- Mov AX,$0F000 { Now Check For 80286 }
- Push AX
- PopF
- PushF
- Pop AX
- And AX,$0F000 { If The top 4 bits aren't set }
- Jz @Quit { Its a 80286+ }
- Inc DX { Else its a 80386 or better }
- @Quit:
- Mov AX,DX { Return Result in AX }
- END;{CpuType}
-
- BEGIN
- Writeln('Your CPU is a ',CPU[CpuType]);
- END.