Intrinsics for CPUID like informations?

Question

Considering that I\'m coding in C++, if possible, I would like to use an Intrinsics-like solution to read useful informations about the hardware, my concerns/considerations

Answer 1

Intrinsics such as this are also generally compiler specific.

MS VC++ has a __cpuid (and a __cpuidex) to generate a CPUID op code.

At least as far as I know, gcc/g++ doesn't provide an equivalent to that though. Inline assembly seems to be the only option available.