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

For x86/x64, Intel provides an intrinsic called _may_i_use_cpu_feature. You can find it under the General Support category of the Intel Intrinsics Guide page. Below is a rip of Intel's documentation.

GCC supposedly follows Intel with respect to intrinsics, so it should be available under GCC. Its not clear to me if Microsoft provides it because they provide most (but not all) Intel intrinsics.

I'm not aware of anything for ARM. As far as I know, there is no __builtin_cpu_supports("neon"), __builtin_cpu_supports("crc32"), __builtin_cpu_supports("aes"), __builtin_cpu_supports("pmull"), __builtin_cpu_supports("sha"), etc under ARM. For ARM you have to perform CPU feature probing.

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Synopsis

int _may_i_use_cpu_feature (unsigned __int64 a)

#include "immintrin.h"

Description

Dynamically query the processor to determine if the processor-specific feature(s) specified
in a are available, and return true or false (1 or 0) if the set of features is
available. Multiple features may be OR'd together. This intrinsic does not check the
processor vendor. See the valid feature flags below:

Operation

    _FEATURE_GENERIC_IA32
    _FEATURE_FPU
    _FEATURE_CMOV
    _FEATURE_MMX
    _FEATURE_FXSAVE
    _FEATURE_SSE
    _FEATURE_SSE2
    _FEATURE_SSE3
    _FEATURE_SSSE3
    _FEATURE_SSE4_1
    _FEATURE_SSE4_2
    _FEATURE_MOVBE
    _FEATURE_POPCNT
    _FEATURE_PCLMULQDQ
    _FEATURE_AES
    _FEATURE_F16C
    _FEATURE_AVX
    _FEATURE_RDRND
    _FEATURE_FMA
    _FEATURE_BMI
    _FEATURE_LZCNT
    _FEATURE_HLE
    _FEATURE_RTM
    _FEATURE_AVX2
    _FEATURE_KNCNI
    _FEATURE_AVX512F
    _FEATURE_ADX
    _FEATURE_RDSEED
    _FEATURE_AVX512ER
    _FEATURE_AVX512PF
    _FEATURE_AVX512CD
    _FEATURE_SHA
    _FEATURE_MPX