Re: CPU Serial Number

"Leonardo Custodio" <aliensprite@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone worked or have any hints on how to get the Processor Serial
> Number in C?

STIDP instruction, but it is privileged.

> I've read the material within the Intel(C) webpage, but it only gives me
the
> CPU ID table, no information on where (memory) to get it.

Oh, for intel CPU's, you should have said so in the first place.   Yes,
there is an instruction to get it there, too, on newer CPU's.

-- glen

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 05:24:55 GMT "Glen Herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu
>
wrote:

:>"Leonardo Custodio" <aliensprite@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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:>> Has anyone worked or have any hints on how to get the Processor Serial
:>> Number in C?

:>  STIDP instruction, but it is privileged.

Or in MVS+ one can examine the PCCA.

:>> I've read the material within the Intel(C) webpage, but it only gives me
:>the
:>> CPU ID table, no information on where (memory) to get it.

:>  Oh, for intel CPU's, you should have said so in the first place.   Yes,
:>there is an instruction to get it there, too, on newer CPU's.

--
Binyamin Dissen <bdissen@dissensoftware.com>
http://www.dissensoftware.com

Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel

Wrong group.
"Glen Herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
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>
> "Leonardo Custodio" <aliensprite@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:snFob.81742$7B1.68448@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... 
>
>   STIDP instruction, but it is privileged.
> 
> the 
>
>   Oh, for intel CPU's, you should have said so in the first place.   Yes,
> there is an instruction to get it there, too, on newer CPU's.
>
> -- glen
>
>