From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject:	Re: Getting CRx registers
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Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:00:15 -0600 (CST)
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> Is there a safe way to get the value of the Control Registers
> (CR0-4) under CPL > 0?. 

Not today.  If there were a good reason I would consider adding something
to CWSDPMI to emulate it - but given the large number of DPMI providers
out there, I think this is a bad idea.

If you need these, why not just run under ring 0?

> Under Win-XP "movl %cr4,%eax" seems to be safe (i.e. doesn't crash), 
> but return value is always 0. 

So it's useless.

> Under plain DOS and CWSDMI it crashes.
> I could probably use a SIGILL handler, but try to avoid it.

If it never returns useful information under CPL > 0, don't do it?

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