C/C++ call to detect cpu?

[Nicolas Blais]

Other than 'grep'ing dmesg, is there a way to know the current cpu such as a 
struct with the machine's cpu and cpu feature (kinda like a time_t struct)?

Portability is not really an issue (though I would be nice if it could run on 
BSD/linux systems).

For example, on one of my systems (from dmesg):
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (2493.04-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20ff0  Stepping = 0
  
Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  Features2=0x1<SSE3>
  AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>

I would need AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (2493.04-MHz 686-class CPU) or 
similar.

Thanks,
Nicolas.
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