Re: Is there a way to obtain a machine's cache line size?

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> I see there is a compile time constant CACHE_LINE_SIZE in
> <sys/param.h> which currently seems to be always be set to 64, but
> I'm pretty certain that is not necessarily a correct value.

You are correct; to cite the one example I currently have swapped into
my brain, the Super-H used in the Dreamcast has 32-byte cache lines
(true of the I-cache and D-cache both).

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