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Re: x86 assembly questions



On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 01:05:13AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
>      It is likely that the entry in the segment descriptor table
> has the start set to 0 and the length set to maximum.  This is the
> most common way of doing things and the segments are never changed
> (i.e. segmentation is effectively disabled).  The exception is i386
> PAE where segmentation comes back into play in order to be able to
> access more than 4G.

Is there a way to retreive the loaded segment descriptor table to 
check that?

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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