Re: IA32 | [OFFTOPIC]: Segementation Question

From: Grzegorz Kulewski (kangur_at_polcom.net)
Date: 06/02/05

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To: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>

    On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:

    > Hi.
    > I'm currently doing some research on the IA32 Segementation Concept. But
    > there's one thing I don't understand:
    > If I perform a far jump it looks like this:
    > jmp 16bit:32bit
    >
    > The 16bit are representing the segement number and the 32bit the offset. But
    > to what refers the 16bit? To the GDT or the current LDT?

    IIRC, there is one bit flag in selector that decides if it is from GDT or
    LDT. But maybe I am wrong...

    Grzegorz Kulewski
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