Re: linear vs. logical addresses? how does cpu interpret kernel addrs?

[Ben Johnson]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:10:45PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> The way the extra data segment registers are used is by explicitly
> qualifying operands with segments.

ah!  now that makes sense.

So, I'm guessing the DS register is used by default to select the base
address for all non-stack oriented operations.  And I bet the SS
register is used by default for stack oriented operations, and all ops
that act on %esp (and %ebp?).  I think that make my life easier.

Thanks a lot!

- Ben

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