Re: IA32 | [OFFTOPIC]: Segementation Question

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

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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