Re: IA32 | [OFFTOPIC]: Segementation Question

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> 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
Ok, you're right, I read over this (see IA-32 Manual Part 3, Page 81).

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Matthias-Christian Ott
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