From: broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: far call
Date: 19 Oct 1999 23:02:50 +0200
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Gisle Vanem (giva AT bryggen DOT bgnett DOT no) wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> said:
> > > Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
> > > General Protection Fault at eip=00001dcc, error=01d4

> > So in this case, you are trying to use a selector 0x1d4, which is indeed
> > invalid (it's not ring-3 selector).
>  
> OTOH, the error code doesn't include the ring-level.

It does. You just don't see it because you don't know where to look
--- the 2 lowest bits of the descriptor are the ring-level. Your
descriptor is 0x1d4 ==> lowest bits are 00 ==> Ring-0 was requested.


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