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Date: | Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:34:38 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Brian Walters <bwalters AT ramlink DOT net> |
Cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: gs segment selector points to conventional memory area |
In-Reply-To: | <4gedee$dmc@ram2.ramlink.net> |
Message-Id: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.960221113035.2687A-100000@is> |
Mime-Version: | 1.0 |
On 21 Feb 1996, Brian Walters wrote: > My question is: Is it safe to use gs as the conventional memory > selector? Don't. GS is used by library routines which need to access conventional memory with `farptr' functions, and thus GS value is subject to change without notice, even if your code doesn't call any library functions (some hardware interrupt handler could, for example).
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