Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:53:59 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Christian Hofrichter <ChristianHofrichter AT gmx DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re:Re:Need ASM-Syntax to put code into one asm-instruction
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On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Christian Hofrichter wrote:

>     "movw  %4,%%ds  \n\t" /*<= causes crash */

You are in protected mode now, so you cannot load any arbitrary value 
into the segment registers.  In protected mode, the only values that can 
be loaded into these registers are valid selector numbers.  Otherwise you 
get GPF.

Why did you need to load the value 4 into DS?

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