Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 94 09:12:34 -0500
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	ptan AT compudyn DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: IDTR and GDTR bases in go32

> typedef struct {
>     unsigned short int limit;
>     unsigned long int  base;
> } IDTR;
> typedef struct {
>     unsigned short int limit;
>     unsigned long int  base;
> } GDTR;
> typedef struct {
>     unsigned short int limit;
>     unsigned long int  base;
> } LDTR;

These structures are UNPACKED.  They will not get the information
stored in them correctly, as there are four unused bytes between limit
and base to align the base to a 4 byte boundary.

Try writing into an unsigned char[6] instead.

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