Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/20/14:57:42
> Does anyone know why the decision was made to have CS and DS refer to the
> same region of memory, the program's entire address space? IMHO, CS should
> be `text' only, and DS and SS should be `DGROUP' (or whatever it's called)
> only. This would keep problems of this sort from occuring, since you can't
> write to the CS segment.
Well, for one thing, you wouldn't be able to have DXE's then.
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