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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:21:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ASM - function: what should be pushed?
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On 2 Feb 1999, Esa A E Peuha wrote:

> DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> 
> > gdtr,ldtr,idtr,tr,cr*,dr*,tr* - not used by gcc or libc
> 
> But some of these must be used by the DPMI host, so it's
> better not to change them anyway :-)

You can't do that anyway from an IOPL-3 program (which is how DJGPP 
programs run in most cases).  Those who write programs which run at
ring 0 and mess with these registers, must already know what they are 
doing...

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