Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:24:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Tan Pinghui <tanph AT bj DOT col DOT com DOT cn>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 16-bit & 32-bit mixed coding
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On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Tan Pinghui wrote:

> I'm very confused by the 386's 16-bit & 32-bit mixing coding.  
> Here are some questions, please help.
> 
> (1) cs selector refers to 16-bit segment, and ds/es/fs/gs selectors to
> 32-bit segments (D=1), ss to 16-bit segment, how do the instructions
> operate? the stack? the data?

What exactly are you asking?  As far as I could see, the DJGPP's
startup code sets CS, DS and SS to 32-bit segments.  Is the question
at all related to how DJGPP programs set up their segment registers?