Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:41:29 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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On 12 Jan 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> : You can't run an interrupt handler in a stack. Use _my_cs(). Although
> : both SS, DS and CS have the same base, they have different access rights.
> 

> Yes, you can (at least theoretically).

Could you explain this in more detail?

> But perhaps you can't run code
> using the stack selector?

Nothing other than CS can execute something. In real mode, you can just
get the SS value into CS and run. But in PM, you can't do that.


Prashant