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Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 12:58:13 -0700
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000409083542 DOT 7469N-100000 AT is>, Eli
Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>access a far pointer in assembly is to load FS with the _dos_ds
>selector (once) and then use the fs: segment override.
>
>> And I think I left that behind when moving from real mode to
>> protected mode programming....
>
Does this mean that no djgpp standard libraries (either C or C++
libraries) use/clobber FS register? How about GS register? And
approximately, how many selectors could I allocate before I ran
out of them (I know this is specific to many factors, but please
give me the approximate for pure DOS with emm386)?

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