From: ykhan AT achilles DOT net (Yousuf Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: FPU and protected mode
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:38:33 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:47:23 +0900, Heo Sung-Gwan <heo AT turbotek DOT co DOT kr>
wrote:

>I am coding FPU context switch with Pentium processor using fnsave and
>frstor FPU instructions. And I found these FPU instructions behaves
>differently between real mode and protected mode.

Yes, in protected mode, the FNSAVE command saves segment selector values
rather than segment register values in that structure like it does in real
mode.

					Yousuf Khan
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