From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: segment overrides
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:45:26 -0400
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lou smith wrote:
> 
> i dont quite understand how segment overrides work..
> does one have call ".byte 0x64" before EVERY SINGLE memory access..
> Does that mean a instruction like  "rep
>                                                 stosl"
> is impossible - because each of those stores should have been
> preceded by a "byte 0x64" bytecode -- requiring an explicit  ecx-type
> loop ???

Of course you don't need that before every memory access; only those
which transfer data to conventional memory using the _farpokeX/_farpeekX
convention.  And you only need the segment override once per looping
construct, as long as you don't call any library code that alters the
value of %fs.

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