> The x86 architecture has control registers. well it has obviously at least some :-) > They are not all > implemented in hardware; I believe the only ones which are implemented > are %cr0 through %cr4 and %cr8 (64-bit only). this is correct, yes... > However, as the > relevant opcodes are not (yet) used for anything else, the GNU > assembler and disassembler will recognize other registers. You will > presumably get an exception if you try to actually run the program on > x86 hardware. ok, didn't think that they were defined but not used - thanks A LOT for your help!! greetings
