On 5/31/07, Frank Kotler <fbkotler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A D wrote: > Hi! I have couple of questions regarding gnu assembly. I've heard the word > segment override. Where segment register can be manually overriden. so
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> But I get segmentation fault error. How can i do it without error? Use a valid selector. You appear to have "heard about" some 16=bit real mode stuff that is not true in protected mode. Take a look here: http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/johnfine/segments.htm
Nice technical discussions ;)
In "Linux assembly", there is no reason you'd *want* to use a segment override, or alter a segment register.
Not while your program and/or data space fits in 4GB of memory space ;) Okay, a "perhaps" easier explanation on the differences between protected and real mode segment registers (Strange I don't recall this term in SPARC assembly...) In Realmode, a segment register basically points to the "bottom"/base of a 2^16 address space. The actuall address is/was calculated as Segment register*4+register. This does allow for fancy/interesting wrap around sitautions at the top of memory. In Protected mode, the Segment Registers are misnommers to be bland, they should be called Descriptor Table Indeces... ie. the memory mapping info in inthe Descriptor Table, the Segment REgister just points to the entry inside the Descriptor table. -- Hendrik Visage - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-assembly" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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