On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 03:45 +0900, aq wrote: > I suppose that Linux still uses some segment registers, since there > are macros such as get_ds() and set_ds(). Is that correct? We use segment registers, just not segments in the traditional x86 segmentation sense. You need to use them either way, and we also find other uses for them. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/