[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] Techie question re: 386 segment descriptors

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (11/06/90)

In article <1990Nov5.115318.26285@btcase.bt.co.uk> dwj@btcase.bt.co.uk (David James) writes:
| My 386 programmers reference manual mentions in a number of places the
| existence of D (Default) and B (Big) bits in segment descriptors for
| data and stack segments respectively. I haven't managed to find out from
| the manual which bits in the descriptors these are - it's either not
| there, or too well buried. Can anyone enlighten me?

  I'll enlighten you... this group is for discussion of binaries which
have been, or might be, posted to cbip. There are lots of other groups
for questions such as yours.

  I will run it in a 386-users digest, however, so you may get some
responses from that.

  Please, don't anyone post an answer. Reply by mail with a copy to
386users@udel.edu so we can all share it in the correct setting.
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