Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:03:52 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	William Petiot <wpetiot AT worldnet DOT fr>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: .byte 0x64
In-Reply-To:	<4hcs8u$1l6@aldebaran.sct.fr>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960304080319.21243C-100000@is>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, William Petiot wrote:

> >Could anyone help me out with the code in sys/farptr.h.
> >All the functions have a ".byte 0x64" before the move. Why
> >is this required ?
> 
> 0x64 is the opcode for prefix segment mnemonic : "ES:"
> farptr uses ES segment register to access memory, Gnu AS doesn't know
> the prefix ES: so one must use .byte 0x64 to encode this.

It's FS:, not ES:.

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