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From: korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI question
Date: 14 Sep 1995 20:45:20 GMT
Organization: Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab
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In article <4355ve$hj2 AT news DOT mountain DOT net>,
grinch AT access DOT mountain DOT net <Sherm Pendley> wrote:
>This deserves some elaboration.  Loading an invalid value into a segment
>selector shouldn't cause a GP fault.  Attempting to access a segment
>through a selector which contains an invalid value does cause a fault.

I thought that the segment base and limit (invisible) registers were loaded 
from the LDT or GDT when the segment register is modified.  If that causes
a read past the limit of the GDT or LDT, shouldn't the processor generate an
exception?

Eric
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