From: "lou smith" <9813152 AT fharga DOT sun DOT ac DOT za>
Organization: Stellenbosch University
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:02:25 +0200
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Subject: farnspoke/peek and the ".byte 0x64" thingy
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hi

why does _farnspoke / peek need the ".byte 0x64" segment override
(note : farNSpoke/peek )

someone replied to some of my previous questions (i.e. "is it 
neccesary for EVERY memory access instruction to be preceded by a 
segment override ") and told me that memory access instructions dont 
need to be preceded by a segment override - he told me that 
farnspoke/peek ,for example, dont precede every memory access with a 
"byte 0x64"

BUT when i looked in "farptr.h" i saw that it does !!?!?!

could someone please explain to me what segment overriding is  all 
about -- because quite clearly i'm extremely confused.

thanks. lou smith