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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: yjtseng <yjtseng AT micron DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:17:41 +0000
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Subject: Re: Help needed in getting CR0 under DOS
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yjtseng <yjtseng AT micron DOT com> wrote:

> I wrote inline assembly code to access the control register CR0  and
> compiled it 
> under djgpp. It ran O.k. in window DOS but gave me general protection fault
> under  pure DOS environment. 

1) Isn't it a privileged instruction?
2) Are you sure it succed under Windows, or is just that it didn't complain?
3) Did you tried with CWSDPR0 under DOS or with other DPMI host? I guess you 
used the normal CWSDPMI and (1) is true so then the crash is logic.

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