On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:47:36 +0100 (CET), Jimi wrote: >Also because most GCONFIG internals are pure assembly, a flat-selector could make >things worse. If I mistype >something now and a bad offset is used somewhere, it will result in either corrupted >area/data-segment or >exception. By using a flat ring-0 selector, I may accidentaly corrupt some other >data, also I wouldn't be able to >use e.g. carry flag on 64k overflow trick. Instead I would have to use compares and >an additional register (a >shame in search routines).
I'm really looking forward into how you are going to marry this with the all flat 32bit ACPI stuff. Ciao, Dani ----------- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe acpi-os2 end