Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] tls-2.5.31-D4 | From | Luca Barbieri <> | Date | 12 Aug 2002 16:32:05 +0200 |
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> the ability to change the default CS and DS segments > as well. This does not make any sense. The user is free to load any selector in %cs/%ds/%es/%ss so the default flat segments should be left alone so that a process can have the flat segments _plus_ all the tls entries.
> although i suspect Wine needs a 16-bit entry, while > the APM one is a 32-bit entry ... AFAIK this only matters for code and stack segments and anyway the APM one should be a 16-bit entry since it exists because the BIOS wrongly assumes that it is a real-mode segment.
Anyway, isn't it better to put the user segments in a cacheline that doesn't already lose one entry to the null selector? (and leave the first one either empty or for BIOS/boot selectors)
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