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SubjectRe: asm (lidt) question
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> LIDT is "load interrupt descriptor table". SIDT is "store interrupt
> descriptor table". Only SIDT modifies memory. LIDT reads from memory
> and puts the result into a special CPU register, therefore doesn't
> modify memory.

Indeed, that why this is not really correct :

__asm__ __volatile__("lidt %0": "=m" (var));

even if it generates the same code of :

__asm__ __volatile__("lidt %0": : "m" (var));



- Davide

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