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No, not really. A couple of features of the architecture and instruction encoding which were historically used for segmentation remain on amd64, and these feat
by moonchild 2y ago
No, not really. A couple of features of the architecture and instruction encoding which were historically used for segmentation remain on amd64, and these features are used to implement thread-local storage on every mainstream os targeting the arch, but amd64 is not a segmented architecture in any meaningful sense.