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What do you mean?

• tptacek 17y ago
  You're going to see a lot of references to segment selectors, and apart from the fact that FS may refer to thread information, you're never going to have to remember what any of it means. You can safely consider segmentation to be detritus.
• mahmud 17y ago
  Specialized segment prefixes mean jacksquat in an execution model with no specialized segments.
• jacquesm 17y ago
  He means that you don't need those anymore. You used to need them (badly), especially on the smaller CPUs because otherwise you were severely limited in memory. Check out the 'mixed models' that were pretty common usage in the 80's. There were lots of them: code data model name under 64KB under 64KB Small (-ms) or Tiny (-mt) over 64KB under 64KB Medium (-mm) under 64KB over 64KB Compact (-mc) over 64KB over 64KB Large (-ml) I was so happy when I finally got out of 'model hell' and could use 'flat' mode using DJGPP. Finally C programming without the headaches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP