On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:44:31PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > > yes but ... ffff:0000 will have very different behaviour for some code > > than f000:fff0. it's a mistake for linux to use the ffff:0000 address. > > Please explain further! Why will the behaviour be different?
if your CS is f000, and you load the EIP with 0, then you can jump to location f0000. if your CS is ffff, and you load EIP with 0, then you jump to location .... ffff0. Not good. ron
