Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:25:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Need ASM-Syntax to put code into one asm-instruction
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii responded:
> >>  "movw  %4,%%ds  \n\t" /*<= causes crash */
> >
> > You are in protected mode now, so you cannot load any arbitrary value 
> > into the segment registers.  In protected mode, the only values that can 
> > be loaded into these registers are valid selector numbers.  Otherwise you 
> > get GPF.
> 
> But he wrote %4, not $4.

Yep, it seems I was too fast to jump the gun.  Sorry.