From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: **** Protection **** Date: 16 Jun 1993 17:33:25 GMT
In article <BAS.93Jun16144840@carlo.phys.uva.nl> bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) writes:
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>Near pointer ??? Local data segment ???
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>Please write down 2^32 times:
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>Linux does not use 8086 backward compatibility kludges.
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>Linux gives your processes a 32 bit flat address space.
In other words Linux is generating tiny model 80386 programs. With
segment registers you can address a selection of 32 bit address
spaces - I wonder how long it will be till you need large model
32 bit programs.
Thus our friend is sort of right - every pointer in Linux is a
near pointer. A 32 bit mode near pointer.
Alan