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Re: Bug in i386_process_record?

> From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:02:44 +0800
> Cc: msnyder@vmware.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> It seems that the segment (It is not the section)  registers in x86
> protect mode is just help MMU to get the physical address.  It's
> transparent for the user level program.

It's transparent if $es and $ds have the same value (which they
usually do, AFAIK).

> What do you think about remove this warning from this patch?

I would indeed do that, if we find that $es and $ds have the same
values.  Assuming that someone who knows Linux better than I do
confirms that these two registers hold the same selector when a normal
application is running in user mode.
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