
ADVANCED PROCESSORS—80286 TO PENTIUM 14-5
14.3.1.1
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Segment Registers
The segment registers are 16-bit, but we will see later that they have what is called a
‘hidden part’, which will then make them totally 48 bits long (this becomes effective
only in the protected mode). The visible part of the segment registers are still 16 bits and
you can see that there are two new segment registers FS and GS. They are used to store
the base addresses of the GS and FS segments, which are data segments itself.
14.3.1.2
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Control and Status Registers
The flag register, i.e., now EFLAG, contains the values of the status flags (i.e., C and Z), the
control flags (i.e., ...