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From: Brian Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>
Subject: Re: Segment override and lldt instruction
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:30:43 -0700
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> So if answer is yes, and if more than 4GB of memory space is needed
> for a program how will segmentation register go beyond 4gig without
> override?

A single process cannot access more than 4GB in 32-bit Linux. Period.
If you need more than 4GB, then you should be using 64-bit Linux.

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