Re: EDE - Personal Suggestions and Ideas

[sandeep <sandeep@codito.com>]

>>>You are right, but this is true only if you assume that the program
>>>don't try to mess with the segment registers by itself, or store in
>>>memory the values of the segment registers for using them later. That
>>>is what was being discussed.
>>That issue comes with user writing assembly programs and messing around.
> Wrong, because there is no such thing like 'C program' from the view point 
> of the CPU. It runs machine code. It's ANOTHER thing that this machine
> code was produced by a C compiler/linker/etc, or it's 'hand coded' in
> assembly and was assembled by the assembler and/or linked/etc into CPU
> runnable machine code. My only point is that we should generally speaking
> that we have or have not this feature, and probably we should not use
> rules 'only C is allowed'.
My idea is - when program is loaded OS sets up segment registers for the 
program. In the compiler generated program user is saved from headaches of 
bothering about setting the segment registers etc. I hope you noticed that I had 
also said - "AND guidelines can be laid for the assembly programmer" and any 
other language is also fine as long as it takes away the headaches from 
programmer. I am pro-solution that takes headaches away from programmer. Just 
cutting off this here. :)

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regards
sandeep
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