BC 3.0 and 386's

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From: Dave Stampe-Psy+Eng
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 15:37

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I've been having problems with Borland C++ 3.0 when my code includes
assembler that uses the FS and GS registers.  Basically, the code
"freezes" at these instructions, but you can break out of it.

Now, I find that the IDE (and compiler??) go into protected mode and
load these segments with null (illegal) descriptors!  I have to do 
my own protected-mode shuffle to undo this.  It doesn't affect the
IDE when I return (fortunately), and I can take the opportunity to
set the limits to 4G (for direct assembly access to extended memory)
but the question remains:

WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS IRRESPONSIBILITY?

And, more important, is it fixed in BC 3.1?


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| My life is Hardware,                    |                              | 
| my destiny is Software,                 |         Dave Stampe          |
| my CPU is Wetware...                    |                              | 
| Anybody got a SDB I can borrow?         | dstamp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca |
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