cr5-6 registers on i386
Clemens Kolbitsch
clemens.kol@gmx.at
Mon Jul 30 17:19:00 GMT 2007
> The x86 architecture has control registers.
well it has obviously at least some :-)
> They are not all
> implemented in hardware; I believe the only ones which are implemented
> are %cr0 through %cr4 and %cr8 (64-bit only).
this is correct, yes...
> However, as the
> relevant opcodes are not (yet) used for anything else, the GNU
> assembler and disassembler will recognize other registers. You will
> presumably get an exception if you try to actually run the program on
> x86 hardware.
ok, didn't think that they were defined but not used - thanks A LOT for your
help!!
greetings
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