Segment registers support for i386

[Rémy Saissy]

> It would take a massive target-specific backend hack to make that happen, as GCC > currently only supports flat address spaces. ;-)

I don't understand why.
gcc currently consider every data access on i386 to be %ds:offset or %ss:offset
depending on the instruction. The purpose is only to add a way to
explicitly indicate
the section to use then is could be %gs:offset or %fs:offset.

I'm new in gcc hacking therefore I still have to learn more about the
internals but
at first glance it doesn't sounds like a so big work.
Could you explain me why do you think it would take a massive
target-specific backend ?
Thanks a lot.


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