Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!?

[Roland McGrath]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Indan Zupancic <indan@xxxxxx> wrote:
> It's a lot easier for existing code to add an extra cs check than to use

The issue is whether showing fictitious high bits of %cs as set will break
existing applications (debuggers, etc.) that look at it and think that it's
nothing but the hardware state zero-extended, as it is today.
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