On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> You can call intersegment with a full pointer. I don't know how
> expensive that is.
It's so expensive as to not be worth it, it's cheaper to load a register
or something, i eyou can do
pushl $0xfffff000
call *(%esp)
faster than doing a far call.
Linus
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