On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:16, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Case-in-point: AMD 52-bit PAE uses no less than a 7-layer logic to provide 20-bit Real86/Virtual86, 32-bit Protected386 and 36-bit Processor Address Extension (PAE) modes.
PAE stands for Physical Address Extension, not "processor" I'll let someone who knows more about x86 assembly comment on the rest, I've tried my best to stay away from that mess
Regardless of the "base API model" used, the actual "application binary interface" (ABI) of the unliked as well as linked object code is the kicker.
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